IBM Virtualization Manager is an extension to IBM Director that allows you to discover, visualize, and manage both physical and virtual systems from a single console. Virtualization Manager simplifies management of VMware, Xen Microsoft® and POWER based Virtual Server environments. Virtualization Manager also integrates with and complements VMware VirtualCenter, linking together management for physical and virtual resources.
IBM Virtualization Manager 1.2. This release will feature expanded support for better visibility and management of resources on POWER¹ systems. In addition, new tools for image management and availability management have been delivered: IBM Systems Director Virtual Availability Management allows customers using Xen-based virtualization to create a high availability farm to help manage and respond to planned and unplanned outages as well as simplifying maintenance and migration tasks. Virtualization Manager also interoperates with VMware and Vmotion to create a high availability solution in the VMware environment. IBM Systems Director Virtual Image Management provides a single, unified view of all system templates and server images to help customers manage and deploy their systems. It allows customers to easily deploy new physical and virtual servers based on system templates and images. The templates can be used to create, customize and clone virtual and physical images on x86, AMD and POWER-based systems.
Virtualization Manager 1.2 became generally available on September 14, 2007.
Extensions: IBM Director and extensions for Linux on System z
¹Note that for i5 partitions users can create i5/OS virtual servers, monitor them, edit their virtual resources but there is no remote deployment capability.
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Benefits of IBM Virtualization Manager:
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Single console manages both physical and virtual systems |
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Administer multiple virtualization technologies from a single console |
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Easy to install and use |
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Proactive virtual machine migration based on predictive alerting helps avoid downtime |
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Drive VMware VMotion using physical hardware status information |
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Understand resource linkages using the built-in topology viewer |
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Helps increase serviceability by migration of virtual machines to a standby server during a service window |
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Integration into IBM Director provides a feature rich set of management tools |
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Allows you to take advantage of IBM Director's existing facilities for alerting, event action plans, security and system health |
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Base Virtualization Manager is available at no additional cost to IBM customers |
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Consolidates management across IBM System x, BladeCenter, System p and System i |
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Visualize and navigate virtual to physical resources and relationships |
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See information in both tree and graphical topology views |
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Review status of physical hosts and virtual machines |
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See events that have occurred on the physical host or virtual machine |
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For VMware, invoke VMotion directly from user interface or through automated policies |
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Statically migrate virtual machines on VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server, and Xen (see product documentation for details) |
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Capabilities can be used both with and independently of VMware VirtualCenter (VMware VMotion requires VirtualCenter) |
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Start/shutdown/suspend/resume/restart virtual machines |
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Add/remove physical host to/from farms (for VMware) |
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Invoke the VMware or Microsoft Virtual Server user interface |
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Display of physical resource utilization |
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Create/delete virtual machines |
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