VMControl

IBM Systems Director VMControl: The convergence of Physical and Virtual Management

IBM® Systems Director VMControl™ helps you gain more from infrastructure wide virtualisation, with a deeper level of management. The combination of IBM Systems Director and VMControl allows you to reduce the total cost of ownership of your virtualised environment by decreasing management costs, increasing asset utilisation, and linking infrastructure performance to business goals.

VMControl simplifies the management of virtual environments across multiple virtualisation technologies and hardware platforms, freeing you from ‘silos of virtualisation’ and delivering enterprise-wide visibility and control. VMControl is a leading multi-platform virtualisation management solution that is included with IBM Systems Director Editions, or available separately as a plug-in option for IBM Systems Director. This diversity of deployment options allows you to select the optimal level of VMControl functionality (Express, Standard or Enterprise) for your virtualised infrastructure and to seamlessly scale up as it evolves.

Key Benefits

Brings together Physical and Virtual Management into a single interface to reduce complexity
Offers unmatched cross-platform and cross-operating system management, which helps improve service delivery by eliminating isolated silos of virtualisation in heterogeneous environments
Provides faster time-to-value and greater business agility through simplified virtualisation management that allows more effective utilisation of virtualised resources
Establishes repeatable accuracy and consistency through automation
Reduces operational and infrastructure costs through increased efficiency and resource utilisation

*Choose the VMControl Edition that suits your virtual infrastructure*
Features	Express	Standard	Enterprise
Create and manage virtual machines
Virtual machine relocation
Import, edit, create and delete virtual images
Deploy virtual images
Maintain virtual images in a repository
Manage virtual workloads in system pools