BladeCenter Open Fabric

Announcement:

IBM Fabric Manager for BladeCenter replaces IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager.

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Upgrades are available for existing BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager customers.

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Highlights

Automates deployment steps by loading parameters
Monitors data center operations with event notifications and automatic server failover
Manage risk to keep your business running with automated I/O failover to standby compute nodes

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With the increase in virtualization, today's data centers are more complex than ever before. The task of monitoring and managing a complex IT infrastructure has made the life of a system administrator increasingly difficult. For busy system administrators, deploying a new server can be time-consuming. Often it's time you don't have. Some hands-on tasks like running cables obviously can't be automated, but other repetitive manual activities like setting parameters or monitoring server activity are not only tedious, but also prone to human error.

Automation tools that free your administrators from low-value tasks save both time and money. IBM Fabric Manager is an easy-to-use server provisioning I/O management tool. Unlike performing deployment steps manually, the parameters are configured automatically. Fabric Manager offers:

Automatic provisioning of I/O addresses.
Pre-defined configurations of I/O parameters, such as MAC addresses for Ethernet, World Wide Names and SAN boot targets.
Provides I/O parameter and VLAN migration to standby compute nodes in case of compute node failure and executes action plans based on triggered events.

Fabric Manager also monitors your data center and automatically responds to server issues, which reduces the risk of server failures and downtime.