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IBM BladeCenter® Open Fabric Manager allows you to simplify blade deployment, re-deployment and expansion. This software can be deployed on both new and on existing BladeCenters through firmware upgrades, helping you protect your current BladeCenter investments and giving you the flexibility to deploy precisely the solution you need to help your business simplify I/O.
IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager
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Advanced Management Module (AMM) based utility helps simplify BladeCenter I/O management. |
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Manage up to 100 Chassis from a single Advanced Management Module. |
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Reduce blade deployment by pre-assigning LAN and SAN addresses for up to 1400 blades. |
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Operational across all chassis, switch modules and HS21, LS21 and LS41 blade servers. |
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Prerequisite for optional upgrades listed below. |
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IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager – Advanced upgrade
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Standalone Utility which provides single point of I/O address management and server workload virtualization. |
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Create Event Action Plans for customer defined failover or other planned server repurposing scenarios. |
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Automatically migrate I/O parameters between servers and across chassis for up to 1400 blades based on a pre-defined trigger event. |
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44W3981 is a prerequisite for this optional upgrade. |
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IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager – Advanced upgrade for IBM Director
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For customers with IBM Systems Director, this option provides the same benefits and functionality as part number 46C3551, as an IBM Director extension. |
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44W3981 is a prerequisite for this optional upgrade. |
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