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IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager

Simple I/O management. Powerful blade virtualization.

  
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IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager for BladeCenter S
Available for on-line purchase starting December 8, 2009 (2019B2X)
  • Extend the benefit of I/O virtualization and simplify blade deployment for retail and distributed environments.
  • Ships as part of the BladeCenter S chassis Advanced Management Module (AMM).
  • Simplify blade deployment - configure your chassis at a central location and deploy with ease at each remote location.
  • Supports SAS, Ethernet, FCoE and Fibre Channel I/O from multiple vendors such as Cisco, BNT, QLogic, Emulex and more.
  • Prerequisite for optional upgrades: IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager – Advanced upgrade (4812S3X) and IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager – Advanced upgrade for IBM Director (4812S3D)
IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager
Ready to buy 2019B1X
  • Advanced Management Module (AMM) based utility helps simplify BladeCenter I/O management.
  • Manage up to 100 Chassis from a single Advanced Management Module.
  • Reduce blade deployment by pre-assigning LAN and SAN addresses for up to 1400 blades.
  • Operational across all chassis and Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet and Fibre Channel switch and Pass-Thru modules.
  • Prerequisite for optional upgrades listed below.
IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager – Advanced upgrade
New: Ready to buy 4812S3X
Ready to buy 4812S1X
  • 4812S3X provides a new Web-based user interface based on IBM Systems Director 6.1 for easy set-up, deployment and management
  • Supported across all BladeCenter chassis and with most Intel (including the latest HS22), AMD and Power blade servers
  • Standalone Utility which provides single point of I/O address management and server workload virtualization.
  • Create Event Action Plans for customer defined failover or other planned server repurposing scenarios.
  • Automatically migrate I/O parameters between servers and across chassis for up to 1400 blades based on a pre-defined trigger event.
  • 2019B1X is a prerequisite for this optional upgrade.
IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager – Advanced upgrade for IBM Director
New: Ready to buy 4812S3D
Ready to buy 4812S1D
  • 4812S3D provides a new Web-based user interface based on IBM Systems Director 6.1 for easy set-up, deployment and management
  • Clients using IBM Systems Director can leverage the benefits of BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager using this option as a pug-in to their existing Director install.
  • This offering offers the same benefits as the stand alone version.
  • 2019B1X is a prerequisite for this optional upgrade.



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