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You need to simplify blade deployment, re-deployment and expansion. You need IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager - just plug in a new blade and it's ready to work.
Highlights:
- Save time - pre-configure LAN and SAN connections once for each blade
- Manage growth and complexity - up to 100 chassis, 1400 blades and over 11,000 SAN and LAN addresses
- Remain open with infrastructure flexibility - works with BladeCenter chassis, blades and switches
- Connect with ease - single, simple interface for server and switch management
- Manage risk to keep your business running - available automated I/O failover to standby blades
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At the heart of IBM's I/O strategy, IBM BladeCenter® Open Fabric Manager is designed to help you manage growth and complexity by making it easy to manage I/O and network interconnects for up to 100 BladeCenter chassis - up to 1400 blade servers. BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager helps make blade deployment EASY: once Installed, the utility is resident in the Advanced Management Module (AMM) so you can pre-configure LAN and SAN connections. Thus, I/O connections are made automatically when you plug in a blade. And no special tools or training is required; just manage with the easy-to-use GUI.
In contrast to typical competitive tools that only support a small number of proprietary blades and switches, BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager is OPEN and allows you to manage a wide range of industry Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches - Cisco, Nortel, Brocade, QLogic.
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BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager is the RIGHT CHOICE now and into the future. The software can even be deployed on existing hardware through a firmware upgrade, helping you protect your current BladeCenter investments and giving you the flexibility to deploy precisely the solution you need to help your business realize innovation.
Manage risk with an optional upgrade which provides a standalone utility to enable workload virtualization allowing you to define action plans that can automatically execute based on customer-defined trigger events. If the trigger event occurs, a blade in the predefined pool will automatically receive I/O parameters and take over for the original blade. This OS independent tool is an EASY and OPEN way to virtualize your blade servers.
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