Highlights
- Improves data center efficiency and time to value
- Manages virtualization of IBM® System x®, BladeCenter®, PureFlex™ System and IBM Flex System™ resources
- Multi-hypervisor support, including VMware vSphere (ESXi), Microsoft® Hyper-V and Linux KVM, provides flexibility
- Simple to deploy and easy to use; works with new or existing infrastructure
- Optimized with automation, security and resource sharing, and built-in metering and reporting
IBM SmartCloud™ Entry is designed to simplify management of your virtualized IT environment. Users can request and provision resources quickly through an easy-to-use web-based interface. IT managers can monitor and manage this environment for improved efficiency and utilization of the data center. The IBM SmartCloud Entry v3.1 release supports management of a range of server platforms from a single SmartCloud Entry user interface. This gives you the flexibility to manage System x, BladeCenter, IBM Flex System and PureFlex System platforms with a single, consolidated tool. In addition, IBM SmartCloud Entry supports a choice of industry-leading hypervisors including, VMware vSphere (ESXi), Microsoft Hyper-V and Linux KVM.
SmartCloud Entry capabilities
Powerful new features include multi-cloud support – across geographies and groups of tiered hardware and project level customization. New automation capabilities make it easy to give one project sandbox hardware, while another team gets full production ready resources; with appropriate expirations and approvals at the project level. In addition:
Simplify creation and management of system images
- Create ‘golden master’ images and software appliances using corporate-standard operating systems
- Convert images from physical systems or between various x86 hypervisors
- Reliably track images to ensure compliance and minimize security risks
- Optimize resources, reducing the number of virtualized images and the storage required for them
Reduce time to value for new workloads with simple VM management
- Deploy application images across compute and storage resources
- Offer end user self-service for improved responsiveness
- Enable security through VM isolation, project-level user access controls
- Simplify deployment—no need to know all the details of the infrastructure
- Protect your investment with support for existing virtualized environments
- Optimize performance on IBM systems with dynamic scaling, expansive capacity and continuous operation
Improve efficiency with a private cloud
- Delegate provisioning to authorized users to improve productivity
- Implement pay-per-use with uilt-in workload metering
- Standardize deployment to improve compliance and reduce errors with policies and templates
- Simplify management of projects, billing, approvals and metering with an intuitive user interface
- Ease maintenance and problem diagnosis with integrated views of both physical and virtual resources
Contact IBM
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- Email IBM
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Call IBM: 1-866-261-3023
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Tools and downloads
- IBM PureFlex Systems TCO Analysis
- Take the next step in reducing IT expenses
- The Future of Datacenter Management
- Case for IBM PureFlex System for Cloud-Enabled SAP Enterprise Environments
- Discover IBM Flex System Manager (00:08:00)
- Open invitation: Learn more about the benefits of migrating to IBM Flex System or IBM PureFlex System
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