Enhanced IBM enterprise systems

Provides very high memory availability that's far cheaper than online sparing or memory mirroring. Doubles your error correction capabilities without consuming 1-bit of capacity.

IBM's patented technology designed for most efficient heat dissipation

A patented IBM architecture design which allows memory expansion without the need of adding CPUs leading to lesser consumption of power and significant reduction on license costs

IBM Virtualisation Manager, working with IBM Director, allows you to manage physical and virtual machines from a single console. This simplifies management of VMware ESX Server, Microsoft® Virtual Server, Xen and IBM POWER™-based virtual server environments. Virtualisation Manager also integrates VMware VirtualCenter with IBM Director for advanced virtual machine management including invoking VMware VMotion directly from user interface or through automated policies.

IBM Electronic Services integrates the IBM support community with your company to ensure that your IT environment is running with minimal disruption and maximum efficiency. The two components of this strategy are IBM Electronic Service Agent™ and the IBM Electronic Services Web site.

Should any component threaten to fail, IBM Predictive Failure Analysis® (PFA) will give a 48-hour advance warning on more components than any other system. This protection is extended to hard disk drives, memory, processors, fans, voltage regulator modules and power supplies, more than any other system. It even illuminates the appropriate Light Path Diagnostics indicator through LED lights and optionally sends a message to the system administrator to help restore the system quicker.

Light Path Diagnostics is a pop-out/drop-down panel with an LED for each major component — processor, memory, hard disk drives, adapter slots, etc. Another LED besides the specific component identifies the failed part. This saves precious time in determining which component has failed. This is especially relevant given the number of servers organisations deploy. While shorter servicing time can mean less downtime for your servers. This diagnostic tool works even when the server is unplugged.

Chipkill or Advanced ECC memory is an IBM xSeries memory subsystem technology that increases memory reliability many times over. This radically reduces the chances of system downtime caused by memory failures. This technology was developed specifically for the NASA pathfinder mission to Mars. Where memory errors would have proved disastrous.

A new partitioning capability, brought down from the System P lineup, which helps enterprises deal with the _commercial software vendors are imposing in the era of virtualisation. This capability, which also allows the logical ganging together of two physically separate systems.