Systems Director is IBM’s platform management family that provides IT professionals with the tools they need to better coordinate and manage all of their virtual and physical resources in the data center.
The cost of managing the IT infrastructure has become the largest and fastest-growing component of overall IT spending for many organizations. Virtualization helps address this cost through the consolidation of physical resources. However, it also adds complexity by creating a sharp increase in the number of managed virtual resources. IT professionals are seeking more advanced capabilities and tools for managing both their physical and virtual systems across multiple architectures and environments.
IBM Systems Director helps address these needs by unifying under one family its industry-leading server and storage management products—IBM Director and TotalStorage Productivity Center—with newly enhanced virtualization management support. The Systems Director family provides a modular, open standards-based set of solutions that can be easily tailored to fit the requirements of any size business and can be integrated seamlessly into enterprise management solutions from IBM Tivoli and others. With capabilities that include configuration, discovery, health and status monitoring, automated response, and power and virtualization management, the IBM Systems Director family gives IT professionals what they need for managing both physical and virtual systems across multiple IT environments.
As virtualization becomes reality in today’s IT infrastructures, the IBM Systems Director family can help businesses realize the full potential by providing a unified approach to platform management designed to lower IT operational costs and increase productivity.
Common management foundation that provides a consistent, single point of management to control and manipulate your IT infrastructure.
IBM Director is an integrated, easy-to-use suite of tools that provide customers with flexible systems management capabilities to help realize maximum system availability and help lower IT costs. With IBM Director, IT administrators can view and track the hardware configuration of remote systems in detail and monitor the usage and performance of critical components, such as processors, disks and memory.
IBM Director is provided at no additional charge for use on IBM Systems.
Extensions to IBM Director are available for customers who want additional capabilities from a consistent, single point of management.
IBM Director also complements and integrates with other popular systems management products via its upward integration modules.
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