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IBM Virtual Availability Manager is a part of the Virtualization Manager extension to IBM Director that provides a simplified availability solution for customers using Xen-based virtualization. Virtual Availability Manager can be used to help manage and respond to planned and unplanned system outages, leveraging virtual server checkpoint/restart and mobility to avoid recover from virtual server and host system failures.
IBM Systems Director Virtual Availability Manager provides high availability and dynamic and static relocation for Xen virtual servers. It allows you to easily create a high availability virtual server farm to help manage and response to planned and unplanned outages. The Management server runs on AIX, Windows on x86 platforms, Linux on x86 and POWER, managing the availability of Xen virtualized host systems.
The IBM Virtual Availability Manager provides a virtual server availability solution. The administrator is able to pool Xen hosts together into Farms or clusters of similar systems. It predicts and reacts to server hardware failures before they occur and reacts to unplanned host system and virtual server failures. Virtual Availability Manager then takes actions as defined within simplified high availability policies. The actions that can be performed include host evacuation using virtual server mobility, virtual server restart and restart from checkpoint. Virtual Availability Manager leverages the flexibility and mobility of virtual server images and is completely transparent to the operating system and applications, eliminating the needed to deploy and manage additional management agents. It is an integrated and tested simplified availability solutionthatleverages the flexibility of virtualization.
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Benefits of IBM Virtual Availability Manager:
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Ensure business continuity through pro-active IT management |
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Identify problems before they occur using hardware predictive failure analysis |
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Pro-actively resolve problems that can cause serious and costly outages thereby avoiding downtime which can cause significant damage to the business |
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Provides additional assistance for mission-critical business applications and response center services when problems occur |
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Improve IT stability, resiliency and effectiveness |
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Overall command and control of the mission-critical IT environments |
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Allow customers to shift their investment away from costly infrastructure and back into their business |
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Infrastructure cost savings through improved IT resource efficiency and reduced operational costs |
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Reduce financial impact of lost application availability |
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Simplify IT server maintenance and migration tasks |
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Avoid unplanned server outages |
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Simplified and easily defined availability solution |
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Integrated and pre-tested |
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Xen-based virtualization support |
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Integrates and simplifies a number of key technologies |
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Provides easy to use virtual server availability |
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Nondisruptive to the guest OS and applications |
Take advantage of the 90-day trial opportunity to see for yourself how this solution will enable you to a create a high availability virtual server farm to help manage and respond to planned and unplanned outages. Once the trial ends, you can continue to use IBM Virtualization Manager at no charge. For continued use of Virtual Availability Manager functions beyond the 90-day trial, the offering must be purchased.
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