Altiris® Deployment Solution™ for IBM Servers helps reduce administrative costs and the time to deploy and recover IBM systems. Deployment Solution employs pre-boot operating systems, imaging technology, and pre-built scripts to remotely deploy and redeploy IBM blades and servers. Its bare-metal capabilities include capturing and updating BIOS, RAID, SAN and VMware configurations. Full deployments comprise the installation of Windows or Linux as well as any necessary patches and applications. Deployment Solution is tested and validated on IBM and non-IBM hardware by the respective hardware vendors.
Features at a glance
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Central, remote console; Windows- as well as Web-based
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Policy-based "rip-and-replace" blade support for automatic blade recovery
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Physical views for both blades and virtual machines
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Power Control for RSAII and Management Module on IBM servers
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Pre- and post-deployment IBM hardware driver updates
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VMware ESX Server host and Guest VM deployments
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Advanced deployment workflow engine
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Software distribution and application sequencing
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Multicast-based deployments
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Support for standard PXE and WOL protocols
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Comprehensive hardware configuration support across all major vendors
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Native Windows and Linux deployments
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Integration with IBM Director
Key benefits
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Provides an easy, single point of deployment for IBM System x and BladeCenter servers.
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Facilitates the creation of automated, standardized server build processes and post-configuration settings for pedestal, rack-mountable and blade form factor servers in virtualized and non-virtualized environments.
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Helps deliver time-savings for server deployments that use logic-rich scripted implementations or massively parallel multicast deployments.
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Supports remote datacenter implementations over Wide Area Networks.
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Represents a cost-effective means of deploying IBM servers and blades into an Altiris-managed environment of non-IBM systems.
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Altiris® Deployment Solution™ for IBM Servers helps reduce administrative costs and the time to deploy and recover IBM systems. Deployment Solution employs pre-boot operating systems, imaging technology, and pre-built scripts to remotely deploy and redeploy IBM blades and servers. Its bare-metal capabilities include capturing and updating BIOS, RAID, SAN and VMware configurations. Full deployments comprise the installation of Windows or Linux as well as any necessary patches and applications. Deployment Solution is tested and validated on IBM and non-IBM hardware by the respective hardware vendors.
