Why IBM
Manage your entire data center -- physical and virtual -- efficiently, from one place, with one interface, with the click of a button.
Wherever you are on your journey to a virtualized, dynamic datacenter, IBM can help you every step of the way.
- Virtualization Management: Manage and align virtual systems and storage to business objectives
- Energy Management: More effectively manage datacenter energy usage, helping reducing costs and environmental impact
- Availability Management: Keep your systems, applications and services running
- Network Management: Simplification of network management tasks
IBM® Systems Director 6.1 is a platform management foundation that streamlines the way physical and virtual systems are managed across a multi-system environment. Extend the value of IBM® Systems Director with key additional functionalities from a single point of management. IBM Systems Director allows you to extend the base platform with additional plug-ins, separately installed. By following design guidelines, a plug-in of this type can deliver key new functionalities while retaining a consistent user experience with the base offering by taking advantage of the common tasks and capabilities.
What we offer
IBM Systems Director VMControl
IBM® Systems Director VMControl Version 2.2 is a progressive set of capabilities designed to simplify the management of virtual environments across multiple virtualization technologies and physical platforms. IBM Systems Director VMControl delivers leadership heterogeneous virtualization management and enables an infrastructure for cloud computing.
VMControl Express Edition is ideal for the basic provisioning and configuration of virtual workloads
VMControl Standard Edition adds capabilities for managing libraries of pre-built virtual images
VMControl Enterprise Edition delivers management of virtual system pools - entire collection of related virtual images
IBM Systems Director Network Control
IBM® Systems Director Network Control Version 1.1 provides network management integrated into the server and storage management capabilities of IBM Systems Director, which helps reduce the cost of managing physical and virtualized environments by using a single integrated management product. It effectively discovers, monitors, manages and troubleshoots network hardware devices in a computing environment.
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager Version 4.2 measures, monitors and manages the energy components built into IBM Systems enabling a cross-platform management solution. Active Energy Manager extends the scope of energy management to include facility providers to enable a more complete view of energy consumption within the datacenter.
IBM Systems Director Service and Support Manager
Electronic Service Agent™ is a call home plug-in to IBM Systems Director that monitors events and transmits system service information to IBM. The IBM Electronic Service Agent tool is integrated into the IBM Systems Director Service and Support Manager. Electronic Service Agent is a no-charge callhome extension to IBM Systems Director that automatically reports hardware problems and collects system service information for monitored systems. With these functions, Electronic Service Agent can monitor, track, and capture system hardware errors and service information and report them directly to IBM support for you.
IBM Systems Director Migration Tool Version 6.1
IBM Systems Director Migration Tool is a no-charge tool that enables the migration from a previous version of IBM Director to IBM Systems Director 6.1 It supports all platforms that IBM Systems Director supports.
