IBM Systems Director VMControl

IBM® Systems Director VMControl ™ Version 2.2 helps you move beyond managing virtualization to using virtualization to better manage your IT infrastructure. The combination of IBM Systems Director V6.1 and VMControl V2.2 allows you to reduce the total cost of ownership of your virtualized environment by decreasing management costs, increasing asset utilization, and linking infrastructure performance to business goals.

VMControl V2.2 simplifies the management of virtual environments across multiple virtualization technologies and hardware platforms, freeing you from ‘silos of virtualization’ and delivering enterprise-wide visibility and control. A leading multi-platform virtualization management solution, VMControl is now available in three Editions (Express, Standard or Enterprise) to best match your virtualized environment.

*Choose the VMControl Edition that suits your virtual infrastructure*
Features	Express	Standard	Enterprise
Create and manage virtual machines
Virtual machine relocation
Import, edit, create and delete virtual images
Deploy virtual images
Maintain virtual images in a repository
Manage virtual workloads in system pools

Overview

VMControl Enterprise Edition is a plug-in for IBM Systems Director that utilizes a workload-optimized approach to decrease infrastructure costs and improve service levels. A system pool is a group of virtualized system components (servers, storage and network) that are managed as a single entity, and VMControl Enterprise Edition allows you to manage system pools with the simplicity of managing a single system, which is an essential capability for moving to cloud computing and a dynamic infrastructure.

IBM Systems Director VMControl Enterprise Edition

VMControl Enterprise Edition provides simplified virtualization management, which enables faster problem-solving, a higher return on investment and rapid responses to changing business goals and strategies. IBM Systems Director and VMControl Enterprise Edition work together to help you more effectively utilize your virtual environment. VMControl Enterprise Edition helps you to create and modify system pools, make dynamic virtual workload adjustments and move workloads within system pools, resulting in an optimized virtual environment with increased resilience to cope with planned or unplanned downtime.

Benefits

Benefits of VMControl Enterprise Edition:

Reduces operational and infrastructure costs through increased efficiency and resource utilization
Dynamically scales multi-tier workloads
Enhances resilience for planned and unplanned downtime which improves service levels and workload availability
Simplifies management of heterogeneous physical and virtual environments
Eliminates the repetitive installation, configuration and maintenance costs of running complex software workloads
Guarantees repeatable accuracy and consistency via automation
Manage system pools with the same cost and effort as a single virtual machine
Essential building block for creating cloud computing architectures
Delivers a single and consistent management solution for all IBM Systems

Features at a glance:

Simplified virtual image provisioning
Rapid deployment of virtual workloads
Common management model for physical and virtual servers
Consistent virtualization management across heterogeneous platforms
Dynamically provision new virtual workloads to scale a resource pool
Built-in support for availability to cope with planned or unplanned outages

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IBM Systems Director VMControl Enterprise Edition Availability
IBM formally announced IBM Systems Director VMControl Enterprise Edition 2.2 on October 20, 2009 and it will be made Generally Available via download or with new server orders in the fourth quarter of 2009. Services from IBM will be available to help with the analysis and deployment of IBM Systems Director VMControl Enterprise Edition 2.2.