Why IBM
IBM® Systems Director 6.1 helps you address the total cost of ownership by letting you manage your entire data center — physical and virtual — efficiently, from one place, with one interface, with the click of a button.
What we offer
Simplified management of physical and virtual resources to help meet time-to-market business commitments
- Map virtualized resources to physical servers
- View configurations, relationships and changes
- Support across multiple industry leading hypervisors
Better management of data center energy to reduce costs through advanced platform management functions
- Collect temperature and power consumption data
- Throttle up or down server energy consumption
- Gain accurate accounting for total power consumed on a single server or group of servers
Improved availability to optimize business efficiency
- Take action based on system events
- Remote troubleshooting
Focus on health, status and automation of IT systems to increase business productivity
- Health status, alerts and monitoring of system resources
- Topology graph views assist to simplify troubleshooting
Reduced administrative costs by utilizing a single web based point-and-click graphical user interface while maintaining system firmware and driver currency
- Common toolset for managing physical and virtual resources
- Simplifies and consolidates different classes of information and tools
- Intuitive graphical user interface
- Reduces maintenance window churn by supporting currency for physical and virtual servers and operating systems
Improves time to market by seamlessly integrating with high-level management products from IBM and other software vendors
- Industry standards-based that leverages existing investments in platform management offerings
- Complements and integrates with Tivoli and non-IBM higher-level enterprise management software
- Provides rich hardware information into higher-level management solutions
Protects IT investments
- Open, standards-based design
- Management across IBM systems (both server and storage) and non-IBM x86 servers
Explore IBM Systems Director 6.1
New IBM Systems Director VMControl Webcast
IBM Systems Director 6.1 ITG Paper (1.41MB)
Save up to 34% on server administration costs.
IBM Systems Director 6.1 Technical Paper (1.5MB)
