| VMready® across the data center |
- Supports VM migration across a data center in a multivendor environment
- Retains VM network policies configured on VMready switches and port groups in the hypervisors/hosts.
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| Client-server architecture |
- Critical network asset information is centralized and integrates with Enterprise security structure
- Enables access with minimal risk from mobile clients
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| Web-based GUI for simplified device configuration, monitoring, and fault management |
- Easy and cost-effective method to monitor, configure, and maintain switches using commercial off the shelf technologies
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| Integration with industry-leading enterprise management systems (such as IBM Systems Director) |
- Minimal effort insertion into existing management schemas, eliminating fork-lift upgrade or wholesale swap-out of installed managers
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| Customizable reporting of detailed asset, operational and performance information |
- Provides visibility into the configuration of all devices and reveals underutilized assets
- Global view of all IBM top rack or embedded switches on your network with simplified asset and fault management
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| Automated and scheduled software downloads, configuration updates/backups, switch reboots, and so forth |
- Simplifies deployment and on-going configuration management.
- Detects success or failure of the operation on each managed switch.
- Enables security control, provisioning, policy-based compliance, resource reconciliation
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