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In today's dynamic marketplace, small and medium businesses are continually striving to adapt and respond to rapidly shifting IT requirements coupled with tight budget constraints. Simplifying the IT infrastructure is very important to business executives and IT professionals alike.
To help address these issues, IBM created the Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM). The IVM is an easy-to-use, browser-based tool which literally allows clients to point, click and consolidate multiple workloads onto one IBM System p5™ or other supported server.
The IVM, coupled with the power of System p5 and the IBM BladeCenter® JS21, offers small and medium business the opportunity to:
- Simplify IT management by enabling computer resources to look and perform as one
- Increase business flexibility, allowing your organization to meet both anticipated and unanticipated spikes in server demand with shared capacity
- Save time and money, helping clients get the most out of their IT investment
In addition to the benefits mentioned above, IVM offers a lower cost of entry into virtualization on IBM POWER5™ and POWER5+™ processor-based servers, since it does not require the use of a hardware management console (HMC) for managing logical partitions (LPARs) on a single system. With IVM, clients can partition a single system by creating LPARs and provide for management of virtual storage and virtual Ethernet. Best of all, IVM is included at no additional charge with the optional purchase of Advanced POWER™ Virtualization (APV) on IBM System p5 Express and entry IBM eServer™ p5 servers or the POWER Hypervisor and Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) feature on IBM eServer OpenPower™ servers. IVM is also available on the BladeCenter JS21 blade. IVM is packaged in the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) software.
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