AIX Enterprise Edition

The new AIX Enterprise Edition brings together IBM enterprise management capabilities from Power Systems and Tivoli Software to give you a broad insight into your infrastructure. With AIX Enterprise, you can have the real-time information to improve most every aspect of your day-to-day data center operations.

Use AIX Enterprise Edition to do the following :

• Manage workload partitions across multiple systems
• Exploit Live Application Mobility
• Discover systems, components and applications
• Display dependencies and relationship between systems and applications
• Monitor utilization and configuration changes
• Collect and report virtualized resource usage
• Provide reports and data to simplify capacity management

Highlights

The AIX Enterprise Edition is designed to simply the process of managing virtualized AIX environments by including AIX 6 and enterprise management functions into a single, easy to order offering.

• One product to order reduces the complexity of implementation
• Attractive price compared to ordering individual products
• Additional integration not available when ordering individual products
• "One call" support. When you call for answers to questions your call is automatically handled by the most knowledgeable support team member

Enterprise Edition consists of several products that are also available separately:

• IBM Usage and Accounting Virtualization Edition
• AIX 6 operating system
• IBM PowerVM™ Workload Partitions Manager for AIX (WPAR Manager)
• Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring

IBM Service Management is an approach to managing information technology (IT) that views resources from the perspective of how those resource supports business objectives. AIX Enterprise Edition provides a sound basis for Service Management by enabling a better understand of how IT components affect the delivery of business services.

By offering AIX 6 in conjunction with enterprise management capabilities, clients can get all of the virtualization, security, availability and manageability features associated with AIX 6, and all the enterprise management features of the WPAR Manager, TADDM, Tivoli Monitoring, and Usage and Accounting at an attractive price compared to purchasing the individual products separately.

The AIX Enterprise Edition includes integration between the products such as ITM and TADDM that is not available in the standalone products.

The IBM Systems Director products are designed to provide consistent platform management across all IBM systems. AIX Enterprise Edition is designed to complement the platform management capabilities of IBM Systems Director.

AIX Enterprise Edition is ideal for clients who are moving up to AIX 6 and adopting PowerVM™ virtualization technologies to control IT complexity and growth.