Systems Management Solutions for IBM PowerLinux

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Highlights

IBM Systems Director for IBM PowerLinux™ provides an affordable foundation for systems management. It provides the integrated tools needed to efficiently visualize and communicate the relationships of physical and virtual systems that are discovered, monitor their health, define and receive threshold alerts, and update system firmware and operating environments. Built-in automation capabilities enable IT administrators to schedule updates and configuration changes to proactively avoid problems, and reduce the administrative burden of routine maintenance.


Features PowerLinux
Visualize physical/virtual system relationships Included
Monitor system health Included
Provide threshold and error alerts Included
Update operating systems and firmware Included
Simplify deployment with virtual images Included
Control energy use within existing capacity Optional1
Monitor network system health with servers and storage Optional1
Automate configuration and placement for new workloads Included
Manage workload availability end-to-end Optional1
Understand capacity Optional1
Analyze and report historical performance Optional1

Benefits

  • Reduce IT costs with faster problem identification improving the time and effort to identify, troubleshoot and fix problems
  • Improve system availability with proactive monitoring of key components and system resources
  • Simplify management with a single, intuitive user interface that consistently manages physical and virtual server resources as compared to using multiple disconnected point products
  • Manage virtual machine life cycle

Features

  • Automated discovery and topology views to simplify troubleshooting across physical and virtual server and storage resources*
  • Heterogeneous virtualization management across IBM servers
  • Simplified deployment, installation, and update processes
  • Automatic reporting of hardware problems and collection of system service information for monitored systems
  • Easy to learn new tasks with intuitive wizards, tutorials, and integrated help
  • Discover, create, manage and relocate virtual machines

1 Optional functionality available through upgrade to Systems Director Enterprise Edition

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Advantages

Companies embracing Smarter Computing are implementing IT infrastructure based on the IBM Power Systems platform that is designed for data, tuned to the task and managed with cloud technologies. With Power Systems, businesses can outpace their competitors by delivering services faster, differentiate their offerings by delivering higher quality services, and turn operational cost into investment opportunity by delivering services with superior economics.

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Power Systems hardware provides the foundation for designing workload optimized systems in conjunction with software and expert domain knowledge. Power servers and blades are modular and scalable and designed from the chip through the software stack to help deliver new levels of business performance.

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Power servers deliver flexibility and choice of operating systems to enable your business to select the best applications for your business needs. Whether running 1, 2, or all 3 - coupled with PowerVM, they maximize the benefit of Power Systems in your business.

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IBM's integrated approach to developing Systems and Systems Software stacks together delivers maximum utilization, availability, and flexibility helping you deliver new advantages in your business.

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