IBM Power server — Systems Management

Highlights

• Improve speed of deployment for new services
• Manage virtualization to meet changing business requirements
• Maintain service availability by quickly identifying and resolving issues
• Manage at a detailed platform level, as well as at a client-centric enterprise service level

IT staffs today have more flexibility in deploying new and expanded business workloads due to proven technologies like virtualization. However, the lack of comprehensive systems management tools can inhibit IT innovation in support of business growth. To build a dynamic infrastructure that addresses today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities, you need to not only ensure high availability and quality of existing services, but also meet customer expectations for flexible access to innovative, new services that are delivered in the shortest possible time.

Only IBM offers comprehensive solutions that enable you to improve service delivery by providing a consolidated view of physical and virtual resource management of servers running any workload combinations on IBM AIX®, Linux® and IBM i operating environments. Enterprise service management solutions for AIX workloads help more closely link managing IT operations with meeting business requirements.

Specific tools available to help you optimize and maintain your systems in order to meet your requirements for optimized workload performance, energy management and cost control include:

IBM Systems Director - provides detailed platform management of Power servers running IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® workloads, all from a single console.

AIX Enterprise Edition and Management Edition for AIX - are two options that complement Systems Director by linking platform management of AIX workloads with enterprise service management.

IBM Power server EnergyScale™ technology along with IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ - work together to provide monitoring and control capabilities that allow you to manage your energy use from the same console you manage availability and performance of your servers.