IBM Systems Management solutions for Power Servers

Power is management with automation. With platform management technologies on Power Systems, businesses not only get a complete picture of their systems and how well they are operating, but also the tools to deploy, optimize and maintain these systems at maximum effectiveness and efficiency.

IBM Systems Management Solutions for Power Servers

The IBM Systems Director Express, Standard and Enterprise Editions each provide an integrated set of tools to help IT organizations address major concerns associated with managing both physical and virtual server infrastructures: reducing operational complexity, improving the efficiency of IT staff and systems, and controlling costs while meeting business requirements for service delivery. IBM Systems Director Editions are packaged to make it easier and more cost effective for clients to purchase the features they need to manage IBM server systems.

Highlights

• Administer servers, storage, networks, applications and energy in a unified solution
• Manage virtualization to respond to changing business requirements
• Monitor physical and virtual servers at the platform, system, and enterprise level
• Maintain service availability by quickly identifying and resolving issues

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 AIX®, Linux® and IBM i operating environments. Enterprise service management solutions for AIX workloads helps more closely link managing IT operations with meeting business requirements.

IBM offers management solutions to help you reduce operational complexity, improve the efficiency of IT staff and systems, and help control costs while meeting business requirements for service delivery.

IBM Systems Director Express Edition includes a set of management tools that can reduce operational complexity by providing a clear view of the relationships and health status of IT system components.

IBM Systems Director Standard Edition includes features that can reduce the time and effort for workload deployment, as well as optimize energy usage and capacity.

IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition enables superior performance and availability management, and the automated resource balancing required for a dynamic infrastructure.

AIX Enterprise Edition complements Systems Director by linking platform management of AIX workloads with enterprise service management.