IBM Systems Management solutions for Power Servers

IBM Systems Director Standard Edition

IBM Systems Director Standard Edition includes all of the capabilities of the Express® Edition and adds advanced deployment, monitoring, and control features under the same console. With Systems Director Standard Edition, clients can create and deploy virtual images that encapsulate an AIX®, IBM i, or Linux operating environment as well as any middleware and applications, while automatically configuring the storage attached network (SAN). Clients who may be facing energy cost or capacity concerns get the benefit of extensive electrical power and thermal monitoring capabilities across the data center as well as energy control of selected Power servers. This edition also expands the discovery and health monitoring capabilities of the Express Edition to include networking systems.

Benefits

  • Be more responsive to changing business requirements through faster deployment of new and expanded services
  • Reduce energy costs by adjusting systems and computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units to work efficiently within facility constraints while meeting performance and availability requirements
  • Optimize systems for peak performance by using automation to adjust and balance virtual resource requirements to meet changing workload demands
  • Improve system availability by proactively monitoring system health across servers, storage, networks, and trends in energy usage

Features:

The Systems Director Standard Edition provides:

  • All features of the Systems Director Express Edition
  • Capture/import, create/remove standardized virtual images
  • Deploy DTMF Open Virtualization Format (OVF) industry standard virtual images with support for AIX Network Installation Manager (NIM) server images
  • Maintain AIX, IBM i, and Linux virtual images in a centralized library
  • Monitoring and trend analysis of electrical energy usage and thermal characteristics
  • Monitoring of legacy systems via supported facilities equipment such as uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units, sensors, and probes as well as interfacing with applications that monitor computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units
  • Features for setting energy usage caps across one or more servers
  • Energy saving modes that can take into account processor utilization and the altitude of the data center facility
  • Discovery and health monitoring for networking systems

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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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Hardware

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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Operating systems

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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System software

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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Solutions

IBM and IBM Business Partner solutions exploit key benefits in Power Systems that help you deliver new capabilities and new competitive advantages to your business.

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Over the last five years thousands of clients have migrated to POWER. Learn how Power Systems has helped them improve their business performance, reduce risk, and establish a more secure future.