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IBM Systems Director: reduces complexity
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IBM Systems Director® is the platform management backbone of optimized systems from IBM, providing simplified control of servers, storage and networks from single pane of glass, while reducing IT management complexity and costs.

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IBM Systems Director VMControl is a multi-platform virtualization management solution that is included with IBM Systems Director Editions or available separately as a plug-in option for IBM Systems Director.

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“For both Tivoli and Systems Director, the administrator simply logs in to a control panel and considers if manual action is needed. These are both excellent pieces of system automation software that help us reduce costs and increase efficiency.”

-- Mr. R D Malay, VP of IT, B C Jindal Group, India

New! IBM Systems Director 6.3

Simplified management of Optimized Systems with IBM Systems Director 6.3

IBM’s System Director 6.3: Improved usability, installability, functionality (433KB)

The new IBM Systems Director v6.3 offers significant improvements in performance, scalability and usability.

IBM Systems Director 6.3 (data sheet [PDF, 336KB]) can help you tailor and optimize workloads by allocating specific resources to specific tasks, delivering greater performance and improving service. Enhancements in the new version include:

Simplified usability functions, including faster inventory, discovery, restart, update, user, role and credential management and fewer installation steps
Improved performance and scalability so you can manage double the number of endpoints from a single interface
Simplified database management with embedded DB2 database
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Client success stories

IBM Systems Director integrates the management of your IT operations with your business processes. Read how IBM Systems Director helps IBM clients streamline costs and enhance IT productivity, while meeting business goals.

New! IBM Systems Director Storage Control v4.2.1

The IBM Systems Director Storage Control plug-in offers simpler, unified management of both servers and standalone storage, with integrated capabilities to discover, configure, visualize and monitor storage systems in concert with the rest of your infrastructure. The new IBM Systems Director Storage Control V4.2.1, available on Dec. 16, 2011, extends storage management of IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director VMControl to cover most IBM storage systems and select non IBM storage systems.

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New! IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.4

IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.4: Cloud-ready virtual infrastructures

IBM’s System Director VMControl: Advanced multi-platform virtualization management (589KB)

IBM VP of Systems Software and ISVs, Inna Kuznetsova discusses the steps to cloud, with new cloud-ready virtualization management tools (01:48min)

The new IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.4 offers expanded support for KVM, the next generation open source hypervisor, and delivers comprehensive virtualization image management capabilities and cost effectiveness.

IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.4 allows cross platform, cross-hypervisor image management to reduce complexity, improves administrator productivity and accelerates time to value. The software supports IBM PowerVM™, z/VM® VMware, Microsoft® Xen and KVM server virtualization technologies on a range of IBM systems.

Enhancements include:

Improved provisioning
- System pool support for IBM System x servers
Extended image management capabilities
- Virtual image management for KVM on System x servers
- Virtual image management for IBM i
Management appliance integration for IBM Power Systems
Appliance-ready design streamlines integration into more sophisticated virtualization solutions
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IBM Systems Director VMControl™ makes the management of virtual environments throughout your datacenter simple:

VMControl Express Edition offers the easiest way to manage virtual machines
VMControl Standard Edition adds the ability to manage complete libraries of virtual images
VMControl Enterprise Edition creates and enables the management of system pools, now with full function support for KVM (System x)

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Additional resources

IBM Systems Director: Optimized and simplified management of IT infrastructures

Download this white paper (1MB)

IBM Systems Director reduces IT administration costs by 34 – 42%

ITG management brief (1.13MB)

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IBM Systems Director offers Heterogeneous Management of all IBM (plus other select) system resources—and serious capex/opex savings potential (222KB)

Virtualization Management from IBM can help organizations take evolutionary, not revolutionary steps to the cloud (450KB)

IBM Systems Director's Active Energy Manager pours on systems management relief to cool raging energy costs, saving companies 15-50 percent per year (236KB)

About KVM

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is the next step in the evolution of virtualization for x86-based servers such as IBM System x. An open source hypervisor that offers enterprise-class performance and scalability to run Windows and Linux workloads, KVM provides businesses with a cost-effective alternative to other x86 hypervisors, and enables a lower-cost, more scalable, and open Cloud.

IBM is one of the founding and governing members of the Open Virtualization Alliance, a consortium formed to help foster the adoption of open virtualization technologies including KVM.

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