IBM Systems Director

Highlights

IBM® Systems Director Editions provide options to select the level of leading management solutions from IBM based on your needs - from basic hardware management to more advanced cross enterprise management. IBM Systems Director Editions are packaged to make it simpler, easier to deploy and more cost-effective to purchase the features needed to manage servers, storage and networks in your data center.

IBM offers integrated management solutions – from platform management through service management – to drive greater operational management efficiencies and break down the barriers that get in the way to achieving a Smarter Computing. IBM Systems Director Express, Standard and Enterprise Editions provide an integrated set of tools to enable your IT organization to address major concerns associated with managing both physical and virtual server infrastructures. Systems Director Editions significantly reduce operational complexity, dramatically improve the efficiency of IT staff and systems, and control costs while meeting demanding business requirements for service delivery.

*Choose the Edition that suits your data center infrastructure*
Features	Express	Standard	Enterprise
Visualize physical/virtual system relationships¹
Monitor system health¹
Provide threshold and error alerts¹
Update operating systems and firmware¹
Simplify deployment with virtual images^1,2
Control energy use within existing capacity
Monitor network system health with servers and storage
Automate configuration and placement for new workloads¹
Manage workload availability end-to-end
Understand capacity
Analyze and report historical performance

¹ These features have been bundled into a special Systems Director edition available only for IBM PowerLinux. For more details please view System Management Solutions for IBM PowerLinux

² Power and PowerLinux systems only