IBM Systems Director

Highlights

IBM® Systems Director Enterprise Edition includes all of the capabilities of the Express and Standard editions plus adds tools for more comprehensive availability and performance management. It also provides more options for rapidly deploying and maintaining virtual server environments. With the Enterprise Edition, clients have the flexibility to deploy workloads in virtual machines as well deployment into a pool of virtual system resources across multiple physical servers (called “system pools”). System pools can be managed with the simplicity of managing a single system. Troubleshooting is enhanced by including application status, identification of changes in the environment and predictive analysis of capacity. A built-in data warehouse and reporting enable clients to analyze both real-time status and historical trends together.

Benefits

Improve application and system reliability with automated availability management of workloads in system pools
Improve the productivity of IT “Subject Matter Experts” by providing more comprehensive information for troubleshooting, capacity planning, and reducing the time spent generating reports
Increase system utilization by pooling resources across multiple servers, and sharing those resources across multiple workloads
Increase resilience for planned and unplanned downtime which helps improve customer satisfaction for users of business applications
Defer hardware purchases as a result of higher system resource utilization and better capacity information

Features

All features of the Systems Director Express and Standard Editions
Creation/removal of system pools and resource management in system pools as if they were a single system
Addition/removal of physical servers within system pools
Visualization of the relationships of servers to applications
Proactive real-time and predictive monitoring of the virtualized environment
Predictive performance management and capacity estimation

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