IBM Systems Director

Highlights

IBM® Systems Director Standard Edition includes all of the capabilities of the Express Edition, and adds advanced deployment, monitoring and management features under the same console. With Systems Director Standard Edition, you can create and deploy virtual images that encapsulate an operating environment as well as any middleware and applications, while automatically configuring the storage attached network. If you are facing energy cost or capacity concerns, get the benefit of understanding and controlling energy use across the data center. 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

  • All features of the Systems Director Express Edition
  • Capture/import, create/remove standardized virtual images*
  • Deploy standard virtual images*
  • Maintain virtual images in a centralized library*
  • Manages the power and thermal components built into IBM systems enabling a cross-platform management solution
  • 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

* Power Systems only

IBM offers IBM Systems Director Standard Edition for Power Systems and System x servers

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