As your company grows and as new regulations add pressure on your data centre, you may find yourself forced to add more and more server capacity—often escalating the systems management burden and increasing power consumption. With IBM System x® and BladeCenter® virtualisation solutions, new workloads do not have to mean new servers. Enhanced with IBM X-Architecture® innovation, these x86 servers offer flexible configurations equipped with enhanced memory, high-speed I/O and industry-leading availability and reliability features—a combination designed to help reduce operating costs, simplify management and keep your virtualised infrastructure up and running.
Benefits
IBM System x and BladeCenter virtualisation solutions can help you meet your dynamic business needs with:
- Increased server utilisation
- Reduced system management complexity
- Lower power and cooling costs
- Reduced demand for data centre floor space
- Lower IT total cost of ownership
Featured offerings
Workload optimised systems for virtualisation: Get faster time to value with x86 systems designed for virtualisation
Cloud computing: Jumpstart or grow your private cloud environment with a comprehensive cloud delivery platform
Desktop virtualisation: Reduce costs and simplify management associated with traditional desktop computing
Hypervisors: Get a choice of industry-leading hypervisors from Microsoft®, VMware, Red Hat and SUSE
- VMware® Business Infrastructure Virtualisation (US)
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (US)
- Integrated virtualisation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and KVM (US)
- Open Virtualisation with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Xen (US)
Systems management:
- IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager - Easily manage I/O and network interconnects by virtualising network parameters
- IBM Systems Director - Simplify management of your virtual server environments with a single-point-of-control
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers (US) - Optimise utilisation and ensure high availability of your virtualised environment
Image Migration and Management: Manage and maintain all of your images from a single interface
Networking: Reduce cost and complexity through greater control of network ports and bandwidth
Storage: Automate provisioning and simplify management through a single interface for all storage area networks
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