End-to-end virtualization

The Goals

Consolidating servers and storage with virtualization can help you get the most out of your IT investments – and this is an important step toward a cloud-based infrastructure. But as the number of virtual servers and storage systems increases, your IT staff may find themselves occupied with different IT problems. You need virtualization management solutions that put all of your provisioning, management and diagnostic tools onto a single pane of glass so your IT experts can concentrate on business issues instead of IT problems.

The Advantages

IBM offers innovative virtualization management solutions designed to help you simplify and unify management across your virtualized infrastructure.

Support ongoing cost savings

• Utilize capacity and energy management to enable further consolidation and reduce data center energy costs.
• Enable common integrated management tools across the infrastructure, regardless of domain or platform
• Increase IT staff productivity.

Improve service delivery

• Accelerate identification and remediation of issues and bottlenecks.
• Map dependencies in real time across components to proactively identify potential issues.
• Automate routine administrative tasks to improve response time and reduce user error.

Increase business agility

• Accelerate planning and implementation with reference architectures and decision support frameworks.
• Leverage open standards and reuse standardized design elements to create a more modular architecture.
• Proactively plan for future capacity and energy needs of the business.