Manage your Virtual World

Now that you’ve embraced virtualization and consolidation, you have a new challenge: managing your growing number of systems, both virtual and physical, within today's energy constraints. But how do you manage such disparate systems? What happens when you have a different tool for each server – even for each Hypervisor?

Now you can manage your entire data center -- physical and virtual -- efficiently, from one place, with one interface, with the click of a button.

One console. Huge savings. Only from IBM.

With IBM® Systems Director 6.1 you can integrate your physical and virtual management. From IBM Power Systems®, System x™, IBM System z®, and IBM BladeCenter® to IBM Storage Systems® as well as select non-IBM servers, from PowerVM™ to VMWare® to zVM®, from AIX® and IBM i® and Linux® to Microsoft Windows®™. All in one place, with one console and with one look and feel. Systems Director can help you save 34% on your server administration costs and reduce your server energy consumption by 17% as reported by ITG (PDF, 301.28KB) analysts.

Couple that with integrated offerings from IBM Tivoli, such as AIX Enterprise Edition and IBM Tivoli Monitoring, and gain the ability to dynamically balance application resources and move virtual servers between systems without downtime. Seamlessly provision additional physical and virtual servers from the bare metal up. Analyze who is consuming which resources, both physical and virtual, determine the cost of those resources, and allocate those costs for accountability and billing.

Wherever you are on your journey to a virtualized, dynamic datacenter, IBM can help you every step of the way.