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IBM® Systems Director Overview

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Mike PerryIT Specialist

IBM Systems & Technology Group

IBM® Systems Director - highlights

� IBM® Systems Director helps administrators automate data center

operations

� Unifies the management of IBM servers, storage and network devices

with a consistent look and feel for common management tasks

� Enables new and radically improved ways to simplify the management

of physical and virtual platform resources

� Integrates IBM’s best-of-breed virtualization management capabilities

� Reduces operational complexity and provides a view of the

relationships and health status of IT systems


relationships and health status of IT systems

� Supports essential cross platform management (discovery, inventory,

health, maintenance updates, configuration, automation, remote

control, etc.)

� Provides a single view of the actual energy usage across the systems

and facilities within your data center

� Exploits integration of IBM Systems into data center management tools

from Tivoli and other 3rd parties

IBM® Systems Director delivers

� Simplified deployment, installation and update process

� Single point of control from a consistent Web-based user interface

� Easy-to-learn new tasks with intuitive wizards, tutorials and integrated help

� Topology graph views to simplify troubleshooting across server, storage and network resources

� Streamlined lifecycle management of a virtual environment across multiple platforms


� Increased platform support through leveraged industry standards

� Support for embedded agents included with a platform or deployed by other systems management tools

� A consistent access point to integrate and extend platform management throughout the infrastructure

� IBM provides a Systems Director migration tool to facilitate customer migrations from IBM Director 5.20.x

IBM® Systems Director – key points to remember

Systems Director:

� is the platform management foundation for achieving Smarter Systems

� enables integration with Tivoli, and third party management platforms,

providing the building block for virtualization and integrated services

management

� provides systems management personnel with a single-point-of-


� provides systems management personnel with a single-point-of-control, helping reduce IT management complexity and cost

� allows IT personnel to:

– optimize compute and network resources

– quickly respond to business requirements with greater delivery flexibility

– attain higher levels of services management streamlining management of –

physical, virtual, storage and network resources

IBM® Systems Director V6.2 – “what’s new?”

Improved service with simplified usability

� simplified overall usability aiding system management personnel

productivity; improving service

– simplified discovery through a single, web based, user interface

using pre-defined and user created discovery profiles

– improved visibility of ALL resources that have issues and/or out of

compliance

– streamlined installation and update process


– remote management of multiple servers via a single global

Systems Director Server


Improved responsiveness and service through integration

� integration with Tivoli and third party management platforms provides

foundation for integrated services management increasing flexibility,

availability and reliability - leading to improved responsiveness and service

– extensive suite of end-to-end platform management tasks

encompassing discovery, inventory, configuration, system health and

status, resource monitoring, updates, event notification, and automation

– seamless linkage and integration of Systems Director into Tivoli aids in


– seamless linkage and integration of Systems Director into Tivoli aids in

reducing complexity by eliminating layers of management, increasing

visibility, and reducing tasks, reduces complexity, increasing reliability

and improving service

– enhanced integration enables Systems Director troubleshooting tasks

from Tivoli console

– enhanced auditing / security components to verify and setup LDAP

configuration from the web interface


Improved service and reduced cost

� enables increased performance, scalability and availability to improve service

and reduce cost

– ability to ease management of large environments with new 64-bit

support

– increased scalability with Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL)

and Java Persistence API (JPA)


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IBM® Systems Director Overview


Mike PerryIT Specialist

IBM Systems & Technology Group


Agenda

� Organizational Challenges

� Reducing Complexity with IBM® Systems Director

� IBM® Systems Director plug-ins to extend the capabilities of Systems Director

– IBM® Systems Director VMControl™ for virtualization management

– IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ for energy management

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– IBM® Systems Director Network Control to simplify networking tasks

– IBM® Systems Director additional plug-ins and launch-in context features

� IBM® Systems Director Editions IBM Systems Director Editions provide choices

� IBM® Systems Director and Enterprise Service Management

� Summary


Today’s IT organizations face enormous challenges

“I need to consolidate to reduce sprawl.”

“I need to ensure my

services and products

are available at all times.”


“I need to improve IT’s ability

to rapidly support business innovation

and quickly adapt to changes.”

10

Challenges

• Capital and operational expenses – space and power constraints

• Infrastructure fragile and problematic to change – many specialized skills and tools required

• Weeks to deploy new solutions – slow, manual provisioning


IBM provides an integrated service management solution to help simplify IT operations – IBM® Systems Director

IBM® Systems Director can reduce the

costs of IT service delivery while

improving business resiliency


Reducing complexity with integrated platform and

enterprise service management

Rapidly deploy and

manage virtual

servers

Managing energy to reduce costs and

maintain serviceability within

existing energy envelopes

Simplifying network management tasks


IBM Systems Director Physical and virtual platformsServer, Storage, Networking

Foundation Management

Advanced Management

Inventory Health

Config Update

IBM Systems Director Console

Availability Workload

Image Energy Mgt


AIX

FSP PHYP

SLES RHEL VIOS AIX

PHYP

SLES RHELIVM

(VIOS)

MM

JS21AIX

SLES RHELHS21Win

HMC

HMC: Hardware Management Console WPAR: Workload Partition (Container)

IVM: Integrated Virtualization Manager PHYP: POWER Hypervisor

VIOS: Virtual IO Server (virtual IO and Layer 2 bridge) BMC: Baseboard Management Controller

MM: Management Module SMP: Symmetric Multi Processor

FSP: Flexible Service Processor

POWER6 System Blade Center POWER 5 System

AIX

WPAR

WPAR

WPAR

WPAR AIX (SMP)

PHYP FSP

IBM i IBM i

BMC/FSP


AIX ManagementAIX ManagementAIX ManagementAIX Management

IBM Director IBM Director IBM Director IBM Director

Basic CrossBasic CrossBasic CrossBasic Cross----Platform Platform Platform Platform

capabilitiescapabilitiescapabilitiescapabilities(Power Specific)(Power Specific)(Power Specific)(Power Specific)

MonitoringMonitoringMonitoringMonitoring

Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise ManagementManagementManagementManagement

IBM Tivoli Monitoring Systems EditionIBM Tivoli Monitoring Systems EditionIBM Tivoli Monitoring Systems EditionIBM Tivoli Monitoring Systems Edition

Physical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and NetworkingPhysical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and NetworkingPhysical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and NetworkingPhysical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and Networking

OptimizationOptimizationOptimizationOptimization

Cluster Systems ManagerCluster Systems ManagerCluster Systems ManagerCluster Systems Manager

End-to-end Management Approach for Power Systems…


Power Power Power Power Systems Systems Systems Systems Resource Resource Resource Resource

MgrsMgrsMgrsMgrs

Managed Managed Managed Managed environmentsenvironmentsenvironmentsenvironments

Operating Operating Operating Operating systemssystemssystemssystems

Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization softwaresoftwaresoftwaresoftware

Workload Partitions ManagerWorkload Partitions ManagerWorkload Partitions ManagerWorkload Partitions Manager

IBM Systems Director Console for AIXIBM Systems Director Console for AIXIBM Systems Director Console for AIXIBM Systems Director Console for AIX

LPAR Management

System Planning and Deployment ToolSystem Planning and Deployment ToolSystem Planning and Deployment ToolSystem Planning and Deployment Tool

HMC or IVMHMC or IVMHMC or IVMHMC or IVM

(Power Specific)(Power Specific)(Power Specific)(Power Specific)

Power Systems

Physical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and NetworkingPhysical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and NetworkingPhysical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and NetworkingPhysical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and Networking


PowerVM Virtualization

AIX Management


IBM provides a common tool for cross-platform management

AIX Administrator

Windows Administrator

zLinux Administrator

IBM i Administrator


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VM

VM VM

VIO VIO

Microsoft

Windows™

VM

VMware ESX™

VM


IBM® Systems Director topology

Management Console(s)

Web Interface

IBM System Director ServerApplication Logic

Database


� Three-tiered architecture

� Thousands of managed nodes

� Upward Integration modules supporting

– Tivoli, Computer Associates, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft

IBM Systems Director AgentManaged Systems

(Servers, Desktops, Laptops, SNMP devices, CIM devices)


IBM Systems Director Highlights

Simplify platform management across server and storage infrastructure

Focus on health, status, automation


Manage physical and virtual resources

Common navigation, look and feel

Enable upward integration to enterprise service management


All Tasks Grouped by Managers

IBM Systems Director Server

Discovery

Status

Update

Automation

Access all tasks on a single console and user interface to simplify and automate IT administration


ManagersAutomation

Configuration

Virtualization

Remote Access

Storage

BladeCenter and System x

Power Systems

System z


At-a-glance status helps reduce administration and troubleshooting time

� Customizable health summary

–Favorite systems–Critical monitors–Group thumbnails

� Monitoring –Monitor critical


–Monitor critical resources (e.g. CPU, memory, disk, VMs)

–Thresholds–Events

� Automation Plans–Notify–Run commands–Trigger tasks

“… potential savings in server administration costs

averaged 21.0 percent for AIX servers, 34.5 percent

for Windows servers, and 43.8 percent for Linux x86

servers; i.e., a great deal of time was saved by

administrators dealing with all three environments”*

-International Technology Group

* “Value Proposition for IBM Systems Director: Challenges of Operational Management for Enterprise Server Installations” –International Technology Group, September 2008


Discovers relationships of virtual machines to server hardware and Hardware Management Consoles (HMCs)

Discovers hardware and virtual resources

via the Hardware Management Console

Automated discovery

Microsoft Windows™


Discovers physical and shared I/O

VM

VM VM

VIO VIO

Windows™

VM

VMware ESX™

VM


Communicate directly with IBM for the latest OS and firmware updates

Identify updates

which are tested

and should be


Summary page for

single view Integrated actions

for download,

distribute, install

and uninstall

and should be

deployed


Automate notification alerts and fixes based on warning thresholds

Monitoring

Event thresholds

Automation

IBM Systems Director functions:


VM VM

1. Monitor disk capacity.

2. If the disk is ε 90%:

IBM Systems Director functions:

a. Execute command to back-up and delete non-critical files

b. Log the back-upc. Send an e-mail to the

administrator

!!


IBM® Systems Director plug-ins to extend the capabilities of integrated service management



IBM® Systems Director plug-ins

� A plug-in to IBM® Systems Director is software that is installed on top of the base product

� Delivers key additional functionalities to solve specific IT challenges

� Retains a consistent user experience with the base offering by taking advantage of the common tasks and capabilities

� Key IBM Systems Director plug-ins are:


– IBM® Systems Director VMControl™

– IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™

– IBM® Systems Director Network Control


IBM® Systems Director VMControl™


Rapidly deploy and manage virtual servers


IBM® delivers end-to-end visibility, control, and automation for virtual machines and system images

� Orchestrate composite image processes across the enterprise aligned with business service requirements

� Manage your virtual images -

OptimizeOptimize

••Automate business service Automate business service deliverydelivery


� Manage your virtual images -capture, configure, catalog and deploy

� Standardize and centralize the management of virtualization technologies to gain operational efficiencies

... reducing the time to deploy applications from days to minutes.

VirtualizeVirtualize

••Create, manage and migrate Create, manage and migrate

virtual machines (physicalvirtual machines (physical--toto--virtual, virtualvirtual, virtual--toto--virtual)virtual)

ManageManage

••Centralize enterprise image Centralize enterprise image

management and deploymentmanagement and deployment


IBM Systems Director VMControl

Delivers leadership multi-platform virtualization management

• Simplifies virtual machine management and relocation on all

IBM platforms

• Supports faster time to market for new services by reducing time and

complexity of application installation and configuration



and configuration

• Reduces disruption to IT operations

associated with provisioning

resources

• Reduces deployment errors and

time to troubleshoot and fix them

• Provides automation necessary for cloud computing environments

IBM System x

Power Systems

IBM System z

IBM BladeCenter

VMware® ESX and ESXi

Microsoft® Hyper-V™


VMControl Editions

VMControlVMControl

Express EditionVMControl

Standard EditionVMControl

Enterprise Edition

Virtualization Capabilities Manage resources Automate virtual images Optimize system pools

PowerVM


Create/manage virtual machines (x86, PowerVM and z/VM) � � �

Virtual machine relocation � � �

Capture/import, create/remove standardized virtual images � �

Deploy standard virtual images � �

Maintain virtual images in a centralized library � �

Create/remove system pools and manage resources in system pools �

Add/remove physical servers within system pools �


Features:

� Multi-platform management

– View virtual and physical assets

– Virtualized life-cycle

VMControl™ Express EditionSee and act on all of the virtualized resources

A plug-in option for IBM Systems Director (available for no additional charge) to enhance virtualization management and simplify virtual appliance deployment across heterogeneous platforms


– Virtualized life-cycle management

– Topology maps

� Edit virtual resources

– Edit physical hosts

– Edit virtual machines

– Use GUI or command line

� Relocate virtual machines

– Execute live relocation

– Plan for relocation


Benefits:

� Simplify management of virtual environments

– Fewer tools and common interfaces across multiple platforms

– Reduce troubleshooting time with topology views of physical and virtual resource relationships

VMControl™ Express Edition


� Reduce IT training costs

– Access using Systems Director interface

– Provides core virtualization management of all IBM server platforms

� Reduce or Eliminate unplanned downtime

– Health monitoring

– Threshold alerts

– Move active virtual resources


Deploy

Virtual Machines

Import

Capture

Virtual Machines

VMControl™ Standard EditionAutomation through shared libraries of standardized virtual appliances


� Discovery and manage heterogeneous image repositories

� Import, capture and catalog new virtual images from existing systems

� Simplified virtual image deployment and customization

� Dynamically provision virtual server, storage and network resource

� Leverages OVF open standard packaging for interoperability

Open Virtualization Format (OVF)

Virtual Machines

VMControl enables the delivery and management of open standard virtual

machine images on IBM Systems


Benefits:

� Reduce time to deploy new capacity

– Provisions resources with images

– Reduces deployment errors and troubleshooting

� Eliminates manual image management

– Creates, edits and updates virtual server templates and

VMControl™ Standard Edition


– Creates, edits and updates virtual server templates and images

– Protects existing investment in Network Installation Manager (NIM)

� Simplify Back up, Recovery and Rollback

– Capture snapshots of running virtual machines

– Restart last snapshot after a failure

– Rollback to prior version after an update

*KVM support 4Q2010

*


� Intelligent Virtual Machine Placement Services

� Dynamic Workload Mobility

� Integrated Storage and Network Management

� Automation policy control for workloads

– Advise – VMControl recommends actions and requires confirmation

– Automate – VMControl automates actions

� Availability Automations

VMControl Enterprise EditionAutomate the virtualized environment with system pools


� Availability Automations

– Automate relocation of virtual workloads in response to predicted host system failures without disruption

– Restart virtual workloads when a host fails

– Automate remote restart of virtual workloads in response to host failures with minimal disruption

� Energy Automations

– Allows the pool to relocate VM’s to minimum hosts

– Minimum number of hosts reduce overall energy bill

� Performance Automations

– Allows pool to spread VM’s for optimum performance


Benefits� Maintain Workload Availability

– Automate relocation of virtual workloads in response to predicted host system failures without disruption

– Automate remote restart of virtual workloads in response to host failures with minimal disruption

� Lower Total Energy Consumption– Dynamic consolidation reduces number of hosts used– Lower host count consumes less energy

� Eliminate Service InterruptionsMobility

VMControl™ Enterprise EditionIntroduces the concept of system pools for higher-level management


� Eliminate Service Interruptions– Automate migration of workload off host needing service – Perform necessary service / upgrade to host– Automate the migration of workload back to host

Compute Network StorageMemory

Virtualization

Compute

Network StorageMemory

IT Resources Virtual Images System Pools

Optimized for

� Availability

� Performance

� Energy


IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™


Managing energy usage to reduce costs and maintain service

availability in existing energy envelopes

Cost Reduction and Avoidance

� Identify opportunities for energy cost reduction (Operating Expenses)

� Delay facility expansion due to energy or cooling constraints (Capital Expenses)


Common goals for energy management


Remove Operational Barriers

� Manage power and cooling capacity to enable growth and flexibility

� Avoid service disruptions caused by energy related outages


IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ Simplified management across multiple IBM systems and non-IBM servers

“Using Active Energy

Manager, IBM Intelligent

PDUs are allowing us to

� IBM® Systems Director provides a single view of the actual power usage across multiple platforms

� IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ supports more servers, more PDUs and integrates with more infrastructure providers

� IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager consists of Monitoring and Management functions


PDUs are allowing us to

monitor the data center to

optimize temperature and

humidity – resulting in an

almost 50% reduction in

cooling costs with the first

month of operation.”

- Jim Oberholtzer, VP Technology United States

Bowling Congress

� IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager Monitoring Functions

Power Trending

Thermal Trending

PDU Support for IBM and non-IBM

Support for Facility Providers and sensors

Energy Thresholding

Altitude Input

� IBM Systems Director Active Energy Management Functions

Power Capping

Power Savings Mode


IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ Improved energy efficiency to help reduce data center costs/upgrades

Monitoring/control of server energy use

– 3rd-party facilities equipment support

(sensors and meters supported)

– Alerts surfaced for servers affected by

a power or cooling failure

– Control and set energy caps for both AC and DC power

Active Energy Manager


– Control and set energy caps for both AC and DC power

– Support for Power Distribution Units (PDUs)

Balance workloads across servers to fit electrical power and thermal profiles

– Create and display relationships between all servers,

and the power and cooling equipment supporting them

– Collect data to plan what servers to power off and when


Active Energy Manager™ monitors electrical energy and thermal

profiles

� Manage electrical power at the rack and server level

� Manage thermal energy at the rack and server level

� Analyze trends in energy


� Analyze trends in energy use

� Server power down

� Performance per watt display

Trend electrical power use over time

Trend temperature over time

Note: Active Energy Manager monitoring and control capabilities vary by system.


Control energy use on servers

� Set fixed energy usage caps that the servers will not exceed when fully configured, OR

� Set a lower “soft cap” for even more energy savings

� Optimize to maximize performance or power savings


� Set a fixed processor energy reduction, or dynamically adjust energy based on utilization

� Input altitude for more efficient fan operation

� Active Energy Manager™ data and energy controls are available on the console and via Command Line Interface

US Energy consumption by servers and data centers is

expected to almost double in the next 5 years.

- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), August 2007

Note: Active Energy Manager monitoring and control capabilities vary by system.


� Active Energy Manager™ collects data and alerts from applications that monitor computer room air conditioning (CRAC), uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and power distribution units (PDU) including:

– SiteScan ® (Emerson-Liebert)– InfraStruXure® Central (APC by Schneider Electric)– Power Xpert ® and Power Xpert ® Reporting (Eaton) – Foreseer®

Additional data center facility equipment and legacy systems can be

managed


– Foreseer®– Geist Manufacturing ®– Server Technology ®

� Active Energy Manager can display thermal data of legacy systems and other data center equipment monitored with:

– Synapsense ™ wireless monitors– SmartWorks SmartWatt meters and SmartSense TH

sensors– iButton one-wire sensors– Sensitronics one-wire sensors


IBM® Systems Network Control


Simplifying network management tasks


Platform Management

IBM Systems Director Network Control integrates end-to-end

platform management for the data center

Service ManagementProvides:

� Simplification of network management tasks, providing a unified view of the total IT environment, servers, storage and network.

� Device based launch in context point for IBM Data Center Fabric Manager.

� Integration of Tivoli based technology for advanced discovery and topology.

� Graphical view of L2 network connectivity


StorageServerNetwork

� Graphical view of L2 network connectivity using Director’s topology perspective.

� Logical views of network systems arranged by the subnetworks to which they belong.

Enables:

� End-to-end user tasks to be done with a single tool

� Network monitoring at a glance via network topology perspectives with ability to see the components affected by network outages.

� Support for latest converged Fabric Ethernet technology (FCoCEE).

IT environment VMware ®

Microsoft®

Virtual Server


Cisco Systems, Inc

Juniper Networks, Inc

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.


IBM® Systems Director Additional Plug-ins and launch-in context features



Additional plug-ins and launch-in context features enable advanced platform management

� Service and Support Manager identifies and reports hardware-related problems, enabling IBM to provide proactive service that may result in higher system availability and performance.

� BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager-Advanced upgrade allows for the assignment and reassignment of Ethernet MAC and Fibre Channel WWN addresses used by the I/O ports

Enabling new and innovative ways to manage IBM Systems…


and Fibre Channel WWN addresses used by the I/O ports on server blades in the IBM BladeCenter ®

� Workload Partition Manager deploys multiple workloads in a single AIX instance and automatically moves running workloads based on defined business policies

� Hardware Management Console provides access to additional management and RAS functions of attached servers.

� Systems Director Console for AIX and Systems Director Navigator for i5/OS provide a graphical interface for operating environment administration, access and security.


IBM® Systems Director Editions IBM Systems Director Editions provide choices to select the package of simple-to-use automated management solutions from IBM based on your needs



IBM® Systems Director Editions provides choices

� IBM offers a complete set of platform and enterprise service management solutions

� Select the package of simple-to-use automated management solutions based on your needs

– Basic hardware management to more advanced cross-enterprise management


– Basic hardware management to more advanced cross-enterprise management

� Packages make it more cost-effective to purchase the features needed to manage servers, storage and networks

� Improved time to market– Packages make it easier to purchase the features needed to manage servers, storage

and network devices

� Protect your investment� Packages scale up as your infrastructure evolves

IBM Systems Director Editions

IBM® Systems Director Editions helps improve service management

•• Systems Director Editions Systems Director Editions packages provide packages provide cost effectivecost effectivesolutions to support data center solutions to support data center

IBM® Systems Director Express Edition

• Remotely monitor, configure and update servers

and operating systems

• Reduce time required for troubleshooting

IBM® Systems Director Standard Edition

• Monitor and manage energy use and thermal

output

• Reduce time to configure and deploy virtual

images


solutions to support data center solutions to support data center transformation.transformation.

•• New offeringsNew offerings designed to:designed to:

Reduce complexityReduce complexity

Manage virtualization and energyManage virtualization and energy

Optimize systems and workloadsOptimize systems and workloads

images

• Get a single view and status of network and

server systems

IBM® Systems Director Enterprise Edition

• Deploy workloads faster with improved reliability

in system pools

• Increase operator productivity with prioritized

information and context, real-time and historical

health status

• Use predictive capabilities to help with capacity

estimation


Systems Director Express Edition

Systems Director Enterprise Edition

Image

Systems Director Standard Edition

IBM® Systems Director Editions for improved IT operations

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Express Edition App

OSApp

OS

Image

Advanced discovery and

monitoring

Energy Management

Advanced energy

reporting

Virtual image

deployment

System pools

deployment

Network management

Basic monitoring

and updates


IBM® Systems Director EditionsIBM Systems

Director EditionsIBM Systems Director

Express EditionIBM Systems Director

Standard Edition

IBM Systems Director Enterprise

Edition

Capabilities Reduce CostsIncrease Agility and

EfficiencyOptimize Resource

Utilization

Visualize physical/virtual system relationships

� � �

Monitor system health � � �

Provide threshold and error alerts� � �

Update Operating Systems and ��


Update Operating Systems and firmware

��

Simplify deployment with virtual images

� �

Control energy use within existing capacity

� �

Monitor network system health with servers and storage

� �

Automate configuration and placement for new workloads

�

Manage workload availability end-to-end

�

Understand capacity �

Analyze and report historical performance

�


� Systems Director Enterprise Edition if you:

– Need automated resource set-up for workloads

– Need end-to-end root cause analysis and reporting

– Need better resource capacity analysis

– Use PowerVM Enterprise Edition or Tivoli software

� Systems Director Standard Edition if you:

Which Systems Director Edition is right for you?


– Need to speed up deployment of workloads

– Need to control energy use and costs

– Use PowerVM Standard Edition

� Systems Director Express Edition if you:

– Need to know the relationships between systems

– Manage VMs using multiple consoles

– Need remote access for system status and updates

– Are managing more than a few servers


IBM® Systems Director provides rich hardware information into Enterprise Service Management software for an end to end integrated management solutions



Upward integrationSystems Director can provide its rich hardware information into higher-level management packages

� Tivoli Enterprise™

– TEC 3.8 & 3.9

– ITM 5.1.x

– Configuration Manager 4.2.x

– Software Distribution

– Provisioning Manager

– Inventory

– Security Operations Manager


– Distributed Monitoring

� Tivoli NetView® 7.1.x (Windows and Linux)

� Tivoli Netcool (Netcool/Omnibus, Netcool/Precision IP (via SNMP), Netcool/Monitoring, Netcool/ISM, Netcool/AEM (via SNMP)

� CA Unicenter NSM 3.1 and R11 (Windows)

� HP OpenView NNM 7.0.1 and 7.5.1 (Windows and Linux)

� HP OpenView Operations for windows 7.5x (Windows)

� Microsoft Systems Management Server, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

HP OpenView


Enterprise service management

�Align IT operations with the business

�Govern and control the business

�Optimize the business

IBM Platform and Enterprise Service Management


The unique integration of IBM Systems Director and Tivoli® provides a centralized

platform for consolidated data center service management.

Platform management of IBM systems

�Consolidated management across systems

�Integrated physical and virtual management

�Automated physical and virtual provisioning


IBM® Systems Director Summary



Physical assets & virtual resources at your fingertips with easyhealth monitoring & reporting, as well as updates & optimization

Automation of virtualization managementto minimize time to provision images and manage system pools

Server and virtualization management integrated with network

and storage management for complete resource control

IBM Systems Director’s management increases efficiency to address today’s challenges and prepare for tomorrow’s opportunities


Energy management to control energy use within existing capacity by setting energy usage caps across one or more servers

Integrated platform and service management to reduce time

required for troubleshooting


Get the advantage of IBM® Systems Director cross-platform management solution to reduce the cost of IT service delivery and increase efficiencies

� Provides a full range of systems management functions for physical and virtual resources

– Hardware and software inventory– Monitoring with automated responses– Software distribution– Remote hardware control and task execution

� Easy-to-use, point-and-click graphical user


� Easy-to-use, point-and-click graphical user interface

� Manages AIX™, Linux®, IBM i® and Windows®

– Linux® and Windows® on compatible non-IBM hardware

� SNMP Devices– Network devices, Storage subsystems, Power

Distribution Units…

� Systems Director Editions– Packages provide cost effective solutions to support data

center transformation.


For additional information

� IBM Systems Director Web Site

– http://www.ibm.com/systems/software/director/index.html

� STG Lab Services

– http://memphistn.rchland.ibm.com/wps/wcm/connect/content_en_US/systems/systems/services/labservices/index.html


_en_US/systems/systems/services/labservices/index.html

� IBM Systems Director Marketing

– Suzanne Battenfeld ([email protected])


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