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27th Nov 2008
PRODUCT REVIEW: IBM Systems Director 6.1
IBM Systems Director 6.1 at the core of an IT management strategy can help reduce the cost of IT service delivery, improve business resiliency and security, and help meet energy usage requirements
IBM Systems Director 6.1 is the next generation platform management solution that streamlines the way physical and virtual systems are managed across a multi-system environment. IBM Systems Director provides the base function needed for platform modular extensible platform services foundation to easily add advanced platform management functions as required. Through an intuitive, point-and-click user interface, IBM Systems Director provides consistent views for visualizing managed systems that determines how these systems relate to one another while identifying their individual status which helps to quickly identify problems and limit the business impact. The IBM Systems Director solution includes inventory of hardware features and settings, system health and status notification, and system firmware and driver update management. The industry-standard foundation enables multi-systems hardware support and works with a variety of operating systems and network protocols.
Key features of IBM Systems Director 6.1:
• Integrates IBM's best-of-breed virtualization capabilities to provide new and radically improved ways to simplify the management of physical and virtual platform resources
• Unifies the monitoring and control of IBM systems, delivering a consistent look and feel for common management tasks.
• Delivers multi-system support across IBM Power, System x, System z, and IBM Storage systems
• Provides an extendable and modular foundation to advance the core systems management capabilities with additional plug-ins
• Enables seamless integration of IBM systems with the total infrastructure, and upward integration with enterprise service management solutions such as IBM Tivoli
• Delivers a consistent and unified platform management foundation that facilitates reduced training costs.
• Manages non-IBM x86-based systems through a dedicated agent
