IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for Power Systems, V4.1 helps you monitor and manage the power and thermal usage of your IT environment
IBM United States Software Announcement 208-284November 11, 2008
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At a glance(Corrected on February 10, 2009, to add original prices.)
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IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ V4.1 (AEM) software, an IBM® Systems Director plug-in, is available on Linux® on Power, Linux on System x™, Linux on System z®, AIX®, and Windows® operating systems to help you monitor and manage the power and thermal usage of your IT environment. AEM is a unique energy management software tool that can provide a single view of the actual power usage across systems in your infrastructure as opposed to the benchmarked power consumption.
The main new features in this release are:
- Web-based user interface requiring only a browser
- Soft power capping
- Energy thresholding
- Group capping
- Integration with Emerson-Liebert's SiteScan management application
- Additional power savings modes
- Command-line interface support
For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).
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IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager (AEM) V4.1 can effectively allocate, match, and cap power and thermal limits in the data center at the system, chassis, or rack level. By enabling these energy management technologies, you can effectively manage your systems while improving your cost of computing.
Active Energy Manager is positioned as a key component of IBM's energy-efficient technologies and services, which are part of IBM's Project Big Green that began May 2007. It is also part of the New Enterprise Data Center strategy and is delivered as part of IBM Systems Director. AEM will measure, monitor, and manage the energy management components built into IBM servers and provides a cross-platform management solution. It also provides a source of energy management data that can be exploited by Tivoli® enterprise solutions such as IBM Tivoli Monitoring. AEM also retrieves temperature and power information via wireless sensors (SynapSense) and collects alerts, events, and data from facility providers related to power and cooling equipment.
AEM V4.1 builds upon AEM V3.1.1 and offers additional support for monitoring environmental data from facility providers such as SynapSense and Emerson Network Power. In addition, AEM V4.1 supports non-IBM PDUs and UPSs.
Additional features and enhancements to AEM V4.1 include:
- Web-based user interface requiring only a browser. No need to install a client.
- Soft power capping (an option within power capping): Ability to set a lower energy cap value to enable clients to save energy.
- Energy thresholding: Enables a user to set an energy or temperature threshold and be notified when it is reached (or allow an action to automatically be taken).
- Group capping (an option within power capping): Enables a user to set an energy cap for a group of servers (such as all the servers in a rack).
- AIX management server: AEM application server is supported to run on AIX.
- Alerts and monitoring: Additional power events are monitored and alerts surfaced to enable corrective action.
- Additional support for the newest IBM server models available in this time frame - capabilities for IBM POWER6™ Models 520, 550, and POWER6 blades.
- Altitude input: Enables a customer to enter an altitude, which AEM will pass to the IBM Power Systems server so that it can be used to adjust fan speed.
- Additional power savings modes: AEM allows a user to set the power savings mode to either maximum performance or maximum energy savings for greater control on performance and energy trade-offs.
- Command Line Interface (CLI) support: Provides the ability to script commands and actions.
- Translation into nine languages in addition to English.
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| Key prerequisites |
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- IBM Systems Director V6.1
- One of these operating systems:
- AIX V5.3 with Technology Level 06 Service Pack 4, or later
- AIX V6.1 with Technology Level 01 Service Pack 1, or later
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.6 and 4.7 for POWER™
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 5.1 and 5.2 for POWER
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for POWER with Service Packs 3 and 4
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER with Service Packs 1 and 2
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| Planned availability date |
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December 12, 2008
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| Description |
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AEM V4.1, an IBM Systems Director V6.1 plug-in, is designed to simplify the management of energy consumption across multiple IBM and non-IBM systems. AEM tracks energy use over time and can assist you in determining how to reallocate energy to additional servers without adding additional energy or cooling equipment. When energy is constrained, AEM is designed to allow energy to be allocated on a server to server basis. AEM is also designed to track and allocate energy consumption in a manner intended not to affect performance. Sensors and alerts can warn you if limiting energy to a server could affect performance.
It is designed to provide increased capability to control energy consumption and improve energy use efficiency, which can potentially result in substantial savings and cost reductions. AEM is intended to help you:
- Increase energy use efficiency by controlling energy use across the data center
- Negotiate competitive utility rates based on accurate energy use trend assessments
- Limit server energy consumption by capping maximum energy consumption
- Perform server to server energy consumption comparisons
By enabling you to meter energy use and trend data, AEM is designed to help reduce energy costs in the data center. AEM is also designed to complement and integrate with higher-level management software such as Tivoli. AEM interfaces with the IBM Tivoli Monitoring products and other Tivoli products.
AEM V4.1 can help protect your IT investment through its open design and support for industry standards which enables heterogeneous physical and virtual management with support for multiple platforms and operating systems.
AEM V4.1 supports the following endpoints: IBM BladeCenter®, Power Systems, System x, and System z servers. IBM Storage Systems and non-IBM platforms can be monitored through PDU+ support. In addition, Active Energy Manager can collect information from select facility providers including Liebert SiteScan from Emerson Network Power and SynapSense. When the Active Energy Manager V4.1 application runs on either Linux for Power or AIX operating systems, it can perform monitoring and management functions for all supported systems from a single console.
AEM V4.1 provides no-charge monitoring functions and a set of optional chargeable (fee-based) management functions.
AEM Monitoring functions (no-charge)
AEM V4.1 is designed to provide monitoring functions for devices that can connect to select Power Distribution Units (PDUs). This enables monitoring functions for systems that do not have support for AEM, for example, older servers and low- and mid-range storage devices. By plugging these systems into a PDU+ (a smart power strip), AEM is designed to be able to collect energy information from I/O drawers plugged into the PDU, providing a more complete view of energy used in the data center. New in this release is the addition of support for non-IBM PDUs, as well as UPSs as defined in the product support library.
Power trending is a monitoring function that displays energy use for individual systems or groups of systems over time (in a graph or table format) to help enable clients to understand energy use trends within and across their systems.
Thermal trending is a monitoring function that displays information on the inlet and exhaust temperatures for individual systems one at a time to help enable clients to understand thermal characteristics of their systems. Incorporating this data into one centralized software-based energy use offering allows finite and localized temperature adjustments within the IT shop to help reduce energy costs for cooling.
Support for facility providers is a function that retrieves information from Emerson Network Power's SiteScan application. Numerous attributes associated with the energy usage of power and cooling equipment can be collected, and made available through AEM. This provides a broader scope of energy information within the data center while including a view of facilities equipment.
Support for sensors is a function that retrieves temperature and power information via wireless sensors (SynapSense). In AEM V4.1, this sensor data can now be associated with Systems Director managed resources and collect alerts and events from power related facility providers (Emerson Network Power) to power and cooling equipment. This provides a broader scope of energy information across systems within the data center, while including a view of facilities equipment.
AEM Management functions (chargeable)
Power capping is included in the set of optional chargeable (fee-based) management functions. It is designed to allow a client to set a maximum energy level per system. If the system starts to consume more than the maximum level set, AEM is designed to throttle the processor to use less energy, which slows down the server. This feature is designed to come into play it if gets too warm in the data center. Setting the cap will ensure that the system will not use more than the cap value, thus allowing the user to allocate less power for that system.
Power saver mode is included in the set of optional chargeable (fee-based) management functions. Power saver mode is designed to potentially save up to 30% of processor energy use for IBM Power Systems. It is designed to allow clients to manage their energy use as work activity shifts across various demands. Static power saving mode is enabled via an on/off switch, which a client can schedule during times of low utilization, or a script can be written so that it can be switched automatically, based on processor utilization.
Accessibility by people with disabilities
A U.S. Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template containing details on the products accessibility compliance can be requested at
Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for Power Systems, V4.1 is capable as of December 12, 2008, when used in accordance with IBM's associated documentation, of satisfying the applicable requirements of Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act, provided that any assistive technology used with the product properly interoperates with it.
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IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager V4.1 is an IBM Systems Director V6.1 plug-in. It is an energy management solution building block that returns control of energy costs to the client. Active Energy Manager is a cornerstone of the IBM energy management framework.
Active Energy Manager advances the IBM initiative to deliver price/performance per square foot. This offering enables monitoring and management of power usage across systems equipment within the IT and facility infrastructures, which decreases the cost of computing through improved power utilization and reduced labor cost. Active Energy Manager provides a broader scope of energy information across systems within the data center while including a view of facilities equipment.
Called "Project Big Green," IBM's initiative targets corporate data centers where energy constraints and costs can limit their ability to grow. IBM plans to double computing capacity in its own data centers and will use new technologies to avoid five billion kilowatt hours of new energy use. IBM is redirecting one billion dollars per year across its businesses, mobilizing the company's resources to dramatically increase the level of energy efficiency in IT. The plan includes new products, such as Active Energy Manager and services for IBM and its clients, designed to sharply reduce data center energy consumption and transition the world's business and public technology infrastructures into energy-efficient data centers.
Project Big Green also reaffirms IBM's long-standing commitment to environmental responsibility.
- IBM energy conservation actions from 1990 to 2005 reduced or avoided CO2 emissions by an amount equal to 40% of its 1990 emissions while saving $250 million. And there was a further 12% reduction between 2005-2012.
- IBM plans to double the compute capacity of our Green Data Centers by 2010 -- without increasing power consumption, thus avoiding five billion kilowatt hours per year and CO2 emissions equivalent to taking one million cars off the road.
Forty percent of data center operators report power demand outstripping supply. The new enterprise data center improves data center energy efficiency through exploitation of virtualization-enabled consolidation, resource optimization, and active energy management (Data Center Power and Cooling challenge, Gartner, November 2007).
AEM is one of the system components designed as a part of IBM's Project Big Green.
AEM V4.1 is focused on multisystem resource management of energy across IBM servers and provides heterogeneous monitoring support for systems and IT facilities, enabling clients to manage actual energy consumption.
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| Reference information |
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For additional information on AEM, refer to
Refer to:
- Software Announcement 208-332, dated November 11, 2008, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for x86, V4.1.
Business Partner information
If you are a Direct Reseller - System Reseller acquiring products from IBM, you may link directly to Business Partner information for this announcement. A PartnerWorld® ID and password are required (use IBM ID).
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Program
number VRM Program name
5765-AEP 4.1 IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for
Power Systems
5660-PE3 SW Maintenance Registration/Renewal 1 Year
5661-PE3 SW Maintenance After License 1 Year
5662-PE3 SW Maintenance Registration 3 Year (2 Yr Uplift)
5664-PE3 SW Maintenance After License 3 Year
Note: SWMA program numbers have been previously announced.
Product identification number
Maintenance Maintenance
Program PID number 1 year PID number 3 year PID number
5765-AEP 5660-PE3 5662-PE3
5661-PE3 5663-PE3
5664-PE3
Evaluation software
If you download from the Web, you are offered the product to evaluate the AEM management functions for up to 60 days under the terms of the IBM International License Agreement for Evaluation of Programs (ILAE). During the evaluation period, an option to purchase a permanent license will be offered. If a permanent license is purchased, a keyfile will be shipped on a CD-ROM to enable AEM management functions to remain active and no changes will be made to AEM and everything will continue to work as it did. Otherwise, the AEM management functions will be disabled. AEM monitor functions do not require the keyfile to remain enabled. AEM monitoring functions and the key enabled management functions are licensed under the terms of the IBM International Program License Agreement (IPLA).
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Product information is available via the Offering Information Web site
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No licensed hardcopy publications are shipped with this program.
Publications are available in U.S. English versions from the IBM Systems Information Center.
The IBM Systems Information Center provides you with a single information center where you can access product documentation for IBM systems hardware, operating systems, and server software. Through a consistent framework, you can efficiently find information and personalize your access. The IBM Systems Information Center is at
To find information, you can search, browse the contents, follow links from one topic to related topics, and print the topics you want to read offline.
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Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
IBM DPI® PDU+s may require firmware updates. The firmware version can be found on the Active Energy Manager Web site
Platform or OS-specific capabilities:
- IBM System z is supported for monitoring functions only.
- IBM Power Systems are supported for monitoring, power saving, and capping.
- IBM System x is supported for monitoring and capping but not power saving.
- Storage devices are enabled when utilizing PDUs for monitoring only.
Software requirements
AEM V4.1 requires one of the following operating systems:
- AIX V5.3 with Technology Level 06 Service Pack 4, or later
- AIX V6.1 with Technology Level 01 Service Pack 1, or later
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.6 and 4.7 for POWER
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 5.1 and 5.2 for POWER
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for POWER with Service Packs 3 and 4
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER with Service Packs 1 and 2
The program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the program, if available, such as a README file, or other information published by IBM, such as an announcement letter. Documentation and other program content may be supplied only in the English language.
Limitations
AEM can monitor but not manage power data on servers that do not have native support.
Performance considerations
Performance considerations are available from the IBM Systems Information Center
Planning information
Refer to the planning Web site for additional information
Packaging
The IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager package contains the following items:
- One CD-ROM that includes product installation documentation and files
Your Proof of Entitlement for this program is a copy of a paid sales receipt, purchase order, invoice, or other sales record from IBM or its authorized reseller from whom you acquired the program, provided that it states the license charge unit (the characteristics of intended use of the program; for example, number of processors, number of users) and quantity acquired.
Information about how you may obtain program services will be provided by the party (either IBM or its authorized reseller) from whom you acquired the program.
AEM is available on or before December 12, 2008, for electronic download from
This program, when downloaded from a Web site, contains the applicable IBM license agreement and License Information (LI), if appropriate, and will be presented for acceptance at the time of installation of the program. For future reference, the license and LI will be stored in a directory such as LICENSE.TXT. This program, when downloaded from a Web site, contains the applicable IBM license agreement and License Information, if appropriate, and will be presented for acceptance at the time of installation of the program. For future reference, the license and License Information will be stored in a directory such as LICENSE.TXT.
Security, auditability, and control
AEM V4.1 installed on systems with Linux uses the security and auditability features of the Linux operating system.
The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.
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Charge metric
Program name PID number Charge metric IBM Systems Director Active Energy 5765-AEP Per managed server Manager V4.1 SW Maintenance Regist/Renewal 1 Year 5660-PE3 Per managed server SW Maintenance After License 1 Year 5661-PE3 Per managed server SW Maintenance Registration 3 Year 5662-PE3 Per managed server SW Maintenance After License 3 Year 5664-PE3 Per managed server
Server
Server is the unit of measure by which this program is licensed. A server is a computer system that executes requested procedures, commands, or applications to one or more user or client devices. A Proof of Entitlement (PoE) must be obtained for each server on which the program runs or each server managed by the program. Where blade technology is employed, each blade is considered a separate server.
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Definition of server category:
- Small server
- IBM System x models
- IBM BladeCenter x86 and Power Architecture® technology-based blades
- IBM Power Systems, System p® models in Processor Groups C5, D5, and E5
- IBM Power Systems, System i® models in Processor Groups P05, P10, and P20
- Medium server
- IBM Power Systems, System p models in Processor Group F5
- IBM Power Systems, System i models in Processor Groups P30 and P40
- Large server
- IBM Power Systems, System p models in Processor Groups G5 and H5
- IBM Power Systems, System i models in Processor Groups P50 and P60
- IBM System z models
As of this announcement, the server products in the tables below are associated with processor groups assigned to the small, medium, and large server categories.
Associated
Power Systems/System p models processor group
Blades JS21, JS22, JS12, ATX-p185 C5
50x, 51x, 52x, E4A D5
550,560Q, E8A, EMA E5
570,575, MMA, F2A F5
590 G5
595, FHA H5
Associated
Power Systems/System i models processor group
515, 520 P05
525, 520 P10
550, 520, 560 P20
570 P30
570 P40
595 P50
595 P60
For example, for a customer running AEM V4.1 on a Power Systems 595 to monitor the energy control components built into System z10 and manage the energy control components built into one System p 570 (Group F5), the Power Systems 595, plus two additional System p 595 servers (Group H5), one license for managing medium servers and three licenses for managing large servers need to be purchased. No additional license is required for the System z10 because the monitoring functions of AEM V4.1 are available at no charge.
AEM requires a keyfile to make the management component of the product operational after the 60-day evaluation period. This keyfile is sent on a CD-ROM after placing an order for the 5765-AEP product. This software license includes one year of Software Maintenance. AEM monitor functions do not require the keyfile. Download of AEM V4.1 is required before the keyfile can be applied.
Orders may be placed beginning with configurator availability.
5765-AEP IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager V4.1
OTC
feature
Description number
Per Server - Small, including 1 Year SWMA 0001
Per 250 Servers - Small, including 1 Year SWMA 0002
Per Server - Medium, including 1 Year SWMA 0003
Per 250 Servers - Medium, including 1 Year SWMA 0004
Per Server - Large, including 1 Year SWMA 0005
Per 250 Servers - Large, including 1 Year SWMA 0006
Software Maintenance
This software license includes Software Maintenance (SWMA), previously referred to as Software Subscription and Technical Support.
Extending coverage for a total of three years from the date of acquisition may be elected. Order the program number, feature number, and quantity to extend coverage for your software licenses. If maintenance has expired, specify the after license feature number.
Additional Software Maintenance terms and conditions
The scope of Active Energy Manager V4.1 Software Maintenance also includes support for the IBM Systems Director V6.1 management server on which the AEM application is running. With this extended coverage, clients gain greater value from their AEM software environment and are assured that they have support for AEM and the prerequisite IBM Systems Director management server environment. This offering does not include support for IBM Systems Director V6.1 on servers being managed by Active Energy Manager. Software Maintenance for IBM Systems Director is available for IBM Power Systems via 5765-DRP.
SWMA for Active Energy Manager may be obtained by ordering the following previously announced and priced program and feature numbers:
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Billing
Program feature
Feature description number number
Active Energy Manager V4.1
SW Maintenance Registration/Renewal 1 Year 5660-PE3
Per Server Small 1 Year No-Charge Regist 1117
Per 250 Servers Small 1 Year No-Charge Regist 1118
Per Server Medium 1 Year No-Charge Regist 1119
Per 250 Servers Medium 1 Year No-Charge Regist 1120
Per Server Large 1 Year No-Charge Regist 1121
Per 250 Servers Large 1 Year No-Charge Regist 1122
SW Maintenance After License 1 Year 5661-PE3
Per Server Small 1 Year After License 0326
Per 250 Servers Small 1 Year After License 0327
Per Server Medium 1 Year After License 0328
Per 250 Servers Medium 1 Year After License 0329
Per Server Large 1 Year After License 0330
Per 250 Servers Large 1 Year After License 0331
SW Maintenance Registration 3 Year 5662-PE3
Per Server Small 3 Year Registration 0431
Per 250 Servers Small 3 Year Registration 0432
Per Server Medium 3 Year Registration 0433
Per 250 Servers Medium 3 Year Registration 0434
Per Server Large 3 Year Registration 0435
Per 250 Servers Large 3 Year Registration 0436
SW Maintenance After License 3 Year 5664-PE3
Per Server Small 3 Year After License 0001
Per 250 Servers Small 3 Year After License 0002
Per Server Medium 3 Year After License 0003
Per 250 Servers Medium 3 Year After License 0004
Per Server Large 3 Year After License 0005
Per 250 Servers Large 3 Year After License 0006
System Program Order (SPO): An order for SPO 5692-A5L, 5692-A6P, or 5692-LOP is mandatory for shipments of program distribution. The individual licensed program (5765-AEP) orders are for registration and billing purposes only. No shipment occurs under these orders.
Specify feature number 3410.
5692-A5L 5692-A6P 5692-LOP
SPO SPO SPO
Program feature feature feature
number Program/Function name number number number
5765-AEP IBM Systems Director Active 2211 2211 1488
Energy Manager for Power
Systems, V4.1
Basic machine-readable material
Select one of the following priced feature numbers for media type under 5692-A5L, 5692-A6P, or 5692-LOP. The media process charge is a one-time, nondiscountable charge per SPO order when media is selected.
Media
Process
Media Charges
Feature Feature
Media Type Number Number
CD-ROM 3410 1004
CD-ROM 3410 1005
Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) is a no-charge download feature.
ESD 3450 N/C
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Licensing
IBM International Program License Agreement including the License Information document and Proof of Entitlement (PoE) govern your use of the program. PoEs are required for all authorized use.
This software license includes Software Subscription and Support (also referred to as Software Maintenance).
Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance
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License Information form number
GC52-1262-02
The program's License Information will be available for review on the IBM Software License Agreement Web site
Limited warranty applies
Yes
Money-back guarantee
If for any reason you are dissatisfied with the program and you are the original licensee, you may obtain a refund of the amount you paid for it, if within 30 days of your invoice date you return the program and its PoE to the party from whom you obtained it. If you downloaded the program, you may contact the party from whom you acquired it for instructions on how to obtain the refund.
For clarification, note that for programs acquired under any of IBM's On/Off Capacity on Demand (On/Off CoD) software offerings, this term does not apply since these offerings apply to programs already acquired and in use by you.
Authorization for use on home/portable computer
You may not copy and use this program on another computer without paying additional license fees.
Volume orders (IVO)
Yes. Contact your IBM representative.
Passport Advantage applies
No
Software Subscription and Support (Software Maintenance) applies
Yes
All distributed software licenses include Software Maintenance (Software Subscription and Technical Support) for a period of 12 months from the date of acquisition, providing a streamlined way to acquire IBM software and assure technical support coverage for all licenses. Extending coverage for a total of three years from date of acquisition may be elected.
While your Software Maintenance is in effect, IBM provides you assistance for your routine, short duration installation and usage (how-to) questions, and code-related questions. IBM provides assistance via telephone and, if available, electronic access, only to your information systems (IS) technical support personnel during the normal business hours (published prime shift hours) of your IBM support center. (This assistance is not available to your end users.) IBM provides Severity 1 assistance 24 hours a day, every day of the year. For additional details, consult your IBM Software Support Handbook at
Software Maintenance does not include assistance for the design and development of applications, your use of programs in other than their specified operating environment, or failures caused by products for which IBM is not responsible under this agreement.
System i Software Maintenance applies
No
Variable charges apply
No
Educational allowance available
Yes. A 15% education allowance applies to qualified education institution customers.
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For additional information and current prices, contact your local IBM representative.
5765-AEP IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager V4.1
OTC
feature
Description number
Per Server - Small, including 1 Year SWMA 0001
Per 250 Servers - Small, including 1 Year SWMA 0002
Per Server - Medium, including 1 Year SWMA 0003
Per 250 Servers - Medium, including 1 Year SWMA 0004
Per Server - Large, including 1 Year SWMA 0005
Per 250 Servers - Large, including 1 Year SWMA 0006
| Description | OTC feature number | OTC |
| Per Server - Small, including 1 Year SWMA | 0001 | $115 |
| Per 250 Servers - Small, including 1 Year SWMA | 0002 | $28,750 |
| Per Server - Medium, including 1 Year SWMA | 0003 | $275 |
| Per 250 Servers - Medium, including 1 Year SWMA | 0004 | $68,750 |
| Per Server - Large, including 1 Year SWMA | 0005 | $439 |
| Per 250 Servers - Large, including 1 Year SWMA | 0006 | $109,750 |
| SWMA: | ||
| SW Maintenance Registration/Renewal 1 Year 5660-PE3 | ||
| Per Server Small 1 Year No-Charge Regist | 1117 | NC |
| Per 250 Servers Small 1 Year No-Charge Regist | 1118 | NC |
| Per Server Medium 1 Year No-Charge Regist | 1119 | NC |
| Per 250 Servers Medium 1 Year No-Charge Regist | 1120 | NC |
| Per Server Large 1 Year No-Charge Regist | 1121 | NC |
| Per 250 Servers Large 1 Year No-Charge Regist | 1122 | NC |
| SW Maintenance After License 1 Year 5661-PE3 | ||
| Per Server Small 1 Year After License | 0326 | $69 |
| Per 250 Servers Small 1 Year After License | 0327 | $17,250 |
| Per Server Medium 1 Year After License | 0328 | $165 |
| Per 250 Servers Medium 1 Year After License | 0329 | $41,250 |
| Per Server Large 1 Year After License | 0330 | $263 |
| Per 250 Servers Large 1 Year After License | 0331 | $65,750 |
| SW Maintenance Registration 3 Year 5662-PE3 | ||
| Per Server Small 3 Year Registration | 0431 | $39 |
| Per 250 Servers Small 3 Year Registration | 0432 | $9,750 |
| Per Server Medium 3 Year Registration | 0433 | $94 |
| Per 250 Servers Medium 3 Year Registration | 0434 | $23,500 |
| Per Server Large 3 Year Registration | 0435 | $149 |
| Per 250 Servers Large 3 Year Registration | 0436 | $37,250 |
| SW Maintenance After License 3 Year 5664-PE3 | ||
| Per Server Small 3 Year After License | 0001 | $108 |
| Per 250 Servers Small 3 Year After License | 0002 | $27,000 |
| Per Server Medium 3 Year After License | 0003 | $259 |
| Per 250 Servers Medium 3 Year After License | 0004 | $64,750 |
| Per Server Large 3 Year After License | 0005 | $413 |
| Per 250 Servers Large 3 Year After License | 0006 | $103,250 |
IBM Global Financing
IBM Global Financing offers competitive financing to credit-qualified customers to assist them in acquiring IT solutions. Offerings include financing for IT acquisition, including hardware, software, and services, from both IBM and other manufacturers or vendors. Offerings (for all customer segments: small, medium, and large enterprise), rates, terms, and availability can vary by country. Contact your local IBM Global Financing organization or visit
IBM Global Financing offerings are provided through IBM Credit LLC in the United States, and other IBM subsidiaries and divisions worldwide to qualified commercial and government customers. Rates are based on a customer's credit rating, financing terms, offering type, equipment type, and options, and may vary by country. Other restrictions may apply. Rates and offerings are subject to change, extension, or withdrawal without notice.
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