IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Images

IBM TPM for Images delivers hardware independence, virtual and physical image independence, and image conversion capability.

Optimize physical and virtual infrastructure resources, and reduce enterprise data center costs & administration complexity. A single tool provides both hardware-independent imaging + virtualization-independent imaging to move images seamlessly between physical / virtual machines.

IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for Images 7.1.1 provides all of Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment’s value plus:

• Manage and maintain all ‘simple’ images from a single interface, including content customization and the ability to make offline changes to an image
• Reduce labor costs by better managing “image sprawl” and discover, capture, store and deploy virtual images / physical server images from a single repository
• Optimize server assets and reduce energy costs with server consolidation with anywhere-to-anywhere server image conversions
• Improve your agility, flexibility and recovery through snapshot/recover of servers with complete hardware independence
• Manage multiple hypervisor environments by converting any image format to your desired format
• Automate the server consolidation operations through physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration
• Simplify storage of thousands of images with technology that allows you to reduce both the number of images and and the storage required for them