IBM SmartCloud Provisioning
IBM SmartCloud Provisioning combines infrastructure and platform management capabilities to deliver rapid provisioning, scalability and advanced image management for virtualized and cloud environments.
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Key Benefits
- Accelerated deployments across hybrid and public clouds through repeatable workload patterns.
- Advanced image lifecycle management to control VM sprawl and optimize virtualized environments for great efficiency.
- Rapid provisioning and high scalability to meet business growth with near-instant deployment of hundreds of virtual machines.
- Low-touch infrastructure designed to reduce manual errors, enhance security and compliance, and increase administrator productivity.
- Simplified management of heterogeneous environments including integration and support for VMware, Microsoft and OpenStack technologies.
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Hardware requirements:
The following are minimum required values for memory and disk space.
Linux on x86_64 for PXE server:
- Number of processors: One
- Memory: 4 GB
- Disk: 50 GB
Disk: 50 GB Linux on x86_64 with VT capacity for compute node:
- Number of processors: One
- Memory: 8 GB
- Disk: 100 GB
Disk: 100 GB Linux on x86_64 with VT capacity for storage node:
- Number of processors: One
- Memory: 8 GB
- Disk: 200 GB
Software requirements:
IBMSmartCloud Provisioning supports the following operating systems.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6/6.1 (64 bit)
IBMSmartCloud Provisioning supports the following hypervisors.
- KVM
- Xen
- VMware
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- IBM PowerVM
- IBM z/VM
Additional usage restrictions:
Learn more about additional usage restrictions that may apply to this product.
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