IBM Statement of Direction: IBM intends to enhance its systems management capabilities for IBM Power Systems hardware

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Overview

Overview

Management of Power Systems™ Servers and Blades

IBM® continues its commitment to optimizing data center management with a comprehensive, easy to use, integrated systems management solution that helps IT organizations to effectively deploy, monitor, analyze, optimize, and maintain physical and virtual resources on IBM systems.

In order to better meet the demands of the dynamic modern data center, IBM offers systems management tools, including the following:

• Hardware Management Console (HMC) provides systems administrators a tool for configuration, management, and service of IBM Power Systems servers.
• IBM Systems Director provides clients with a robust set of advanced integrated platform, virtualization, networking, storage, and automation management capabilities. IBM Systems Director is offered in Express®, Standard, and Enterprise Editions to give clients flexibility when choosing the level of systems management that best fits their needs.

Statement of Direction:

IBM intends to enhance its systems management capabilities for Power Systems hardware as follows:

• Continued integration between the base platform management capabilities in HMC and advanced capabilities in IBM Systems Director
• Enhancement of the HMC to add support for Power Systems blades and mixed rack and blade server environments
• New HMC virtual appliance offering
• New process for transitioning from SDMC to HMC
• Improved usability
• Enhancement of HMC to provide RAID 1 support

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