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IBM Systems Director
IBM® Systems Director Overview
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Mike PerryIT Specialist
IBM Systems & Technology Group
IBM® Systems Director - highlights
� IBM® Systems Director helps administrators automate data center
operations
� Unifies the management of IBM servers, storage and network devices
with a consistent look and feel for common management tasks
� Enables new and radically improved ways to simplify the management
of physical and virtual platform resources
� Integrates IBM’s best-of-breed virtualization management capabilities
� Reduces operational complexity and provides a view of the
relationships and health status of IT systems
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relationships and health status of IT systems
� Supports essential cross platform management (discovery, inventory,
health, maintenance updates, configuration, automation, remote
control, etc.)
� Provides a single view of the actual energy usage across the systems
and facilities within your data center
� Exploits integration of IBM Systems into data center management tools
from Tivoli and other 3rd parties
IBM® Systems Director delivers
� Simplified deployment, installation and update process
� Single point of control from a consistent Web-based user interface
� Easy-to-learn new tasks with intuitive wizards, tutorials and integrated help
� Topology graph views to simplify troubleshooting across server, storage and network resources
� Streamlined lifecycle management of a virtual environment across multiple platforms
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� Increased platform support through leveraged industry standards
� Support for embedded agents included with a platform or deployed by other systems management tools
� A consistent access point to integrate and extend platform management throughout the infrastructure
� IBM provides a Systems Director migration tool to facilitate customer migrations from IBM Director 5.20.x
IBM® Systems Director – key points to remember
Systems Director:
� is the platform management foundation for achieving Smarter Systems
� enables integration with Tivoli, and third party management platforms,
providing the building block for virtualization and integrated services
management
� provides systems management personnel with a single-point-of-
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� provides systems management personnel with a single-point-of-control, helping reduce IT management complexity and cost
� allows IT personnel to:
– optimize compute and network resources
– quickly respond to business requirements with greater delivery flexibility
– attain higher levels of services management streamlining management of –
physical, virtual, storage and network resources
IBM® Systems Director V6.2 – “what’s new?”
Improved service with simplified usability
� simplified overall usability aiding system management personnel
productivity; improving service
– simplified discovery through a single, web based, user interface
using pre-defined and user created discovery profiles
– improved visibility of ALL resources that have issues and/or out of
compliance
– streamlined installation and update process
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– remote management of multiple servers via a single global
Systems Director Server
IBM® Systems Director V6.2 – “what’s new?”
Improved responsiveness and service through integration
� integration with Tivoli and third party management platforms provides
foundation for integrated services management increasing flexibility,
availability and reliability - leading to improved responsiveness and service
– extensive suite of end-to-end platform management tasks
encompassing discovery, inventory, configuration, system health and
status, resource monitoring, updates, event notification, and automation
– seamless linkage and integration of Systems Director into Tivoli aids in
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– seamless linkage and integration of Systems Director into Tivoli aids in
reducing complexity by eliminating layers of management, increasing
visibility, and reducing tasks, reduces complexity, increasing reliability
and improving service
– enhanced integration enables Systems Director troubleshooting tasks
from Tivoli console
– enhanced auditing / security components to verify and setup LDAP
configuration from the web interface
IBM® Systems Director V6.2 – “what’s new?”
Improved service and reduced cost
� enables increased performance, scalability and availability to improve service
and reduce cost
– ability to ease management of large environments with new 64-bit
support
– increased scalability with Java Persistence Query Language (JPQL)
and Java Persistence API (JPA)
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Systems Software leadership for innovation
IBM Systems Director
IBM® Systems Director Overview
© 2010 IBM Corporation
Mike PerryIT Specialist
IBM Systems & Technology Group
IBM Systems Director
Agenda
� Organizational Challenges
� Reducing Complexity with IBM® Systems Director
� IBM® Systems Director plug-ins to extend the capabilities of Systems Director
– IBM® Systems Director VMControl™ for virtualization management
– IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ for energy management
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– IBM® Systems Director Network Control to simplify networking tasks
– IBM® Systems Director additional plug-ins and launch-in context features
� IBM® Systems Director Editions IBM Systems Director Editions provide choices
� IBM® Systems Director and Enterprise Service Management
� Summary
IBM Systems Director
Today’s IT organizations face enormous challenges
“I need to consolidate to reduce sprawl.”
“I need to ensure my
services and products
are available at all times.”
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“I need to improve IT’s ability
to rapidly support business innovation
and quickly adapt to changes.”
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Challenges
• Capital and operational expenses – space and power constraints
• Infrastructure fragile and problematic to change – many specialized skills and tools required
• Weeks to deploy new solutions – slow, manual provisioning
IBM Systems Director
IBM provides an integrated service management solution to help simplify IT operations – IBM® Systems Director
IBM® Systems Director can reduce the
costs of IT service delivery while
improving business resiliency
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Reducing complexity with integrated platform and
enterprise service management
Rapidly deploy and
manage virtual
servers
Managing energy to reduce costs and
maintain serviceability within
existing energy envelopes
Simplifying network management tasks
IBM Systems Director
IBM Systems Director Physical and virtual platformsServer, Storage, Networking
Foundation Management
Advanced Management
Inventory Health
Config Update
IBM Systems Director Console
Availability Workload
Image Energy Mgt
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AIX
FSP PHYP
SLES RHEL VIOS AIX
PHYP
SLES RHELIVM
(VIOS)
MM
JS21AIX
SLES RHELHS21Win
HMC
HMC: Hardware Management Console WPAR: Workload Partition (Container)
IVM: Integrated Virtualization Manager PHYP: POWER Hypervisor
VIOS: Virtual IO Server (virtual IO and Layer 2 bridge) BMC: Baseboard Management Controller
MM: Management Module SMP: Symmetric Multi Processor
FSP: Flexible Service Processor
POWER6 System Blade Center POWER 5 System
AIX
WPAR
WPAR
WPAR
WPAR AIX (SMP)
PHYP FSP
IBM i IBM i
BMC/FSP
IBM Systems Director
AIX ManagementAIX ManagementAIX ManagementAIX Management
IBM Director IBM Director IBM Director IBM Director
Basic CrossBasic CrossBasic CrossBasic Cross----Platform Platform Platform Platform
capabilitiescapabilitiescapabilitiescapabilities(Power Specific)(Power Specific)(Power Specific)(Power Specific)
MonitoringMonitoringMonitoringMonitoring
Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise ManagementManagementManagementManagement
IBM Tivoli Monitoring Systems EditionIBM Tivoli Monitoring Systems EditionIBM Tivoli Monitoring Systems EditionIBM Tivoli Monitoring Systems Edition
Physical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and NetworkingPhysical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and NetworkingPhysical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and NetworkingPhysical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and Networking
OptimizationOptimizationOptimizationOptimization
Cluster Systems ManagerCluster Systems ManagerCluster Systems ManagerCluster Systems Manager
End-to-end Management Approach for Power Systems…
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Power Power Power Power Systems Systems Systems Systems Resource Resource Resource Resource
MgrsMgrsMgrsMgrs
Managed Managed Managed Managed environmentsenvironmentsenvironmentsenvironments
Operating Operating Operating Operating systemssystemssystemssystems
Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization softwaresoftwaresoftwaresoftware
Workload Partitions ManagerWorkload Partitions ManagerWorkload Partitions ManagerWorkload Partitions Manager
IBM Systems Director Console for AIXIBM Systems Director Console for AIXIBM Systems Director Console for AIXIBM Systems Director Console for AIX
LPAR Management
System Planning and Deployment ToolSystem Planning and Deployment ToolSystem Planning and Deployment ToolSystem Planning and Deployment Tool
HMC or IVMHMC or IVMHMC or IVMHMC or IVM
(Power Specific)(Power Specific)(Power Specific)(Power Specific)
Power Systems
Physical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and NetworkingPhysical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and NetworkingPhysical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and NetworkingPhysical and Virtual Management for Server, Storage, and Networking
IBM Systems Director
PowerVM Virtualization
AIX Management
IBM Systems Director
IBM provides a common tool for cross-platform management
AIX Administrator
Windows Administrator
zLinux Administrator
IBM i Administrator
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VM
VM VM
VIO VIO
Microsoft
Windows™
VM
VMware ESX™
VM
IBM Systems Director
IBM® Systems Director topology
Management Console(s)
Web Interface
IBM System Director ServerApplication Logic
Database
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� Three-tiered architecture
� Thousands of managed nodes
� Upward Integration modules supporting
– Tivoli, Computer Associates, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft
IBM Systems Director AgentManaged Systems
(Servers, Desktops, Laptops, SNMP devices, CIM devices)
IBM Systems Director
IBM Systems Director Highlights
Simplify platform management across server and storage infrastructure
Focus on health, status, automation
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Manage physical and virtual resources
Common navigation, look and feel
Enable upward integration to enterprise service management
IBM Systems Director
All Tasks Grouped by Managers
IBM Systems Director Server
Discovery
Status
Update
Automation
Access all tasks on a single console and user interface to simplify and automate IT administration
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ManagersAutomation
Configuration
Virtualization
Remote Access
Storage
BladeCenter and System x
Power Systems
System z
IBM Systems Director
At-a-glance status helps reduce administration and troubleshooting time
� Customizable health summary
–Favorite systems–Critical monitors–Group thumbnails
� Monitoring –Monitor critical
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–Monitor critical resources (e.g. CPU, memory, disk, VMs)
–Thresholds–Events
� Automation Plans–Notify–Run commands–Trigger tasks
“… potential savings in server administration costs
averaged 21.0 percent for AIX servers, 34.5 percent
for Windows servers, and 43.8 percent for Linux x86
servers; i.e., a great deal of time was saved by
administrators dealing with all three environments”*
-International Technology Group
* “Value Proposition for IBM Systems Director: Challenges of Operational Management for Enterprise Server Installations” –International Technology Group, September 2008
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Discovers relationships of virtual machines to server hardware and Hardware Management Consoles (HMCs)
Discovers hardware and virtual resources
via the Hardware Management Console
Automated discovery
Microsoft Windows™
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Discovers physical and shared I/O
VM
VM VM
VIO VIO
Windows™
VM
VMware ESX™
VM
IBM Systems Director
Communicate directly with IBM for the latest OS and firmware updates
Identify updates
which are tested
and should be
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Summary page for
single view Integrated actions
for download,
distribute, install
and uninstall
and should be
deployed
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Automate notification alerts and fixes based on warning thresholds
Monitoring
Event thresholds
Automation
IBM Systems Director functions:
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VM VM
1. Monitor disk capacity.
2. If the disk is ε 90%:
IBM Systems Director functions:
a. Execute command to back-up and delete non-critical files
b. Log the back-upc. Send an e-mail to the
administrator
!!
IBM Systems Director
IBM® Systems Director plug-ins to extend the capabilities of integrated service management
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IBM Systems Director
IBM® Systems Director plug-ins
� A plug-in to IBM® Systems Director is software that is installed on top of the base product
� Delivers key additional functionalities to solve specific IT challenges
� Retains a consistent user experience with the base offering by taking advantage of the common tasks and capabilities
� Key IBM Systems Director plug-ins are:
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– IBM® Systems Director VMControl™
– IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™
– IBM® Systems Director Network Control
IBM Systems Director
IBM® Systems Director VMControl™
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Rapidly deploy and manage virtual servers
IBM Systems Director
IBM® delivers end-to-end visibility, control, and automation for virtual machines and system images
� Orchestrate composite image processes across the enterprise aligned with business service requirements
� Manage your virtual images -
OptimizeOptimize
••Automate business service Automate business service deliverydelivery
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� Manage your virtual images -capture, configure, catalog and deploy
� Standardize and centralize the management of virtualization technologies to gain operational efficiencies
... reducing the time to deploy applications from days to minutes.
VirtualizeVirtualize
••Create, manage and migrate Create, manage and migrate
virtual machines (physicalvirtual machines (physical--toto--virtual, virtualvirtual, virtual--toto--virtual)virtual)
ManageManage
••Centralize enterprise image Centralize enterprise image
management and deploymentmanagement and deployment
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IBM Systems Director VMControl
Delivers leadership multi-platform virtualization management
• Simplifies virtual machine management and relocation on all
IBM platforms
• Supports faster time to market for new services by reducing time and
complexity of application installation and configuration
Microsoft Windows™
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and configuration
• Reduces disruption to IT operations
associated with provisioning
resources
• Reduces deployment errors and
time to troubleshoot and fix them
• Provides automation necessary for cloud computing environments
IBM System x
Power Systems
IBM System z
IBM BladeCenter
VMware® ESX and ESXi
Microsoft® Hyper-V™
IBM Systems Director
VMControl Editions
VMControlVMControl
Express EditionVMControl
Standard EditionVMControl
Enterprise Edition
Virtualization Capabilities Manage resources Automate virtual images Optimize system pools
PowerVM
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Create/manage virtual machines (x86, PowerVM and z/VM) � � �
Virtual machine relocation � � �
Capture/import, create/remove standardized virtual images � �
Deploy standard virtual images � �
Maintain virtual images in a centralized library � �
Create/remove system pools and manage resources in system pools �
Add/remove physical servers within system pools �
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Features:
� Multi-platform management
– View virtual and physical assets
– Virtualized life-cycle
VMControl™ Express EditionSee and act on all of the virtualized resources
A plug-in option for IBM Systems Director (available for no additional charge) to enhance virtualization management and simplify virtual appliance deployment across heterogeneous platforms
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– Virtualized life-cycle management
– Topology maps
� Edit virtual resources
– Edit physical hosts
– Edit virtual machines
– Use GUI or command line
� Relocate virtual machines
– Execute live relocation
– Plan for relocation
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Benefits:
� Simplify management of virtual environments
– Fewer tools and common interfaces across multiple platforms
– Reduce troubleshooting time with topology views of physical and virtual resource relationships
VMControl™ Express Edition
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� Reduce IT training costs
– Access using Systems Director interface
– Provides core virtualization management of all IBM server platforms
� Reduce or Eliminate unplanned downtime
– Health monitoring
– Threshold alerts
– Move active virtual resources
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Deploy
Virtual Machines
Import
Capture
Virtual Machines
VMControl™ Standard EditionAutomation through shared libraries of standardized virtual appliances
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� Discovery and manage heterogeneous image repositories
� Import, capture and catalog new virtual images from existing systems
� Simplified virtual image deployment and customization
� Dynamically provision virtual server, storage and network resource
� Leverages OVF open standard packaging for interoperability
Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
Virtual Machines
VMControl enables the delivery and management of open standard virtual
machine images on IBM Systems
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Benefits:
� Reduce time to deploy new capacity
– Provisions resources with images
– Reduces deployment errors and troubleshooting
� Eliminates manual image management
– Creates, edits and updates virtual server templates and
VMControl™ Standard Edition
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– Creates, edits and updates virtual server templates and images
– Protects existing investment in Network Installation Manager (NIM)
� Simplify Back up, Recovery and Rollback
– Capture snapshots of running virtual machines
– Restart last snapshot after a failure
– Rollback to prior version after an update
*KVM support 4Q2010
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� Intelligent Virtual Machine Placement Services
� Dynamic Workload Mobility
� Integrated Storage and Network Management
� Automation policy control for workloads
– Advise – VMControl recommends actions and requires confirmation
– Automate – VMControl automates actions
� Availability Automations
VMControl Enterprise EditionAutomate the virtualized environment with system pools
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� Availability Automations
– Automate relocation of virtual workloads in response to predicted host system failures without disruption
– Restart virtual workloads when a host fails
– Automate remote restart of virtual workloads in response to host failures with minimal disruption
� Energy Automations
– Allows the pool to relocate VM’s to minimum hosts
– Minimum number of hosts reduce overall energy bill
� Performance Automations
– Allows pool to spread VM’s for optimum performance
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Benefits� Maintain Workload Availability
– Automate relocation of virtual workloads in response to predicted host system failures without disruption
– Automate remote restart of virtual workloads in response to host failures with minimal disruption
� Lower Total Energy Consumption– Dynamic consolidation reduces number of hosts used– Lower host count consumes less energy
� Eliminate Service InterruptionsMobility
VMControl™ Enterprise EditionIntroduces the concept of system pools for higher-level management
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� Eliminate Service Interruptions– Automate migration of workload off host needing service – Perform necessary service / upgrade to host– Automate the migration of workload back to host
Compute Network StorageMemory
Virtualization
Compute
Network StorageMemory
IT Resources Virtual Images System Pools
Optimized for
� Availability
� Performance
� Energy
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IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™
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Managing energy usage to reduce costs and maintain service
availability in existing energy envelopes
Cost Reduction and Avoidance
� Identify opportunities for energy cost reduction (Operating Expenses)
� Delay facility expansion due to energy or cooling constraints (Capital Expenses)
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Common goals for energy management
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Remove Operational Barriers
� Manage power and cooling capacity to enable growth and flexibility
� Avoid service disruptions caused by energy related outages
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IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ Simplified management across multiple IBM systems and non-IBM servers
“Using Active Energy
Manager, IBM Intelligent
PDUs are allowing us to
� IBM® Systems Director provides a single view of the actual power usage across multiple platforms
� IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ supports more servers, more PDUs and integrates with more infrastructure providers
� IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager consists of Monitoring and Management functions
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PDUs are allowing us to
monitor the data center to
optimize temperature and
humidity – resulting in an
almost 50% reduction in
cooling costs with the first
month of operation.”
- Jim Oberholtzer, VP Technology United States
Bowling Congress
� IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager Monitoring Functions
Power Trending
Thermal Trending
PDU Support for IBM and non-IBM
Support for Facility Providers and sensors
Energy Thresholding
Altitude Input
� IBM Systems Director Active Energy Management Functions
Power Capping
Power Savings Mode
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IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ Improved energy efficiency to help reduce data center costs/upgrades
Monitoring/control of server energy use
– 3rd-party facilities equipment support
(sensors and meters supported)
– Alerts surfaced for servers affected by
a power or cooling failure
– Control and set energy caps for both AC and DC power
Active Energy Manager
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– Control and set energy caps for both AC and DC power
– Support for Power Distribution Units (PDUs)
Balance workloads across servers to fit electrical power and thermal profiles
– Create and display relationships between all servers,
and the power and cooling equipment supporting them
– Collect data to plan what servers to power off and when
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Active Energy Manager™ monitors electrical energy and thermal
profiles
� Manage electrical power at the rack and server level
� Manage thermal energy at the rack and server level
� Analyze trends in energy
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� Analyze trends in energy use
� Server power down
� Performance per watt display
Trend electrical power use over time
Trend temperature over time
Note: Active Energy Manager monitoring and control capabilities vary by system.
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Control energy use on servers
� Set fixed energy usage caps that the servers will not exceed when fully configured, OR
� Set a lower “soft cap” for even more energy savings
� Optimize to maximize performance or power savings
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� Set a fixed processor energy reduction, or dynamically adjust energy based on utilization
� Input altitude for more efficient fan operation
� Active Energy Manager™ data and energy controls are available on the console and via Command Line Interface
US Energy consumption by servers and data centers is
expected to almost double in the next 5 years.
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), August 2007
Note: Active Energy Manager monitoring and control capabilities vary by system.
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� Active Energy Manager™ collects data and alerts from applications that monitor computer room air conditioning (CRAC), uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and power distribution units (PDU) including:
– SiteScan ® (Emerson-Liebert)– InfraStruXure® Central (APC by Schneider Electric)– Power Xpert ® and Power Xpert ® Reporting (Eaton) – Foreseer®
Additional data center facility equipment and legacy systems can be
managed
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– Foreseer®– Geist Manufacturing ®– Server Technology ®
� Active Energy Manager can display thermal data of legacy systems and other data center equipment monitored with:
– Synapsense ™ wireless monitors– SmartWorks SmartWatt meters and SmartSense TH
sensors– iButton one-wire sensors– Sensitronics one-wire sensors
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IBM® Systems Network Control
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Simplifying network management tasks
IBM Systems Director
Platform Management
IBM Systems Director Network Control integrates end-to-end
platform management for the data center
Service ManagementProvides:
� Simplification of network management tasks, providing a unified view of the total IT environment, servers, storage and network.
� Device based launch in context point for IBM Data Center Fabric Manager.
� Integration of Tivoli based technology for advanced discovery and topology.
� Graphical view of L2 network connectivity
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StorageServerNetwork
� Graphical view of L2 network connectivity using Director’s topology perspective.
� Logical views of network systems arranged by the subnetworks to which they belong.
Enables:
� End-to-end user tasks to be done with a single tool
� Network monitoring at a glance via network topology perspectives with ability to see the components affected by network outages.
� Support for latest converged Fabric Ethernet technology (FCoCEE).
IT environment VMware ®
Microsoft®
Virtual Server
Microsoft Windows™
Cisco Systems, Inc
Juniper Networks, Inc
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
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IBM® Systems Director Additional Plug-ins and launch-in context features
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IBM Systems Director
Additional plug-ins and launch-in context features enable advanced platform management
� Service and Support Manager identifies and reports hardware-related problems, enabling IBM to provide proactive service that may result in higher system availability and performance.
� BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager-Advanced upgrade allows for the assignment and reassignment of Ethernet MAC and Fibre Channel WWN addresses used by the I/O ports
Enabling new and innovative ways to manage IBM Systems…
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and Fibre Channel WWN addresses used by the I/O ports on server blades in the IBM BladeCenter ®
� Workload Partition Manager deploys multiple workloads in a single AIX instance and automatically moves running workloads based on defined business policies
� Hardware Management Console provides access to additional management and RAS functions of attached servers.
� Systems Director Console for AIX and Systems Director Navigator for i5/OS provide a graphical interface for operating environment administration, access and security.
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IBM® Systems Director Editions IBM Systems Director Editions provide choices to select the package of simple-to-use automated management solutions from IBM based on your needs
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IBM® Systems Director Editions provides choices
� IBM offers a complete set of platform and enterprise service management solutions
� Select the package of simple-to-use automated management solutions based on your needs
– Basic hardware management to more advanced cross-enterprise management
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– Basic hardware management to more advanced cross-enterprise management
� Packages make it more cost-effective to purchase the features needed to manage servers, storage and networks
� Improved time to market– Packages make it easier to purchase the features needed to manage servers, storage
and network devices
� Protect your investment� Packages scale up as your infrastructure evolves
IBM Systems Director Editions
IBM® Systems Director Editions helps improve service management
•• Systems Director Editions Systems Director Editions packages provide packages provide cost effectivecost effectivesolutions to support data center solutions to support data center
IBM® Systems Director Express Edition
• Remotely monitor, configure and update servers
and operating systems
• Reduce time required for troubleshooting
IBM® Systems Director Standard Edition
• Monitor and manage energy use and thermal
output
• Reduce time to configure and deploy virtual
images
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solutions to support data center solutions to support data center transformation.transformation.
•• New offeringsNew offerings designed to:designed to:
Reduce complexityReduce complexity
Manage virtualization and energyManage virtualization and energy
Optimize systems and workloadsOptimize systems and workloads
images
• Get a single view and status of network and
server systems
IBM® Systems Director Enterprise Edition
• Deploy workloads faster with improved reliability
in system pools
• Increase operator productivity with prioritized
information and context, real-time and historical
health status
• Use predictive capabilities to help with capacity
estimation
IBM Systems Director Editions
Systems Director Express Edition
Systems Director Enterprise Edition
Image
Systems Director Standard Edition
IBM® Systems Director Editions for improved IT operations
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Express Edition App
OSApp
OS
Image
Advanced discovery and
monitoring
Energy Management
Advanced energy
reporting
Virtual image
deployment
System pools
deployment
Network management
Basic monitoring
and updates
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IBM® Systems Director EditionsIBM Systems
Director EditionsIBM Systems Director
Express EditionIBM Systems Director
Standard Edition
IBM Systems Director Enterprise
Edition
Capabilities Reduce CostsIncrease Agility and
EfficiencyOptimize Resource
Utilization
Visualize physical/virtual system relationships
� � �
Monitor system health � � �
Provide threshold and error alerts� � �
Update Operating Systems and �� �
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Update Operating Systems and firmware
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Simplify deployment with virtual images
� �
Control energy use within existing capacity
� �
Monitor network system health with servers and storage
� �
Automate configuration and placement for new workloads
�
Manage workload availability end-to-end
�
Understand capacity �
Analyze and report historical performance
�
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� Systems Director Enterprise Edition if you:
– Need automated resource set-up for workloads
– Need end-to-end root cause analysis and reporting
– Need better resource capacity analysis
– Use PowerVM Enterprise Edition or Tivoli software
� Systems Director Standard Edition if you:
Which Systems Director Edition is right for you?
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– Need to speed up deployment of workloads
– Need to control energy use and costs
– Use PowerVM Standard Edition
� Systems Director Express Edition if you:
– Need to know the relationships between systems
– Manage VMs using multiple consoles
– Need remote access for system status and updates
– Are managing more than a few servers
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IBM® Systems Director provides rich hardware information into Enterprise Service Management software for an end to end integrated management solutions
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Upward integrationSystems Director can provide its rich hardware information into higher-level management packages
� Tivoli Enterprise™
– TEC 3.8 & 3.9
– ITM 5.1.x
– Configuration Manager 4.2.x
– Software Distribution
– Provisioning Manager
– Inventory
– Security Operations Manager
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– Distributed Monitoring
� Tivoli NetView® 7.1.x (Windows and Linux)
� Tivoli Netcool (Netcool/Omnibus, Netcool/Precision IP (via SNMP), Netcool/Monitoring, Netcool/ISM, Netcool/AEM (via SNMP)
� CA Unicenter NSM 3.1 and R11 (Windows)
� HP OpenView NNM 7.0.1 and 7.5.1 (Windows and Linux)
� HP OpenView Operations for windows 7.5x (Windows)
� Microsoft Systems Management Server, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
HP OpenView
IBM Systems Director
Enterprise service management
�Align IT operations with the business
�Govern and control the business
�Optimize the business
IBM Platform and Enterprise Service Management
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The unique integration of IBM Systems Director and Tivoli® provides a centralized
platform for consolidated data center service management.
Platform management of IBM systems
�Consolidated management across systems
�Integrated physical and virtual management
�Automated physical and virtual provisioning
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IBM® Systems Director Summary
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IBM Systems Director
Physical assets & virtual resources at your fingertips with easyhealth monitoring & reporting, as well as updates & optimization
Automation of virtualization managementto minimize time to provision images and manage system pools
Server and virtualization management integrated with network
and storage management for complete resource control
IBM Systems Director’s management increases efficiency to address today’s challenges and prepare for tomorrow’s opportunities
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Energy management to control energy use within existing capacity by setting energy usage caps across one or more servers
Integrated platform and service management to reduce time
required for troubleshooting
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Get the advantage of IBM® Systems Director cross-platform management solution to reduce the cost of IT service delivery and increase efficiencies
� Provides a full range of systems management functions for physical and virtual resources
– Hardware and software inventory– Monitoring with automated responses– Software distribution– Remote hardware control and task execution
� Easy-to-use, point-and-click graphical user
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� Easy-to-use, point-and-click graphical user interface
� Manages AIX™, Linux®, IBM i® and Windows®
– Linux® and Windows® on compatible non-IBM hardware
� SNMP Devices– Network devices, Storage subsystems, Power
Distribution Units…
� Systems Director Editions– Packages provide cost effective solutions to support data
center transformation.
IBM Systems Director
For additional information
� IBM Systems Director Web Site
– http://www.ibm.com/systems/software/director/index.html
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