IBM System Director Editions Overview

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IBM Systems Director Editions Overview

IBM Systems Director Editions are a series of software offerings from the new software. These offerings are based on a series of software bundles that build on each other forming the "Editions Offerings" to manage a Power Systems environment. These three editions include IBM Systems Director Express Edition, IBM Systems Director Standard Edition and IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition. IBM Tivoli Software technology for IBM Power Systems is included in the IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition.

Management Edition for AIX (ME for AIX) will be removed from marketing by the end of the 1st half of 2010. Existing ME for AIX customers will be moved at no charge to IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition.

The new IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition includes and will continue to be refreshed with the latest versions of ITM and TADDM.

IBM Systems Director Express Edition Overview

• Automated discovery and topology views to simplify troubleshooting across physical and virtual IBM server, network, and storage resources

• Heterogeneous virtualization management across Power Systems servers running IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® workloads

• Simplified installation and update processes

• Automatic reporting of hardware problems and collection of system service information for monitored systems

• Single-system, platform-level management for AIX, IBM i, and Linux operating systems through industry standards

• Launch-in-context integration with the Hardware Management Console (HMC

• Easy-to-learn new tasks with intuitive wizards, tutorials, and integrated help

IBM Systems Director Standard Edition Overview

• All features of the Systems Director Express Edition

• Ability to import, capture, and delete industry-standard virtual appliances

• Ability to deploy industry-standard virtual appliances

• Ability to maintain virtual appliances stored in repositories via a centralized library

• Monitoring and trend analysis of electrical energy usage and thermal characteristics for IBM systems

• Monitoring of legacy systems via supported facilities equipment such as uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units, sensors, probes, and computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units; Some of these can be monitored directly, and others via interfaces with infrastructure management applications.

• Features for setting energy usage caps across one or more servers

• Energy saving modes that can take into account processor utilization and the altitude of the data center facility

• Facilities to discover, inventory, and monitor network devices and view groups of network devices

IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition Overview

• All features of the Systems Director Express and Standard Editions

• Creation/removal of system pools and resource management in system pools as if they were a single system

• Addition/removal of physical servers within system pools provides:

• • Dynamic and intelligent placement of virtual servers

  • System efficiencies and resilience via virtual server mobility

  • Deployment of virtual appliances into system pools

  • Ability to capture virtual appliances from system pools

  • Group virtual servers into workloads and monitor resource utilization

  • Automated relocation and placement of virtual servers in response to predicted host system failures as per policy setting

  • Simplified monitoring via System Pool and Workload Dashboards

• IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition contains the full version and benefits of IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) and IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)

  • Discovery and visualization of the hardware and software relationships between LPARs, servers, operating systems, middleware and applications

• • • Proactive real-time, historical and predictive monitoring of physical and virtualized environment

    • Predictive performance management and capacity alerting, forecasting and reporting

    • Advanced discovery to understand configurations and dependencies among applications, map applications and changes, and address compliance measures

    • Capability to monitor and optimize performance and availability across the IT infrastructure, including operating systems, applications, databases, middleware, and servers through a single customizable workspace portal

    • Advanced cross-enterprise energy management to manage, optimize, and report energy usage for IT, data center, facilities, and enterprise assets

      • Central location for management of information on all IT resources, including applications and images

    • Common reporting of analytics across all IT resources and enterprise assets

    • The ability to extend these capabilities to non-Power Systems by simply licensing additional licenses of ITM and TADDM

AIX Enterprise Edition (AIX EE) product overview

The AIX Enterprise Edition continues to be offered and includes AIX 6 and several key manageability products. It consists of:

• The AIX 6 operating system

• The PowerVM™ Workload Partitions Manager for AIX (WPAR Manager)

• Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)

• IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM)

Benefits/Value proposition

Customer benefits of Tivoli Component

• Help improve uptime and shorten mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR) on Power Systems, AIX and the applications and transactions that depend on these systems

• Increase operator productivity with real-time and historical visualization, prioritized information and context, and expert advice

• Resolve recurring problems quickly with built-in automation and AIX domain knowledge

• Contain costs and support growth with enterprise scalability and performance

• Extend management capabilities for monitoring the user experience, applications and systems by adding other integrated Tivoli products

• Gain predictive capabilities that help with performance management and capacity estimation with newly integrated IBM Tivoli Performance Analyzer