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.
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
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
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
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)
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