1. Power Systems Software Philippe Ceyssens
IBM Power Systems
Power Systems Software Philippe Ceyssens

2. + Power your planet. Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet.
AIX® - the future of UNIX
Total integration with i
Scalable Linux® ready for x86 consolidation
Workload-Optimizing Systems
Virtualization without Limits
Drive over 90% utilization
Dynamically scale per demand
Dynamic Energy Optimization
70-90% energy cost reduction
EnergyScale™ technologies
Resiliency without Downtime
Roadmap to continuous availability
High availability systems & scaling
Management with Automation
VMControl to manage virtualization
Automation to reduce task time
This chart provides a summary of the value of Power Systems, combining both the leading technology of our workload-optimized POWER7 systems, with the IBM systems software stack, including PowerVM, PowerHA, Systems Director, and our 3 operating environments: AIX, IBM i and Linux.
IBM has invested in the software stack to optimize the performance and value companies can derive from Power Systems.
Virtualization without limits with PowerVM helps companies drive to over 90% system utilization, and dynamically adjust platform resources to balance changing demands on the business.
Resiliency with downtime is achievable through the RAS features built into Power Systems, and clustering software such as PowerHA SystemMirror.
Dynamic Energy Optimization is achieved through the combination of EnergyScale technology in Power servers, managed and optimized via Systems Director Active Energy Manager software.
Management with automation is made available through IBM Systems Director Editions for platform and integrated service management, plus VMControl for advanced virtualization image and systems pools management.
Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet.

3. Power Systems Software Announcement Summary
Scalable Linux Ready for x86 Consolidation
POWER7 support for RHEL 5.5 & 6*, SLES 10 & 11 plus PowerVM lx86 performance optimized for x86 server consolidation
The Future of UNIX AIX 6 Express Edition for entry servers & workload consolidation. Plus a major new release of AIX 7* to exploit 1024 POWER7 threads, and support AIX 5.2 WPARs
Total integration with IBM i A major release IBM i 7.1 features XML in DB2, automatic workload optimization with SSDs, Rational Open Access: RPG Edition and much more…
Virtualization without limits
New storage virtualization to simplify provisioning and management of virtual servers, enhanced virtual networking, including dynamic VLAN*.
Resilience without downtime
New PowerHA SystemMirror Editions for IBM i
PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX to be tightly integrated with Cluster Aware AIX 7*
Management with automation
VMcontrol system pools support for Linux enhances IBM Systems Director virtualization management
* Statement of Direction

4. Power Systems Software Edition Strategy
Express
Standard
Enterprise
Systems Director
VMControl 
PowerHA
Cluster Feature of OS*
IBM i
AIX
PowerVM
* Cluster Aware is a feature of IBM i, Cluster Aware included with AIX 7 (SOD)

5. Power is Virtualization without Limits
Consolidate AIX & i databases with Linux application servers
Live Partition Mobility with VM’s of any size up to entire system unlike VMware
Drive systems to over 90% utilization for maximum ROI
Integrated storage virtualization for simplified provisioning, management of virtual servers and enhanced virtual networking*
Industrial strength virtualization creates a solid foundation for cloud computing
As businesses look for ways to maximize their IT infrastructure investment returns, they turn to PowerVM virtualization to consolidate multiple workloads onto fewer systems—increasing server utilization and reducing cost. PowerVM provides a secure and scalable virtualization environment for AIX, i and Linux applications built upon the advanced RAS features and leading performance of the Power Systems platform.
Unlike other systems, all Power Systems benchmarks are run and measured in a virtualized environment, ensuring that companies can take advantage of costs savings of consolidation, with near linear scalability and without paying a performance penalty. Compare that efficiency with the significant performance overhead of running VMWare. Also, VMWare has significant limits to its size and flexibility of its virtual machine scalability – unlike PowerVM which enables up to 32 times the virtual machine size of VMware, and enables dynamic add and removal of virtual machine system resources.
PowerVM offers Micro-Partitioning™ with the ability to run up to 10 partitions per processor core, and dynamically move processor, memory, and I/O resources between partitions to support changing workload requirements. PowerVM Live Partition Mobility enables active partitions to be moved between servers, virtually eliminating planned downtime. Live partition mobility can also be used to upgrade workloads between POWER6 and POWER7 processor-based servers without an application outage.
VMControl™ complements PowerVM by providing automated virtualization management that minimizes time to provision virtual machine images and enables management of system pools. With POWER7, PowerVM and VMControl virtualization software will support up to 1,000 virtual machines on a single system, providing massive consolidation capability for exceptional costs savings.
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Some features require the purchase of additional software components.

6. PowerVM on POWER7 delivers virtualization without limits with higher performance, more scalability, and higher resource utilization than VMware
65%
PowerVM outperforms VMware by up to 65% on Power 750, with linear scaling that maximizes resource utilization with 4x as many virtual CPUs1
And POWER7 enterprise servers with PowerVM scale far beyond the limits imposed by x86 architecture and VMware with up to 32x* as many virtual CPUs
PowerVM scales linearly
VMware limit is 8 vCPUs
PowerVM delivers virtualization without limits, in contrast to the constraints of x86-based platforms running third-party software such as VMware. This is one of many reasons that an increasing number of IBM Power Systems clients have been migrating workloads from x86-based platforms to the more robust, scalable and high-performance POWER architecture.
Comparisons using industry benchmarks such as AIM7 (which uses a multi-user workload) prove that PowerVM on a Power 750 outperforms VMware vSphere on a high-end x86-based server (in this case, an HP DL380 G6 equipped with Nehalem EP processors). The performance advantage of PowerVM over VMware ranges from 56% for workloads using a single virtual CPU up to 65% for workloads configured with eight virtual CPUs (which is the highest number supported by VMware). More importantly, PowerVM continues to scale beyond VMware, allowing as many virtual CPUs in a VM as there are CPU cores on the host system (up to 32 cores, in the case of the Small tier Power 750). The complete benchmark results are included in a technical white paper that can be downloaded from the IBM Web site.
HP DL380 G6
Power 750
1 “A Comparison of PowerVM and VMware Virtualization Performance”, March 2010
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Some features require the purchase of additional software components. 6

7. Total integration with i
The future of UNIX
AIX 6 Editions for entry to enterprise servers & workload consolidation AIX 7* to exploit 1024 POWER7 threads, and support AIX 5.2 WPARs
Total integration with i
IBM i 7.1 features XML in DB2, automatic workload optimization with SSDs, Rational Open Access: RPG Edition and much more
Scalable Linux ready for x86 consolidation
POWER7 support for RHEL 5.5 & 6*, SLES 10 & 11 plus PowerVM Lx86 performance optimized for x86 server consolidation
AIX exploits decades of IBM technology innovation and is designed to provide the highest level of performance and reliability of any UNIX operating system. According to ITIC’s 2009 survey, AIX scored the highest reliability ratings among 15 different server operating system platforms. AIX 6.1 is binary compatible with previous versions of AIX, including AIX 5L™. This means that applications that ran on earlier versions will continue to run on AIX 6.1—guaranteed.4 AIX 6.1 is an open standards-based UNIX OS designed to comply with the Open Group’s Single UNIX Specification Version 3.
IBM i is an integrated operating environment with a more than 20-year reputation for exceptional security and business resilience. IBM i integrates a trusted combination of relational DB2® database, security, Web services, networking and storage management capabilities. ITG reports that costs to use Power Systems and IBM i 6.1 average 41 percent less than x86 servers and Microsoft® Windows®. IBM i 6.1 includes expanded options for virtualization, upgraded storage and availability management, breakthrough Java™ performance, support for POWER6 and POWER7 and BladeCenter, and a broad range of middleware and tools to help drive application transformation.
Both Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux run natively on Power Systems, offering a scalable alternative for open source applications. Reducing x86 server sprawl through consolidation and virtualization is a key priority for many companies today. Linux on Power Systems with PowerVM provide a scalable, virtualized alternative to running Linux on x86 servers.
PowerVM Lx86 cross-platform virtualization technology also enables x86 Linux workloads to run without recompilation and take advantage of the scalability of Power Systems. This means Power Systems clients can immediately benefit from the latest Linux applications.
Note that POWER7 is the first POWER processor technology generation to support all three operating environments at the first system GA POWER7 supports the following releases:.
AIX 5.3 and 6.1 is supported with AIX 7 a statement of direction.
IBM i and 7.1 are supported
Linux: SUSE 10 & 11, plus Red Hat 5.5 are supported with an SOD for Red Hat 6
All 3 operating environments available with POWER7
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Some features require the purchase of additional software components.

8. POWER7 OS Software Support
AIX 5.3 with the Technology Level and SP2, or later
AIX 6.1 with the Technology Level and SP3, or later
IBM i 6.1 with machine code, or later
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with SP3 for POWER
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for POWER, or later
RHEL 5.5 or 6 (SoD)
VIOS with Fix Pack 22.1 and Service Pack 2, or later

9. New Choice and Flexibility with AIX 6 Editions
Mix and match editions on the same server to meet your needs
Express Edition
Ideally suited for entry servers and consolidation of smaller workloads onto larger servers
Vertical scalability up to 4 cores per virtual machine, 8GB of memory per core
Standard Edition
Industry leading UNIX suitable for the most demanding workloads
Vertical scalability up to 64 cores, unlimited memory per core
Enterprise Edition
Industry leading UNIX plus leadership enterprise management
Includes Systems Director Enterprise Edition and the Workload Partitions Manager for AIX
Vertical scalability up to 256 cores*
The new AIX Express Edition of AIX priced for smaller workloads
AIX 6 and 7 will feature Express Edition
AIX 5.3 will not feature Express Edition, and is only available in Standard Edition
AIX Express Edition is designed for two deployment situations:
Entry price on entry servers and blades
Consolidation of smaller workloads on enterprise servers
AIX 6 Express Edition terms are designed for small workloads
Vertical scalability limited to 4 core maximum partition size
8 GB memory per core maximum
AIX Enterprise Edition brings together IBM enterprise management capabilities from Power Systems, IBM Systems Director and Tivoli Software to give you a broad insight into your infrastructure.
AIX Enterprise Edition is designed to simplify the process of managing virtualized AIX environments by including AIX 6 and enterprise management functions into a single, easy to order offering.
One product to order reduces the complexity of implementation
Attractive price compared to ordering individual products
Additional integration not available when ordering individual products
"One call" support. When you call for answers to questions your call is automatically handled by the most knowledgeable support team member
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Some features require the purchase of additional software components.

10. AIX 6 Express Edition AIX Express Edition
AN edition of AIX priced for smaller workloads
AIX 6 and 7 will feature Express Edition
AIX 5.3 will not feature Express Edition
Intended for two deployment situations
Entry price on entry servers and blades
Consolidation of smaller workloads on enterprise servers
AIX 6 Express Edition terms are designed for small workloads
Vertical scalability limited to 4 core maximum partition size
8 GB memory per core maximum
Flexibility to optimize for multiple workloads
Run any combination of AIX Editions on a server

11. IBM License Metric Tool
Common IBM monitoring tool for SWG, Power Systems & Systems Director software products
Provides a data center view of IBM software licenses
Simplifies customer license tracking, compliance & audit reporting
ILMT does NOT report back to IBM
Tool Provides*:
Software inventory
Web-based administration
Standard & custom license reports
Audit reports
Required for clients using AIX Express Edition on Medium and Large servers
*Implementation of some features will be staged over time

12. AIX Enterprise Edition Key Features
Live Application Mobility
Relocate Workload Partitions between systems with almost no client impact
Energy Management
Collecting and report current and historical usage, and controlling energy usage
Virtual Server Management
Create and manage virtual machines, manage virtual machine relocation, and managing virtual workloads in system pools
Manage WPARs across multiple systems
Centralize the creation, replication, and starting of WPARs across multiple systems
Automatically discover IT components and their relationships
Ideal for managing dynamic virtualized environments
Monitor virtualized resources
Efficient management begins with comprehensive performance information
Predictive monitoring and capacity management
Leverage real time monitoring in data warehouse to provide advanced analytics for capacity planning and proactive monitoring
Provides a visual representation of the components
Assists understanding of complex application dependencies
Network Management
Discover, monitor, and manage multi-vendor network devices and automate network management tasks
Monitor utilization and configuration changes
Useful for problem determination and failure analysis
AIX Enterprise Edition is designed to improve the manageability of a virtualized AIX environment. Potential benefits include:
Improved service availability through access to relevant, real time information about IT resources
Enhanced operational efficiency though visualization of the relationships of IT resources and applications
Improved operational efficiency by centralizing monitoring and automating the response to service issues
Improved customer satisfaction by providing accurate information of the IT resources used to support business workloads.
Better utilization of IT resources through consolidated views of virtualized resource usage
Improved service availability through Live Application Mobility.
Simplified ordering of AIX and essential service management tools at an attractive price.

13. The Future of UNIX: AIX 7*
Vertical scalability for massive workloads with up to 256 cores/1024 threads in a single AIX partition
Consolidation of legacy environments onto POWER7 with support for AIX 5.2 in WPARs
Built in clustering to simplify configuration and management of scale-out workloads and high availability solutions
Simplified management of pools of AIX systems with profile based configuration management
AIX 7 exploits decades of IBM technology innovation and is designed to provide the highest level of performance and reliability of any UNIX operating system.
IBM plans deliver AIX 7 in 2010, the only UNIX operating system designed for smarter systems that will exploit 1024 threads with POWER7 for both transaction and through computing workloads.
AIX 7 will feature the ability to run AIX 5.2 WPARs, enabling clients to run older applications on POWER7 servers.
AIX 7 will also feature new cluster aware integration with PowerHA, as well the ability to run a prior AIX level within AIX workload partitions to facilitate application migration.
IBM will continue its investment in integrating AIX management tools, providing the new profile based configuration management as a plug in to IBM Systems Director. The profile management capability extends the function of AIX Runtime Expert.
IBM plans to offer early access to the new version via an Open Beta program.
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Some features require the purchase of additional software components.

14. AIX 5.2 WPARs for AIX 7
New offering that enables consolidation of existing AIX 5.2 environments inside of an AIX 7 Workload Partition on POWER7
Customer Value
Minimize effort to consolidate old environments on new, more efficient hardware
Allows clients who must stay on AIX V5.2 to move up to POWER7
Features
Allows a legacy AIX 5.2 environment to be run inside a WPAR on POWER7 processor-based systems with AIX 7
Simply back up existing environment and restore inside of an AIX 7 WPAR
This offering will also provide how-to and limited defect support for the AIX 5.2 operating system
Managed via IBM Systems Director Workload Partitions Manager
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
Some features require the purchase of additional software components.

15. Cluster Aware AIX
Designed to simplify construction and management of clusters of AIX systems for scale-out computing and high availability
Easily create clusters of AIX instances for scale-out computing or high availability
Designed to:
Significantly simplify cluster configuration, construction, and maintenance
Designed to improve availability by reducing the time to discover failures
Capabilities such as common device naming help simplify administration
Built in event management and monitoring
A foundation for future AIX capabilities and the next generation of PowerHA SystemMirror

16. AIX 7 Profile Manager
Providing simplified discovery, application, update, and verification of AIX configuration properties across multiple systems
Old Way
Using the AIX Profile Manager for configuration
Environment Variables
Boot LV Settings
XML Profile
Env var XYZ=“Yes”
AIX security profile T .
tuneable N
OS Configuration and Tuning
CLI Utilities
Configuration Files
Set
Apply and maintain approaches
Extract
Scripts, ftp, rsh, ssh, documentation, 3rd party tools, mksysb, etc.
Compare
System A
System N
System B
System A
System N
System B
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
Some features require the purchase of additional software components.

17. AIX Version 5.3 End of Marketing Announcement
Announce withdrawal of marketing for AIX 5.3 effective April 2011
Goal is to give customers advance notice for planning and an additional incentive to move up to AIX 6 or consider move to AIX 7
AIX 5.3
EOM 4/11
GA 8/04
EOM Announced 4/10

18. What Linux distributions will be supported with POWER7
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
SOD: Roadmap to RHEL 6 (outlook 3Q2010)

19. Resiliency Without Downtime -- PowerHA
High availability solutions for UNIX, and i clients
IBM offers a broad range of solutions for business continuity.
The IBM PowerHA solution portfolio includes options for clustering which integrate with and leverage IBM's portfolio of storage hardware based replication technologies. Together, these solutions can provide all levels of high availability from local clustering to Tier 5, fully automated disaster recovery.
The IBM PowerHA solutions are designed with and optimized for the operating system environment where your applications are deployed.
For example, PowerHA/XD GLVM for AIX extends the capabilities of the AIX LVM technology to replicate data across unlimited distances. When integrated with the PowerHA technology, this enables clients to deploy a disaster recovery solution that also enables easy switching of operations for both planned and unplanned outages
Cluster management solutions for high availability
Can enable near continuous application service
Minimize impact of planned and unplanned outages
PowerHA™ SystemMirror for AIX®
PowerHA SystemMirror for i
PowerHA pureScale

20. PowerHA SystemMirror Strategy Simplification – Usability- Reliability
Solution Package Optimization & Standardization
Standard Edition
Enterprise Edition
Deep Integration with AIX and/or IBM i
Cluster Aware AIX (7.1)
Cluster Aware i (HASR)
Ease of use
Smart defaults, graphical interfaces
Storage Integration & Disaster Recovery
Extend PowerHA storage support
Middleware optimization
Out of the box HA agents for popular AIX middleware environments
IASP enabled commercial applications for IBM i
Virtualization
Exploit and align with Power Systems platform virtualization
Cluster wide resource management
Single point of control
Cluster File System – centralized configuration files for cluster (in 2010). Shared resources like simultaneous file sharing. with locking. List of nodes, network, storage information, application HA policy tables…

21. PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 for AIX*
Integrated high availability with cluster aware AIX providing kernel based monitoring, cluster wide: event management, AIX command interface, device naming and storage device management
Simplified management with new IBM Systems Director based GUI interface
Enterprise Edition extends options for multi-site storage resiliency including 6.1 IBM DS8000® Metro Mirror, SVC Metro Mirror & Global Mirror, EMC SRDF V6.1. PowerHA EE 7.1 adds support for Hitachi Truecopy and IBM DS8000® Global Mirror
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Some features require the purchase of additional software components.

22. Power is Resiliency without Downtime
PowerHA® SystemMirror Editions for AIX and i provide active/standby datacenter and multi-site disk clustering solutions for resiliency. Tight integration with cluster aware AIX 7*
PowerHA pureScale provides active/active high performance data transfer, cluster coordination, and centralized locking and is built-into DB2 pureScale
PowerVM Live Partition Mobility enables planned system downtime without application downtime
Power Systems solutions benefit from decades of IBM experience in designing and deploying high availability hardware and software. PowerHA SystemMirror disk clustering solutions are available to help keep your systems—and your business—running 24x7x365.
PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX and IBM i Editions are data center and multi-site resiliency solutions designed to help protect critical business applications from outages: planned or unplanned. PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX and IBM i are both available in Standard Edition (focused on datacenter HA) and Enterprise Edition (focused on multi-site HA/DR). PowerHA SystemMirror is tightly integrated with IBM i, which features cluster aware capability, such as heartbeat monitoring. AIX 7 will also feature similar cluster aware capability and will further tightly integrate with PowerHA SystemMirror.
PowerHA pureScale™ technology delivers levels of database scalability and availability unmatched on UNIX or x86 systems, and is offered as a component of DB2 pureScale.
Live Partition Mobility* supports the movement of a running AIX or Linux partition from one physical server to another compatible server without application downtime, helping avoid application interruption for planned system maintenance, provisioning, and workload management. Live Partition Mobility can be used to easily migrate operating environments to new servers temporarily or permanently, even to upgrade between POWER6 and POWER7 servers.
*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Some features require the purchase of additional software components.

23. Power is Dynamic Energy Optimization
POWER7 delivers up to 3 - 4X the performance with less energy than POWER6
Increased consolidation drives higher utilization and more energy savings
EnergyScale™ intelligently and dynamically optimizes performance for energy efficiency
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ helps lower energy usage per system and across systems
Power Systems energy management solutions monitor and control energy usage to help you manage energy efficiency in your data center. Each Power server has EnergyScale technology built into the POWER6 and POWER7 processor. Through consolidation and virtualization with PowerVM, businesses have realized dramatic energy savings.
And, with IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™, you can identify trends in your energy usage and thermal profile, turn off processor cores or limit the energy draw across one or a group of Power servers, and track environmental data from applications used to monitor air conditioning units, Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Intelligent Power Distribution Units.
POWER7 includes Intelligent Energy features that help to dynamically optimize energy usage and performance so that the best possible balance is maintained. Intelligent Energy EnergyScale technology with Active Energy Manager to dynamically optimize processor speed based on thermal conditions and system utilization. If the system's environment is favorable, the system can speed up processor cores to a frequency up to 10% higher than the normal rated speed to better handle demanding workloads. When utilization is lighter, or if environmental conditions are less favorable, the system can slow processor cores by as much as 50% to save energy. Users can select whether Intelligent Energy Optimization favors maximizing performance or energy savings based on their needs.
See POWER7 3x-4x more energy efficient than POWER6 for more details

24. Power is Management with Automation
Physical assets & virtual resources at your fingertips with easy health monitoring & reporting, as well as updates & optimization
VMControl™ for automation of virtualization management to minimize time to provision images and manage system pools
Server and virtualization management integrated with network and storage management for complete resource control
Easy integration with enterprise service management tools from Tivoli as well as other third party providers
With platform management technologies on Power Systems, businesses not only get a complete picture of their systems and how well they are operating, but also the tools to deploy, optimize and maintain these systems at maximum effectiveness and efficiency. The result is optimized workload performance, energy efficiency and cost control. On Power Systems, server virtualization management is integrated with network and storage management for complete resource control.
IBM System Director Editions for Power are sized for every data center. It’s now simpler than ever for a single operator to manage both physical assets and virtual resources. With IBM Systems Director for platform management and Tivoli® for enterprise service management solutions, Power Systems offer a unified systems management solution that can improve service delivery. VMControl provides automated virtualization management and minimizes the time it takes to provision virtual images and manage system pools.

25. IBM® Systems Director Simplifying the management of multi-system environments
Common toolset for managing physical and virtual resources –servers, storage and networking
Automates data center operations to proactively avoid problems
Reduces burden of time consuming administrative tasks
Simplified deployment, installation and update process
Integrates with IBM service management offerings from IBM Tivoli
IBM® Systems Director for multi-system environment
IBM Systems Director is the next generation of IBM Director that offers a unified family of platform management offerings providing a common toolset for managing physical and virtual resources together – servers, storage, and networking. IBM Systems Director is designed around a modular, industry standards-based approach that leverages existing client investments in IBM platform management offerings and provides seamless integration with IBM Service Management offerings from Tivoli. But the other key thing here is our ability with IBM Systems Director to begin simplifying the management of both IBM and non-IBM servers and storage – something no other vendor can claim!
IBM Systems Director helps bring it all together – to manage the physical and virtual infrastructures, improve deployment of resources and take on many of the more redundant time consuming management tasks in the data center. So you can focus more on how IT can support the business rather than how you support the IT Infrastructure!
Simplified management of physical and virtual infrastructure
Rapid deployment and optimization of IT resources
Reduction in time-consuming management tasks

26. Systems Director helps to . . .
Find and identify systems on the network
Determine if systems are working properly
Configure and deploys new systems
Optimize systems for peak performance
Monitor network devices
Deploy virtual images
Reduce time to execute systems administrative tasks
Keep system firmware and drivers up to date
Manage Energy
Improve System Availability
Manage multiple systems as a single entity
Reduce virtualization complexity
Automated discovery and topology views to simplify troubleshooting
Systems Director Helps to …
IBM Systems Director is designed to help IT personal do their more effectively. System Director can help IT personnel find and identify systems on the network easily, determine if those systems are working properly and even configure and deploy new systems as needed while optimizing systems for peak performance. It helps make sure systems are current by keeping system firmware and drivers up to date. IBM Systems Director also addresses the hot new requirements placed on IT such as managing IT energy usage or improving system availability all while managing multiple systems (IBM and non-IBM) as a single entity which helps reduce virtualization complexity

27. Systems Director Editions for integrated service management
Express Edition
View the relationships between systems
Manage virtual machines across multiple hypervisors
Remotely access system status and updates
Standard Edition
Reduce time to deploy virtual AIX and Linux workloads
Monitor and control energy use
Monitor and configure networking systems
Enterprise Edition
Automate workload deployment in system pools of AIX and Linux virtual machines
Analyze real-time and historical status
Analyze predictive resource capacity data
Systems Director Editions deliver integrated service management.
Systems Director helps reduce the time required to identify and troubleshoot services. Express Edition provides a common console to collaborate when troubleshooting problems. Options to immediately or schedule repairs. Standard Edition adds monitoring of energy and thermal characteristics across the datacenter. Networking system health and relationships with servers. Enterprise Edition adds Identifying changes that may impact availability
Systems Director enables faster deployment and optimized system utilization. Express Edition provides Lifecycle virtual machine management for PowerVM, zVM®, VMware ESX™, and Microsoft Hyper-V. Tools to configure mobility of virtual machines for increased utilization. Standard Edition adds
virtual image management from a central repository. Features to cap or dynamically optimize energy use across one or more systems. Enterprise Edition adds automated provisioning within a pool of server resources
Systems Director provides critical data to document and plan system capacity. Express Edition provides automated discovery of physical and virtual servers and interconnections. Server resource utilization by virtual machine or across a rack of systems. Standard Edition adds discovery of supported networking systems, PDUs and CRAC units. Trend analysis of energy use and thermal output. Enterprise Edition adds automated discovery of applications associated with servers and LPARs. Predictive server resource performance analysis and reporting.

28. Systems Director Express
Benefits
A single dashboard to effectively visualize and communicate the relationships of physical and virtual systems
Monitor health of systems
Troubleshoot and fix problems
Reduced administration time and costs
Challenges
Inability to effectively perform basic monitoring, and updates across physical and virtual servers
Requirements
Quick and easy way to deploy firmware patches, receive notifications of hardware component failures, disk and CPU thresholds and OS patch levels 28 28

29. Systems Director Standard
Challenges
High costs of server sprawl, (hardware, software licenses, administration. Consolidation, then Virtualization
Requirements
Quickly and easily manage and deploy virtual machines and images to meet changing workload demands across multiple servers
Monitor and manage dependencies between physical and virtual servers, storage, networks and energy usage for advanced troubleshooting
Hardware maintenance and management
Benefits
Advanced deployment
Monitoring and control features across physical and virtual servers, storage, networking and energy facilities
Improved ability to quickly adapt to changing workload and energy requirements
App OS
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30. Systems Director Enterprise
Benefits
Comprehensive information for troubleshooting and predictive capacity planning, potentially resulting in deferred hardware acquisitions
Leadership energy management allowing for increased compute power within the same energy envelope
Challenges
Lack of agility to respond to business needs and high costs of computing due to inefficient use of server resources
High administrative costs due to complexity associated with inconsistent management tools across all server platforms
Requirements
End to End performance, availability and energy usage monitoring
Improved utilization of server resources through effective capacity reporting and planning 30 30

31. VMControl Editions v2.3: Virtualization Management for Linux on Power
VMControl Express Edition
VMControl Standard Edition
VMControl Enterprise Edition
Virtualization Capabilities
Manage VMs
Automate virtual images
Optimize system pools
PowerVM
Create/manage virtual machines (x86, PowerVM and z/VM) 
VM relocation (AIX and Linux)
Capture/import, create/remove standardized virtual images
Maintain virtual images in a centralized library
Create/remove system pools and manage system pool resources
Add/remove physical servers within system pools
VMControl V2.3 delivers comprehensive virtualization management for Linux on Power virtual workloads, including image management and system pools capabilities

32. VMControl™ Express Edition Management of virtualized resources
Multi-platform management
View virtual and physical assets
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
VMControl Express Edition provides a consistent set of virtualization management capabilities across multiple hardware platforms and virtualization technologies, including VMware and Hyper-V on x86-based platforms, PowerVM on Power Systems and z/VM on IBM System z. VMControl Express Edition is available at no additional charge for clients using IBM Systems Director, and can be downloaded from the IBM Web site.

33. Deploy Virtual Machines Capture Virtual Machines
VMControl™ Standard Edition Automation through shared libraries of standardized virtual appliances
Import
Deploy Virtual Machines
Capture Virtual Machines
Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
VMControl Standard Edition provides the next level of virtualization management, for clients that have broadly deployed virtualized resources in a production environment. It allows IT managers to create and manage a standardized set of virtual appliances – virtual machines containing a complete ready-to-run workload comprising OS, middleware and applications – and maintain these within a centralized library or repository. This approach allows a small set of ‘golden master’ virtual appliances to be maintained, which are ready for instant deployment as business needs change. It also streamlines upgrades and patches, thereby eliminating redundancy and ensuring consistency across the virtualized infrastructure.
A 60 day trial version of IBM Systems Director VMControl Standard Edition is available at no charge.
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
VMControl enables the delivery and management of open standard virtual machine images on IBM Systems

34. VMControl™ Enterprise Edition introduces the concept of system pools for higher-level management
Combines multiple virtual resources into one manageable entity
Automates virtual image mobility for optimal utilization and resilience
Optimizes virtual assets for performance, availability and energy use
Integrates server, storage and network virtualization
Mobility
VMControl Enterprise Edition adds a new layer of client value by introducing the concept of system pools – groups of virtual appliances deployed across multiple physical servers which can be managed as a single entity. Virtual appliances include servers, storage, and network resources.
Enterprise Edition includes all of the capabilities of Standard Edition along with the added ability to create and remove system pools across multiple physical servers into a single entity and provides a dashboard which provides and overall view of health and status of the pool and deployed workloads. It provides simplified monitoring and visualization of the aggregate capacity and utilization for the systems within a pool.
It can also automate relocation of virtual workloads in response to predicted host system failures without disruption. It enables workload resilience for planned and unplanned downtime.
VMControl Enterprise Edition is designed to help provide increased system utilization, availability, and improved energy efficiencies through pooling and automation.
A 60 day trial version of IBM Systems Director VMControl Enterprise Edition is also available at no charge.
Virtualization
Compute
Network
Storage
Memory
Optimized for
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Performance
Energy
Compute
Network
Storage
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35. Which Systems Director Edition is right for you?
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
Systems Director Standard Edition if you:
Need to speed up deployment of workloads
Need to control energy use and costs
Use PowerVM Standard Edition
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
Which Systems Director Edition is right for you?