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IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis 14
The IBM Flex System Manager offers these main features:
Monitoring and problem determination:
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A real-time multichassis view of hardware components with overlays for additional information
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Automatic detection of issues in your environment through an event setup that triggers alerts and
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actions
Identification of changes that might affect availability
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Server resource utilization by virtual machine or across a rack of systems
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Hardware management:
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Automated discovery of physical and virtual servers and interconnections, applications, and
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supported third-party networking
Inventory of hardware components
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Chassis and hardware component views, including hardware properties, component names and
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part numbers, firmware levels, energy usage and power consumption, utilization rates, and
temperature readings
Network management:
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Management of network switches
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Discovery, inventory, and status monitoring of switches
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Graphical network topology views
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Support for KVM, pHyp, and VMware virtual switches, and physical switches
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Virtual LAN (VLAN) configuration of switches
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Integration with server management
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Per-virtual machine network usage and performance statistics provided to VMControl
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Logical views of servers and network devices grouped by subnet and VLAN
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Storage management:
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Storage can also be consolidated onto the FSM platform, or users can virtualize the integrated
enterprise storage with other multivendor storage systems within the existing environment, and then
control all virtualized storage resources from the IBM Flex System platform.
Virtualization and workload management:
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Consolidate physical infrastructure or applications onto fewer servers
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Deploy new or existing workload onto Linux, Microsoft Windows, or competitive platforms
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Upgrade current rack or blade infrastructure to an integrated environment
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Optimize the performance of applications by migrating them to Flex System Manager
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Move into advanced stages of virtualization or a private cloud deployment
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Deploy new workloads rapidly
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Optimize or upgrade high-value, noninfrastructure workloads, such as enterprise resource
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planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), data warehousing, or analytics