Datasheet

IBM Flex System Manager 11

The following table shows supported virtualization environments and their management tasks.

Table 6. Supported virtualization environments and management tasks

Virtualization environment

Management task

AIX and

Linux*

IBM i VMware

ESX

Microsoft

Hyper-V

Linux

KVM

Deploy virtual servers Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Deploy virtual farms No No Yes No Yes

Relocate virtual servers Yes No Yes No Yes

Import virtual appliance packages Yes Yes No No Yes

Capture virtual servers Yes Yes No No Yes

Capture workloads Yes Yes No No Yes

Deploy virtual appliances Yes Yes No No Yes

Deploy workloads Yes Yes No No Yes

Deploy server system pools Yes No No No Yes

Deploy storage system pools Yes No No No No

* Linux on IBM Power Systems compute nodes

The following table shows supported I/O switches and their management tasks.

Table 7. Supported I/O switches and management tasks

I/O module

Management task

EN2092

1 Gb Ethernet

EN4093/EN4093R

10 Gb Ethernet

CN4093

10 Gb Converged

FC3171

8 Gb FC

FC5022

16 Gb FC

Discovery Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Inventory Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Monitoring Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Alerts Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Configuration management Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Automated logical network

provisioning (ALNP)

Yes Yes Yes Yes No

Stacked switch No Yes No No No