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Advanced manageability:
IBM Director
IBM Director unleashes the power of
BladeCenter, giving you comprehen-
sive remote management from a
single graphical console. IBM
Director, which ships with
BladeCenter, automates and simpli-
fies IT tasks, letting you deploy, con-
figure, manage and maintain up to
hundreds of blade servers.
Advanced management capabilities
boost administrator productivity and
reduce skill-level requirements, which
can help reduce costs, improve
overall productivity and make admin-
istration easier. IBM Director and
BladeCenter deliver incredible control
of 2-way and 4-way Intel processor-
based and 2-way POWER processor-
based blade servers. Shared infra-
structure means platform deployment
is quicker and more cost-effective.
Because installing a new blade
server is fast and easy, expanding
capacity for applications can be
completed in as little as just a few
minutes instead of hours.
Tools such as IBM Deployment
Wizard, and functions such as
Automatic Chassis Discovery and
Event Action Plans, make infrastruc-
ture deployment easy. The
Deployment Wizard allows you to
save chassis configurations for easy
replication. Another tool, Remote
Deployment Manager (RDM), gives
you the ability to create, maintain and
deploy images from a single drag-
and-drop user interface
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With the tight integration of storage,
networking, servers and applications,
and IBM Director’s common interface
for a rich portfolio of management
tools, the BladeCenter design is both
intelligent and simple. IBM has cre-
ated an ideal environment to maintain
your data center. Tools such as light
path diagnostics, Predictive Failure
Analysis®, and calibrated vectored
cooling can help reduce administra-
tion costs.
Powerful tools for advanced
management
IBM Director delivers advanced,
proactive management, providing
rich and broad systems management
capabilities. Some of the key optional
enhancements in the IBM Director
Server Plus Pack include:
- Capacity Manager
Helps predict future server bottle-
necks and proactively alerts admin-
istrators, automating corrective
actions to minimize downtime.
- Software Rejuvenation
Helps predict pending software
failures that could lead to costly
downtime and automatically
refreshes the software to help
ensure optimal operation.
- System Availability
Tracks and provides graphical
views of system downtime or
uptime for systems or groups of
systems, helping save labor costs.
- Rack Manager
Provides a graphical drag-and-
drop interface that simplifies rack
hardware management.