Specifications

200 IBM Flex System p260 and p460 Planning and Implementation Guide
– Inventory of physical storage configuration.
– Health status and alerts.
– Storage pool configuration.
– Disk sparing and redundancy management.
– Virtual volume management.
– Support for virtual volume discovery, inventory, creation, modification,
and deletion.
򐂰 Virtualization management (base feature set)
– Support for VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, and IBM PowerVM.
– Create virtual servers.
– Edit virtual servers.
– Manage virtual servers.
– Relocate virtual servers.
– Discover virtual server, storage, and network resources, and visualize the
physical-to-virtual relationships.
򐂰 Virtualization management (advanced feature set)
– Create new image repositories for storing virtual appliances and discover
existing image repositories in your environment.
– Import external, standards-based virtual appliance packages into your
image repositories as virtual appliances.
– Capture a running virtual server that is configured just the way you want,
complete with guest operating system, running applications, and virtual
server definition.
– Import virtual appliance packages that exist in the Open Virtualization
Format (OVF) from the Internet or other external sources.
– Deploy virtual appliances quickly to create new virtual servers that meet
the demands of your ever-changing business needs.
– Create, capture, and manage workloads.
– Create server system pools, where you can consolidate your resources
and workloads into distinct and manageable groups.
– Deploy virtual appliances into server system pools.
– Manage server system pools, including adding hosts or additional storage
space and monitoring the health of the resources and the status of the
workloads in them.