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8 IBM Systems Director Management Console: Introduction and Overview
The virtualization layer for the hardware appliance is fixed and cannot be
changed. Installation, backup to media, and restore from media is possible as it
is with the Hardware Management Console.
The hardware appliance is structured as shown in Figure 1-4.
Figure 1-4 SDMC: Hardware appliance structure
Support for POWER processor based systems with either software or hardware
appliance depends on the type of Power Systems. See Table 1-2 on page 9 and
Table 1-3 on page 9 for a complete listing of which appliance is supported with
which system. Also, note the exception for the POWER 575, which is supported
with the Hardware Management Console only.
SDMC Virtual Machine
Director Base DB2
Tivoli
and
HA Func
Linux
Appliance Management
Power Systems Manager
RHEV-H