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Managing It All IBM Systems Director 6.1 manages an impressive list of data-center resources. Power* Systems resources Hardware Management Console Integrated Virtualization Manager Virtual I/O Server Power Systems servers IBM i AIX* Linux* Modular Systems resources BladeCenter* blades and server blades (x, Power, Cell) System x* servers VMWare Microsoft* Virtual Server Xen Windows* Linux on Intel* Enterprise Systems resources z/VM* Linux A variety of low to mid-range storage disk devices including detailed information on storage and network devices. By clicking on a resource in the topology view, you can drill down on a given resource, display its properties and virtualization properties, and perform various tasks. The available tasks depend on the type of resource and its operational status. For example, if you click on a host system that’s powered off, you’ll see options to power the system on, create a new virtual server (LPAR) and modify the virtual resources on the host system. Managing the complexity of virtual environments can be a challenge. However, with IBM Systems Director 6.1 Virtualization Manager’s rich set of functions and capabilities from one consolidated Web UI, the ongoing management of virtual environments just became easier. Managing IBM i With Ease In March 2008, IBM shipped IBM i 6.1, which contains a groundbreaking out-of-the-box Web console that provides more than 300 tasks for managing IBM i, about 90 percent of the IBM i management capabilities available in System i* Navigator (Windows* client) “My Connections.” IBM Systems Director 6.1 includes this same set of IBM i management capabilities for managing IBM i 5.4 or 6.1 endpoint system. Many IBM i users haven’t yet moved to the 6.1 release, and they can now manage 5.4 systems from the Web using IBM Systems Director 6.1. Navigate to the IBM i systems and select the 5.4 or 6.1 system you want to manage (Figure 5, page 24). The i5/OS management functions are enabled for your use. IBM Systems Director 6.1 aims to help IBM Power Systems owners reduce their total cost of managing and operating IT resources while improving the utilization of data centers’ existing IT resources. This industr y-leading tool helps simplify management of multisystem IT environments and offers exciting new possibilities as IBM moves to a new generation of platform-management tools centered on IBM Systems Director. Diane E. Olson is a senior software engineer in Rochester, Minn., with the IBM Systems and Technology Group. She’s specialized in i5/OS systems management since 1998 and has focused on strategy, architecture and plans for IBM i for the past two years. Diane can be reached at dianeols@us.ibm.com. Jim Fall is a senior software engineer with the IBM Systems and Technology Group. He has 14 years’ experience with operating-system design and development for OS/400* and i5/OS, and more recently with the design and development of virtualizationtechnology products for IBM servers. Jim can be reached at jjfall@us.ibm.com. References IBM Systems Director www.ibm.com/systems/management/director Navigator for i www.ibm.com/systems/i/software/navigator/index.html Extensions: Virtualization Manager www.ibm.com/systems/management/director/extensions/vm.html IBM PowerVM www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/virtualization Managing IBM i www.ibm.com/systems/i/advantages/management/index.html 26 JANUARY 2009 ibmsystemsmag.com

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