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IBM Director Multiplatform
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infrastructure allows heterogeneous systems and their resources to be
managed in a homogeneous way. It leverages proven technologies from
IBM Director. Coupled with the Virtualization Engine console, which
provides a common Web-based console for monitoring and managing the
overall health of your on demand operating environment, you have a set of
powerful system management capabilities.
Systems Provisioning
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deploy and re-purpose (commission and decommission) IT resources to
react to changing business demands. Extending the current logical
partitioning and integrated Windows attachment capabilities of the
Eserver i5 servers, it allows for the virtualization of resource pools to be
redeployed on an as-needed basis.
IBM Enterprise Workload Manager
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based on service class definitions and track performance of those
requests against stated business goals. It provides problem isolation and
workload optimization of a heterogeneous multitier workload through a set
of self-managing capabilities.
IBM Grid Toolbox V3 for Multiplatforms
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customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) need to develop,
deploy, and manage distributed workloads with greater ease. It enables
you to capitalize on IBM Eserver and IBM middleware Qualities of
Service. The toolbox is based on the Open Grid Services Architecture.
This version of the toolbox is best leveraged by businesses that are
responsible for deploying and managing grids or for ISVs that develop
products designed to assist in the management or deployment of grids.
Capacity on Demand: IBM plans to enhance Capacity on Demand by adding
the following capabilities:
– Ability to purchase activations for inactive memory on an Eserver i5 570.
IBM will make the memory available for use when permanent or temporary
activation codes are applied to an iSeries server.
– Ability to prepurchase reserve processor capacity, perfect for unplanned
business workload peaks. A quantity of inactive processors can be placed
in the server's shared processor pool as reserve processors. When the
server recognizes that additional capacity is needed by a partition, a
processor day is subtracted from the prepurchased total.
– Ability to request trial processor or memory capacity that can be used for a
predetermined consecutive number of days. A trial activation code can be
requested at a Capacity on Demand Web site to activate the no-charge
capacity for a business workload peak, for a benchmark, or to try a new
workload.
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