IBM Flex System Manager Product Manual page 6

Hardware management
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Automated discovery of physical and virtual servers and interconnections, applications, and
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supported third-party networking.
Configuration profiles that integrate device configuration and update steps into a single interface,
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dramatically improving initial configuration experience.
Inventory of hardware components.
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Chassis and hardware component views.
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Hardware properties.
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Component names and hardware identification numbers.
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Firmware levels.
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Utilization rates.
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Network management
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Management of network switches from a variety of vendors.
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Discovery, inventory, and status monitoring of switches.
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Graphical network topology views.
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Support for KVM, pHyp, VMware virtual switches, and physical switches.
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VLAN configuration of switches.
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Integration with server management.
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Per-virtual machine network usage and performance statistics provided to VMControl.
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Logical views of servers and network devices grouped by subnet and VLAN.
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Network management (advanced feature set or fabric provisioning feature)
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Defines QoS settings for logical networks.
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Configures QoS parameters on network devices.
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Provides advanced network monitors for network system pools, logical networks, and virtual
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systems.
Storage management
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Discovery of physical and virtual storage devices.
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Physical and logical topology views.
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Support for virtual images on local storage across multiple chassis.
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Inventory of the physical storage configuration.
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Health status and alerts.
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Storage pool configuration.
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Disk sparing and redundancy management.
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Virtual volume management.
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Support for virtual volume discovery, inventory, creation, modification, and deletion.
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Virtualization management (base feature set)
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Support for VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, and IBM PowerVM®.
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Creates virtual servers.
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Edits virtual servers.
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Manages virtual servers.
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Relocates virtual servers.
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Discovers virtual server, storage, and network resources and visualize the physical-to-virtual
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relationships.
IBM Flex System Manager 6