TUC Webcast: Maximize the Benefits of Virtualization for Greater ROI   Please join the Tivoli User Community for a live Webcast and opportunity for Q&A, Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM ET USA.  Click here to reserve your webcast seat now About this Webcast: Challenges with virtualized environments are driving the shift to increased integration of service management capabilities such as image and patch management, high-scale provisioning, monitoring, storage and security. In this webcast, learn how organizations can realize the... [More]

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There is a new white paper available on the IBM Integrated Service Management Library ( ISML ) that explains how to use Tivoli Storage Manager to back up a VMware virtual machine that was deployed by the Workload Deployer in IBM SmartCloud Provisioning version 2.1.   The white paper explains how to locate, and back up the virtual machine in VMware using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, and how to restore the virtual machine to the Workload Deployer environment.   The white paper can be downloaded from the  IBM Integrated Service Management Library... [More]

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People always ask about failures.  That's great that the cloud software can survive failures, but what about my user workloads?  Of course the simplest yet all too unsatisfying answer is that your application should be designed to tolerate failures and since the cloud is resilient you can always get more cloud resources.  Unfortunately, most people aren't satisfied with this answer.  Many enterprise IT folks are used to running expensive servers with very expensive fiber channel attached SAN storage.  But what happens with commodity storage... [More]

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IBM® Tivoli® Service Automation Manager (TSAM) has delivered yet another cloud extension that provides service offerings for automating the provisioning of network attached storage (NAS) with an NFS export name. The file systems can then be mounted into virtual machines provisioned within TSAM Virtual Servers Projects . The extension introduces the concept of Storage-only Project , which allows managing the entire life-cycle of the file systems (create, expand, set access, and destroy), in a secure multi-tenant environment. It works... [More]

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IBM® Tivoli® Service Automation Manager (TSAM) has delivered a new extension to configure extra disks in addition to the boot disk when requesting virtual machines within a Project with VMWare servers. Downloading the installation package from the  Integrated Service Management Library  and installing it on top of TSAM 7.2.2 platform enables the cloud administrator to prepare and manage a multi-tenant, customer-segregated environment for hosting the additional disks. In particular, the cloud administrator can select the VMWare data... [More]

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