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Managing a virtual system with IBM Systems Director

You can perform virtual systems management tasks with IBM® Systems Director such as discovery, inventory, system status and health, monitoring, power management, and the functionality available with update manager, automation manager, and virtualization manager.

Within the virtualization task flow, you are in the managing stage.

Virtualization task flow with the managing stage highlighted.

Before you start, ensure that you have completed the required deployment tasks for your environment. For instructions, see Deploying virtualization to the system.

IBM Systems Director can manage the following IBM Power environments that might include POWER5 and POWER6® processor-based servers running AIX, IBM i, or Linux:

Power Systems™ managed by the Hardware Management Console (HMC)
Power Systems managed by the Integrated Virtualization Manager
Power Systems server with a single image (a nonpartitioned configuration)

IBM Systems Director gives you an overall understanding of any HMC or Integrated Virtualization Manager that you might have in your environment, as well as the hosts that they manage and their associated virtual servers (logical partitions). You can access and manage the logical partitions as you can any other managed system. Use the following links to access more information about IBM Systems Director.

Table 1. Tasks and associated resources for virtual systems management
Task	Resources to help you complete the task
1. iew the capabilities of IBM Systems Director to manage the physical and virtual resources of IBM Power Systems.	Managing IBM Power Systems
2. iew the capabilities of IBM Systems Director to manage virtual environments.	Managing virtual environments Finding and navigating resources System status and health Map view
3. Plan for, install, and configure IBM Systems Director.	IBM Systems Director roadmap

After you become comfortable with managing virtual resources across a single system (or group of like systems), you can expand that management view across multiple, heterogeneous systems. IBM Systems Director is a powerful management tool that can also be used across heterogeneous systems. For information about management tools that can be used in a heterogeneous environment, see Managing a virtual enterprise.

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Last updated: Thu, October 04, 2012