IBM Systems Director software

Learn about integrating the Virtual I/O Server into your IBM® Systems Director environment.

IBM Systems Director is a platform-management foundation that streamlines the way you manage physical and virtual systems across a heterogeneous environment. By leveraging industry standards, IBM Systems Director supports multiple operating systems and virtualization technologies across IBM and non-IBM platforms.

Through a single user interface, IBM Systems Director provides consistent views for viewing managed systems, determining how these systems relate to one another, and identifying their statuses, thus helping to correlate technical resources with business needs. A set of common tasks included with IBM Systems Director provides many of the core capabilities that are required for basic management. These common tasks include discovery, inventory, configuration, system health, monitoring, updates, event notification and automation across managed systems.

IBM Systems Director's Web and command-line interfaces provide a consistent interface focused on these common tasks:

Discovering, navigating and visualizing systems on the network with the detailed inventory and relationships to the other network resources
Notifying users of problems that occur on systems and the ability to navigate to the source of the problem
Notifying users when systems need updates, and distributing and installing updates on a schedule
Analyzing real-time data for systems, and setting critical thresholds that notify the administrator of emerging problems
Configuring settings of a single system, and creating a configuration plan that can apply those settings to multiple systems
Updating installed plug-ins to add new features and function to the base capabilities
Managing the life cycle of virtual resources

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Last updated: Thu, June 12, 2014