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Press Release Summary:
IBM Virtualization Engine(TM) and Infrastructure Services for Linux(TM) on System z9(TM) and zSeries® v2.1 facilitates integration and management of business processes and resources across enterprise. In addition to enabling consistent systems management across heterogeneous IT environment with IBM Director v5.10, software provides unified Virtualization Engine Console for managing virtual experience that exposes relationships between IT resources.
Original Press Release:
Manage Applications and Resources Across Select Heterogeneous Environments with IBM Virtualization Engine and Infrastructure Services for Linux on System z9 and zSeries, V2.1
The IBM Virtualization Engine and Infrastructure Services for Linux on System z9 and zSeries, when ordered with all optional priced features, helps enable:
Consistent systems management across a heterogeneous IT environment with the new IBM Director, V5.10
Simplified Virtual Server Deployment on System z9 and zSeries, allowing customers fast, easy, and repeatable creation of virtual servers under z/VM with the specialized extensions in the IBM Director Extensions, V5.10 for Linux on the mainframe
Unified console for managing your virtual experience that allows administrators to discover and explore relationships between IT resources in their virtualization environment via the Virtualization Engine Console
Evolution toward autonomic management of customer server level objectives in heterogeneous, multitiered server environments via the Enterprise Workload Manager (EWLM)
Representation of resources and relationships between components so they can be composed into On Demand Services with the Resource Dependency Service (RDS)
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: LE001).
Overview
The IBM Virtualization Engine(TM) and Infrastructure Services for Linux(TM) on System z9(TM) and zSeries® is at the heart of the ability to integrate and manage business processes and resources across an enterprise. It extends IBM's Virtualization Engine capabilities to IBM System z9 and zSeries running Linux. While the power of System z9 and zSeries partitioning, when combined with the z/VM® virtualization technology, has long provided leading-edge virtualization and management functions, it is increasingly common for customers to have multiple servers and storage devices running a variety of operating systems and middleware products. Linux running on System z9 or zSeries with the z/VM virtualization technology can be used to leverage the advanced virtualization and management capabilities of IBM z/Architecture(TM) as implemented in System z9 and zSeries hardware. However, as business applications traverse multiple operating environments, the functions of the IBM Virtualization Engine and Infrastructure Services for Linux on System z9 and zSeries can be used to allow businesses to manage certain applications and resources across enabled systems comprising these heterogeneous computing environments. The virtual Linux server environments and the reliability, security, scalability, and availability of System z9 and zSeries can play a key role as a hub for managing these cross-system resources. This new product, the base and no-charge components ordered with the priced, optional feature components, comprises those components needed to set up and manage select heterogeneous virtual IT Infrastructure from a Linux on System z9 and zSeries system.
Planned availability dates
IBM Virtualization Engine and Infrastructure Services for Linux on System z9 and zSeries, V2.1:
December 16, 2005
IBM Director with Virtualization Engine Console, V5.10 (base)
IBM Virtualization Engine Enterprise Workload Manager for Managing AIX®, i5/OS(TM), z/OS®, Linux, and HP-UX Servers, V2.1 (feature)
Note: Support for managing Linux servers is planned to be available 1Q06.
IBM Virtualization Engine Enterprise Workload Manager for Managing Solaris and Windows(TM) Servers, V2.1 (feature)
IBM Director Extensions, V5.10 (feature)
February 10, 2006
IBM Resource Dependency Service, V2.1 (feature)
