IBM Systems Software
Transforming your IT with IBM® Systems Software
Paul Casterlin
Product Line Manager, IBM Systems Software
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IBM Systems Software
The journey of transforming from silo-management to flexible, efficient
datacenter management
Automate
Optimize
Silos, little commonality or
integration
Past
Simplify portfolio and focus
on key offerings for value
capture
Integrated server, storage
and network management
2009 – Value Add Software
2010 – Integration
Integrated across
Data Center
Future – Efficient Integration
Efficient
Client Value
Time to Value
From weeks to days
Days
Hours
Number of
Tools
200+ STG software assets
including 40 management tools
Integrated management
family and 16 focus offerings
Single pane of glass,
integrated management
Technical
Skills
Deep Product Knowledge
Basic Product Knowledge
Little or No Product
Knowledge
Efficient
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Flexible
Simplify
IBM Systems Software
IBM Systems Software underpins client IT transformation
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SVC
Storwize V7000
VMControl™
Network Control
z/VM®
PowerVM™
• Systems Director
• Active Energy
Manager
• Tivoli® Storage
Productivity Center
• Storage Control
IBM Confidential
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GPFS™
IBM SONAS
PowerHA®
Real-time
Compression
• ProtecTIER®
• XIV®
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IBM Systems Director Platform Management for IBM Systems
IVM
Yesterday
IBM
IBMDirector
Director
(Pre - 6.1)
Today
HMC
WebSM
CSM
iNav
NIM
NIM
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IBM Systems Software
VIRTUALIZATION - THE FOUNDATION
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Client Requirements
• Manage virtual server sprawl
• Contain licensing costs
• Maximize asset utilization and resource
sharing
• Dynamically adjust resources based on
workload needs across server, storage
and network
• Placement, preference, policy based
automation
• A lot of buzz on cloud, where is the
best place to start and how?
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How do I
maximize asset
utilization?
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Virtualization Journey
With Integrated Service Management
Manage Workloads
• Improved IT staff productivity with
integrated systems management
dashboard
Server
Storage
Consolidate Resources
• Improved efficiency and utilization
of IT resources
Network
Agility
Automate Processes
• Consistent and repeatable
processes based on best
practices, business priorities and
service level agreements
Consolidate
Resources
Manage
Infrastructure
Automate
Processes
Optimize
Delivery
Optimize Delivery
• Self provisioned by users based
on business imperatives,
unconstrained by physical
barriers or location.
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MANAGEMENT – THE BACKBONE
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Client Requirements
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Reduce the number of
management tools, and the
costs associated with them
Visualize assets centrally
Quickly gauge
 Health
 Status
 Compliance & governance
How do I
gauge the
health of
IT?
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Management with Automation
REDUCED
COMPLEXITY
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MANAGED
VIRTUALIZATION
AND ENERGY
+
OPTIMIZED
WORKLOADS
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MANAGEMENT WITH
AUTOMATION TO ALIGN
TECHNOLOGY WITH
BUSINESS
REQUIREMENTS
Reduced
Cost
Flexibility
… reduce operational complexity, improve the
efficiency of IT staff and systems and help
control costs while meeting business
requirements for service delivery
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Integrated Service Management
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Systems Director Editions that provide increasing levels of customer value
Systems Director Enterprise Edition
• Reduced TCO increase system utilization and business agility thru pooling of virtual resources
• Improved productivity through monitoring performance and availability of the OS hardware stack,
• Automated image placement to optimize energy use, performance
• Improved service quality through advanced dependency discovery capabilities that identify changes to
configuration and help optimize workloads
• Improved predictive planning through effective capacity and performance reporting
Systems Director Standard Edition
• Improve operations staff efficiency and better root cause analysis with a system view of Server,
Network, and Storage
• Reduced cost thru Energy Management for IBM Servers
• Improved productivity with Faster troubleshooting
• Increase response to business with central creation and management of virtual images
Systems Director Express Edition
• Reduced TCO and Improved productivity managing IBM Servers thru cross platform
management
• Configuration discovery, automated OS and firmware updates
• Unified way to create/delete/relocate virtual machines for IBM servers
• Increase system availability and rapid problem determination thru monitoring of the
hardware
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IBM Systems Software
IBM Systems Director
Other ISV Service
Management Software
Upward Integration…
Basic Care and Feeding…
Discovery
Service and Support
Inventory
Update
Status
Configuration
Monitoring
Automation
Additional Plug-Ins
AIX Profile Manager
Power HA System Mirror
WPAR Manager
Active Energy Manager
Network Control
Storage Control
Extend with Advanced Capabilities…
VMControl
ITM,TPM,TSAM,SRM,ITNM,TADDM..
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Cross Platform Coverage…
Server
Storage
Network
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IBM Systems Software
Systems Director Topology
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IBM Systems Software
Monitoring and Metrics in IBM Systems Director
Systems Director Live Data Service
Programmatic
Requests
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Collects metrics and responds to
requests
Receives requests from various
sources (REST, CLI, GUI,
Automation Services, etc..)
If data not available, instructs end
point(s) to begin collecting
End Points provide Monitors, plus
meta data
Systems Director Live
Data Service
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Predictive Trending – Example using IBM Tivoli Monitoring
Predictive trending on key performance indicators
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New Tivoli Monitoring attributes for use in charts and
situations
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Trend strength, trend direction
Time to threshold, value in 7 days, 30 days
and 90 days
Threshold
Predicted
CPU Violation
Predicted trend
Actual Monitor Data
Time
Use trend information in situations
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Linear trending model
Configurable
Simple, open and predictable
CPU
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“I predict I have 2 weeks before I hit 95% Disk
Utilization and I am 70% confident and its
getting worse”
Leverages Tivoli Enterprise Portal
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Overlays to represent Trends
Icons in Tables
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BACKUP
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Express Edition
IBM Systems Software
IBM Systems Director – Basic Care and Feeding…
 Discovery and inventory
 Visualize server, storage and
network infrastructure
 Dashboard with health and status
 Monitoring and automation plans
 Manage physical and virtual
 Integrated service, support and
update management
 Common cross-platform tasks,
navigation and look and feel
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Express Edition
IBM Systems Software
Upward Integration modules supporting
Tivoli, Computer Associates, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft
IBM provides a common tool for cross-platform management
Windows
Administrator
Linux
Administrator
AIX
Administrator
IBM i
Administrator
Microsoft
Windows™
VM
VM
VM
VMware ESX™
VM
VM
VIO
Managed Systems
Common agent, Platform agent, no agent
VIO
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Express Edition
IBM Systems Software
Focus on Health, Status, Automation
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Health summary
– Favorite systems
– Critical monitors
– Group thumbnails
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Monitoring
– Monitor resources
• HMC, LPAR, VIOS, OS,
Switches, Storage
– Thresholds
– Events
– Update Compliance
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Automation Plans
– Notify
– Run commands
– Trigger tasks
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Express Edition
IBM Systems Software
Update Servers
Firmware and Fixes for IBM AIX and IBM i. OS updates for Linux
Identify updates
which are tested
and should be
deployed
Summary page for
single view
Integrated actions
for download,
distribute, install
and uninstall
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Express Edition
IBM Systems Software
Topology views give a quick view of status and easier drill-down
 Resource Topology Map
– Relationships
– Dependencies
– Physical & Virtual
 Contextual Task Launch
– Launch point
– Contextual tasks
– Create virtual server
– Relocate virtual server
– Server, OS Management
 Resource Health Status
 Resource Drill Down
– Detailed Properties
– Event logs
– Finger-tip
troubleshooting
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Express Edition
IBM Systems Software
Automate notification alerts and fixes based on warning thresholds
Monitoring
Event thresholds
Automation
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VM
VM
IBM Systems Director functions:
1. Monitor disk capacity.
2. If the disk is  90%:
a. Execute command to back-up
and delete non-critical files
b. Log the back-up
c. Send an e-mail to the
administrator
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Standard Edition for Power
IBM Systems Software
Save energy costs with Active Energy Manager
Trend electrical power use over time
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Report electrical power at the
rack and server level
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Manage thermal energy at the
rack and server level
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Manage power capping and
power saving
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Performance per watt display
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Calculate energy costs for
targeted resources
Energy cost calculator
Trend temperature over time
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Standard Edition for Power
IBM Systems Software
Integrated network management and monitoring
Service Management
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Unified view of servers, storage,
and network devices
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Basic lifecycle management of
network switches
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Network device topology collection
and visualization
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Integrated single sign on launch of
vendor - based device
management tools
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Converged Ethernet network
device support (FCoCEE) via
native support and vendor tools
Platform Management
Network
Server
Storage
IT environment
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Standard Edition for Power
IBM Systems Software
Reduce the time to deploy workloads using virtual images (Systems Director
Standard Edition for Power)
Software
application
Operating
System
Metadata
Virtual image
Image
Repository
Software
application
Operating
System
Deploy
Virtual
Machines
Metadata
Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
Capture
Virtual
Machines
 Discover and manage heterogeneous AIX image repositories
 Import, capture and catalog virtual images from existing systems
 Dynamically provision virtual server, storage and network resources
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Standard Edition for Power
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Automating VM relocation (mobility)
SW
SW
OS
OS
Virtual Server
Virtual Server
SW
OS
Virtual Server
Virtualization
Compute
Memory
Virtual Server
Virtualization
Compute
IO / Network
SW
OS
SW
OS
Memory
IO / Network
SW
OS
 There is significant value in the tight integration of server, storage and network aspects
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Allocate resources on the target host.
Provide access (re-zone/re-mask) to the virtual server storage on the target host
Move the virtual server in-memory state to target host.
De-allocating resources on the source host.
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Enterprise Edition for Power
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System pools enable automated mobility for higher workload
availability
Dynamic virtual server placement of workloads
Automates virtual image mobility for optimal utilization and resilience
Optimizes virtual assets for performance, availability and energy use
Integrates server, storage and network virtualization
Mobility
Virtualization
Compute
Memory
Network
IT Resources
Storage
Compute
Memory
Optimized for
Network
Virtual Images
Storage
 Availability
 Performance
 Energy
System Pools
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Enterprise Edition for Power
IBM Systems Software
Clients get business-level views and management of service
availability
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
Consolidated monitoring of physical and virtual resources
–Designed to improve mean-time-torecovery by relating virtual to physical
resources
–Data warehouse provides Side-by-side
real-time and historical data to assist
problem determination and planning
–Out-of-the-box reporting allows
clients to quickly provide executive
level reports and identify resource
bottlenecks
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Enterprise Edition for Power
IBM Systems Software
Advanced Performance Analytics
What It Does
• Provide capacity monitoring through the data collected by Tivoli Monitoring
• Automates Performance analysis and reporting
• Enables prediction of application bottlenecks and creation of alerts for potential service threats.
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Use existing ITM agents and data that are stored in the Tivoli Data
Warehouse
Create new metrics based on combining existing date
Predictive trending and forecast reports
Pre-configured reports
Extensible
Scenarios
“What will my resources look like tomorrow,
next week and next month?”
“What IT resources should I worry about?”
“Will I have enough capacity to get me
through Monday?”
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Enterprise Edition for Power
IBM Systems Software
Application discovery complements platform component asset
data
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)
Better management through better information
–Discovers the system and application data
center resources
–Discovers the relationships and
dependencies between the system and
application resources
–Visually depict the dependencies between
Data Center between the application and
system resources
–Discovers and tracks changes to data
center resources
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AIX Enterprise Edition
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Simplified WPAR Management
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IBM® Systems Director Editions for improved IT operations
Systems Director
Enterprise Edition
Systems Director
Standard Edition
Systems Director
Express Edition
Image
Image
App
System
pools
deployment
App
OS
OS
Energy
Management
Basic
monitoring
and updates
Virtual
image
deployment
Network
management
Advanced
energy
reporting
Advanced
discovery and
monitoring
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Integrated Service Management for Smarter Data Centers
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IBM is investing to extend data center management
Integrated Management
Managed Environment
Improve quality of service to
users and customers
• Physical & virtual, hypervisor &
OS choice, data center resources
• Planned: Increased automation
Service Management
Simplification End-to-end
visibility, control and automation
at reduced cost
• Launch in context, common install,
converged functions, efficiency
through automation
• Planned: Increased unification
and converged functions
Systems Management
Integration Manage resources
Virtualization
to optimize business services
• Integrate system with data center
management, provision to system
pools and Clouds, APIs for
connectivity, simplified packaging
• Planned: Extend functions
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