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IBM® Systems Director VMControl is designed to simplify the management of workloads in your IT environment. Use IBM Systems Director VMControl and IBM Systems Director VMControl Image Manager to manage workloads across multiple hardware platforms and virtualization environments from one location.

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IBM Systems Director VMControl in conjunction with IBM Systems Director VMControl Image Manager is a cross-platform solution that assists you in rapidly deploying virtual appliances to create virtual servers that are configured with the operating system and software applications that you desire.

IBM Systems Director VMControl Image Manager supports deploying virtual appliances to the following platforms:

• IBM® Power Systems® servers (POWER5™ and POWER6™) that are managed by Hardware Management Console or Integrated Virtualization Manager
• Linux® on System z® systems running on the z/VM® hypervisor

• Create z/VM virtual servers.
• Edit z/VM virtual servers.
• Manage z/VM virtual servers.

The licensed portion of IBM Systems Director VMControl, IBM Systems Director VMControl Image Manager, allows you to complete the following tasks.

• Discover existing image repositories in your environment and import external, standards-based images into your repositories as virtual appliances.
• Capture a running virtual server that is configured just the way you want, complete with guest operating system, running applications, and virtual server definition. When you capture the virtual server, a virtual appliance is created in one of your image repositories with the same definitions and can be deployed multiple times in your environment.
• Import virtual appliance packages that exist in the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) from the Internet or other external sources. After the virtual appliance packages are imported, you can deploy them within your data center.
• Deploy virtual appliances quickly to create new virtual servers that meet the demands of your ever-changing business needs.

You are granted a 60-day evaluation license for IBM Systems Director VMControl Image Manager when you download and install IBM Systems Director VMControl.

The IBM Systems Director VMControl Summary page guides you through the tasks you need to complete to get started using the product: installing agents, discovering or creating image repositories, and capturing or importing virtual appliances. Once you are up and running, the Summary page gives you quick access to the main tasks and views that you can utilize in IBM Systems Director VMControl. The Summary page also helps you manage your license for IBM Systems Director VMControl Image Manager.

When you have started using the tasks available in IBM Systems Director VMControl, you can use the following views to manage your image repositories and virtual appliances:

• Virtual Appliances - view all of your virtual appliances and select them for deployment.
• Image Repositories - view all of the discovered image repositories in your environment.
• Deployment History - view all of the virtual servers that have been created from a specific virtual appliance. You can also perform management tasks on the virtual servers from within this view.
• Accessibility features - This topic provides information about the accessibility features of IBM Systems Director VMControl.
• License information - This topic describes the licensing for IBM Systems Director VMControl, including the details of which components are no-charge (free) and which components are chargeable (for-fee).

Source: IBM Systems Director VMControl product page, IBM Systems Director VMControl InfoCenter