IBM Systems Director is a
platform management foundation that streamlines the way that physical
and virtual systems are managed across a multi-system environment.
Leveraging industry standards, IBM Systems Director supports multiple
operating systems and virtualization technologies across IBM® and
non-IBM platforms.
IBM Systems Director provides multi-system
support for IBM Power Systems™, Systems x, BladeCenter®, System z®, and
Storage Systems, enabling integration of IBM systems with the total
infrastructure. IBM Systems Director also manages non-IBM x86-based
systems through a dedicated agent.
IBM is excited to announce the addition of the new QLogic 12000 Series of Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand switches to the Cluster 1350 BOM and iDataPlex offerings. The QLogic 12000 Series represents a new class of InfiniBand switching for High Performance Computing. Based on the QLogic TrueScale™ QDR ASIC platform, these advanced 40Gb/s QDR switches are the next evolution in InfiniBand switches. The QLogic 12000 Fabric Directors support High Performance Computing (HPC), database clustering and grid utility computing applications; they maximize cluster and grid computing interconnect performance while simplifying and reducing data center costs. IBM is offering both Edge and Director class switches. The 12200 and 12300 Edge switches are 1U self contained solutions that can also allow you to port out to a Director class switch. The 12800s are a completely modular family of Director class switches allowing complete flexibility of design. Units can be populated with Ultra High Density (UHD) leafs for maximum connectivity or Ultra High Performance (UHP) leafs for maximum performance. 
The IBM® BladeCenter® HS22 is a
two-socket blade server running the latest Intel® Xeon processors. It
is ideal for infrastructure, virtualization and enterprise business
applications and is compatible with all IBM BladeCenter chassis.
