IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager (BOFM) is a tool for simplifying deployment, failover, and repurposing of blade servers. BOFM performs these tasks by controlling the assignment of physical Ethernet MAC and Fibre Channel WWN addresses for the integrated Ethernet interfaces and I/O expansion cards in each blade.
IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager is an IBM Systems Director plug-in. Use Active Energy Manager to monitor and manage the power and cooling needs of IBM servers and BladeCenter® systems. Non-IBM systems can also be monitored using metering products, such as power distribution units (PDU), sensors, and integration with facility software.
Hint on upgrading from AEM 4.1.x.x to 4.2:If you have IBM Active Energy Manager v4.1.1.1 on your IBM Systems Director Server and you upgrade the Management server to 6.1.2.1 and AEM 4.1.1.2 it will notify you that you require to install the latest release of Active Energy Manager - Note it will also provide you the link to download this release http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/management/director/plugins/actengmgr/
IBM Systems Director VMControl is a cross-platform suite of products that assists you in rapidly deploying virtual appliances to create virtual servers that are configured with the operating system and software applications that you want. It also enables you to group resources into system pools, which enable you to centrally manage and control the different workloads in your environment.
The IBM® Hardware PRO Pack for Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Version 1.1 provides the ability to monitor alerts for the physical host resources in a virtualized environment.
Key Features Include:
Provides health information for the physical servers hosting virtual machines while managing Hyper-V or Virtual Server environments with SCVMM
Monitors the health of select hardware components on IBM System x and BladeCenter x86/x64 blade servers hosting the virtual environmentSupported components include physical processors, memory, hard disks, RAID controllers, cooling fans, power supplies, temperature and voltage.
Provides advisory PRO tips in the event of existing or predictive hardware problems that warrant VMM administrative operations New in this version: Support for IBM System x3550 M2 (7946), x3650 M2 (7947), BladeCenter HS22 (7870). Support for MegaRAID controllers on supported IBM servers (IBM ServerProven websitehttp://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/serverproven/compat/us/indexsp.html).
