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IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.4: Cloud-ready virtual infrastructures

The new IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.4, available on December 16, 2011, offers expanded support for KVM, the next generation open source hypervisor, and delivers comprehensive virtualization image management capabilities and cost effectiveness.

IBM Systems Director VMControl 2.4 allows cross platform, cross-hypervisor image management to reduce complexity, improves administrator productivity and accelerates time to value. The software supports IBM PowerVM™, z/VM® VMware, Microsoft® Xen and KVM server virtualization technologies on a range of IBM systems.

Enhancements include:

• Improved provisioning
  • System pool support for IBM System x servers
• Extended image management capabilities
  • Virtual image management for KVM on System x servers
  • Virtual image management for IBM i
• Management appliance integration for IBM Power Systems
• Appliance-ready design streamlines integration into more sophisticated virtualization solutions
• 90-day free trial

IBM Systems Director VMControl™ makes the management of virtual environments throughout your datacenter simple:

• VMControl Express Edition offers the easiest way to manage virtual machines
• VMControl Standard Edition adds the ability to manage complete libraries of virtual images
• VMControl Enterprise Edition creates and enables the management of system pools, now with full function support for KVM (System x)

Source:  IBM Systems Software VMcontrol, IBM System Director VMControl: Advanced multi-platform virtualization management (589KB)