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IBM Director 5.10

IBM Director 5.10. Maurizio Benassi Andy Jenkins Claudia Prawirakusumah Massimo Chiriatti Roberta Marchini. Underlined text is hyperlinked. Read this before.

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IBM Director 5.10

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  1. IBM Director 5.10 Maurizio Benassi Andy Jenkins Claudia Prawirakusumah Massimo Chiriatti Roberta Marchini VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  2. Underlined text is hyperlinked Read this before • The presentation is made by information taken from generally available presentations and deep dive material. It is divided in four parts: • Business • To position IBM Director in the IBM system management strategy • To understand the customer pain that Director help to solve • To position IBM Director with Tivoli management products • To position VE with the competition • To show customer scenarios for the i5 and p5 System SMB market, and high-end users – Linux on zSeries • Technical • High level IBM Director architecture • New Director 5.1 3 level tier Director Agent • Director 5.1 capabilities • “Future” integration with HMC POWER based systems • Director management of Linux on zSeries • Upward integration • Performance consideration • Where finding more information • Reference material VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  3. Business VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  4. The IBM Systems agenda – what it will deliver Virtualize Everything Systems-level approach Greater levels of availability and security Extend virtualization across infrastructure Commit to Openness Commitment to open standards Choice of open and integrated systems Collaborate to Innovate Enhanced collaboration Client-focused solutions Industry collaboration VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  5. Virtual Planning Tools IBM Server & Storage Systems IBM Virtualization Engine platform overview Virtual Resource Access Virtualized view Programmatic Interface Virtual View Virtual Resource Management Virtualized management eWLM - RDS Workload & performance managers Resource management, modeling, mapping Virtual Resources Virtualized resources Resource virtualizers Partitioning, virtual machines, I/O, networks, VTS VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  6. IBM Systems Management Strategic Direction • Objective • Become the most open and widely adopted systems management platform • Why • Complement and provide additional value to customers’ hardware investment • Give customer choice of technology suppliers • Facilitate customer transition from other platforms • Reduce customer “retraining” efforts • How • Deliver customer efficiency by leveraging key IBM Systems Management benefits: • Integration • Ease of Use • Open VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  7. Enterprise Management Tools Upward Integration Extensions Functional Extensions Comprehensive Systems Management 3rd Party Systems Management Solutions Management Console Core Management Functions Hardware Enablement VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  8. The IT Crisis: Do more with less. Economic downturn: Drives reduced IT budget for hardware upgrades & IT staff E-business take-off: More money needed to maintain competitiveness and tap growth opportunities The Solution: Reduce Complexity Intuitive tools that require minimal training Standards-based, open solutions Integrated toolset focused on simplifying critical IT tasks Effective Systems Management More Important Than Ever VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  9. Reducing Complexity Delivers Value Get started faster Accomplish more in a shorter period of time Help reduce training costs for IT staff Easy to Use Extend functionality to meet your specific needs Simplify with a single tool to manage different server platforms and non-IBM systems Take advantage of the latest industry standards Open Design Help reduce costs with a consistent, single point-of management Complement your existing IT investment Integrated Toolset VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  10. IBM Director 5.10 Reduces Complexity New streamlined interface to boost productivity Lightweight agents for easy deployment Software health check and Event Action Plan wizardto take the hassle out of update and proactive management Easy to Use Partners in Management program to provide customers with more choice and management capability Improved Developers Kit to facilitate third party integration Open Design Broad platform support as key component of IBM’s Virtualization Engine Upward integration with existing systems management tools Additional extensions for advanced hardware management Integrated Toolset VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  11. IBM Systems Management Offerings Tivoli Enterprise Enterprise-Wide Business Processes Application Management UIMs Director Extensions AltirisAurema Patch APC Powerware Blade HW Tivoli BMC CA Unicenter NetIQ HP OpenView Microsoft SMS Microsoft MOM Capacity Manager System Availability Remote Deployment Mgr Software Distribution PE Virtual Machine Manager z/VM Center 3rd Party Solutions IBM Director Console IBM Director Base Offering Inventory Monitoring and Alerting Automation Remote Management Group Management Software Updates Base Management Controller Remote Management Option Auto Start Predictive Failure Alerting Redundant fans/power supplies Web Browser Interface Remote Presence VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  12. What Do You Want to Do? BladeCenter Management Scheduler Manage from a single console Get Systems Up and Running Fast Real Time Diagnostics Troubleshoot problems quickly Software Distribution RDM Keep the system software up-to-date Deploy the OS and applications to multiple systems Monitoring Hardware Status Let me know if my servers are healthy VMM System Availability Maximize the utilization of my servers Capacity Manager Monitor the performance of my servers VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  13. I want to . . . Configure, deploy, monitor and manage all my systems in a consistent fashion to save time and training costs • Integrated IBM Director toolset • Common look & feel • Drag-and-drop interface • Common IBM Director infrastructure • Scheduler • Group Management • Alerting, Event Actions • Extensible, open IBM Director architecture • Can plug-in third party tools • One point to perform all tasks – convenient and saves time • Consistency across multiple tools • Minimizes training time for new tools • More choice of tools and additional management capabilities • Broader platform support VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  14. I want to . . . Make sure my servers are healthy and notify me if there is a problem so that availability is maximized • IBM Director color-coded health status • Easy drill-down to view detailed management information • Remotely troubleshoot and restart or turn servers on or off • Flexible automation using Event Action Plans enable response to alerts • x86 servers average 26 hours of downtime/year, resulting in average revenue loss of $650,000 (1) • Convenient ‘at-a-glance’ health check • Rapid response to hardware issues minimizes downtime • Be proactive to avoid problems • Management and control from anywhere minimizes outages (1): Source IDC VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  15. I want to . . . Create virtual partitions to increase the utilization of my servers and allow me to manage both my physical and virtual machines • IBM has partnered with VMware to provide partitioning and partition management for Intel based servers • Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) provides ‘single glass management’ of virtual /physical machines • IBM Director hardware health events can drive provisioning of virtual machines • z/VM Center provides management and easy deployement for Linux onzSeries and z/VM. • Virtualization results in overall cost reduction between 29 and 64 percent (2) • ‘Single glass’, consistent management of physical and virtual machines • Integration point for VMware VirtualCenter and IBM Director • Easy administration and self-healing of ESX Server environments • Easy administration and deployement of Linux virtual servers on zSeries and z/VM (2): Source VMware VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  16. I want to . . . Know if the system software running on my servers is up-to-date and be able to easily apply the latest levels • UpdateXpress automatically detects current device driver and firmware levels and enables manual or automatic updating • Update Assistant imports the latest updates from UpdateXpress • Distribute updates from IBM Director • Software maintenance and deployment account for 34% of IT staff time! (1) • Helps optimize performance and reliability of systems you manage • Convenient, single point of software distribution saves time • IBM Director’s group management and scheduler facilitates update process (1): Source IDC VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  17. I want to . . . Know if there are any performance or capacity problems with my servers • Capacity Manager monitors server resource utilization and identifies bottlenecks • Predicts future bottlenecks and recommends how to avoid them • Generates performance analysis reports • Companies average 4.4 server performance incidents per month. Each incident requires 3.5 hrs of IT staff time to fix! (1) • Help optimize system performance and availability • Get advance warning and avoid costly unplanned outages • Help justify system upgrades (1): Source IDC VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  18. I want to . . . Quickly configure my blade servers so I can start benefiting from my investment • IBM Director automatically discovers the BladeCenter management module • Creates chassis managed object • BladeCenter Chassis Config Manager • Set-up security profiles • Configure network and switch settings • Configure MM properties • Policy-based ‘detect and deploy’ profiles • Streamlined, fast setup gets you up and running fast • Minimizes downtime • Add capacity quickly • Save time by reusing profiles VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  19. IBM Director Helps Reduce IT Costs • Source: IDC • Source: VMware VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  20. Maintain SW Distribution Open Update Assistant Integrated Easy to Use Scheduler Comprehensive Platform Management with Director(function varies by platform) Deploy Remote Deployment Manager (xSeries) Virtual Server Deployment (z/VM) Monitor & Alert Hardware Status Event Action Plans Inventory Resource/Process Monitor Real Time Diagnostics (xSeries) Virtual Machine Manager z/VM Center Manager Capacity Manager Analyze & Troubleshoot System Availability Remote Control/Session Optimize VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  21. Objectives for IBM Director 5.10 • Simplification to improve usability (Project Simplify) • New Main Console Interface - move to familiar paradigm (Explorer, Web) • Simpler Wizard interface for setting up monitors and notifications • Reworked Online Documentation • CI-162 Accessibility compliance • Lighter Footprint (Deployment, support for Level 0, 1, 2 systems) • Platform Management for eServer • Cross series hardware management – Added management servers for AIX, power Linux and zSeries Linux. Added agent support for zSeries Linux. • Support the industry standard SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative Specification) for discovering and managing storage devices and others like CIM, SNMP, SLP… • Improved Hardware Alerting • z/VM Center Management Extension to manage zSeries Linux virtual machines • HMC Director Extension for pSeries and iSeries (target Q1/2006) • Solutions Enablement for both internal and Independent Software Vendo (ISV)/ Independent Hardware Vendor (IHV) • Improved Performance and Usability for Director’s Command Line • Tivoli Upward Integration: Seamless Integration of TEC/Director • MS Operation Manager (MOM) Upward Integration • Enable TEC event action in Director Management Server • Express SDK and Formalized SDK VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  22. IBM Director 5.10 Highlights VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  23. IBM Director 5.10 Highlights VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  24. IBM Director Topology User Interface • Full featured Java console installed on client • Web based access via VE console IBM Director Console (Windows, Linux on xSeries/zSeries/Power, AIX) VE Console System Health Director Bridge Command Line Interface BladeCenter HMC Service Processor Hypervisor SNMP Device SMI-S Storage Management Server • Installed in central location IBM Director Server Linux on xSeries/zSeries/Power, i5/OS, AIX, Windows Agents • Installed on managed end points IBM Director Agent AIX IBM Director Agent Linux on xSeries IBM Director Agent Linux on zSeries IBM Director Agent Netware IBM Director Agent I5/OS IBM Director Agent Linux on Power IBM Director Agent Windows VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  25. IBM Director Offerings Director Extensions Capacity Manager System Availability Remote Deployment Mgr Software Distribution PE Virtual Machine Manager z/VM Center IBM Director Console IBM Director Base Offering Inventory Monitoring and Alerting Automation Remote Management Group Management Software Updates VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  26. Separately Available IBM Director 5.10 Extensions • Free Web Download • System Availability • Virtual Machine Manager • RAID Manager • Fee Based Extensions • Capacity Manager • Software Distribution Premium Edition • Remote Deployment Manager • Application Workload Manager • z/VM Center and Virtual Server Deployment VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  27. Core Engine User Admin Services Managed Object or Resources Task & Scheduling Services System Endpoints Platform Database Services Storage others… Persistent Store Services Group Services AssociationServices Active UserServices CIM/SLP Services Separately Available IBM Director 5.10 Extensions Remote Deployment Management Extension IBM Director Task Extensions • Free Web Download • System Availability • Virtual Machine Manager • RAID Manager • Fee Based Extension • Capacity Manager • Software Distribution Premium Edition • Remote Deployment Manager • Virtual Server Deployment and Server Complex (Linux on zSeries) VMM Extension xSeries Diagnostic Management Extension zSeries z/VM Center Management Extension System Availability Extension Rack Manager Extension Capacity Manager Extension BladeCenter Management Extension HMC Management Extension xSeries Management Extension Resource Monitor Extension Event/Messaging Services Inventory Services Process Management Extension File Transfer Extension Software Distribution Extension Remote Control Remote Session SNMP Services IBM Director Base VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  28. 50 % Smaller !! IBM Director 5.10 ‘Tiered’ Agent • Level 0 = “Agentless Management” • Discovery, login, Attributes, Power Control, base Inventory, Remote Session • Promotion to Level 1 or Level 2 through Software Distribution • Level 1 = “Core Services” • Level 0 + Event Log, Event Action Plans, Hardware Status, platform specific Inventory, Director Update Assistant, Upward Integration • Promotion to Level 2 through Software Distribution • Level 2 = “IBM Director Agent” • Level 1 + all remaining "for free" tasks VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  29. IBM Director 5.10 Degrees of Management (1): i5/OS and AIX are tier 2 only. VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  30. IBM Director and Tivoli VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  31. Affinity with Tivoli product line Solutions • Tivoli solutions complement a virtualized infrastructure • A virtualized environment increase the value of automation to the customer. • Customers can invest in both the VE Platform and Tivoli while leveraging the other • Seamless integration of storage portfolio • IBM Director and Tivoli management software are complementary products; Director manages low level functions, Tivoli manages applications. • IBM Director is may be integrated into the Tivoli Enterprise Console. • EWLM and TMTP are complementary products, EWLM managing resources that serve the applications, TMTP manages and performs problem determination on the applications. • EWLM can be integrated with TIO for an optimized IT environment • The VE Platform provides consistent basic management of resources and workloads with the emphasis on adding value for IBM systems while being able to span a heterogeneous infrastructure. Tivoli products and solutions provide comprehensive enterprise management that extends beyond the server and storage system infrastructure and provide rich application function. VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  32. Infrastructure Management with IBM Virtualization Engine and Tivoli Products Tivoli Systems Management Tivoli CCMDB Tivoli Service Level Advisor Tivoli Business Systems Manager Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator (includes provisioning) Tivoli Monitoring Tivoli System Automation Tivoli NetView Tivoli Enterprise Portal Virtualization Engine Management Collection IBM Director EWLM Resource Dependency Service Tivoli Provisioning Manager VE Console, common components, resource modeling Solaris, HP-UX AIX, i5/OS, z/OS Windows, Linux VE SE for xSeries & BladeCenter VE SE for eServer p5 VE SE for iSeries VE SE for Linux on zSeries System Virtualization VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  33. Application Middleware Operating System Hardware The IBM Advantage IBM Director and Tivoli IBM Solution Components IT Functional Requirements IBM Tivoli Automation Portfolio • IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager • IBM Tivoli Monitoring • IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console IBM TotalStorage Portfolio • Tivoli Storage Manager • Tivoli System Resource Manager • Highly scalable enterprise level systems management • Sophisticated systems management and monitoring • Advanced software distribution • Composite application management • Network management • Business systems management • Storage and Security Solutions • Hardware platform management including: monitoring, events, grouping, and task scheduling • Extensive hardware inventory • Basic Software distribution • Upward integration to the Tivoli environment IBM Director IBM Director Extensions* • Software Distribution Premium Ed. • Remote Deployment Manager • Capacity Manager IBM UpdateXpress* * Varies by Platform VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  34. Competition VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  35. Leadership Advantaged Competitive Marginal Non-Competitive VE is unique concept in the IT Industry • IBM offers the most comprehensive virtualization portfolio in the industry • IBM VE offers heterogeneous, cross-platform management and integration • IBM portfolio strategy focuses on organic development with limited strategic acquisitions to ensure proper integration • Market analysts have begun to define virtualization environments or virtualization ecosystems based on IBM’s Virtualization Engine VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  36. Competition VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  37. “Coopetition” ecosystem VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  38. Customer Scenarios VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  39. AIX 5L kernel AIX 5L kernel Linux kernel Linux kernel AIX 5L AIX 5L Linux Linux i5/OS* SLIC Virtual I/O Virtual I/O Virtual I/O Virtual LAN Virtual I/O Hypervisor ~ POWER5 systems Director on iSeries and pSeries – SMB customers • Step 1: platform partitions monitoring • i5 and p5 Systems allow to run multiple O.S. on the same physical POWER5 based platform. • Value Add of pLinux/AIX/i5 OS as „Infrastructure Information Hub“ – Providing comprehensive inventory information comprising HW/SW incl.maintenance/network infrastructure components • Leverage on i/p Series RAS argument to run the IT Information hub on i/p Series • Step 2: IT infrastructure monitoring and management • enlarge the scope to Intel based platforms and other Director managed O.S.s. IBM Director 5.1 Single point of monitoring and management O.S. agnostic VE Console VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  40. xSeries NetView or other TEC VEC Director Management Console Director on zLinux - Scenarios • Concentrate on Heterogeneous Environments • zLinux with distributed x/p platforms • zLinux + z/OS with distributed x/p/i platforms • Scenario Stage 1 - ‘IT Information Hub - Close link between Open System Departments and Mainframe‘ • Segment – zSeries Large Enterprise • Value Add ‘ zLinux as Infrastructure Information Hub‘ – Providing comprehensive inventory information comprising HW/SW incl.maintenance/network infrastructure components • Besides zSeries RAS - Use zSeries Best Practices system management experience as argument to run the IT Information hub on zSeries zSeries pSeries zLinux z/OS Director Management Director Management Console Console Implementation Step 1 Implementation Step 2 IT Information Hub Implementation Step 3 VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  41. ? VEC Director on zLinux – Scenarios cont. • Scenario Stage 2a - ‘OS Hub – End-to-End View • Scenario Stage 2b - ‘IT Infrastructure Application Hub – End-to-End Application View • Builds on Stage 1 • Segment –zSeries all • Description: Typical applications cross different HW platforms • Set-up Director Grouping on application level will enable a consistent view above the IT Infrastructure on which the application run in differents tiers • eWLM will complement this Application Hub very effectively by application related end-to-end response time specification. • Value Add ‘ Director Grouping enables data collection in context of applications. The IT Infrastructure Application Hub is a solution oriented information decision data base. A natural growth path into application specifice leads to eWLM extension. WAS WAS WAS Data Firewall Apache xSeries pSeries zLinux z/OS Director Management Director Management Director Management Console Console Console zSeries IT Application Hub VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  42. Director on zLinux – Scenarios cont. • Scenario Stage 3 - ‘z/VM Virtual Server Deployment Hub‘ • Segment – All zSeries heterogeneous customers • Description: Deploy Single – Multi-Tier Cluster Test Environments‘ • Support release history: Enable testing of different release / middleware levels • Description: Standardized / Supported Cloning vs. Selfwritten Cloning • New or base cloning implementation – replace by standardized Director VSD (Virtual Server deployment) – needs a migration path from existing cloning setup into Director • Value Add: • Repeatable deployment, remotely accessable, • Frees maintenance of selfwritten cloning set-up, • Upgrade path into Provisioning with TPM VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  43. Reducing Complexity Makes Life Easier Get started faster Accomplish more in a shorter period of time Help reduce training costs for IT staff Easy to Use Extend functionality to meet your specific needs Simplify with a single tool to manage different server platforms and non-IBM systems Take advantage of the latest industry standards Open Design Help reduce costs with a consistent, single point-of management Complement your existing IT investment Integrated Toolset VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  44. Technical VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  45. 2 2 1 3 3 3 High-Level Structure • Management Console • Management Server • Managed System and Devices • Managed systems may have their Hardware Management Console • 3 Tier of Director Agents: 0, 1 and 2 VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  46. IBM Director Installed Console Web Browser X11 Server 2 Windows Director Bridge IBM Director Command Line Tools IBM Director X11 Console VE Console IBM Director Mgmt Server Linux on xSeries/ zSeries, i5/OS, AIX, Windows Linux on xSeries/ zSeries/ Power, AIX 1 Linux on xSeries/zSeries/Power, i5/OS, AIX, Windows 3 IBM Director – 3-Tier Topology Implementation Director Front- end Director Management Server IBM Director Agent IBM Director Agent IBM Director Agent IBM Director Agent IBM Director Agent IBM Director Agent IBM Director Agent Director Agents Linux on zSeries, z/VM Netware VMware Linux on xSeries Linux on Power AIX i5/OS Windows VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  47. IBM Director 5.10 ‘Tiered’ Agent IBM Director Management Server Base Engine and Tasks Series Specific Support • Reduced Agent Footprint • Agent-less (Level 0) • Core Services (Level 1) • IBM Director Agent (Level 2) • Agent functionality increase with level • Alert function only • Upward integration only • Full-featured Director • Easily promote higher level using IBM Director Level 2 Full Director Agent IBM Director Base Agent Series Specific Support Level 1 Hardware Instrumentation (CIM Instrumentation,Agent CLI) Series Specific Support Level 0 Agent-less System (Operating System) VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  48. 50 % Smaller !! IBM Director 5.10 ‘Tiered’ Agent • Level 0 = “Agentless Management” • Discovery, login, Attributes, Power Control, base Inventory, Remote Session • Promotion to Level 1 or Level 2 through Software Distribution • Level 1 = “Core Services” • Level 0 + Event Log, Event Action Plans, Hardware Status, platform specific Inventory, Director Update Assistant, Upward Integration • Promotion to Level 2 through Software Distribution • Level 2 = “IBM Director Agent” • Level 1 + all remaining "for free" tasks VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  49. Tier 0 function (1) • Discovery • Request Access • Inventory (2) • Remote Session (requires ssh on the target system) • Power Control • Promotion to Tier 1 or 2 through Update Assistant • Event Log • Online/Offline only (1): Check on Infocenter for updated function by O.S. for Level 0 (2): For Windows and Linux only VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

  50. Tier 1 function (1) • All Tier 0 function • Additional inventory data • Promotion to Tier 2 through Update Assistant • Alerts • Hardware Status • Power Control across Windows and Linux • Upward integration support programs • Event subscription CLI (See Jake Kitchener’s presentation) • Optional OpenSSH package for Windows (1): For Windows and Linux only …more on Reference VE 2: IBM Director 5.10 - IBM Confidential

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