Using Virtualisation To Consolidate Existing IT Resources

According to Scott Handy, vice president of IBM Power Systems, management of virtualised servers is a key priority for businesses and can help make them more efficient, orchestrated, and effective.

The new IBM software, he says, provides lifecycle management of virtual servers, with its ability to create, modify and delete virtualised resources, as well as move them to other locations.

VMControl is part of the IBM Systems Director family of software for the management of IBM servers, storage and networking, and provides automatic discovery, as well as monitoring and updates for physical and virtual resources.

Systems Director is billed as helping businesses maintain the performance and availability of their servers and simplify operations in a dynamic infrastructure.

"IBM is serious about addressing clients' needs for virtualisation management," said Handy.

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"The VMControl software helps clients reduce total cost of ownership and provides them with the tools needed to both better manage and get more business value out of their heterogeneous virtual computing environments," he added.

To support its existing platforms, IBM has developed an upgrade path to the next-generation of Power Systems based on the POWER7 microprocessor.

In addition to existing customers, clients can purchase a POWER6-based 570 or 595 server today, and can then easily upgrade their existing system when POWER7 becomes available.