BLADEHarmony Manager

IBM BLADEHarmony™ Manager
Easy and effective switch management
Simplicity, with easy to use User Interface
Automatic discovery
Upgrade firmware
Track and secure your migrating Virtual Machines
Monitor Health and Performance
Backup, Restore & Clone switch configs

Key Value Propositions
Reduce switch management costs
Time savings for software upgrades, configuration management, asset management, etc
Provides a central point of administration for 1000s of devices simultaneously
Easy to use GUI interface for all switch management functions.
Cornerstone for IBM BNT’s Virtual Vision
Centralized Database for managing VM network policies across the Data Center (VMready™)
Integration with 3 rd party applications.

Manage by VM, Device, Chassis, Rack DB VMs Servers Switches Blade Server Chassis Racks, Rows, Containers, Data Centers Manage traffic from “per VM” to “per Rack” and beyond

Feature Overview
Fault Management
Collect and display traps, syslogs from all devices
Monitor and display health of all devices
Send alerts via email
Configuration Management
Firmware upgrades
Config backup/upgrade
Port/VLAN Cloning
Control operations
CLI script execution
Simultaneous Operations
Performance Management
Real-time performance monitoring of all switch statistics
Charting
Third-party integrations
IBM Systems Director
VMware vCenter
Management Interfaces
Browser GUI
Command Line Interface
Reporting
Asset discovery
Event collection
Syslog collection
Transcievers
Virtualization
Virtual Machine location & move detection/reporting
Centrally manage VMready configuration
VMready Across Data Center
April 30, 2011 Virtual Cooler Easier

Snapshot of network device health

Fault Management
Events
Collect and display traps, syslogs from all devices
Health
Monitor and display health of all devices
Dial Home
Send alerts via email
April 30, 2011 Virtual Cooler Easier Port Status and Utilization Device Health

Group Configuration Management
Simultaneous management operations to multiple switches
Firmware upgrades
Config backup/upgrade
Port/VLAN Cloning
Control operations
CLI script execution
Single operation on multiple devices

Configuration Management
Centralized web configuration and control
Detailed device configuration

Performance Management
Real-time performance monitoring of all switch statistics
Charting

Reporting
Assets (switch attributes: version, location, etc.)
Events
Syslogs
Virtualization (see subsequent slides)
Transciever Information

VMready Across the Data Center
Objective:
Virtual Machine-aware networking for an entire datacenter
Provide NMotion support between independent VMready switches “across the data center”.
Dramatically increase the scale of VMready
Centrally define & synchronize policies and distribute the configurations to the switches and hypervisors.
Agnostic to virtualization technology (VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, etc)
Agnostic to server technology (BladeCenter, System x, etc)
BHM policies Central policy DB

Virtual Vision Architecture - VMware vSwitch Policy vSwitch Policies Switch Policy vSwitch Policy Switch Policy April 30, 2011 Virtual Cooler Easier

A GPS for your Virtual Machines
Track Virtual Machines across your data center
Notify when Virtual Machines migrations occur
April 30, 2011 Virtual Cooler Easier From switch From vCenter

vSphere Client integration April 30, 2011 Virtual Cooler Easier

IBM Systems Director Integration
Dynamic grouping of BNT switches
In-context launch to BHM device pages

Cloud Ready Network Architecture
Addresses network requirements in five critical areas:
Cloud Ready “Truths”:
Solutions should be OPEN – with multi-vendor support
Customers prefer incremental deployment, not rip and replace
1. High bandwidth / low latency 2. Convergence to Ethernet 3. Support for agile workloads 4. Build-out and management 5. Green / low power

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