2.ibm flex system manager overview

1. © 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Flex System Manager ™
Overview
Download this slide
http://ouo.io/tTW2ND

2. © 2012 IBM Corporation
Data Center Challenges

3. © 2012 IBM Corporation
3
Getting Up and Running
 2-3 months to specify and procure
 2-3 months to integrate, configure
and deploy
Development Operations
 3-6 months to go from
development to production
Ongoing Effort
 1-3 months to troubleshoot and tune
 Ongoing effort and downtime to
maintain, scale and upgrade
IT RealityBusiness Goals
 Driving business innovation
 Make new markets
 Respond to competitive threats
 Enhance the customer
experience
Grow top and
bottom line by:
Typical Results:
 23% of new IT projects (worldwide) deploy late
 55% experience application downtime for major
infrastructure upgrades once deployed
IT must break through budget and resource barriers

4. © 2012 IBM Corporation
4
ReducingReducing
ComplexityComplexity
ManagingManaging
SilosSilos
LoweringLowering
OperationalOperational
CostsCosts
ManagingManaging
The CloudThe Cloud
Data Center
Cloud Virtualization
Today’s Data Center Challenges

5. © 2012 IBM Corporation
5
Source: IDC, 2012
20
%
11
%
69
%
22
%
12
%
66
%
33
%
16
%
51
%
43
%
11
%
46
%
Power and cooling costs
Server management and admin costs
63%29%
1996 2001 2006 2011 2013
$100 B
$130 B
$175 B
$217 B
New Server spending
$247 B est.
Lowering IT Operational Costs
Worldwide Spending on Servers, Power, Cooling, and Management Administration

6. © 2012 IBM Corporation
6
Takes longer to provision new hardware
Delayed maintenance cycles
Poor communication between teams
Difficulty finding available resources
Broken Service Level Agreements
Under utilized resources
Server
Administrators
integrate and
provision
hardware
Storage team
provisions
the disks
Network team
assigns
addresses,
VLAN and
Security
Policies
VirtualizationM
anage deploys
of VM’s
* Data Center Tasks
Managing Across Silos

7. © 2012 IBM Corporation
7
Box buying
Integrated System
buying
13%
8%
47%
47%
44%
36%
40%
44%
45%
56%
9%
11%
Virtual Machine
Mobility
Integrated Compute
Platform
Integrated
Management
Converged
Fabrics
Priority Investment Trends in next 18 months
Not an
Investment
Area (0-3)
Somewhat of
an Investment
Area (4-7)
High
Investment
Area (8-10)
Integrated
Blade
Rack
Clients are seeking solutions to the complexities associated with
inefficient networking, server sprawl and manual virtualization management.
Integrated system pre-packages server, storage, network, virtualization and
management and provides an automated, converged & virtualized solution with
fast time to value & simple maintenance
Reducing Complexity of Management

8. © 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Flex System Manager ™
Feature/Functions

9. © 2012 IBM Corporation
9
Server
Network
Secure Easy to Use Integrated
IBM Flex
System
Manager
Analyze and
Troubleshoot
Deploy
Maintain and
Update
Monitor and
Alert
Optimize
VirtualizationStorageNetworkServers
IBM Flex System Manager - A Fully Integrated Management Solution

10. © 2012 IBM Corporation
10
Storage
Procurement
Built in Expertise
Workload oriented patterns of
expertise that automate system
operation
Optimizes agility, efficiency,
simplicity, and control
Based on best practices
Integrated by design
A single ready to run system
Includes all the pieces of the
operating infrastructure deeply
integrated and tuned to work
together
Drives faster time to value
Simplified Experience
A collection of processes,
procedures and support that
makes IT management easier
Reduces the skill needed to
manage your environment
Fewer clicks and steps to
manage resources
The Value of an Integrated Management System

11. © 2012 IBM Corporation
11
Simplified Setup: Start, manage,
learn
Monitor Resources: Health
Summary, Alerts, Thresholds,
Updates, Service / Support
Visualize / Navigate Physical and
Virtual Relationships: Intuitive
drilldown / Views, Topology map,
finger tip trouble shooting
Automate Responses: Custom
actions / filters, configure, edit,
relocate, automation plans
Manage firmware and Software
updates: Set policies to track and
automate firmware and software
compliance.
IBM Flex System Manager – Simplified Server Management

12. © 2012 IBM Corporation
12
Update manager acquires, manages,
and deploys updates for NGP servers
and hardware
Manages updates through the update
profile, which consists of update
selection crNoderia and a group of
matching updates.
• Acquires updates
automatically at scheduled
intervals into the updates
library
• Checks the health of system
software and reporting
system status
• Creates software-distribution
packages containing updates
from the updates library
• Deploys updates in Software
Distribution packages to NGP
servers and groups of
systems
Integrated as part of NGP Manager
• Updates software and firmware
• Customer chooses what level to install
(recommended versus required)
IBM Flex System Manager – Firmware and Software Compliance

13. © 2012 IBM Corporation
13
Manage updates for many IBM
platforms using the same
interface
• Automatically check for
new updates
• Show and install
updates needed by your
systems
Monitor system compliance
• Create compliance
policies to automatically
notify you when a
system is out of date
• Show and resolve
compliance issues to
install the missing
updates
IBM Flex System Manager – Firmware and Software Updates

14. © 2012 IBM Corporation
14
Provides management of network switches from a
variety of vendors
Discovery, inventory, and status monitoring of
switches
Graphical network topology views
Support for KVM, pHyp, and VMware virtual
switches as well as physical switches
Basic protocol and VLAN configuration of
switches
Integration with server management
Provides per-virtual machine network usage and
performance statistics to VMControl
Logical views of servers and network devices
grouped by subnet and VLAN
Provides the ability to automatically provision and
move VLANs for
virtual machines
Network System Pool
Server System Pool
Server System
Pool
Server System
Pool
Logical Network
Profile A (VEB)
VLAN 300
Logical Network Profile B
(VEB and VEPA)
VSI Type ID
VLAN 500
Logical Network
Profile C
(VEPA)
Logical Network - A Logical Network - B Logical Network - C
IBM Flex System Manager – Network Management

15. © 2012 IBM Corporation
15
Hypervisor
Virtual I/O Stack
(intrinsic to hypervisor or external)
Hypervisor
Filesystem Storage Pools
XiV
Storwize v7000
TPC
SVC
 Pooling and virtualization of external
storage
 Integrated with virtual server
management, allowing virtual disks to
be defined and attached
 Dynamic storage provisioning as part of
image deployment
 Enable policy-driven placement within
storage system pools
 Dynamic zoning/masking as part of
virtual server relocation
 Integration with IBM Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center (TPC)
IBM Flex System Manager – Storage Management

16. © 2012 IBM Corporation
16
Server deployment
 LAN and SAN administrators don’t
need to wait for the hardware to
arrive
 Done ahead of time
– MAC and WWNs IP address
assignments
– SAN zoning
– Storage LUN masking
Fully Automated Failover
Network and storage switch independent
Launched from NGP Management Appliance
Server failover
Server replacement
 No need to reconfigure LAN/SAN
resources when a Server is replaced
 SAN zoning and LUN masking is un-
affected
 Replacement Servers in the same
slots retain MAC and WWN
addresses
IBM Flex System Manager – Fabric Management
Within single chassis
or
Across multiple chassis

17. © 2012 IBM Corporation
17
Virtualization Management
• Manage Virtual Servers and
Hosts
• HMC and Systems
• VS Life-cycle management
• Topology Maps
• Create empty virtual server
• Monitoring, automation
Edit virtual resources
• Edit Hosts
• Edit Virtual Servers
• GUI or command line
• Launch to Platform Manager
Relocate
• Live relocation
• Plan for relocation
IBM Flex System Manager - Virtualization

18. © 2012 IBM Corporation
18
Image management and deployment
Tasks for Virtual Appliances
Deploy
Import
Capture
Versioning
meta-data
SW
OS
Virtual Appliance

19. © 2012 IBM Corporation
19
Intelligent Virtual Machine Placement Services
Dynamic Workload Mobility
Integrated Storage and Network Management
Automation policy control for workloads
• Advise – VMControl recommends actions
and requires confirmation
• Automate – VMControl automates actions
Availability Automations
• Automate relocation of virtual workloads in
response to predicted host system failures
without disruption
• Restart virtual workloads when a host fails
• Automate remote restart of virtual workloads
in response to host failures with minimal
disruption
Energy Automations
• Allows the pool to relocate VM’s to minimum
hosts
• Minimum number of hosts reduce overall
energy bill
Performance Automations
• Allows pool to spread VM’s for optimum
performance
IBM Flex System Manager – Advanced Virtualization

20. © 2012 IBM Corporation
20
Activated and monitoring chassis
by default
All AEM monitoring functions
will be available
Monitors, Thresholds, Trending,
Cost Calc, SDK, CLI, …
Provides energy readings for
• CMM – Chassis and subsystems
(Cooling, Power, server, Switch)
• IMM – System x server
• FSP – Power System server
Provide energy input for NGP Manager
chassis GUI view
Power Capping, Power Savings, Chassis Power
Redundancy,
Outlet Control, Energy Policies
IBM Flex System Manager – Energy Management*

21. © 2012 IBM Corporation
21
 Or, contextually from the NGP console
Could have one for each NGP
management domain (note:
downlevel icons)
IBM Flex System Manager – Remote Access

22. © 2012 IBM Corporation
22
New Thumbnail bar – best of breed
• Can monitor multiple sessions in one console
Resizable
Flyover Details
Powerful Toolbar – power on/off, mount local files, etc.
Watch a reboot progress in background
IBM Flex System Manager – Remote Access

23. © 2012 IBM Corporation
IBM Flex System Manager ™
User Interface

24. © 2012 IBM Corporation
24
Chassis Manager
• Instant resources
• Full management domain scope in a single top view
Rolled Up Chassis Manager Views

25. © 2012 IBM Corporation
25
Object Oriented Views Provide Real Time Information
Chassis Manager – also…
• Object Oriented – select an object, and
then contextual actions and details get
displayed

26. © 2012 IBM Corporation
26
• Quickly finds everything - Actions and Objects, and enabled for semantic finds too
• Examples below of massive reductions of possible targets after just two letters – very
powerful
1) “ch” – switch’s and chassis 2) “sw” – all 6 switches
3) “se” – all 16 servers 4) “66” – the single “666666” server
Global Finder – Locate System Resources or Tasks Quickly

27. © 2012 IBM Corporation
27
Hardware view of chassis –
best of breed
• Multi chassis and single
chassis levels
• Simultaneous front and
rear view of chassis
• Visually designed – high
quality graphics, can
scale sizes, slightly
abstracted, bay numbers
too
Interactive Chassis Maps

28. © 2012 IBM Corporation
28
“Status Information” – toggle and settings “Compliance, Firmware & Notifications” – toggle
“Hardware Access States” – toggle and settings “Highlight Front Panel LEDs” – toggle and settings
“Component Names and Properties” – toggle and settings
Thermal and Power Metrics – toggle
Six Chassis Map Overlays
Available in Future Release
Available in Future Release

29. © 2012 IBM Corporation
29
Status Information Overlay View

30. © 2012 IBM Corporation
30
Firmware Compliance Overlay View

31. © 2012 IBM Corporation
31
Hardware Access States Overlay View

32. © 2012 IBM Corporation
32
Highlight Front Panel LEDs Overlay View

33. © 2012 IBM Corporation
33
Component Names and Properties Overlay View

34. © 2012 IBM Corporation
34
Thermal and Power – tight integration with AEM plug-in
Power blades – p and x are both integrated within the FSM Manager
Thermal and Power Overlay View

35. © 2012 IBM Corporation
35
• Designed optimized and simplified for mobile scenarios and handheld limitations
• Pocket Power - Multi-chassis monitoring in a pocket-sized device (top user pain point continues to be multi-chassis
management, although the mobile app doesn’t do everything)
• Killer app - users say they’d switch mobile devices to use it
Multi-chassis BladeChassis
Mobile UI – Handheld and Tablet Support

36. © 2012 IBM Corporation
36