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Big Blue adapts virtualization of servers, storage across all its enterprise products.
For years, mainframe users have been able to securely partition systems into multiple virtual servers that could share resources and be securely and effectively managed with a single tool. Now IBM wants to spread those kinds of capabilities across all its enterprise products with its new Virtualization Engine.
Unveiled last week, Virtualization Engine is the result of three years of work by IBM to integrate mainframe-partitioning technology with features such as workload management, systems provisioning and grid services.
These features are available in stand-alone products such as Tivoli management software, Enterprise Workload Manager and WebSphere. In addition, IBM's management software for its x86 servers, IBM Director, now will support Unix boxes and give users a single point from which to manage the health of their heterogeneous systems.
Virtualization Engine will consist of two main components: Virtualization Engine Systems Services and Virtualization Engine Systems Technologies.
Virtualization Systems Services software will include Enterprise Workload Manager for managing resources across heterogeneous systems; IBM Director Multiplatform for monitoring the health of heterogeneous systems; systems provisioning; and IBM's grid...