IBM Flex System Manager
5
The IBM Flex System Manager base feature set offers the following functionality:
Support for up to 16 managed chassis
Support for up to 5,000 managed elements
Auto-discovery of managed elements
Overall health status
Monitoring and availability
Hardware management
Security management
Administration
Network management (Network Control)
Storage management (Storage Control)
Virtual machine life cycle management (VMControl Express)
I/O address management (IBM Fabric Manager)
The IBM Flex System Manager advanced feature set upgrade offers the following advanced features:
Image management (VMControl Standard)
Pool management (VMControl Enterprise)
Advanced network monitoring and quality of service (QoS) configuration (Service Fabric Provisioning)
The Fabric Provisioning upgrade offers the following functionality:
Advanced network monitoring and quality of service (QoS) configuration (Service Fabric Provisioning)
Fabric provisioning functionality is included in the advanced feature set. It is also available as a separate
Fabric Provisioning feature upgrade for the base feature set. The Advanced Upgrade and the Fabric
Provisioning feature upgrade are mutually exclusive, i.e. either the Advance Upgrade or the Fabric
Provisioning feature upgrade can be applied on top of the base feature set license, but not both.
Important:
The Advanced Upgrade and Fabric Provisioning licenses are applied on top of the IBM Flex
System Manager base license.
The part numbers for the Feature on Demand licenses include the following items:
Feature on Demand Activation Flyer
Upgrade activation key
Features and functions
The main features in IBM Flex System Manager are:
Monitoring and problem determination
A real-time, multichassis view of hardware components with overlays for additional information.
Automatic detection of issues in your environment through an event setup that triggers alerts and
actions.
Identification of changes that might impact availability.
Server resource utilization by virtual machine or across a rack of systems.