Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition V4.1 Available

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition V4.1 and IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers V6.2 are now available for ordering in the IBM System x ordering systems.

These offerings can be configured with or without System x servers, BladeCenter blades, and IntelliStation workstations, with their respective operating systems.

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition V4.1 is designed to provide storage device configuration, performance monitoring, and management of Storage Area Network (SAN)-attached devices from a single console. In addition, it includes performance monitoring capabilities for IBM System Storage DS3000, IBM System Storage DS4000, and IBM System Storage DS5000 systems.

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
for Disk Midrange Edition V4.1:

Offers continuous real-time monitoring and fault identification to help improve SAN availability
Provides reporting across multiple arrays from a single console
Helps monitor metrics such as throughput, input and output (I/O) and data rates, and cache utilization
Receives timely alerts that can enable event action based on your policies when thresholds are exceeded
Helps to improve storage return on investment by aiding to keep SANs reliably and dependably operational
Can reduce storage administration costs by helping simplify the management of complex SANs

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers V6.2 builds on the robust monitoring capabilities of IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Servers V6.1.2, providing performance and availability monitoring for VMware and Citrix Presentation Server environments, to include monitoring of clusters, resource pools, ESX hosts, and virtual machines. You are able to monitor your VMware virtual environment either by connecting to ESXi or ESX classic hosts or by connecting directly to the VMware vCenter Server.

Offerings included in this announcement are available exclusively via electronic download.

Planned availability date: June 18, 2010