Create a virtual data center with POWER7 and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager

 

 

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Create a virtual data center with POWER7 and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager

via IBM developerWorks : Tivoli on 6/28/10

Have you ever wondered how to bundle together data center resources? Do you ever have to manually deploy and configure your servers, operating systems, middleware, applications, storage and networking devices? They can be managed as a single entity using physical and virtual IBM servers. In this article, you will learn what a virtual data center is, how to create one using POWER7 VMControl and IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager, and how to use a virtual data center to manage your IT systems and virtualization technologies as a single point of control access. In the process, we'll show you an example of how you can use the Tivoli product for patch management, which is one of the most difficult tasks to manage in a large server farm.

 

 

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