Next meeting: June 11, 2009
| Speaker(s) |
Mark Ruberry, IBM |
| Topic(s) | IBM Systems Director 6.1 |
** Please note
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PMSA 2009-2010 Board elections
to be held at the June 11 meeting!
Please join us as we welcome our own Mark Ruberry as he introduces & demonstrates IBM's new Systems Director 6.1 product (which will support V5R4 systems) -- a browser-based, cross-platform replacement for the current thick-client product.
There's a lot of cool stuff here! Mark speculated (privately, this is not an announcement) that this product might, at some point, be the base for the replacement for the HMC.
IBM Systems Director 6.1
Next Generation Platform Management for multi-system environment that
reduces the complexity of virtualization and provides simplified management.
IBM® Systems Director 6.1 is a platform management foundation that streamlines the way physical and virtual systems are managed across a multi-system environment. Leveraging industry standards, IBM Systems Director supports multiple operating systems and virtualization technologies across IBM and non-IBM platforms. IBM Systems Director 6.1 is an easy to use, point and click, simplified management solution. Through a single user interface, IBM Systems Director provides consistent views for visualizing managed systems, determining how these systems relate to one another while identifying their individual status, thus helping to correlate technical resources with business needs.
IBM Systems Director 6.1 is an industry leading platform management solution that utilizes a modular and extensible platform services foundation which provides a way to easily add advanced platform management capabilities to the base offering. The IBM Systems Director offering provides the base function needed for platform management. Advanced platform management functions can be seamlessly added as they are required. IBM Systems Director is based on industry standards and can report results to other tools. IBM Systems Director is a strategic platform management tool that grows with the needs of a business.
Key features of IBM Systems Director 6.1:
* Unifies the management of IBM systems, delivering a consistent look
and feel for common management tasks.
* Integrates IBM’s best-of-breed virtualization capabilities to provide
new and radically improved ways to simplify the management of physical
and virtual platform resources
* Provides multi-system support for IBM Power Systems, Systems x, BladeCenter,
System z and Storage Systems
* Provides an extendable and modular foundation to advance the core
systems management capabilities with additional plug-ins
* Enables seamless integration of IBM systems with the total infrastructure
* Facilitates reduced training cost by means of a consistent and unified
platform management foundation and interface
* Manages non-IBM x86-based systems through a dedicated agent
IBM Systems Director is the next generation platform management solution of IBM Director that can improve the total cost of ownership by decreasing management costs and improving the utilization of existing IT resources within a data center by eliminating the need to maintain multiple tools.
Speaker(s):
Mark Ruberry is a Senior Technical Sales Specialist providing IBM Power Systems technical consulting support to customers, IBM Sales personnel, and IBM Business Partner personnel. Primary areas of technical responsibility are technical sales support, system architecture and configuration, logical partition design and configuration, network integration, system sizing, performance analysis and tuning, systems management, problem analysis, and problem resolution. Thirty years of experience in technical support of IBM systems across all industry segments. Mark has experience with IBM Power Systems setup and installation, Power Systems virtualization technologies, logical partition implementation of IBM i, AIX, and Linux operating systems, network integration, systems management, and the implementation of multiple IBM software products.
Meeting logistics & registration
| Schedule |
Regular meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month from September through June. (No meetings are held in July and August.) |
| Time |
11:30 AM - Registration |
| Where |
CenterPoint Corporate Park ( |
| Cost |
$25 members Please note: At this time, PMSA can not accept credit cards - cash and checks only, please. |
| Lunch |
A variety of box lunches are available. Please see the registration form. |
| Registration |
Please complete the registration form. Or, e-mail pacificmidrange@yahoo.com
with the following information: Please note: if you register & do not show up, we must charge you (unless we can fill the seat you reserved with a "walk in".) |
- May 2009 - Ken Newberger, Information Builders presented "WebQuery and the Business Intelligence Marketplace"
- April 2009 - David Alexander, IBM Corporation presented "Data Management Strategies for Today’s Economy: How to control costs, improve performance, mitigate risk on System i"
- March 2009 - Bob Breilh, Strategic Solutions, Inc. (SSI) presented "Survive or Thrive? The Realities of 2009 and Beyond"
- February 2009 - John Earl, The PowerTech Group presented "OS/400 Forensics 101"
- January 2009 - George Lemen, Sirius Computer Solutions presented "Tape Data Encryption"
- December 2008 - Tom Sammons, 3Com Corporation presented "VOIP Telephony on the IBM i"
- November 2008 - Duncan Kenzie, Excel Systems presented "IBM i and PHP: The Strategic Web Platform"
- September 2008 - Mike Otey presented "System i and Windows Integration." Presentation slides.
- June 2008 - Greg Smith & John Ames, "DR/BC - "Now what do you do?"
- May 2008 - Nazmin Haji, IBM presented a special seminar on "Rational Developer, Eclipse, SOA, Transformation, Workbench, EGL's"
- March 2008 - Robin Tatum, MSI Systems Integrators conducted a special seminar on "Securing Your iSeries Server"
- February 2008 - Mr. Mark Ruberry, IBM Corporation (stepping in for Vincent Fazio, MSI), presented "System i Availability Strategies and Planning."
- January 2008 - Mr. Mark Ruberry, IBM Corporation, presented "IBM Director and the HMC V7." Presentation slides.
- September 2007 - Mr. Doug Mack, IBM Corporation, presented ""Beyond Query/400." Presentation slides.
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Registration
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Register
by 3:00 PM,
Tuesday June 9
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Meeting location
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The
meeting will be held at CenterPoint Corporate Park Conference Center,
in Kent. See meeting logistics.