IBM® BladeCenter® Integrated Manager provides failover functions with simplified manageability to help ensure business resilience. Business resilience is more than mere continuity of business operations; businesses must be able to rapidly adapt and respond to risks and maintain continuous business operations. Such resilience requires regulatory compliance, high availability, security, data protection, and integrated risk management.

This tool runs on Windows® and Linux®. The package includes binary code and a user's guide, which includes screenshots showing how this tool functions in the BladeCenter S environment.

How does it work?

BladeCenter Integrated Manager is a Java™ application that works with Advanced Management Module of the BladeCenter S to monitor storage and blades status. The tool runs independently on a hot spare blade that automatically takes over a failed blade when the system detects a failure.

BladeCenter Integrated Manager includes the following:

• Integrated N+1 availability (RAIDed SAS Switch Module (RSSM) and Non-RAIDed SAS Switch Module (NSSM) are supported): One hot spare blade for N blade servers that take over boot setting, storage configuration, input/output address, and other functions.
• Easy-to-use GUI.
• Server monitoring: This tool can monitor server blade status and in-box disk and external port status.
• Flexibility and extensibility for IBM BladeCenter S.

Da Shuang He is a staff software engineer at IBM China Systems and Technology Labs. He is an expert in the management of IBM SystemX and is familar with the BladeCenter, AMM, and IBM System Director. Mr. He is also interested in energy, failover, high availability, and virtualization.