How is IBM Systems Director 6.1 Different from IBM Director 5.2?
What is new is that we have redesigned a complex product to make it easy to use (intuitive / point and click) to further simplify management of a virtualized datacenter. This also provides a more stable/reliable product that is easy to maintain and can be used as a single system platform manager (consolidating multiple tools into one) or across multiple systems giving a single simplified view across many. This is why we call IBM Systems Director 6.1 the “next generation of platform management.” This does not necessarily translate into performance savings, but savings in people time to manage (understand, add/delete and fix) the environment, which the new ITG Analysts Paper states can be as much as 23% in management savings. Virtualization management was an add-on in IBM® Director 5.2 and is now integrated into IBM Systems Director 6.1. Also, we have enhanced integration points Systems Director has with Tivoli in order to provide rich hardware information and capabilities into a busines
