IBM PowerVM Integrations

xCAT (Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit) is an open source tool designed to automate the deployment, scaling, and management of bare metal servers and virtual machines. It offers comprehensive management capabilities for high-performance computing clusters, render farms, grids, web farms, online gaming infrastructures, clouds, and data centers. xCAT provides an extensible framework based on years of system administration best practices, enabling administrators to discover hardware servers, execute remote system management, provision operating systems on physical or virtual machines in both disk and diskless modes, install and configure user applications, and perform parallel system management. The toolkit supports various operating systems, including Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE, and CentOS, and is compatible with architectures such as ppc64le, x86_64, and ppc64. It integrates with management protocols like IPMI, HMC, FSP, and OpenBMC, facilitating remote console access.

IBM i is an integrated operating environment developed by IBM, consisting of operating system, database, middleware, and development tools. IBM I, a platform for innovators, by innovators. The latest update to IBM i has arrived. With IBM i 7.4, you'll get continuous availability (thanks to IBM Db2 Mirror for i), the latest security features, and easy integration with IoT, AI and Watson. Ensures mission-critical applications remain up and running. Enhanced security features implement the latest industry-standard practices. Protect critical business applications and data. New auditing capability at the object level. Industry-standard Open Source environments. Port more applications to IBM I. Easily integrate with IoT, AI and Watson. Get work done 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Transfer virtual save media to and from the cloud. Consolidate most commonly used tasks for managing IBM i.

ClusterLion removes the need for complex clusters, shared storage, and other sophisticated infrastructure, ensuring business continuity and reducing costs. ClusterLion eliminates the need for complex clusters, significantly reducing costs and operational overhead. ClusterLion is currently available in two versions, ClusterLion for SAP and ClusterLion for MetroCluster. In case of failure, ClusterLion shuts down the affected side to avoid split-brain syndrome and then initiates the switch-over to the unaffected side. ClusterLion for MetroCluster ensures that the other services continue to function correctly after the storage switch-over has taken place. Ensure the security of your data without increasing the complexity of your infrastructure and the effort required to operate your systems. Thanks to complete infrastructure independence ClusterLion for MetroCluster is the only solution on the market that can address these concerns.