Flex FSM 이 뭐지? 초보자를 위한 간단 설명서

플렉스 FSM의 경우 처음 구매시 기본 3년 무상 서비스를 받으실 수 있습니다

설치되어있는 프로그램에 대해서는 1년 혹은 3년 온라인 지원만 가능한 서비스가 지원이 됩니다

 

▶ FSM기본 설명이 있는 사이트 : http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0862.html

 

▶ FSM의 기본 모양

 

 

 

디스크 1개 그리고 RAID 구성으로 SSD 2개 구성 가능합니다

Two IBM 200 GB SATA 1.8" MLC SSD configured in a RAID 1

One IBM 1 TB 7.2 K 6 Gbps NL SATA 2.5" SFF HS HDD

 

▶ FSM의 메인기능

 

The main features in IBM Flex System Manager are:

• Monitoring and problem determination
  • A real-time, multichassis view of hardware components with overlays for additional information.
  • Automatic detection of issues in your environment through an event setup that triggers alerts and actions.
  • Identification of changes that might impact availability.
  • Server resource utilization by virtual machine or across a rack of systems.
• Hardware management
  • Automated discovery of physical and virtual servers and interconnections, applications, and supported third-party networking.
  • Configuration profiles that integrate device configuration and update steps into a single interface, dramatically improving initial configuration experience.
  • Inventory of hardware components.
  • Chassis and hardware component views.
    • Hardware properties.
    • Component names and hardware identification numbers.
    • Firmware levels.
    • Utilization rates.
• Network management
  • Management of network switches from a variety of vendors.
  • Discovery, inventory, and status monitoring of switches.
  • Graphical network topology views.
  • Support for KVM, pHyp, VMware virtual switches, and physical switches.
  • VLAN configuration of switches.
  • Integration with server management.
  • Per-virtual machine network usage and performance statistics provided to VMControl.
  • Logical views of servers and network devices grouped by subnet and VLAN.
• Network management (advanced feature set or fabric provisioning feature)
  • Defines QoS settings for logical networks.
  • Configures QoS parameters on network devices.
  • Provides advanced network monitors for network system pools, logical networks, and virtual systems.
• Storage management
  • Discovery of physical and virtual storage devices.
  • Physical and logical topology views.
  • Support for virtual images on local storage across multiple chassis.
  • Inventory of the physical storage configuration.
  • Health status and alerts.
  • Storage pool configuration.
  • Disk sparing and redundancy management.
  • Virtual volume management.
  • Support for virtual volume discovery, inventory, creation, modification, and deletion.
• Virtualization management (base feature set)
  • Support for VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, and IBM PowerVM®.
  • Creates virtual servers.
  • Edits virtual servers.
  • Manages virtual servers.
  • Relocates virtual servers.
  • Discovers virtual server, storage, and network resources and visualize the physical-to-virtual relationships.
• Virtualization management (advanced feature set)
  • Creates new image repositories for storing virtual appliances and discover existing image repositories in your environment.
  • Imports external, standards-based virtual appliance packages into your image repositories as virtual appliances.
  • Captures a running virtual server that is configured the way you want, complete with a guest operating system, running applications, and virtual server definition.
  • Imports virtual appliance packages that exist in the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) from the Internet or other external sources.
  • Deploys virtual appliances quickly to create new virtual servers that meet the demands of your ever-changing business needs.
  • Creates, captures, and manages workloads.
  • Creates server system pools, which enable you to consolidate your resources and workloads into distinct and manageable groups.
  • Deploys virtual appliances into server system pools.
  • Manages server system pools, including adding hosts or additional storage space and monitoring the health of the resources and the status of the workloads in them.
  • Groups storage systems together using storage system pools to increase resource utilization and automation.
  • Manages storage system pools by adding storage, editing the storage system pool policy, and monitoring the health of the storage resources.
• I/O address management
  • Manages assignments of Ethernet MAC and Fibre Channel WWN addresses.
  • Monitors the health of compute nodes, and automatically, without user intervention, replace a failed compute node from a designated pool of spare compute nodes.
  • Preassigns MAC addresses, WWN addresses, and storage boot targets for the compute nodes.
  • Creates addresses for compute nodes, saves the address profiles, and deploys the addresses to the slots in the same or different chassis.
• Additional features
  • Resource-oriented chassis map provides an instant graphical view of chassis resources, including nodes and I/O modules.
    • A fly-over provides an instant view of an individual server's (node) status and inventory.
    • A chassis map provides an inventory view of chassis components, a view of active status requiring administrative attention, and a compliance view of server (node) firmware.
    • Actions can be taken on nodes, such as working with server-related resources, showing and installing updates, submitting service requests, and launching into the remote access tools.
    • Resources can be monitored remotely from mobile devices, including Apple iOS based devices, Google Android based devices and RIM BlackBerry based devices. Flex System Manager Mobile applications are separately available under their own terms and conditions as outlined by the respective mobile markets.
  • Remote console
    • Ability to open video sessions and mount media, such as DVDs with software updates, to their servers from their local workstation.
    • Remote Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (KVM) connections.
    • Remote Virtual Media connections (mount CD/DVD/ISO/USB media).
    • Power operations against servers (Power On/Off/Restart).
  • Hardware detection and inventory creation
  • Firmware compliance and updates
  • Health status (such as processor utilization) on all hardware devices from a single chassis view.
  • Automatic detection of hardware failures
    • Provides alerts.
    • Takes corrective action.
    • Notifies IBM of problems to escalate problem determination.
  • Administrative capabilities, such as setting up users within profile groups, assigning security levels, and security governance.
  • Bare metal deployment of hypervisors (VMware/ESXi, KVM) through centralized images.
  • IEEE 802.1Qbg support for x86 and Power Systems compute nodes
  • Remote restart for Power Systems provides the capability to activate a PowerVM partition on any appropriately configured running server in the unlikely event that the partition’s original server and any associated service partitions or management entities becomes unavailable.
  • FSM capacity utilization allows the system administrators to understand remaining FSM management capacity.

 

▶ FSM의 사용자 인터페이스

IBM Flex System Manager supports the following management interfaces:

• Web interface
• IBM FSM Explorer console
• Mobile System Management application
• Command-line interface

IBM Flex System Manager management software web interface

The following browsers are supported by the management software web interface:

• Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) 17.0.x
• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0

모바일로도 접속 가능합니다
Mobile System Management application

The Mobile System Management application is a simple, free tool that you can download for a mobile device that has an Android, Apple iOS, or BlackBerry operating system. The Mobile System Management application enables you monitor your IBM Flex System hardware remotely.

The Mobile System Management application provides access to the following types of IBM Flex System information:

• Health and Status

  Monitor health problems and check the status of managed resources

• Event Log

  View the event history for chassis, compute nodes, and network devices

• Chassis Map (hardware view)

  Check the front and rear graphical hardware views for a chassis

• Chassis List (components view)

  View a list of the hardware components installed in a chassis

• Inventory Management

  See the Vital Product Data (VPD) for a managed resource (for example, serial number or IP address)

• Multiple chassis management

  Manage multiple chassis and multiple management nodes from a single application

• Authentication and security

  Secure all connections using encrypted protocols (for example, SSL), and secure persistent credentials on your mobile device

You can download the Mobile System Management application for your mobile device from one of the following app stores:

• Google Play in the Android operating system
• iTunes in the Apple iOS
• BlackBerry App World

 

 

▶ 추가 라이센스

 

Table 2. Part numbers for ordering FoD licenses (United States, Canada, Asia Pacific, and Japan)

Description	Part number
Base feature set
IBM Flex System Manager Per Managed Chassis with 1 Year SW S&S	90Y4217
IBM Flex System Manager Per Managed Chassis with 3 Year SW S&S	90Y4222
Advanced feature set upgrade*
IBM Flex System Manager, Advanced Upgrade, Per Managed Chassis with 1 Year SW S&S	90Y4249
IBM Flex System Manager, Advanced Upgrade, Per Managed Chassis with 3 Year SW S&S	00D7554
Fabric Provisioning feature upgrade*
IBM Flex System Manager Service Fabric Provisioning w/1 Yr S&S	90Y4221
IBM Flex System Manager Service Fabric Provisioning w/3 Yr S&S	90Y4226

* The Advanced Upgrade and Fabric Provisioning licenses are applied on top of the IBM FSM base license.

FoD방식으로 구매가능

 

▶ 각 라이센스별 지원기능들

 

The IBM Flex System Manager base feature set offers the following functionality:

• Support for up to 16 managed chassis
• Support for up to 5,000 managed elements
• Auto-discovery of managed elements
• Overall health status
• Monitoring and availability
• Hardware management
• Security management
• Administration
• Network management (Network Control)
• Storage management (Storage Control)
• Virtual machine life cycle management (VMControl Express)
• I/O address management (IBM Fabric Manager)

The IBM Flex System Manager advanced feature set upgrade offers the following advanced features:

• Image management (VMControl Standard)
• Pool management (VMControl Enterprise)
• Advanced network monitoring and quality of service (QoS) configuration (Service Fabric Provisioning)

The Fabric Provisioning upgrade offers the following functionality:

• Advanced network monitoring and quality of service (QoS) configuration (Service Fabric Provisioning)

Fabric provisioning functionality is included in the advanced feature set. It is also available as a separate Fabric Provisioning feature upgrade for the base feature set. The Advanced Upgrade and the Fabric Provisioning feature upgrade are mutually exclusive, i.e. either the Advance Upgrade or the Fabric Provisioning feature upgrade can be applied on top of the base feature set license, but not both.

Important: The Advanced Upgrade and Fabric Provisioning licenses are applied on top of the IBM Flex System Manager base license.

The part numbers for the Feature on Demand licenses include the following items:

• Feature on Demand Activation Flyer
• Upgrade activation key

 

 

▶ 플렉스 기본 포함 되어있는 것들

 

The IBM Flex System Manager node is shipped with the following items:

• Documentation CD
• Environmental Notices CD
• Registration Flyer
• Statement of Limited Warranty
• Important Notices

 

 

▶ FSM프로그램 복구 CD 파트넘버

 

복구시디나 하드에 있는 복구 파티션으로 복구가능

 

 

Table 1. IBM Flex System Manager Recovery DVDs

FSM version number	Recovery DVD package part number
1.3.1	00FH184
1.3.0	00AH496
1.2.1	47C9099
1.2.0	00D2525
1.1.1	47C9261
1.1.0	95Y3215

 

 

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위링크에서 설명확인가능

 

 

Warranty and support

The IBM Flex System Manager Node has a 3-year, customer-replaceable unit (CRU) limited warranty. IBM Flex System Manager licenses include one year or three years of Software Subscription and Support. If a new release of an offering in this announcement is made generally available in IBM Passport Advantage® after the announcement of the offering in System x ordering systems, you may elect to take delivery of any release generally available for that offering during the product registration process.