SD features

Automated discovery and topology views to simplify troubleshooting across physical and virtual server and storage resources
Heterogeneous virtualization management across the BULL servers
Simplified deployment, installation, and update processes
Automatic reporting of hardware problems and collection of system service information for monitored systems
Easy to learn new tasks with intuitive wizards, tutorials, and integrated help

All features of the Systems Director Express Edition
Capture/import, create/remove standardized virtual images
Deploy standard virtual images
Maintain virtual images in a centralized library
Manages the power and thermal components built into BULL systems enabling a cross-platform management solution
Features for setting energy usage caps across one or more servers
Energy saving modes that can take into account processor utilization and the altitude of the data center facility
Discovery and health monitoring for networking systems

All features of the Systems Director Express and Standard Editions
Creation/removal of system pools and resource management in system pools as if they were a single system
Addition/removal of physical servers within system pools
Visualization of the relationships of servers to applications
Proactive real-time and predictive monitoring of the virtualized environment
Predictive performance management and capacity estimation

Monitoring functions include power trending, thermal trending, BULL and non-BULL PDU support, support for facility providers, and energy and environment thresholds
Management functions include power capping and power savings modes
Enhanced facility provider support to enable a more complete view of energy consumption within the datacenter
Monitoring of energy and environment data from a wide variety of PDUs, meters and sensors
Monitoring of power and cooling via integration with a wide variety of infrastructure vendors
Monitoring of equipment via an IPv6 connection
Create relationships from systems to cooling and power units in data centers so power and cooling topologies can now be viewed

Basic lifecycle management of network switches
Integration of vendor-based device management tools
Converged Ethernet network device support (FCoCEE) via native support and vendor tools
Ability to view systems according to VLAN
Network device topology collection and visualization (virtual and physical)
Virtual switch discovery and inventory for PowerVM

Extends storage management of Systems Director and VMControl to cover most storage systems
Storage device discovery and coverage in integrated physical and logical topology views
Show relationships between storage and server resources
Ability to configure logical and physical configuration
Ability to view controller and volume status and to set notification alerts
Single management server deployment
Integration with VMControl featuring the following additional functions:
- Storage provisioning for image creation, deployment, and cloning
- Ability to manage storage system pool lifecycle, take group actions across pool and policy-based storage placement, provisioning, and cloning actions within the pool