IBM SmartCloud Entry for Flex System, v2.x w/1 Year SW S&S 00D4839 User Manual
Product codes
00D4839
IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware Announcement
ZG12-0125, dated April 11, 2012
IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG12-0125
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IBM SmartCloud Entry for IBM Flex System helps you
quickly implement entry cloud capabilities
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At a glance
SmartCloud Entry for IBM® Flex System is a lightweight private cloud offering
that is designed to be simple to deploy and easy to use, and to provide essential
infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud capabilities on top of the virtualization
environment.
SmartCloud Entry for IBM Flex System provides:
• A self-service portal and simple process to provision and operate virtualized IT
resources (CPU/memory, storage, network) including:
– Create and replicate assets
– Manage and modify deployment instances
– Monitor activity
– Manage and modify deployment instances
– Monitor activity
• Approval policies with optional administrator review and control of end-user
operations
• Project-level access control and sharing of virtual appliances and server
workloads
• Administrator-defined settings and network configurations for virtual appliances
• Accounts and configurable charge-back rates for budgeting of resources
• IT resource metering and pay per use billing mode
• Authentication, authorization, and audit logs
• Administrator-controlled expiration policies to prevent server sprawl
• Integration with your Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for
• Accounts and configurable charge-back rates for budgeting of resources
• IT resource metering and pay per use billing mode
• Authentication, authorization, and audit logs
• Administrator-controlled expiration policies to prevent server sprawl
• Integration with your Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for
authentication and email systems for notifications
• Open Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interfaces
(APIs) for third-party customization and integration
Overview
SmartCloud Entry for IBM Flex System is a lightweight private cloud offering that
is designed to be simple to deploy and easy to use. It can enable datacenter
managers to quickly deploy self-service provisioning of virtualized workloads. Its
simple interface provides oversight while increasing IT efficiency and lowering
administration costs.
With SmartCloud Entry for IBM Flex System, you can quickly and easily implement a
cloud-based infrastructure and leverage the benefits of a cloud delivery model.