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IBM (NYSE: IBM) will bring the virtual machines of several vendors under a new heterogenous management umbrella called IBM VMControl, the company announced Tuesday. The product will debut in December.VMControl will manage VMware, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Hyper-V, Linux KVM, and Xen virtual machines running on x86 servers, PowerVM on IBM’s Power System servers, plus z/VM on its mainframes — all in one management console.

There’s been quite a few announcements in the last few months with vendors looking to offer a management umbrella which can allow you to manage your physical and virtual servers, it will be interesting to check out the IBM derivative and note that it can support their POWER and z/VM machines. We need to enable easier system management as the infrastructure gets more complex, being able therefore to have one interface in which we can manage (power cycle/console access etc) our different platforms becomes ever more important. I’m off to read up more, I wonder if there’s a plug in for the systems involved and whether I need to purchase licenses for managing these systems.

 

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