20 IBM CSM to IBM Systems Director Transformation Guide
IBM Systems Director with Storage Control and VMControl plug-ins provides a single
management console for managing servers, storage systems and Fibre Channel switches.
In conjunction with VMControl, there is support for capabilities such as:
Storage provisioning for image creation, deployment and cloning
Ability to manage storage system pool lifecycle
Taking group actions across pool and policy-based storage placement
Cloning actions within the pool
Storage Control unifies the management of physical and virtual server and storage resources
for integrated end-to-end lifecycle management, including: configuration, discovery, health,
capacity, inventory, provisioning, topology, updates, ...