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Figure 8-2 Health check indicators
8.2.2 Systems Director and VMControl enablement
IBM introduced IBM Systems Director VMControl in the first half of 2009, and IBM has
significantly enhanced its capabilities since its introduction. VMControl is designed to
automate the management of a virtualized infrastructure, to improve workload resiliency, and
to help reduce deployment time for new virtual servers. VMControl is a plug-in for the IBM
Systems Director, which is the IBM enterprise-wide management platform for servers,
storage, networks, and software. After you install VMControl, ...