IBM SmartCloud Provisioning

A low-cost, easy-to-use private cloud solution

• Reduces IT costs and complexity by enabling self-service requests and automated operations.
• Simplifies administration and reduces operating costs with heterogeneous hypervisor support.
• Offers an easy-to-use, self-service user interface. Users can get fast and reliable access to the systems they need.

Reliable, non-stop operation

• Prevents service outages by automatically working around hardware failures.
• Supports in-place adding, removing and upgrading of physical servers—all without configuration changes.
• Allows you to apply patches and upgrades to the cloud without taking it down.
• Supports highly fault-tolerant parallel deployment of virtual machines. This allows you to improve performance against the most stringent service level agreements.

Rapid scalability

• Provides rapid deployment of virtual systems and network and storage virtualization. Preconfigured images help you get the cloud up and running quickly.
• Rapidly scales up or down as needed. This helps you meet changing IT requirements without disrupting operations.
• Helps administrators reduce provisioning overhead by minimizing the copying of image data. Copy-on-write technology handles changes on each provisioned virtual machine.

Low-touch infrastructure

• Standardized automated configuration, provisioning and monitoring enhance productivity.
• Redundant nodes enable a highly available infrastructure.
• Management agents connected in a peer-to-peer network are coordinated by a dynamically elected leader agent.