Specifications

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The management node comes standard without any entitlement licenses, so you
must purchase a license to enable the required FSM functionality.
As described in Chapter 2, “IBM PureFlex System” on page 15, there are two
versions of IBM Flex System Manager: base and advanced.
The IBM Flex System Manager base feature set offers the following functionality:
򐂰 Supports up to four managed chassis
򐂰 Supports up to 5,000 managed elements
򐂰 Auto-discovery of managed elements
򐂰 Overall health status
򐂰 Monitoring and availability
򐂰 Hardware management
򐂰 Security management
򐂰 Administration
򐂰 Network management (Network Control)
򐂰 Storage management (Storage Control)
򐂰 Virtual machine lifecycle management (VMControl Express)
The IBM Flex System Manager advanced feature set offers all capabilities of the
base feature set plus:
򐂰 Image management (VMControl Standard)
򐂰 Pool management (VMControl Enterprise)
6.4.1 Hardware overview
The FSM, from a hardware point of view, is a locked-down compute node with a
specific hardware configuration designed for optimal performance of the
preinstalled software stack. The FSM looks similar to the Intel based x240.
However, there are slight differences between the system board designs, which
make these two hardware nodes not interchangeable.