In my article earlier on IBM systems director download availability announcement i mentioned that systems Director version 6.1 will be available for web downloads on November 21rst 2008. Today IBM System Director 6.1 – the next generation platform management solution is available for free download on IBM site. For downloading IBM systems Director 6.1 you would need to register online to set up your IBM account. If you have your online account setup with IBM then you can use existing account to download IBM system director version 6.1.

IBM Systems Director 6.1 is a platform management foundation that streamlines the way physical and virtual systems are managed across a multi-system environment.

Leveraging industry standards, IBM Systems Director supports multiple operating systems and virtualization technologies across IBM and non-IBM platforms. This is one of the nice feature IBM added into Systems director 6.1 that you can even manage non-IBM platforms, IBM really did a smart move by adding this functionality. IBM Systems Director 6.1 is an easy to use, point and click, simplified Free web based management solution. Through a single user interface, IBM Systems Director provides consistent views for visualizing managed systems, determining how these systems relate to one another while identifying their individual status, thus helping to correlate technical resources with business needs.

Some of the key features of IBM systems director version 6.1 are:

• Unifies the management of IBM systems, delivering a consistent look and feel for common management tasks.
• Integrates IBM’s best-of-breed virtualization capabilities to provide new and radically improved ways to simplify the management of physical and virtual platform resources
• Provides multi-system support for IBM Power Systems, Systems x, Bladecenter, System z and Storage Systems
• Provides an extendable and modular foundation to advance the core systems management capabilities with additional plug-ins
• Enables seamless integration of IBM systems with the total infrastructure
• Facilitates reduced training cost by means of a consistent and unified platform management foundation and interface
• Manages non-IBM x86-based systems through a dedicated agent

To download IBM systems director 6.1

1. First Go to IBM Systems director home page.

2. Then click on download tab on left side of the System Director download web page.

3. Next you need to select platform for downloading IBM systems director

4. Login using IBM ID or registered email address and download appropriate Management servers from following download links:

IBM Systems Director 6.1 Management Server for AIX

SysDir6_1_Server_AIX.tar.gz (873MB)

IBM Systems Director 6.1 Management Server and Common Agent for AIX (Installp format)

SysDir6_1_Server_Agent_Installp_AIX.tar.gz (873MB)

IBM Systems Director 6.1 Management Server for Linux on Power

SysDir6_1_Server_Linux_Power.tar.gz (872MB)

IBM Systems Director 6.1 Management Server for Windows on IBM x86 servers

SysDir6_1_Server_Windows.zip (674MB)

IBM Systems Director 6.1 Management Server for Linux on IBM x86 servers

SysDir6_1_Server_Linux_x86.tar.gz (927MB)

IBM Systems Director 6.1 Management Server for Linux on System z

SysDir6_1_Server_Linux_System_z.tar.gz (837MB)

Here is IBM Systems Director 6.1 demo :

http://192.84.47.43/servers/Streamed/IBM_Demo_IBM_Systems_Director_6_1-1-Sep08.html

And here is the IBM Systems Director 6.1 Free Download direct

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/management/director/downloads/