> Kind'a curious that the URL given: >http://www-3.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/systems_management/ibm_director > contains the string: /xseries/
Not at all. Remember, Director started life as a xSeries-only thing -- the replacement for Netfinity Manager. The cross-platform expansion -- and particularly, the VM support -- was the result of direct and somewhat vehement customer feedback. > Personally, I think the whole Virtualization Engine and IBM Director product > description is a > huge mess of unreadable legal folderol and cross-function > confusion. It does a lot of things, few of which are necessary on a properly managed VM system. Key phrase: properly managed. It's a bear to set up, and even harder to diagnose, but if you bought into Director on xSeries, it just plugs in and it's pretty slick. If. If is good. 8-) > I suppose the marketing and descriptions could be worse, but it would take >even more > astonishing (not too much more) creativity. But that's just my opinion, (If you think it's confusing now, wait until some wise acre decides that it belongs in the Tivoli baliwick.... at least the Server Group folks had an interest in not making it too awful to use.... sigh)
