IBM Systems Director V6.1 is a simplified platform management solution that streamlines the way physical & virtual systems are managed across a multisystem environment. Leveraging industry standards, IBM Systems Director supports multiple operating systems & virtualization technologies across IBM & non-IBM x 86 platforms. Through an easy-to-use, point-&-click, single user interface, IBM Systems Director provides consistent views for visualizing managed systems, determining how these systems relate to one another, & identifying their individual status, thus helping to correlate technical resources with business needs. IBM Systems Director utilizes a modular & extensible platform services foundation, providing a way to easily add advanced platform management capabilities to the base offering. The IBM Systems Director offering provides the base function needed for platform management. Advanced platform management functions can be seamlessly added as they are required. Systems Director is based on industry standards & can report results to other tools. IBM Systems Director is a strategic platform management tool that grows with the needs of a business.