IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module interface cards/adapter

BladeCenter Advanced Management Module This management module boosts administrator productivity and reduces skill level requirements, which can help reduce costs, improve overall productivity and make administration easier. Unlike traditional servers and some competitive blades with a myriad of separate management tools, this management module provides a single point of control for the solution.

The Advanced Management Module (aMM) increases the functionality and performance seen when remotely accessing the solution:

- Better video performance and faster refreshes
- More complete LDAP integration
- Much better granularity of access and permissioning
- Faster USB response via USB 2.0 protocol for blade servers that have the functionality
- Concurrent media access (local and remote) for blade servers that have the functionality
- Shared management resources in the chassis
- Multiple remote KVM sessions for blade servers that have the functionality
- Improved serviceability
- Backward compatibility with existing switch modules and blade servers.