IBM SmartCloud Entry for Flex System, v2.x w/3 Year SW S&S

SmartCloud Entry for IBM® Flex System is a lightweight private cloud offering that is designed to be simple to deploy and easy to use, and to provide essential infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud capabilities on top of the virtualization environment.

SmartCloud Entry for IBM Flex System provides:

* A self-service portal and simple process to provision and operate virtualized IT resources (CPU/memory, storage, network) including:
- Create and replicate assets
- Manage and modify deployment instances
- Monitor activity
* Approval policies with optional administrator review and control of end-user operations
* Project-level access control and sharing of virtual appliances and server workloads
* Administrator-defined settings and network configurations for virtual appliances
* Accounts and configurable charge-back rates for budgeting of resources
* IT resource metering and pay per use billing mode
* Authentication, authorization, and audit logs
* Administrator-controlled expiration policies to prevent server sprawl
* Integration with your Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for authentication and email systems for notifications
* Open Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs) for third-party customization and integration