Performance Management - what is it?
Performance Management provides the capabilities for customers to understand and manage the performance of their computing environments.
- Real-time monitoring
- History/trends of performance/capacity
- Capacity planning
- Performance tuning controls
- Performance problem isolation
- Workload balancing
- Application
- "Design for Performance" tools
To support these capabilities, products and tools, data collection facilities, and instrumentation are required.
Size and complexity of customer computing environments - client/server, cooperative and distributed applications, distributed data, local and wide area networks, Web/intranet/internet, third-party and home-grown applications, heterogeneous computing resources - all place ongoing demands on the capabilities for understanding and managing performance.
Technologies supporting these capabilities include: GUI, automation, data base, performance data visualization, correlation (establishing the relationship among pieces of data that originate from different sources), decomposition (breaking down a time measurement, e.g. response time, into its components), and standards.
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Performance Data Collectors
There are four collectors on IBM i that collect performance related data and store the information in database files, each having their own unique characteristics: Collection Services, IBM i Job Watcher, IBM i Disk Watcher, and Performance Explorer.
Performance Data Investigator
Use the Investigate Data task found in the web-based IBM Systems Director Navigator for i to view and analyze the data collected from any of the four data collectors found on IBM i. This powerful tool allows you the ability to work with the data interactively in chart or table form.
Resource library
A wealth of reference information — white papers, articles, the latest tool documentation, and more.
iDoctor for IBM i
A family of products (including Job Watcher, PEX Analyzer, and Heap Analysis Tools for Java) focused on assessing the overall health of a system by providing automated analysis on a variety of performance related data.
Sizing resources
Tools and resources for estimating and sizing computing resources needed to run your business.
PM for Power Systems
A tool that can automatically collect system utilization information and can produce regular reports which show the utilization and growth trends of your system.
Performance and Scalability Services
Plan and prepare for changes in the data center when using the IBM i operating system on Power Systems hardware with help from IBM Systems Lab Services and Training. Whether assessing how an application performs when moving to the next release, determining the impact of application changes or understanding the benefits of new hardware, our team provides the hardware located in the Performance and Scalability Services Center in Rochester, MN, configured to your specifications, to test applications and evaluate performance benefits and scalability capabilities.
Benchmark Center
Services available in Poughkeepsie, NY and Montpellier, France to assist you with the measurement and validation of system performance.
Systems Management
Information and solutions for managing all aspects of your system resources to provide you with a competitive advantage.
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