IBM PM for System i Benefits
A comprehensive, integrated and secure system management tool to help ensure you are ready to meet today's and tomorrow's business challenges and opportunities.
PM for System i helps ensure system availability now and for new opportunities. The PM for System i graphs and integration with the IBM Workload Estimator help make it easier to ensure your systems are available when expected. And they make it easier to know what has to be done to capitalize on new opportunities that present themselves.
The available reports and graphs and sizing tools also make it easier to optimize your return from your IT system by helping you understand the necessary system requirements to run applications like WebSphere, Domino, a Linux partition or how to implement new technologies like LPAR and server consolidation. This includes environments ranging from the straightforward implementation to a dynamic, multi-partitioned, multi-OS, Capacity on Demand environment.
Avoid unfortunate surprises:
Avoid disappointing surprises or guessing games-you're in control over managing the growth and performance of your system which means that you manage the system, not the other way around.
Simplify the management of your system:
Easy to understand reports are available to keep you on top of your system utilization with minimal effort ...even if you are running multiple partitions in different time zones with a mix of OS types.
Save time:
The function is integrated. Simply activate its transmission of data to IBM and that is it. Eliminate the labor intensive and expensive tasks of collecting and reporting performance data by doing it automatically. This means that you can focus your resources on managing your system and applications.
Plan ahead for maximum efficiency:
Proactively plan for the financial requirements to keep your system running at its peak efficiency. The data and tools are at your fingertips to simplify the planning for taking advantage of the System i server's unmatched growth and outstanding flexibility to add workloads of many different types.
Easy to understand information:
Information preparation for presenting "Why do we need to upgrade" to company senior management is simplified.
Easily identify system problems:
Enables you to identify performance bottlenecks and resource intensive applications.
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