IBM Workload Partitions Manager for AIX

Federated WPAR Management

Single interface to manage the creation, start, stop and relocation of WPARs across multiple systems

• Designed to reduce management costs by reducing the administrative workload associated with managing Workload Partitions.

Enablement for Live Application Mobility

WPARs can be relocated between systems without restarting the application

• Potential for improved system utilization and application performance by enabling more efficient load balancing.
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• Designed to improve application availability by reducing outages needed for planned system maintenance.
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• Can enable energy savings by moving workloads off of underused servers allowing them to be powered off.

Policy-driven Mobility

Automatically relocate WPARs with Live Application Mobility based on performance other considerations

• Can improve system utilization and application performance through more efficient, automated workload balancing.
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• Potentially improved administrative efficiency by reducing effort required to balance workloads.

Browser-based user interface

Easy-to-use interface that does not require installation

• Can reduce the administrative workload associated with managing the GUI.

Member of IBM Systems Director Family

Uses IBM Systems Director technology

• Potential administrative efficiency though a consistent user interface.