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Performance Management for System p

Now part of Performance Management for Power Systems

 
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IBM Performance Management for Power Systems (PM for Power Systems) which now includes IBM Performance Management for System p (PM for System p), provides a powerful capability to help you more easily plan for and manage the growth and performance of your AIX® based IBM System p™ or the new POWER6™ processor-based IBM Power™ Systems family of servers. PM for Power Systems is designed to help you discover potential performance and capacity management problems. After initial set up, the remaining process is automated… thereby helping relieve you of those tedious and expensive tasks involved with systems management.

Visit the 'news' tab to understand the availability of support for all the Power System models.

You can view examples of each level in this "tour". PM for System p, as a component of PM for Power Systems, is available in both a no charge service level and nominal fee full function service level option. The full function service level option provides you with additional customizable reports that can further assist you in monitoring utilization.

Based on current trends, the Performance Management reports created by this service are designed to let you know when to consider addressing an approaching capacity-planning problem. Ultimately, PM for System p gives you greater control over your IT resource utilization helping you to alleviate resource constraints before they affect your business.

    As a systems management tool, PM for System p can help ensure that you get the most from your IBM Systems.
  Performance management and reporting can help you identify potential resource constraints, more easily plan for future growth and make better informed decisions affecting your total system workload.
  Explore our PM for System p Web site to find Search optimization out how PM for System p works, how the benefits add up... and how PM for System p can help you manage and improve utilization of your IT resources.

Features

  Description of PM
No charge service level reports (1.0 MB)
Full function service level report (1.0 MB)
How to interpret reports (Redbook) (5.75 MB)

Report samples

Report samples

 
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PM for System p reports
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Quick links

New Podcast:
Capitalizing on PM for System p
(MP3, 21MB)

Using "PM" to size a new Power System (171 KB)

PM for System p brochure (651 KB)

Download PM for System p Collection Agent (6.0.6.0)

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