What is performance management?
Behind any successful business, you can bet that there is an Information Technology system hard at work — one that is scalable, operating at peak efficiency and supported by effective capacity planning and performance analysis programs.
Typically capacity planning and performance analysis processes are often time consuming and expensive to purchase. As a result, many customers fail to implement any capacity management process. Without appropriate planning and management of system resource utilization, businesses can find themselves in trouble. They may experience serious customer satisfaction issues caused by poor system performance or outages that could have been avoided with proper monitoring.
The solution
Introducing PM for System p, a dynamic tool designed to help you manage the growth and performance of your system. PM for System p can automate many of the functions associated with capacity planning and performance analysis. It's simple, there is nothing that you need to do other than register and activate the function. Then sit back and let PM for System p do the work.
The result?
You are provided with capacity planning and performance analysis reports and graphs that offer a crisp picture of your current system operating efficiencies. Based on current trends, these reports will let you know when you should consider rectifying an approaching capacity planning issue before it becomes a problem.
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How does performance management work exactly?
Performance management is a function that automates many of the steps required in capacity planning and performance analysis.
Ready to get started? Simply activate the IBM Electronic Service Agent for System p and the performance management function. The performance management function will automatically collect system utilization information. This information can include CPU utilization and disk capacity, response time, throughput, application and user usage.
New enhancements
IBM Operational Support Services for System p performance management makes available the following enhancements:
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WLE - IBM Workload Estimator: You can easily merge your PM for System p data with the WLE to size your next needed upgrade based on the utilization and growth trend of your current system. This can quickly indicate what impact an upgrade would have on your current workload; plus it provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of adding partitions, doing a server consolidation or adding another workload.
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PM for System p comes in two function levels
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IBM Operational Support Services - for performance management (PM for System p) is a Web-based fee service that automates the collection and summarization of your AIX based IBM System p server performance and capacity data. With this service, you are able to view graphical reports through a secure Internet web site to identify how well your system is performing. The detailed reports provide current information on resource contention, resources approaching maximum capacity, hard disk/file system utilization, CPU, memory and DASD utilization. This service allows you to tailor the
reports and graphs
(PDF, 1.06 MB) to meet your specific business needs.
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The PM for System p: no charge service is easy to implement and use basic performance management (PM) process that provides capacity trend information and performance management parameters for your IBM AIX based servers.
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Once installed, performance data is transmitted automatically to IBM where the data is processed and a single summary report providing three key systems measurements is viewable via a secure Internet web site. Once registered, you can monitor the CPU and disk attributes of your system to measure capacity trends and anticipate future CPU and disk requirements.
In both the no charge and nominal fee offerings, customers may link their PM for System p historical data with the IBM Systems Workload Estimator and size their next needed upgrade. Or you can size the addition of new partitions to your existing system or the addition of a new workload or the impact of a server consolidation or Capacity on Demand processor.
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