| AIX 6 operating system combined with management tools in a single offering |
- Integration between AIX Enterprise components
- Simplified ordering and support
- Reduced total cost of acquisition compared to purchasing individual products
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Federated WPAR Management
Single interface to manage the creation, start, stop and relocation of WPARs across multiple systems |
- Can reduce management costs by reducing the administrative effort associated with managing Workload Partitions
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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
- Can be used to improve application availability by reducing outages needed for planned system maintenance
- Can enable energy savings by moving workloads off of underused servers, allowing them to be powered off
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| View the entire Power Systems enterprise from one screen |
- The Tivoli Enterprise Portal component show how well their entire Power Systems server is performing as a whole, presenting the data that’s important in an easy-to-use, customizable browser-based interface
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| Health and availability monitoring of Power Systems servers |
- Improved availability and server utilization through real time performance monitoring
- Improved administrative efficiency by consolidating monitoring of multiple systems
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| Advanced Performance Analytics provide a foundation for Capacity Management |
- Advanced Performance Analytics capability leverages the Tivoli Data Warehouse to provide capacity management capabilities
- Use existing ITM agents and data from Tivoli Data Warehouse
- Create new metrics based on existing data
- Predictive trending and forecast reports
- Preconfigured reports For distributed systems, databases, transaction monitoring, and virtualization
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| Discovery and topology view of the dependencies between resources and applications |
- More effective IT service management through an improved understanding of IT factors affecting business operations, particularly in dynamic environments
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| Top 10 reporting quickly identifies heaviest uses and potential abuses |
- Improve IT systems utilization and productivity
- IT can focus on service delivery and intelligent tuning versus data gathering and reporting
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| Collect and report on Power Systems resource usage |
- Increased end user satisfaction through detailed actual resource usage reporting for costing and budgeting
- Introduce new applications and systems with more confidence through better capacity planning
- IT financial management, operations, and users have access to the resource usage they need when and where they want it
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| Works with IBM Systems Director |
- Supports advanced platform management capabilities of IBM Systems Director and Director plug-ins
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