Management Edition for AIX

Highlights

• Provides outstanding systems management capabilities with support for PowerVM™ technologies
• Helps improve availability through proactive real-time and predictive monitoring of the virtualized environment
• Enhances operations efficiency through integrated and targeted visualization of resources
• Reduces application rollbacks by understanding the relationships of servers and LPARs to applications and business services
• Reduces virtual server sprawl and improves resource utilization by understanding historical and predictive utilization trends of resources in the environment.

Management Edition for AIX® (ME for AIX) is an integrated systems management offering created specifically for the Power Systems™ platform that provides as primary functions: 1) monitoring of the health and availability of the Power Systems AIX platform, 2) discovery of configurations and relationships between Power Systems server, LPAR and application components, and 3) usage reporting of Power Systems IT resources.

Management Edition for AIX is a system management offering comprised of three components from IBM Tivoli®: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.2; IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager V7.1.2; and IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager, Virtualization Edition for Power Systems V7.1. This integrated offering provides a launch pad to assist with installation of components by providing automated prerequisite checking and remote installation of databases.

Management Edition for AIX
Management Edition for AIX is for System p® clients who are looking to manage and control their virtualized System p IT infrastructure, to control its complexity and growth, and to be accountable back to their end users with accurate information on the usage of the System p resources. ME for AIX is for clients who need:

• Improved availability through access to relevant real-time information that allows effective problem identification/root cause analysis/recovery, and automation of recovery with the known fixes
• Improved resource utilization through reporting of historical and predictive utilization trends of resources in the environment.
• Improved understanding of the System p configurations and relationships to applications and business services including:
  • Hardware Management Console(s)
  • Power Systems Servers & Logical partitions configured on each Power Systems server
• Better understanding and reporting of the usage of shared System IT resources

Management Edition for AIX is ideal for clients that are:

• Adopting Power Systems AIX virtualization technologies to control IT complexity and growth
• Sharing IT resources across multiple departments and processes
• Seeking to allocate the proper share of system use to business units or departments