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.
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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.
- Designed 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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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.
- Potentially improved administrative efficiency by reducing effort required to balance workloads.
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Browser-based user interface
Easy-to-use interface that does not require installation |
- Can reduce the administrative workload associated with managing the GUI.
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AIX Enterprise Edition
The Workload Partitions Manager for AIX is also available as part of the AIX Enterprise Edition |
- AIX Enterprise Edition provides an easy way to get AIX, the WPAR manager and Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager, Tivoli Monitoring and Tivoli Usage and Accounting Virtualization Edition at an attractive price.
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Fully integrated plug-in to the IBM Systems Director
The WPAR manager pre-requisites IBM Systems Director and extends the capabilities of IBM Systems Director to the management of WPARs |
- Potential administrative efficiency though a consistent user interface.
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