IBM Power server — Systems Management

DEPLOY – Discover what your have and set up new Power Systems

• IBM Director 5.20.2 provides automatic discovery of Power server resources, including visualization of resource topologies and relationships across physical and virtual servers. This platform management solution also configures new systems or clones existing systems. Virtual Image Management is provided as part of the IBM Virtualization Manager, an IBM Director extension that facilitates planning and deploying virtual images.
• Management Edition for AIX includes Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager which provides an enterprise service management capability to discover IT components and the relationships of those components and graphically display the component topology.
• The Systems Planning and Deployment Tool helps you to size, order and set up a virtualized environment at a component level, and then install AIX and Linux partitions with just a few mouse clicks.
• Cluster Systems Management provides platform level installation and setup commands to create and configure clustered Power servers running AIX, IBM i and Linux for Power and System x servers running Linux.

MONITOR – Know the status of your Power Systems

• Performance Management for Power Systems is an automated performance analysis and capacity planning offering that allows you to monitor your IBM i and AIX systems or partitions with little effort. It can easily help you spot utilization trends that will need your attention in the future. Performance Management for Power Systems includes basic reports for no additional charge, and provides an option for an advanced reporting package for a nominal charge. These capacity reports can be very useful in helping you plan for and manage the growth and performance of your system.
• IBM Director 5.20.2 can show you the health and status of physical and virtual resources at a platform level, as well as provide base monitoring and event management of OS metrics including CPU and memory utilization.
• Management Edition for AIX includes Tivoli Monitoring which delivers enterprise service management monitoring of the health and availability of Power Systems resources such as Central Electronics Complexes (CEC), Logical Partitions (LPAR), Virtual I/O Servers (VIOS) and Hardware Management Consoles (HMC), and collects historical data to assist planning and service level management.
• Cluster Systems Management provides platform level monitoring, alerting and automated responses for distributed and clustered Power servers running AIX, IBM i and Linux and System x servers running Linux from a single point of control.

ANALYZE and TROUBLESHOOT – Identify and report energy and resource usage in your operational infrastructure

• Active Energy Manager is an extension of IBM Director 5.20.2 that enables platform monitoring and reporting of energy usage across supported Power servers within the IT infrastructure.
• Management Edition for AIX includes Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Virtualization Edition which helps to justify IT resources and expenses by providing the ability to measure, analyze and report system utilization on virtualized Power servers to determine the cost of an IT service or application.
• Cluster Systems Management helps to minimize downtime of server clusters by providing platform level software diagnostic tools that analyze software components and servers to quickly identify the root cause of a problem.

OPTIMIZE – Adjust Power server resource utilization, workloads and energy use to meet business requirements

• IBM Virtualization Manager is an extension of IBM Director 5.20.2 that provides the platform management tools to discover, visualize, and manage both physical and virtual servers from a single console. Virtualization Manager interoperates with VMware, Xen Microsoft® and PowerVM Virtual Server environments for an additional charge.
• Active Energy Manager is an extension of IBM Director 5.20.2 that enables platform management of energy usage across systems within the IT infrastructure. Energy management capabilities are available for selected POWER6 processor-based server models.
• The Integrated Virtualization Manager facilitates platform level partitioning, logical partitions (LPAR) management, and virtual storage and Ethernet management on a single server. It is included at no additional charge with the purchase of PowerVM, lowering the cost of entry into virtualization on Power Systems.
• The Hardware Management Console is a dedicated appliance that helps to configure and manage partitions as well as Capacity on Demand processor and memory activations on Power Systems.
• The Workload Partitions Manager for AIX centralizes the creation and management of workload partitions (WPAR) across multiple systems, which provides enablement for Live Application Mobility.

MAINTAIN AND UPDATE – Keep your Power Systems up to date

• IBM Systems Director Console for AIX provides web-based management access to common systems administration tasks on the AIX operating system. This solution can be used with or without IBM Director.
• IBM System i Navigator is a Microsoft Windows-based tool that offers a graphical interface with platform level server navigation, configuration, planning capabilities for your IBM i environments.
• Cluster Systems Management provides a platform level configuration file manager to distribute and synchronize files across nodes or node groups in a cluster.