PM for Power Systems

IBM Performance Management for Power Systems

PM for Power Systems

Your IBM Power™ Systems model (including the IBM System i®, the IBM System p® and the new POWER6™ models) can be one of your company's most valued assets. But it is an absolute requirement you understand the utilization and growth of your system to help with making better plans for reducing cost, improving service and managing risk. Building a dynamic infrastructure that accommodates the changing demands of your business in a planet becoming smarter is critical.

That is where IBM Performance Management for Power Systems (PM for Power Systems), which now includes the former PM for System i and PM for System p, fits in. Supporting IBM i and the AIX® operating systems, this easy to use yet powerful tool easily provides you with critical information on your system's current and long term utilization trends plus helps provide insight on where you are headed, what additional capability your system has and what upgrades you might need for that "next" application. Ongoing interactive access is provided to your historical performance data so that you can easily ‘revisit’ your utilization and capacity environment from up to 24 months prior.

Whether you are interested in server consolidation, visualizing your virtualization capabilities through the addition of your own new applications or an IBM middleware application like WebSphere® or Domino® or implementing a multi-partition, multi-OS environment, PM for Power Systems can be of great assistance in helping you understand the possibilities. Click here for a whitepaper (PDF, 171KB) on how PM for Power Systems can help you visualize your system workloads on a new IBM Power System.

PM for Power Systems is available in both ‘no additional charge’ and ‘nominal charge’ options depending on the level of detail you wish to see on a routine basis. Visit the description and terms and conditions tabs for more information.

All of this is available with minimal initial set up. After initial set up, the remaining process is automated, thereby helping relieve you of those tedious and expensive tasks involved with systems management. After set up, IBM will provide you with secure Internet access to your graphs.

In summary, PM for Power System’s asset management and virtualization capabilities are an easy step in helping you build a dynamic infrastructure for tomorrow’s challenges.

What releases and models are supported?
PM for Power Systems provides support for current releases of IBM i and AIX and the hardware models they run on until the release goes to the 'End of Program Support' date.

Note: PM for Power Systems supports IBM POWER processor-based Blades running AIX and IBM i; however, it does not support x86 Blades. IBM System p5 575 rack type 9118 and IBM Power 575 Model F2A rack type 9125 are also not supported.

PM for Power Systems will attempt to process data sent from non-supported releases of IBM i and AIX 5.1 on an AS-IS basis but no guarantee is implied.

Please refer to the following for a complete list of End of Program Support Dates by operating system: