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3.6 IBM PowerVC
IBM Power Virtualization Center (IBM PowerVC) is designed to simplify the management of
virtual resources in your Power Systems environment.
Once the product code is loaded, IBM PowerVC’s no-menus interface will guide you through
three simple configuration steps to register physical hosts, storage providers, and network
resources and start capturing and intelligently deploying your VMs among other tasks shown
in the following list:
򐂰 Create virtual machines and then resize and attach volumes to them.
򐂰 Import existing virtual machines and volumes so they can be managed by IBM PowerVC.
򐂰 Monitor the utilization of the resources that are in your environment.
򐂰 Migrate virtual machines while they are running (hot migration).
򐂰 Deploy images quickly to create new virtual machines that meet the demands of your
ever-changing business needs.
IBM PowerVC is built on OpenStack. OpenStack is an open source software that controls
large pools of server, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter.
IBM PowerVC is available in two editions:
򐂰 IBM Power Virtualization Center Express Edition
򐂰 IBM Power Virtualization Center Standard Edition
Table 3-6 shows an overview of the key features included with IBM PowerVC Editions:
Table 3-6 IBM PowerVC Editions key features overview.
For more information on IBM PowerVC, refer to the IBM PowerVC Introduction and
Configuration, SG24-8199, available at:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg248199.html?Open
3.7 IBM PowerVP
IBM Power Virtualization Performance (PowerVP) for Power Systems is a new product that
offers a performance view into an IBM PowerVM virtualized environment running on the latest
firmware of IBM Power systems. It is capable of showing which virtual workloads are using
specific physical resources on an IBM Power Systems server.
IBM Power Virtualization Center Express
Edition
IBM Power Virtualization Center Standard
Edition
򐂰 Supports IBM Power Systems hosts that
are managed by the Integrated
Virtualization Manager (IVM).
򐂰 Supports storage area networks, local
storage, and a combination in the same
environment.
򐂰 Supports a single Virtual I/O Server
virtual machine on each host.
򐂰 Supports IBM Power Systems hosts
that are managed by a Hardware
Management Console (HMC).
򐂰 Supports storage area networks.
򐂰 Supports multiple Virtual I/O Servers
virtual machines on each host.