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104 IBM Power System S822 Technical Overview and Introduction
IBM PowerVP helps reduce time and complexity to find and display performance bottlenecks
through a simple dashboard that shows the performance health of the system. It can help
simplify both prevention and troubleshooting and thus reduce the cost of performance
management.
It assists you in the following way:
Shows workloads in real-time highlighting of possible problems or bottlenecks
(overcommitted resources)
Helps better utilize virtualized IBM Power System servers by showing distribution of
workload
Is able to replay saved historical data
Helps with the resolution of performance related issues
Helps to proactively address future issues that could affect performance
IBM PowerVP is integrated with the POWER Hypervisor and collects performance data
directly from PowerVM Hypervisor, which offers the most accurate performance information
about virtual machines running on IBM Power Systems. This performance information is
displayed on a real-time, continuous GUI dashboard and it is also available for historical
review.
Features of IBM PowerVP include:
Real-time, continuous graphical monitor (dashboard) that delivers an easy-to-read display
showing the overall performance health of the Power server.
Customizable performance thresholds that enables you to customize the dashboard to
match your monitoring requirements.
Historical statistics that enables you to go back in time and replay performance data
sequences to find out performance bottlenecks.
System-level performance views that show all LPARs (Virtual Machines) and how they are
using real system resources.
Virtual machine drill-down, which gives you more performance details for each virtual
machine, displaying detailed information on various resources like CPU, memory, and disk
activity.
Support for all virtual machine types including AIX, IBM i, and Linux.
Background data collection, which enables performance data to be collected when the
GUI is not active.
IBM PowerVP even allows an administrator to drill down and view specific adapter, bus or
CPU usage. An administrator can see the hardware adapters and how much workload is
placed on them. IBM PowerVP provides both an overall and detailed view of IBM Power
System server hardware so it is easy to see how virtual machines are consuming resources.
More information about PowerVP can be found at:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/performance/