Abstract
PowerVM™ is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages the virtual environment s on POWER5™ , POWER5+™ and POWER6™ systems. It can help simplify and optimize your IT infrastructure.
Available on most IBM® System p™ servers as optional Editions and supported by the AIX® and Linux® and i5/OS operating systems, this set of comprehensive systems technologies and services are designed to enable you to aggregate and manage resources via a consolidated, logical view. The key benefits of deploying PowerVM and IBM System p are:
Cut energy costs through server consolidation
Reduce the cost of existing infrastructure
Manage growth, complexity and risk on your infrastructure
To achieve this goal, the PowerVM features provide the following technologies:
Virtual Ethernet
Shared Ethernet Adapter
Virtual SCSI Server
Micro-Partitioning™ technology
Additionally new technologies were added on POWER6 systems:
Multiple Shared-Processor Pools
PowerVM Live Partition Mobility
PowerVM Workload partitions with AIX Version 6
To take complete advantage of these technologies and master your infrastructure needs and evolutions, you need to be able to correctly monitor your infrastructure activity and optimally manage your resources.
This IBM Redbook is an extention of PowerVM on System p Introduction and Configuration, SG24-79400. It provides an organized view of best practices for managing and monitoring your PowerVM environment wth respect to virtualized resources managed by the Virtual I/O Server.
You can read this book as a whole or directly jump to the system management or monitoring recipes that best suit you.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Overview
Part 1. PowerVM virtualization management
Chapter 2. Virtual storage management
Chapter 3. Virtual network management
Chapter 4. Virtual I/O Server security
Chapter 5. Virtual I/O Server maintenance
Chapter 6. Dynamic operations
Chapter 7. PowerVM Live Partition Mobility
Chapter 8. System Planning Tool
Chapter 9. Automated management
Chapter 10. High level management
Part 2. PowerVM virtualization monitoring
Chapter 11. Monitoring global system resources allocations
Chapter 12. Monitoring commands on the Virtual I/O Server
Chapter 13. CPU monitoring
Chapter 14. Memory monitoring
Chapter 15. Virtual storage monitoring
Chapter 16. Virtual network monitoring
Chapter 17. AIX performance workbench
Chapter 18. Linux monitoring and useful third party tools
Chapter 19. Virtual I/O Server integration to IBM Tivoli
Appendix A. mkldap manual page
Appendix B. Example script for disc recovery on the AIX virtual client
Special Notices
These pages are Web versions of IBM Redbooks- and Redpapers-in-progress. They are published here for those who need the information now and may contain spelling, layout and grammatical errors.
This material has not been submitted to any formal IBM test and is published AS IS. It has not been the subject of rigorous review. Your feedback is welcomed to improve the usefulness of the material to others.
IBM assumes no responsibility for its accuracy or completeness. The use of this information or the implementation of any of these techniques is a customer responsibility and depends upon the customer's ability to evaluate and integrate them into the customer's operational environment.
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