IBM Power Systems

Systems Software leadership for innovation

Software Editions

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Mike PerryIT Specialist

IBM Systems & Technology Group

IBM Power Systems

Enterprise Edition Offerings

• AIX

• Systems Director

• VMControl(VMControl is a bundled component of Systems Director, but has its own chart below

to show the features which are provided by each version)

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to show the features which are provided by each version)

• PowerVM

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AIXEditions

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Editions

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AIX Editions…..

AIX 5.3 & AIX 6.1

� Operating System� Virtualisation support

� RAS�

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AIX 6.1 Enterprise Edition bundle consisting of

� AIX V6.1� PowerVM AIX Workload Partitions Manager� Systems Director Enterprise Edition� Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager

� IBM Tivoli Monitoring

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Management of WPARS across multiple systems

Lifecycle operations

Single Console for:

� Graphical Interface

� Create & Remove

� Start & stop

� Checkpoint & RestartWorkload

Browser

Workload Partitions Manager

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� Monitoring & Reporting

� Manual Relocation

� Automated Relocation

� Policy driven change

Infrastructure Optimization

Load Balancing

WPAR Agent

Global Level

System/Application WPARs

WPAR Agent

Global Level

System/Application WPARs

WPAR Agent

Global Level

System/Application WPARs

Workload

Partition

Manager

Web Service

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Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager

� Improved support for Workload partitions

� Data feed from ITM for instant status changes & discovery of new LPARs

IBM Tivoli Monitoring

� Improved out of box reports & easier installation

� Automatic best practices configuration

AIX Enterprise EditionTivoli components available as part of AIX Enterprise Edition

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� Tivoli Common Reporting for enhanced reporting across products

Tivoli Performance Analyzer (integrated into ITM)

� Extends ITM data to predictive trending to manage performance over time

� New forecasting of resource trends to focus monitoring on emerging problems.

� Leverages the long-term historical and real time data in Tivoli Data Warehouse

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IBM Tivoli Application Dependency

Discovery Manager initiates and assists

planning for consolidation by providing best-

of-breed discovery capabilities

� Discovers the COMPONENTS in a Data Center

Environment

IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)

AIX EE Solution Components: Discovery

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Environment

� CENTRALIZES and VISUALIZES the

CONFIGURATION of the Components in a Data

Center Environment

� Discovers the RELATIONSHIP of the Components

in a Data Center Environment

� DISCOVERS AND TRACKS THE CHANGES in a

Data Center Environment

Can Feed this Information to other IBM Tivoli® Products

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System 1

System p Discovery - Topology View

AIX EE Solution Components: Discovery

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TADDM discovery of System p Topology via Hardware Management Console (HMC)

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IBM Tivoli Monitoring helps prioritize consolidation decisions by visualizing the

actual virtual server utilization against historical trends. It automates a client’s

best practices in response to system events

� Improves mean-time-to-recovery by

visualizing the virtual world to solve

“virtual performance problems”

� Side-by-side real-time and historical data

Tivoli EnterprisePortal User Tivoli Enterprise

Portal Server Tivoli Data Warehouse

Tivoli EnterprisePortal User

Tivoli EnterprisePortal User Tivoli Enterprise

Portal Server Tivoli Data WarehouseTivoli Data Warehouse

IBM Tivoli Monitoring

AIX EE Solution Components: Monitoring

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� Side-by-side real-time and historical data

assists in separating intermittent problems

from reoccurring problems from peak

workloads

� Out-of-the-box reporting allows

customers to quickly provide executive

level reports and identify resource

bottlenecks

Hub TivoliEnterprise

Management Server

Remote Tivoli Enterprise Management Servers

Hub TivoliEnterprise

Management Server

Remote Tivoli Enterprise Management Servers

“Managed Servers”

Universal Agent / Agent Builder

Agentless Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent Agent

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System p Monitoring – Hypervisor View

AIX EE Solution Components: Monitoring

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System p Monitoring – AIX LPAR View

AIX EE Solution Components: Monitoring

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System p Monitoring – VIOS LPAR View

AIX Solution Components: Monitoring

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System p Monitoring – Heat Chart for Server Utilization

AIX EE Solution Components: Monitoring

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AIX Enterprise Edition

To the base AIX V6.1 OS, Enterprise Edition adds:

•PowerVM AIX Workload Partitions Manager

•Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager

•IBM Tivoli Monitoring

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•IBM Tivoli Monitoring

•IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition

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IBM Systems Director & AIX Editions

Products

IBM Systems Director Express Edition

IBM Systems Director Standard Edition

IBM Systems Director

Enterprise Edition

AIX Enterprise Edition

IBM System Director 6.1.2 � � � �

Active Energy Manager 4.2 � � �

VMControl 2.2

Express � � � �Standard � � �

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� � �Enterprise � �

Network Control 1.1 � � �

Transition Manager for HP® SIM � � � �

Service and Support Manager 6.1.2 � � � �

IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.2(incl. Capacity Planning)

� �

Tivoli Application Dependency

Discovery Manager v7.2� �

AIX WPAR Manager V2.1 �

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Systems Director

System pools

Systems Director Enterprise Edition

Systems Director Standard Edition

Systems Director Express Edition

Systems Director is bundled with AIX EE, but can also be purchased separately for non-AIX EE environments

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Advanced discovery and

monitoring

Advanced energy reporting

pools deployment

Energy Management

Virtual image management

Network management

Basic monitoring

and updates

Express Edition

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VMControl Editions

VMControlVMControl

Express EditionVMControl

Standard EditionVMControl

Enterprise Edition

Virtualization Capabilities

Manage resourcesAutomate virtual

imagesOptimize system

pools

PowerVM

Create/manage virtual machines � � �

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Create/manage virtual machines (x86, PowerVM and z/VM) � � �

Virtual machine relocation � � �

Capture/import, create/remove standardized virtual images � �

Deploy standard virtual images � �

Maintain virtual images in a centralized library � �

Create/remove system pools and manage resources in system pools

�

Add/remove physical servers within system pools �

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ExpressEdition

StandardEdition

EnterpriseEdition

Servers

Supported

p520 / p550 Power

750

PS70x

POWER 5 / 6 / 7

JS2X / JS43 /JS12PS70x

POWER 6 / 7, JS2X, JS43,

PS70x

Max LPARs2 + 1VIOS /

Server10 / Core 10 / Core

Management IVM IVM & HMC IVM & HMC

PowerVM Editions

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Management IVM IVM & HMC IVM & HMC

VIOS Yes Yes Yes

Live Partition Mobility No No Yes

Shared Processor Pools NoYes

(HMC)

Yes(HMC)

Active Memory Sharing No No Yes

Shared Dedicated Capacity Yes Yes Yes

Operating Systems AIX & Linux AIX & Linux AIX & Linux

PowerVM Lx86 Yes Yes Yes

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