AXIBASE ENTERPRISE REPORTER

KEY FEATURES

Enterprise-level capacity and

optimization analysis for pSystems

environment.

Continuous right-sizing of logical

partitions based on application

profiles.

Complete configuration discovery

of frames, LPARs, WPARs, pools,

and VIO servers.

Shortlists of over- and under-

provisioned LPARs for each frame

and for the entire infrastructure.

IBM-validated integration with IBM

Tivoli Monitoring, v 6.2+.

OPTIMIZING VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

Axibase Enterprise Reporter for IBM Power™ Systems (pSystems) provides a

comprehensive solution for managing performance in pSystems environments

supporting enterprise-scale applications such as DB2, SAP, Oracle DB, Oracle

Applications, and J2EE servers.

By correlating historical utilization with detailed configuration data at the

PowerVM™ hypervisor layer and analyzing contentions across shared CPU,

memory, storage, network resources, AER recommends optimized

entitlements for each logical partition based on its business priority.

ENTERPRISE CAPACITY SUMMARY

BENEFITS

AER delivers a proven foundation for minimizing performance bottlenecks

in Tier-1 applications while increasing server consolidation ratio (LPARs

per allocated CPU) by up to 30% and frame utilization to 60-70%.

Continuously right-sizes the virtual infrastructure by reclaiming capacity

from over-allocated partitions toward expanding production workloads.

For customers with hundreds of LPARs, AER automates capacity planning

process that previously required allocation of highly-trained resources.

AER is deployed in production in some of the world's largest AIX

environments and is validated by IBM for ITM integration since 2008.

IBM Power™ Systems Module

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CONTINOUS INFRASTRUCTURE RIGHT-SIZING AER continuously analyzes large volumes of historical data to

recommend optimal settings for each partition based on

priority of hosted applications.

As a result, the frames are always balanced avoiding costly

upgrades for as long as capacity can be re-allocated internally

without any impact on application response times.

Customers can establish capacity buffers (e.g. extra 25% for

production LPARs) to ensure sufficient lead time for expansion.

STATISTICAL APPROACH TO CAPACITY PLANNING AER utilizes a concept of LPAR application profile for capacity

planning. Each profile encapsulates a set of rules for computing

optimal CPU entitlement and virtual CPU count based on

historical CPU utilization.

For example, an 'SAP Production' profile can compute the right

settings for particular SIDs in the SAP environment so that

these LPARs have guaranteed CPU to process 75% of peaks and

enough vCPUs to process 100% of peaks during business hours.

By leveraging statistics, production profiles minimize

unnecessary over-allocation whereas development profiles

prevent workload 'starvation'.

Further tuning is possible by targeting profiles at particular

days of week and peak/off-peak business hours.

Ability to exclude partitions from optimization analysis in order

to meet sizing requirements established by application vendors.

Profiles can be assigned to multiple LPARs or entire frames to

minimize ongoing configuration efforts.

FORECASTS AND TRENDING Weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly capacity forecasts at the

frame, LPAR, WPAR and files system level.

Ability to filter forecasts by application such as SAP SID or by

environment: Production, Staging, Development.

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VIO SERVER INTROSPECTION Discovers detailed VIO server configuration: virtual ethernet

adapters, shared ethernet adapters, etherchannels, physical

adapters, default and additional VLAN IDs.

Maps LPAR network interfaces to VIO adapters using VLAN IDs

and identifies top-5 partitions by traffic for each adapter.

Correlates sent/received statistics between VIOS and LPARs.

E-TOPAS (ENTERPRISE TOPAS) Cross-frame visualization of LPAR utilization statistics in near

real-time without overhead of polling individual LPARs.

Scales to 1000s of LPARs at up to 15 second polling interval.

Allows pSystems administrators to instantly identify top-N

over-utilized partitions across the entire IT landscape.

MULTI-PARTITION ROLL-UPS Reports resource utilization for LPARs supporting a particular

application or for a user-defined subset of LPARs, even if the

LPARs are hosted on different frames.

Computes rolled up averages, maximums, minimums, and totals

for LPAR subsets. Supports expressions to filter LPARs

dynamically.

PRE-DEFINED REMOTE COMMANDS Allows end-users to lookup detailed configuration information

for each LPAR using pre-defined remote commands such as

prtconf or lparstat –i.

The list of commands can be extended by administrators and

can be disabled in locked-down environments.

Doesn't require direct connectivity to LPARs. Commands are

routed and executed using ITM servers.

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WPAR DRILL-DOWN Continuously scans system- and user-defined workload

partitions (WPARs) while analyzing WPAR resource

consumption within each LPAR.

Identifies top-3 WPAR consumers in each LPAR and computes

their resource utilization shares.

CEC & ITM RUNTIME AUDIT Identifies 'grey' capacity to ensure complete performance

monitoring coverage:

- Running partitions that are not monitored by CEC.

- Running partitions without an ITM OS agents.

- Running partition with an offline ITM OS agent.

CONSOLIDATION ACROSS MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTS Provides enterprise-level rollup of pSystems capacity and

utilizations across multiple environments managed by isolated

ITM installations.

Ability to drill-down from the Enterprise Level into production,

staging, and development frames within the same interface.

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REQUIREMENTS

1. Hardware (Virtual Machine)

Environment < 100 Servers < 1000 Servers > 1000 Servers

Processor 1 CPU, 2+ GHz 2 CPU, 2+ GHz 2 CPU, 2+ GHz

Memory 1 GB (512MB for JVM)

2 GB (1 GB for JVM)

4 GB (1.5 GB for JVM)

Disk Space 500 MB for app. files

1 GB for report files

500 MB for app. files

2 GB for report files

500 MB for app. files

5 GB for report files

2. Operating Systems

Windows: Windows Server 2003, SP 2+; Windows Server 2008

AIX: 6.1, 7.1 with IBM JRE 1.6

Linux: Red Hat EL 5+, SUSE Linux 9+

3. Applications

IBM Tivoli Monitoring:

a. ITM core: v 6.2+.

b. AIX Premium Agent, CEC Base Agent, VIOS Premium Agent: 6.2+.

LPARs:

a. AIX® 5.3 Technology Level 5 (32/64 bit) and above.

b. AIX 6.1 (64 bit).

c. AIX 7.1.

d. VIOS V2.2.0.0 Fix Pack 24 (CEC Base Agent is pre-installed in this version and higher).

CEC/HMC/LPAR configuration:

a. ssh is configured correctly between CEC and HMC.

b. xmservd/xmtopas is running on the monitored LPARs.

c. communication on the UDP port 2279 is not blocked.

4. Web Browsers

Internet Explorer 7.x, 8.x, 9.x

Mozilla Firefox 3.x

Google Chrome 10.x+

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