Ibm Power Virtualization Performance - IBM Power Systems E870 Technical Overview And Introduction

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After the product code is loaded, the IBM PowerVC no-menus interface guides you through
three simple configuration steps to register physical hosts, storage providers, and network
resources, and start capturing and intelligently deploying your virtual machines (VMs), among
the other tasks that are 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 usage of the resources that are in your environment.
Migrate virtual machines while they are running (hot migration).
Deploy images quickly to create 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 data center.
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 that are included with IBM PowerVC
Editions.
Table 3-6 IBM PowerVC Editions key features overview.
IBM Power Virtualization Center Express
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 VIOS virtual machine on
each host
For more information about IBM PowerVC, see IBM PowerVC Version 1.2 Introduction and
Configuration, SG24-8199.

3.7 IBM Power Virtualization Performance

IBM Power Virtualization Performance (IBM PowerVP) for Power Systems is a new product
that offers a performance view in to an IBM PowerVM virtualized environment running on the
latest firmware of IBM Power Systems. It can show which virtual workloads are using specific
physical resources on an IBM Power Systems server.
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 ways:
Shows workloads in real time, which highlights possible problems or bottlenecks
(overcommitted resources)
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IBM Power Virtualization Center Standard
Edition
Supports IBM Power Systems hosts that are
managed by an HMC
Supports storage area networks
Supports multiple VIOSs virtual machines on
each host