Vios 2.2.3.4 Features - IBM Power Systems E870 Technical Overview And Introduction

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Helps better use virtualized IBM Power System servers by showing the distribution of
workloads
Can replay saved historical data
Helps with the resolution of performance-related issues
Helps to proactively address future issues that can 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 the following ones:
Real-time, continuous graphical monitor (dashboard) that delivers an easy-to-read display
showing the overall performance health of the Power Systems server.
Customizable performance thresholds that enable you to customize the dashboard to
match your monitoring requirements.
Historical statistics that enable you to go back in time and replay performance data
sequences to discover performance bottlenecks.
System-level performance views that show all LPARs (VMs) and how they are using real
system resources.
Virtual machine drill down, which gives you more performance details for each VM,
displaying detailed information about various resources, such as 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.
For more information about this topic, see the following website:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/performance/

3.8 VIOS 2.2.3.4 features

The enterprise systems require the VIOS version 2.2.3.4 with ifix IV6333. This release
provides the same functionality as the previous release and is updated to support the
Power E870 and E880 and other new hardware.
VIOS 2.2.3.4 features include:
Simplified Shared Ethernet Adapter Failover configuration setup
Shared Storage Pools enhancements.
Single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) is a Peripheral Component Interconnect express
(PCIe) standard architecture that enables PCI adapters to self virtualize. IBM plans to add
NIC SR-IOV capability to POWER8 servers using selected SR-IOV capable PCIe
adapters. The adapters planned to be added are 4-port Ethernet Adapters with copper
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