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Abstract
IBM® PowerVM® virtualization technology is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages the virtual environments on POWER5™-, POWER5+™, POWER6®, and POWER7™-based systems.
Available on IBM Power Systems™, and IBM BladeCenter® servers as optional Editions, and supported by the AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems, this set of comprehensive systems technologies and services is designed to enable you to aggregate and manage resources using a consolidated, logical view. Deploying PowerVM virtualization and IBM Power Systems offers you the following benefits:
- Lower energy costs through server consolidation
- Reduced cost of your existing infrastructure
- Better management of the growth, complexity, and risk of your infrastructure
To achieve this goal, PowerVM virtualization provides the following technologies:
- Virtual Ethernet
- Shared Ethernet Adapter
- Virtual SCSI
- IBM Micro-Partitioning® technology
- Multiple Shared-Processor Pools
- N_Port Identifier Virtualization
- PowerVM Live Partition Mobility
- IBM Active Memory™ Sharing[
- Active Memory Expansion
- Partition Suspend and Resume
- Shared Storage Pools
This IBM Redbooks® publication is an extension of IBM PowerVM Virtualization: Introduction and Configuration Fifth Edition, SG24-7940. It provides an organized view of best practices for managing and monitoring your PowerVM environment with respect to virtualized resources managed by the Virtual I/O Server.
This publication is divided into two parts:
- Part 1 focuses on system management. It provides best practices to optimize the resources, and illustrates these practices using practical examples. It also details how to secure and maintain your virtual environments. In addition, new features of the Virtual I/O Server Version 2.1, such as N_Port ID Virtualization, are explained.
- Part 2 describes how to monitor a PowerVM virtualization infrastructure. Rather than presenting a list of tools, it addresses practical situations to help you select and use the monitoring tool that best shows the resources you are interested in. Reminders of the key PowerVM features are also provided.
Table of contents
Part 1. PowerVM virtualization management
Chapter 1. Introduction
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. Partition Suspend and Resume
Chapter 9. System Planning Tool
Chapter 10. Automated management
Chapter 11. High-level management
Part 2. PowerVM virtualization monitoring
Chapter 12. Virtual I/O Server monitoring agents
Chapter 13. Monitoring global system resource allocations
Chapter 14. Monitoring commands on the Virtual I/O Server
Chapter 15. CPU monitoring
Chapter 16. Memory monitoring
Chapter 17. Virtual storage monitoring
Chapter 18. Virtual network monitoring
Chapter 19. Third-party monitoring tools for AIX and Linux
Appendix A. Sample script for disk and NIB network checking and recovery on AIX virtual clients
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