IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing and Monitoring

IBM® PowerVM™ virtualization technology is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages the virtual environments on POWER5™-, POWER5+™ -, and POWER6™-based systems.

Available on most IBM System p®, IBM Power Systems™, and the IBM BladeCenter® servers as optional Editions and supported by the AIX, IBM i, and Linux® for POWER® 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. The key benefits of deploying PowerVM virtualization and IBM Power Systems are as follows:

Cut energy costs through server consolidation
Reduce the cost of existing infrastructure
Manage growth, complexity, and risk of your infrastructure

Additionally, these new technologies are available on POWER6 systems:

Multiple Shared-Processor Pools
N_Port Identifier Virtualization
PowerVM Live Partition Mobility (optional available with PowerVM Enterprise Edition)

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. System Planning Tool
Chapter 9. Automated management
Chapter 10. High-level management
Part 2. PowerVM virtualization monitoring
Chapter 11. Virtual I/O Server monitoring agents
Chapter 12. Monitoring global system resource allocations
Chapter 13. Monitoring commands on the Virtual I/O Server
Chapter 14. CPU monitoring
Chapter 15. Memory monitoring
Chapter 16. Virtual storage monitoring
Chapter 17. Virtual network monitoring
Chapter 18. Third-party monitoring tools for AIX and Linux
Appendix A. Sample script for disk and NIB network checking and recovery on AIX virtual clients

• PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration Fourth Edition, SG24-7940-03
• IBM System p Advanced POWER Virtualization (PowerVM) Best Practices, REDP-4194-00
• IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility, SG24-7460-01

Publish Date
12 March 2009

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Author(s)

Ingo Dimmer is an IBM Consulting IT Specialist for System i and a PMI Project Management Professional working in the IBM STG Europe storage support organization in Mainz, Germany. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Gerhard-Mercator University Duisburg. He has nine years of experience in enterprise storage support from working in IBM post-sales and pre-sales support. Ingo's areas of expertise include System i external disk and tape storage solutions, PowerVM virtualization, I/O performance and tape encryption. He has co-authored several IBM Redbooks and white paper publications about these subjects.

• Ingo Dimmer

Volker Haug is a certified Consulting IT Specialist within IBM Systems and Technology Group, Stuttgart, Germany. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Management from the University of Applied Studies in Stuttgart. His career has included more than 21 years working in IBM PLM and Power Systems divisions as a RISC and AIX Systems Engineer. Volker is an expert in workstations and server hardware, AIX, and PowerVM virtualization. He is a member of the EMEA Power Champions team and also a member of the German Technical Expert Council, a affiliate of the IBM Academy of Technology. He has written several books and white papers about AIX, workstations, servers, and PowerVM virtualization.

• Volker Haug

Thierry Huche is an IT Specialist at the Products and Solutions Support Center, Montpellier, France, working as an IBM Power Systems Benchmark Manager. He has been with IBM France for 19 years, and has more than 17 years of AIX System Administration and Power Systems experience working in the pSeries Benchmark Center and AIX support center in Paris. He is an IBM Certified pSeries AIX System Administrator. Thierry's areas of expertise include benchmarking, virtualization, performance tuning, networking, high availability. He co-authored the IBM Redbooks publications Communications Server for AIX Explored, SG24-2591 and IBM eServer Certification Study Guide: eServer p5 and pSeries Enterprise Technical Support AIX 5L V5.3, SG24-7197.

• Thierry Huche

Anil K Singh is a senior software developer in IBM India. He has seven years of experience in testing and development, including four years in AIX. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science. His areas of expertise include programming and testing in Kernel and User mode for TCP/IP, malloc subsystem, ksh, vi, WPAR and WLM. He also has experience in planning and configuring hardware and software environment for WPAR and TCP/IP stress testing, as well as with Storage key and ProbeVue programming. Anil has co-authored an IBM Redbooks publication and published two abstracts for the IBM Academy of Technology.

• Anil K Singh

Morten VŒgmo is a certified Consulting IT Specialist in IBM Norway with 20 years of AIX and Power Systems experience. He holds a degree in Marine Engineering from the Technical University of Norway. He is a Nordic AIX Competence Leader and a member of the EMEA Power Champions team. Working in technical pre-sales support, he currently focuses on PowerVM implementations. Morten has co-authored the updates of the IBM Redbooks publications Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM System p5: Introduction and Configuration and PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration. He also presents at technical conferences about the topic of virtualization.

• Morten VŒgmo

Ananda K Venkataraman is a software engineer in the Linux Technology Center at IBM Austin. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Texas State University. He has four years of experience in Linux. Ananda's current focus is on Linux for Power, SAN storage technology, PowerVM Virtualization, and serial port device drivers.

• Ananda K Venkataraman

Scott Vetter is a Certified Executive Project Manager at the International Technical Support Organization, Austin Center. He has enjoyed 24 years of rich and diverse experience working for IBM in a variety of challenging roles. His latest efforts are directed at providing world-class Power Systems Redbooks, white papers, and workshop collateral.

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ISBN

0738432466

IBM Form Number
SG24-7590-01

Number of pages
586