Guys

I have a VIO environment setup.. but dont know how to calculate total
processing units being used by each Lpar..

Lpars profiles contain 0.3, 0.4 units of processing power allocated
individually , but my concern to know how much proeccsing power
actually being used by Lpars and how much being available in free pool
( shared pool)

If some graphical tool present , it will be more attractive for me.


Can i use PLM for that purpose?

Regards

Polani

On 23 Jan., 21:18, Polani <kshira...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Guys
>
> I have a VIO environment setup.. but dont know how to calculate total
> processing units being used by each Lpar..
>
> Lpars profiles contain 0.3, 0.4 units of processing power allocated
> individually , but my concern to know how much proeccsing power
> actually being used by Lpars and how much being available in free pool
> ( shared pool)
>
> If some graphical tool present , it will be more attractive for me.
>
> Can i use PLM for that purpose?
>
> Regards
>
> Polani

There are quite a lot of monitoring tools for AIX available. Some (but
not all) can be found in the IBM wiki:
http://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration...ce+Other+Tools

hth
andreas

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:18:39 -0800, Polani wrote:

> Guys
>
> I have a VIO environment setup.. but dont know how to calculate total
> processing units being used by each Lpar..
>
> Lpars profiles contain 0.3, 0.4 units of processing power allocated
> individually , but my concern to know how much proeccsing power actually
> being used by Lpars and how much being available in free pool ( shared
> pool)
>
> If some graphical tool present , it will be more attractive for me.
>
>
> Can i use PLM for that purpose?
>
> Regards
>
> Polani

PLM can be quite a pain, and I'm not sure IBM is going to support it much
longer. However, you're right. If you feel like putting in on all of
your boxes and electing a partition as a server, you can run it in monitor
mode to do some of that. The WebSM interface is actually fairly pretty...

-Chris

I have been using the topas CEC reporting for pool, shared proc
stats .. and then pGraph to plot it all out ..

http://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration...e+Graph+Viewer
http://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration...raph-topas_cec
or
http://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration...ype/lslparutil

HTH
Mark Taylor

On Jan 29, 5:39 am, Christopher Petersen <cpeter...@crystallized-
software.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:18:39 -0800, Polani wrote:
> > Guys
>
> > I have a VIO environment setup.. but dont know how to calculate total
> > processing units being used by each Lpar..
>
> > Lpars profiles contain 0.3, 0.4 units of processing power allocated
> > individually , but my concern to know how much proeccsing power actually
> > being used by Lpars and how much being available in free pool ( shared
> > pool)
>
> > If some graphical tool present , it will be more attractive for me.
>
> > Can i use PLM for that purpose?
>
> > Regards
>
> > Polani
>
> PLM can be quite a pain, and I'm not sure IBM is going to support it much
> longer. However, you're right. If you feel like putting in on all of
> your boxes and electing a partition as a server, you can run it in monitor
> mode to do some of that. The WebSM interface is actually fairly pretty...
>
> -Chris

Hmm, Christopher, are you sure with PLM instead of WLM? I don't know
how IBM can stop support for PLM, and which tool may replace it.

BRGRDS, Dennis

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:39:55 -0800, Dennis Remchukov wrote:

> On Jan 29, 5:39 am, Christopher Petersen <cpeter...@crystallized-
> software.com> wrote:
>> [quoted text muted]
>
> Hmm, Christopher, are you sure with PLM instead of WLM? I don't know how
> IBM can stop support for PLM, and which tool may replace it.
>
> BRGRDS, Dennis

Just passing on rumors I've heard... The IBMers who were talking about it
said that PLM was getting little use, since most people were just using
the Hypervisor for manage CPU and not moving memory around at all...

And, that's a very good question... I'm not sure if they want to position
Director or one of the Tivoli products to do that work...

-Chris