© 2013 IBM Corporation Proactive AIX Analysis for System p / Power

© 2013 IBM Corporation Agenda  The IBM Power challenges  The Proactive AIX Analysis Solution  A fully automated report of IBM AIX, PowerHA & PowerVM  When do you need PAA?  PAA Delivery Flow 2

© 2013 IBM Corporation The IBM Power challenges  With IBM System p / Power, you expect high availability, interoperability and a high- performance environment.  With IBM System p / Power, you are establishing virtualisation and parallelization of operating systems, applications and storage.  With AIX Operating System, which is optimized on IBM Power Hardware, supported by PowerVM to manage virtual storage paths and PowerHA to ensure high-availability in outage cases, you can meet all these requirements.  But …  Microcode, Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), AIX, PowerVM and PowerHA have dependencies in communication, parameters and interoperability.  Each component has its own Technical Levels, APARs, PTFs, etc. Thus your Operating Team does not always have the time and required skills to analyze this information into a holistic environment set-up.  With a preventive service to check software components, IBM supports you with an up-to- date configuration report based on IBM Technical Support Services best practices using the worldwide IBM knowledge database through automatic and dynamic processes. 3

© 2013 IBM Corporation The Proactive AIX Analysis Solution  Proactive AIX Analysis is a fully automated report generator.  Based on the LPAR snap files you provide, IBM will analyze and generate reports: –Reports are generated for AIX, PowerVM (VIO) and PowerHA (HACMP). –The report contains a table with an overview of the current information from the provided snap files compared with the IBM Support knowledge database. –The review outcome and potential findings will be reported. –No software tool or agent has to be installed to gather the required information. –You will get a report for each LPAR in Adobe PDF format. Snapshot of an AIX report: 4

© 2013 IBM Corporation A fully automated report of IBM AIX, PowerHA & PowerVM IBM Value Proposition  IBM AIX expert knowhow centralized at one worldwide problem management database  Established process to analyze the AIX, Power VM and Power HA snaps  Proactive AIX Analysis (PAA) for System p is an innovative and unique service by IBM Your Benefits  Prevention of AIX system failures and outages: -reduced time to resolve problems using reports -minimized unscheduled downtime due to proactive management -input for systems management processes -monthly AIX report  Stabilization of one or more AIX LPARs on IBM System p by continuous error prevention  IT cost savings -no investment in up-to-date AIX skill -reducing IT resources Your Initial Situation  High complexity of AIX information: -How to differentiate important from unimportant information?  High variety of AIX, Power VM and Power HA LPARs  The size of error log file is limited: -Important system availability information could be lost!  Cost pressure & skill deficit The Solution Regular pro-active and fully automated service:  Analysis of AIX, Power VM and Power HA snap-data focused on areas that are related to AIX system stability  Automated expert-reports containing: -Paging Space, memory and cache usage -Network communication -Storage response times -CPU utilization -Automated delivery to the defined address 5

© 2013 IBM Corporation When do you need PAA? To ensure the continuity of your business :  Your system must be installed and configured correctly  Virtualizing solution must be configured correctly  High availability solution must be configured correctly  All systems must be on a latest and supported fix level  Solve performance balancing issues  Reduce business complaints Trigger questions:  Is IT availability a significant competitive factor for you?  Which service level requirements do you have?  Do you have the required resources and skills to manage the increasing IT complexity and availability requirements? 6

© 2013 IBM Corporation PAA Delivery Flow EcuRep Server Compressed snap file(s) PAA PAA - automatic analysis & report generation PAA Reports File transfer to IBM EcuRep Server Client IBM Client After contract signing: -Welcome call -PAA Welcome package incl. Customer Usage Guide PAA Reports Customer Creating & renaming snap files Legend: More on EcuRep server : 7

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