Proactive AIX Analysis for System p / Power
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Proactive AIX Analysis for System p / Power
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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
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The IBM Power challenges
With IBM System p / Power, you expect high availability, interoperability and a highperformance 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-todate configuration report based on IBM Technical Support Services best practices using the
worldwide IBM knowledge database through automatic and dynamic processes.
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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.
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Snapshot of an AIX report:
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A fully automated report of IBM AIX, PowerHA & PowerVM
The Solution
IBM Value Proposition
Regular pro-active and fully automated service:
IBM AIX expert knowhow
centralized at one worldwide problem management
database
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
Proactive AIX Analysis (PAA) for System p is an
innovative and unique service by IBM
Your Benefits
Your Initial Situation
Prevention of AIX system failures and outages:
High complexity of AIX information:
- 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
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Established process to analyze the AIX, Power VM
and Power HA snaps
- 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
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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?
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Customer
PAA Delivery Flow
After contract signing:
- Welcome call
- PAA Welcome package
incl. Customer Usage Guide
Creating &
renaming
snap files
Compressed
snap
file(s)
File transfer
to
IBM EcuRep
Server
EcuRep
Server
IBM
Legend:
Client
PAA - automatic
analysis & report
generation
PAA
PAA
Reports
PAA
Reports
PAA
Reports
More on EcuRep server : https://www-304.ibm.com/jct05001c/de/support/ecurep/
Client
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THANK YOU
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