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Proactive AIX Analysis for System p / Power

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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

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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.

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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.

Snapshot of an AIX report:

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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 SolutionRegular 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

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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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PAA Delivery Flow

EcuRep Server

Compressedsnapfile(s)

PAA

PAA - automaticanalysis & report

generation

PAAReports

File transfer to

IBM EcuRep Server

Client

IBM

Client

After contract signing:- Welcome call - PAA Welcome package

incl. Customer Usage Guide

PAAReportsPAA

Reports

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Creating & renamingsnap files

Legend:

More on EcuRep server : https://www-304.ibm.com/jct05001c/de/support/ecurep/

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THANK YOU

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