LPAR Capacity Planning UpdateŠ

Trademarks

Goal and Objective

What is Capacity Planning?

Important??

Important, or Not?

Resources Working Together

First, Is The Performance OK?

LPAR Overview

Available Time on Physical System

LPAR Definitions

Workload's Current Use

Current Use of the Physical System

Current Use of the Physical System

Trend Important Partition

Represent Engines as Columns

Make It Easier to Understand

Average Growth Over Time

Add Percentiles

Add Max to Percentiles

Consider: Averages or Percentiles?

Do Peaks Matter?

Waiting for CPU?

Waiting for CPU?

Change Across an Upgrade

LPAR Review

Why You Want Parallel Sysplex

Sizing Coupling Facilities

Recovery Issues

What Does It cost?1

What Is Making Decisions?

What Can Push?

What Can Push (IRD)?

IRD-Channels

IRD-Channels

IRD-CPU Management

IRD-CPU Management

IRD-CPU Management Controls

What Can Push?

What Can Push?

Engine Allocation

Average Utilization/Available

Capacity for Handling Peaks

Trend Similar to LPAR

Software Pricing

Software Pricing: Why White Space5

Software Pricing White Space5

Summary

Questions?