IBM Performance Management for Power Systems (PM for Power Systems) - support for IBM i

The IBM® Performance Management for Power Systems (PM for Power Systems) in support of IBM i offering automates the collection, archival, and analysis of system performance data and returns reports to help you manage system resources and capacity.

The PM for Power Systems offering includes the Performance Management Agent (PM Agent). The PM Agent is a function of the operating system that provides automated collection of nonproprietary Collection Services data, reduces the data, and sends the data to IBM. When you send your data to IBM, you eliminate the need to store all the trending data yourself. IBM stores the data for you and provides you with a series of reports and graphs that show your server's growth and performance. You can access your reports electronically using a traditional browser.

This offering, when used with the IBM Systems Workload Estimator, allows you to better understand how your business trends relate to the timing of required hardware upgrades, such as central processing unit (CPU) or disk. The IBM Systems Workload Estimator can size a systems consolidation or evaluate upgrading a system with logical partitions, by having PM Agent send the data for multiple systems or partitions to the IBM Systems Workload Estimator.