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Installing and using PowerVP on AIX
IBMs PowerVP tool became available in November 2013. It was designed to provide Power Systems administrators with performance information in an enhanced visual format. The aim was to accelerate the identification of performance bottlenecks so that performance analysts could make better decisions based on more detailed and comprehensive data from POWER7 (and POWER8) systems. PowerVP presents both System (frame) and Partition level views of performance data. This has not been possible in the past using any single tool. Administrators would... [More]
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Collecting PowerVP system level data from the AIX command line.
It’s possible to collect PowerVP system level agent data from the AIX command line. You can collect this data by running Java and specifying the powervp.jar file, as shown below. You need to specify the hostname, username and password for the host where the system level agent resides. In the following example the hostname/IP address is 10.1.1.99 and the username/password is root and mypass1. I found the PowerVP JAR file in the default PowerVP install directory, which (on AIX) is usually /IBM/PowerVP/... [More]
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Display VCPU affinity with PowerVP
This post introduces two new features that I came across recently and found rather interesting. The first relates to PowerVP (VCPU affinity) and the second to POWER8 (Flexible SMT). I’m particularly impressed by this new feature in PowerVP version 1.1.2 (SP1). You can view CPU and memory affinity information directly from the PowerVP GUI. From the PowerVP Installation and User Guide: “If you go to the View menu and select the Display CPU affinity information, the CPU utilization information will be replaced in... [More]
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