IBM Z System Automation
IBM Z® System Automation product is a policy-based high-availability solution that maximizes the efficiency and availability of critical systems and applications.
By using the System Automation product, you can implement policy-based automation solutions and reduce Parallel Sysplex® management costs.
The System Automation product provides the following benefits:
- Delivers high availability for IBM Z and IBM® Parallel Sysplex clusters through flexible, cluster-wide automation.
- Optimizes system health and performance to meet your Service Level Agreements by using goal-driven automation.
- Keeps CPU peaks under control by pacing the startup and shutdown of large numbers of applications.
- Reduces costs by enabling you to adapt defined LPAR capacity and LPAR weights.
- Optimizes hardware operations through a single point of control for managing processors, LPARs and IPLs of operating systems.
- Enables you to switch between modes of operation for your business workloads.
- Leverages powerful dependency support for modeling automation configurations, addressing dependencies, and optimizing operations.