z/VM Performance Data Pump

z/VM® Performance Data Pump (Data Pump) converts machine-readable z/VM monitor and SFS data into a generic text-based data stream. Modern tools can use the data stream to display real-time performance dashboards, aggregate real-time data for long-term usage analysis, or integrate with existing enterprise observability solutions.

Purpose

Data Pump provides high-quality z/VM performance data to enterprise monitoring tools that are already deployed for application monitoring or capacity planning. Such tools align with skills and experiences of many users and offer integration with other tools and solutions.

Data Pump by itself does not deliver value that a user can readily use. To take advantage of Data Pump the customer must provision, configure, and deploy other services to process the data stream. While instructions for deploying the open source solutions are available, these components are not delivered with the z/VM product. For more information, see z/VM Performance Data Pump.

Relationship to Performance Toolkit

z/VM Performance Data Pump is licensed with Performance Toolkit for z/VM but does not support, depend upon, or interact with Performance Toolkit for z/VM in any way. Data Pump does not depend on function that is provided by Performance Toolkit, and Performance Toolkit does not process data from Data Pump. Data Pump is an alternative way to process the same CP monitor data that Performance Toolkit can process. A customer might decide to use Performance Toolkit or Data Pump or both, depending on the requirements. When a customer wants to use both tools, a separate virtual machine is required to run the Data Pump program.