CA Nimsoft Monitor

IBM PowerVM’s virtualization for the IBM Power6 and Power7 processor family supports AIX, Linux, and IBM I series virtual machines.  Virtualization usage results in increased density and complexity—with up to 10 VMs per processor core, shared partitioned resources, processor and storage pools, and live partition mobility. This increased variability and complexity results in new requirements for monitoring.

CA Nimsoft Monitor for IBM PowerVM uses agentless data collection and core CA Nimsoft Monitor platform features to:

• Provide events, alarms, and performance data from the IBM PowerVM physical server as well as the VMs it hosts—including metrics for system state, disk, network, CPU, and memory as well as storage pools and resource pools.
• Automatically create and display monitoring data using CA Nimsoft templates and list views.
• Correlate and display container monitoring with data from the IBM PowerVM-based host.

This solution allows monitoring thresholds and data sets collected to be automatically set by OS version, container name, or other parameter, and then appropriately displayed and correlated. This approach eliminates the need to manually apply monitoring for base CPU, disk, network, and memory metrics.

For a more complete view of entire business services, or deeper views into the operation of applications and virtual servers, use additional elements of the CA Nimsoft Monitor solution to set and meet SLAs for the applications and systems hosted within IBM PowerVM virtualized environments.