IBM PowerVM Workload Partitions Manager for AIX

IBM® PowerVM™ Workload Partitions Manager™ for AIX® (WPAR Manager) is a platform management solution that provides a centralized point of control for managing workload partitions (WPARs) across a collection of AIX systems (virtual servers). For more information, see the IBM PowerVM Workload Partitions Manager for AIX topic in the Information Center.

The remainder of the WPAR Manager summary page consists of two main sections: Workload Partitions Resource Status and Manage Resources.

Setup Advisor

Click Setup Advisor to launch a wizard that will guide you through the initial setup and configuration tasks that you should complete before working with WPAR Manager.

Workload Partitions Resource Status

This section provides a summary of the status of discovered workload partitions and access to common views. A pie chart and a list indicate the number of workload partitions that have a particular status. To view workload partitions with a specific status, click one of the links in the list.
Problem severity states
The following are possible status categories, which are represented by icons:
Critical error
A red circle with the letter x indicates a critical error condition.
Warning
A yellow triangle with an exclamation point indicates a warning error condition.
Information
A blue square with the letter i indicates an informational condition.
OK
A green square indicates that the workload partition is in an OK state and no error condition is present.
Common views
Displays a list of common views. Click one of the links to access various information. You can select to view any of the following:
View WPAR-capable systems
Displays a tabular view of all discovered AIX systems (virtual servers) that are running the WPAR Manager agent, and therefore, capable of supporting WPARs and being managed by the WPAR Manager.
View Power Systems™ summary
Displays the Power Systems summary page, which displays status and common views for all your discovered Power systems. The Power Systems summary page is also available from the Systems Director Welcome page.
Health Summary
The Health Summary task displays several resource-monitoring tools on a single page. Together, these tools provide a single, consolidated interface with which you can quickly view the status of important areas of your environment, monitor critical resources, and view the contents of user-defined health summary groups.
View relocation policies
Displays the relocation policies, and allows you to create, edit, and delete policies for automatically relocating workloads from one virtual server to another in response to workload conditions.
Create relocation domain
Displays a wizard for creating a group of WPAR-capable systems which will be evaluated as candidate destinations for automatic WPAR relocation if one system in the group exceeds maximum resource usage thresholds.

Manage Resources

This section provides information about the types of resources that you have configured in your environment, as well as how many of a specific resource type you have. You can click one of the links to manage a specific type of resource.

Workload Partitions (WPARs)
Lists the total number of workload partitions in your environment, including both system and application WPARs. In addition, the following details display, if applicable.
System WPARs
Lists the number of system WPARs in your environment.
Application WPARs
Lists the number of application WPARs in your environment.
WPAR-capable systems
Lists the number of WPAR-capable AIX systems in your environment.
Common tasks
Displays some of the most common tasks that you can perform on workload partitions and WPAR-capable systems. Click a task name to get started toward your goal.
Create workload partition
Displays a wizard that helps you create a workload partition.
Relocate workload partition
Displays a wizard that helps you select a workload partition, then relocate it from one virtual server to another.
View workload partitions
Displays a tabular view of all system and application WPARs.
Application Configuration
This task lets you configure several WPAR Manager operational settings.
Create relocation domain
Displays a wizard for creating a group of WPAR-capable systems which will be evaulated as candidate destinations for automatic WPAR relocation if one system in the group exceeds maximum resource usage thresholds.

License Information

WPAR Manager can be installed and used without charge for a trial period of 60 days. This section displays information about how many days remain before the trial period ends.