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.