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System Director for Power

Nigel's Systems Director 6 Experience. Install Server and install AIX AgentsDiscovery HMC, VIOS, AIX, othersAccessInventory now

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System Director for Power

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    1. System Director for Power / AIX Technical Intro

    2. Nigel’s Systems Director 6 Experience Install Server and install AIX Agents Discovery HMC, VIOS, AIX, others Access Inventory now & daily Navigation & creating groups Drill-down application launch Automation - event, target, action plan, autofix Update Mgr - setup, find updates connect NIM Update Manager - update AIX, firmware, HMC Security create new User with roles Topology maps Health checks Performance graphs ? CEC Performance ? Change LPAR configuration - DLPAR Create LPAR Live Partition Mobility Task management Remote access: pConsole, ssh, distributed sh Active Energy – plug-in & set HW modes Active Energy – monitoring Active Energy – control P6 & P7 WPAR Manager – plug-in and agent WPAR Manager – create, change, manage VMControl Image Manager connect NIM/agent VMControl Virtual Appliance create + deploy

    3. Hints & Tips from Experience

    4. Standard Director presentations get complaints

    5. We know IT System Management is a Barrier System Admin ? up Energy ? up Hardware ? down Software ? ~same

    6. Single S80 - 24 way with 1 AIX IBM Bedfont Lakes – ATS computer room

    7. Single S80 - 24 way with 1 AIX IBM Bedfont Lakes – same floor tiles

    8. Systems Director Does Systems Management

    9. Systems Management Practice Tasks

    10. Director focused on “Platform Management”

    11. Systems Director Redbook 900 pages – 4 inches deep but updated every 2 years … about a dynamic graphical user interface – Doh!

    12. Director at the Movies - Nigel’s Hands-on/Getting started - Now official ones on major features and functions

    13. Systems Director 6.2 Update

    14. Systems Director Releases Release 5 was very limited in use & functionality Release 6 Fifth Version May 2008 ? 6.1 Beta versions Nov 2008 ? original 6.1 May 2009 ? fix pack 6.1.1 + WPAR Manager Nov 2009 ? fix pack 6.1.2 + VMControl May 2010 ? 6.2 Systems Director Server + Active Energy Manager 4.3 Two weeks later VMControl 2.3 - Image Mgr & System Pools WPAR Manager 2.2 6.2.0.1 available recently. Please upgrade to this.!

    15. Systems Director 6.2 Highlights – IMHO Critical defects, clean up, larger fixes, new DB schema Minor new functions Installation improved http://www.ibm.com/systems/software/director/resources.html Install Server + AEM + VMControl + WPAR = ~1 hour Performance ? console, server, database, discovery Noticeably faster user interface Update for new HW + OS currency Removal of legacy Launch in Context (now integrated) Robustness: 64 bit server + Java 6 Server IP address can be changed Updating from Systems Director 6.1 Automated database export, code update & database import Very pretty blue login screen Hierarchical Server phase 1 (explained next slide)

    16. Simple Setup – Power/AIX focus FSP ? HMC ? LPAR, VIOS, AIX, NIM No re-inventing the wheel: - to update AIX, it uses NIM - to change an LPAR or LPM, it uses your HMC - to create virtual network or disk it uses your VIOS - to change a JFS size it uses the Common Agent/pConsole on AIX Virtual Server = LPAR Virtual Appliance (VA) = mksysb+info

    17. Larger setup – Systems Director with many HMCs Super-Duper HMC mode Scale well to few 1000 LPARs

    18. Hierarchical Server phase 1 - single tier Global Server

    20. Secondary costs … please be aware

    21. Systems Director 6 Server LPAR resources Assuming less than 500 endpoint (or throw-away proto-type) ?Use the default Derby database

    22. Micro-Partitions are Ideal

    23. Director 6 End-Points/Clients Don’t’ make it hard for yourself Don’t use the oldest or extremely new HMC 7.3.4+ VIOS 2.1.1 or 2.1.2 AIX 5.3 … TL06 ? No AIX 5.3 TL07 ..TL12 ? Install AIX 6.1 TL03…TL05 ? Yes or Update Always with the latest service pack NIM Server AIX 6.1 TL latest Director 6 & VMControl can share it

    24. 24 inch screen on your desk

    27. Active Energy Manager VMControl Image Mgr VMControl System Pools Workload Partition Manager Network Control Service & Support Manager Transition Manager for HP Insight

    28. Managed at Server level No AIX Common Agent required

    30. VMControl – Virtual Machine control

    31. VMControl – in Power Systems speak

    32. VMControl

    33. NEW Concept 1 – Machine size Small Medium Large

    34. NEW Concepts 2 - Editions Express Standard Enterprise

    35. Feature Matrix

    36. These prices are out of date but highlight it is a lot less than most customers’ will assume

    37. Prices = per core per year

    38. A computer room

    39. Where do the Plug-in’s install?

    40. AEM VMControl Image Mgr VMControl System Pools+ WPAR Mgr

    41. AEM VMControl Image Mgr VMControl System Pools+ WPAR Mgr

    43. Director Enterprise VMControl System Pools+CapPlan+TADDM

    44. Director Standard VMControl Image Manager

    45. Director Standard Active Energy Manager

    46. AIX 6 Workload Partition Manager

    48. It sounds complex but just list in a spread sheet Machine (serial number, model + CPUs count) & Systems Director Edition Better yet go for Enterprise everywhere! And send it to Techline ?

    49. “Interesting Areas” – hopefully being fixed Function Direct Internet Access – Ugly “package import” possible Multiple NIM Servers – Update Mgr=no but VMControl=yes Complex Network – Server ? ? Common Agent HA Director – Nothing breaks, backup that DB Virtual Appliance – missing features: OVF standard , can’t export, no change of text/CPU/RAM Issues Logging/trace – Not very user friendly Undocumented VMControl Deploying on Dual VIOS ? Dual path Disks via vSCSI – Yes ? Dual path via vEthernet – No, Single VIOS, but easy to fix for Dual ? NPIV – Not yet

    50. Further Links for Systems Director 6.2 Website & documents http://www.ibm.com/systems/management/director/ http://www.ibm.com/systems/management/director/resources/ External Movies above + “Director product videos” link on the right http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/Movies POWER & AIX ?30 on Systems Director Google “AIX Movies” Director 6 Redwiki http://www-01.ibm.com/redbooks/community/display/director/ … IBM+Systems+Director+6.1

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