Funded (free) Power

Capacity Planning Service

Linux (all platforms), Solaris, HPUX Capacity Planning

with MPG’s Navigator Family®

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The Ultimate Consolidation/Capacity Planning Product

MPG’s Navigator Family

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•  Automates collection of NMON-SAR/infrastructure data •  Customer convenience – installs in minutes •  No performance impact •  Very little disk space - ~.5 Mb per day •  Graphical customer deliverables •  Workload modeled to any IBM Power System •  IO workload available for storage

Why use MPG’s Power Navigator Family?

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•  Install MPG host code (all OS’s) •  Dowload ftp.mpginc.com/powernav.tar.gz •  FTP to /tmp, unzip and execute install.sh

•  VMWare Linux VMs •  Download Windows program – ftp.mpginc.com/vmonnavigator.exe •  Start on a Windows client pointing to ESX or vCenter server – start for 15 minutes

Data Collecting Options

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•  MPG host code •  After a week+, FTP pninfo.hostname.tar.gz for analysis

•  VMWare Linux VMs •  FTP log directly for analysis

FTP Instruction sent once engaged

Sending Data for Analysis

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•  Enterprise Hardware Summary •  Enterprise Performance Summary •  What-If® - Analysis

•  Required CPU core count based on given model •  Multiple Virtual Shared Pool support •  PowerVM desired CPU setting recommendation •  Recommended load balancing across Enterprise

Deliverables

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See a few examples at:

http://www.mpginc.com/capplanexample.htm

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