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Realize the Full Potential of Virtualization

New PowerVM™ features are bringing powerful virtualization features to IBM Power™ Systems users, enabling them to consolidate servers and optimize computing resources to a degree never before experienced. However, these advanced virtualization features also bring additional complexity. When matched with the proper visibility and control, it is possible for Power Systems users to optimize the utilization of their virtualized capacity and improve the quality of services relying on these environments.

Delivering Proactive Management

OmniVision for IBM Power is capacity management software that produces decision-support reports for administrators and capacity managers to maximize utilization and minimize risk in their PowerVM environments. It can be used daily to measure availability and workload utilization, isolate problems, optimize resource allocations and anticipate future capacity requirements — no matter how large the data center.

OmniVision for IBM Power users consistently capture strong returns for their IT organization. Prior to using OmniVision, many organizations were greatly over-sizing their Power environments leaving costly infrastructure under-utilized in order to avoid the risk of performance degradations. With OmniVision for IBM Power, these organizations assess their true capacity requirements. Power users have been able to double or triple resource utilization, reclaim unused CPU and storage capacity for new applications, and eliminate purchases of new hardware to reduce infrastructure costs.

OmniVision for IBM Power manages the capacity and monitors the performance of PowerVM environments, enabling organizations to become:

• Proactive:
  From an intuitive management dashboard, OmniVision for IBM Power provides detailed metrics about key elements including micro-partitioning, shared-processor pool, dynamic logical partitioning, Live Partition Mobility, and Workload Partitions. Improved visibility and control of the virtualized environment, from a single location, speeds mean time to repair for performance related incidents, while advanced trending helps to anticipate capacity issues ahead of any impact to IT services.
• Optimized:
  With ever-tightening IT budgets, optimizing the utilization of virtualized capacity is increasingly important. OmniVision for IBM Power provides a centralized view of system loads and trends over time to enable constant review and optimization of resources. The need for greater resources can be identified well ahead of time to decrease procurement costs, and underutilized resources can be assigned greater loads, or turned off, to optimize existing investments. By continuously monitoring capacity and managing costs, changes can be made safely and economically.
• Automated, Intelligent and Scalable:
  OmniVision for IBM Power provides unmatched, comprehensive visibility into these complex virtualized environments. Automated daily reports provide faster insight and problem resolution. Intelligent reporting provides an accurate assessment of how resources are being used while improving guidance on key capacity decisions. OmniVision also incorporates a robust and proven architecture that enables it to scale to meet the most demanding IT needs.

Virtual Reports Deliver Tangible Results

OmniVision gathers detailed metrics at both the system and partitioned level — delivering an accurate, end-to-end view of virtualized IBM Power servers with unmatched visibility into their complex configurations features. Through OmniVision's Virtualized Server Reports (VSRs), capacity managers receive automated daily, weekly and monthly HTML reports for IBM Power that deliver the information — and confidence — to proactively manage the virtualized environments by:

• Isolating problems between the server and within a partition
• Determining whether partitions are in conflict for resources
• Indicating if Power Systems have too much or too little capacity, both now and in the future
• Verifying that the environment is operating as desired with no performance issues
• Reporting and communicating system availability, as well as the performance and utilization of virtualized resources

The OmniVision Difference

Only OmniVision delivers a clear, seamless view of capacity and performance across virtualized and physical UNIX and x86 based systems. OmniVision provides unsurpassed scalability to meet the demands of any IT organization while providing automated and intelligence capacity reports that deepen visibility, increase control and improve return on valuable IT investments.