Performance Tuning and Partition Management

Your goal should be to tune system (partition) performance with Robot/AUTOTUNE, the performance manager. Robot/AUTOTUNE optimizes performance by adjusting pool sizes, activity levels, run priorities, and time slices within a partition. It employs different user-defined sets of control values, or environments, to meet differing day and night needs. You should install it on each partition you want to tune.

Performance monitoring is also a work management concern. When you buy Robot/AUTOTUNE, performance tuning software, you automatically get Robot/MONITOR, performance monitoring software. It collects performance statistics (CPU%, DASD%, transactions-per-minute, and response time) on a timed interval and lets you activate alert mechanisms if the collected statistics exceed your thresholds. Robot/AUTOTUNE performance tunes each partition and Robot/MONITOR collects and reports the results of the tuning efforts.

If you choose to use Robot/MONITOR’s graphical user interface, you can graph statistics collected by Robot/MONITOR and Robot/AUTOTUNE on your PC. You also have the option of installing and operating Robot/MONITOR in “network” mode. This option works with Robot/NETWORK, allowing you to collect and report on multiple partitions in a network environment to get the big picture of your network’s performance.

Interfaces to Robot/SCHEDULE and Robot/NETWORK provide the tools you need to run a fully automated (unattended) operations.

Robot/AUTOTUNE makes the most of the resources available to it. It also recognizes when more resources become available. Robot/LPAR lets you move System i resources from one partition to another, by command, according to your processing needs. Robot/LPAR can move I/O resources (such as tapes drives, displays, modems, and others) and performance resources (processors and memory) between partitions to make the most of existing resources and meet service level agreements (SLAs). Resources can be moved interactively (without signing on to the HMC) or on a schedule by scheduling the commands in Robot/SCHEDULE.

Read more about the products mentioned in this solution:

* Robot/AUTOTUNE, performance tuning and monitoring

* Robot/SCHEDULE, job scheduling

* Robot/NETWORK, network management

* Robot/LPAR, partition management

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