TABLE OF CONTENTS:
• Power Platform Monitoring
• Management Reporting
• Problem Determination
• Capacity Planning
• Support and Services
This checklist identifies key functions and features included in Performance Navigator performance analysis and capacity planning, so you can make the best decision for your business.
| POWER PLATFORM MONITORING | Others | Performance Navigator |
| Supports all operating systems (IBM i, AIX, VIOS, Linux) | ✓ | |
| PowerVM aware (desired, virtual, virtual shared pools, capped, uncapped, etc.) | ✓ | |
| Collects historical infrastructure data (CPU, memory, disk, etc.) | ✓ | |
| Collects historical performance data (CPU, memory, disk, etc.) | ✓ | |
| Collects historical job or process data | ✓ | |
| Collects historical disk library/object and file system data | ✓ | |
| Small disk space consumption via data reduction process | ✓ | |
| Host data collection is FREE* | ✓ | |
| *Access the data via a Windows client, includes free access to historical CPU utilization, and HTML Daily Health Check. Data can also be sent to Fortra or your IBM Business Partner for analysis. Access to all other functions/features requires keycode in the Windows client. | ||
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| MANAGEMENT REPORTING | Others | Performance Navigator |
| FREE Daily Health Check | ✓ | |
| Automated (or manual) production of management reports | ✓ | |
| Customizable dashboard framework (by enterprise, frame, partition, data center, customer) | ✓ | |
| Browser based (HTML + JPG graphs) | ✓ | |
| Email option for JPGs | ✓ | |
| Built-in and customizable reports | ✓ | |
| Reports with historical trending | ✓ | |
| Reports with best-practice guideline analysis (below, approaching, or above) | ✓ | |
| Reports by enterprise (all frames, all partitions, all operating systems) | ✓ | |
| Reports by frame (all partitions, all operating systems) | ✓ | |
| Reports by partition (all operating systems) | ✓ | |
| Reports by multiple date ranges (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) | ✓ | |
| Disk space historical analysis (why is my disk space growing) | ✓ | |
| Before & After Analysis (day vs. day, week vs. week, month vs. month, etc.) | ✓ | |
| Historical job analysis historically, including ODBC | ✓ | |
| PROBLEM DETERMINATION | Others | Performance Navigator |
| Determine if hardware is the cause or part of the cause with historical data (all components, CPU, disk, memory, VSP, etc.) | ✓ | |
| Resource utilization by partition, frame, virtual shared pool | ✓ | |
| Historical resource consumption for every job and user (monthly for years, averages by date/week/month, and interval date for 90 days) | ✓ | |
| Graphical interface over the raw Collection Services data (point and click for over 250 metrics) | ✓ | |
| Job wait bucket analysis | ✓ | |
| ODBC current user analysis | ✓ | |
| IBM i memory pool(s) analysis | ✓ | |
| CAPACITY PLANNING | Others | Performance Navigator |
| Uses data by FREE host code sent to analyst (Fortra, IBM, business partner) | ✓ | |
| Uses historical infrastructure and performance data to select a peak day automatically (averages can be used) | ✓ | |
| Consolidates workload regardless of model or operating system | ✓ | |
| Selects target system(s) (i.e. POWER9 or POWER10 model) | ✓ | |
| Automatically calculates the PowerVM settings (desired/virtual) based on active cores | ✓ | |
| Automatically calculates the PowerVM settings (desired/virtual) based on desired room for growth (optional xxth percentile) | ✓ | |
| Automatically calculates the PowerVM settings (desired/virtual) based on shared pools | ✓ | |
| Automatically calculates the number of core operating system licenses | ✓ | |
| Option to add or subtract workload | ✓ | |
| Project workload based on historical growth rate | ✓ | |
| Support for IBM Cloud and other cloud vendors | ✓ | |
| Calculated HA/DR bandwidth requirements | ✓ | |
| Support for Dynamic Capactiy (PEP2-# of base operating system licenses and recommend credit $) | ✓ | |
| Automatically balances multiple frames (scale out) | ✓ | |
| Models and recommends internal and external disk configuration for IBM i | ✓ | |
| Provides peak disk workload data as input to IBM Storage Modeller (StorM) | ✓ | |
| Recommends amount of memory and configuration | ✓ | |
| Deliverables are all graphical | ✓ | |
| SUPPORT AND SERVICES | Others | Performance Navigator |
| Access complete online help for easy reference | ✓ | |
| Work with a designated support consultant | ✓ | |
| Call or email for live support during business hours | ✓ | |
| Online and custom training available | ✓ | |
| Download software updates for new features and fixes | ✓ | |
| Use product setup and upgrade assistance | ✓ | |
| Attend industry and product webinars | ✓ | |
| Read white papers, case studies, how-to documents, and other helpful resources | ✓ | |
| Take advantage of problem determination services | ✓ | |
| Take advantage of capacity planning services | ✓ | |