9. Miscellaneous tools
In the first section of this chapter we present the Workload Manager (WLM) feature on AIX which provides a set of tools that assist in gleaning useful performance statistics and provides the administrator an efficient mechanism to control allocation of resources to processes.
The second section introduces the Partition Load Manager (PLM) software which is part of the Advanced POWER Virtualization feature and helps customers to maximize the utilization of processor and memory resources of DLPAR capable logical partitions running AIX 5L on pSeries servers.
In the third section, we present a short comparison between two techniques of vertical server consolidation: Workload Manager and partitioning (with Partition Load Manager ...
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