IBM PowerVM Integration
Discover Hosts and VMs.
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The IBM PowerVM Integration integration is an agentless solution that discovers the IBM® PowerVM environment and integrates with the IO platform to provide LPAR to disk LUN visibility. This provides IBM PowerVM Integration customers with greater insight into the virtualization stack to enable proper placement and balancing of workloads as well as the intelligence needed to properly size the LPARs. IO along with the IBM PowerVM Integration delivers objective, platform-aware monitoring and problem resolution using real-time, deterministic performance information. This integration also reduces risk in large IT environments by using proactive trend alerts that indicate emergent performance problems.
Note
As suggested by IBM, you should configure switches for persistent FCID assignment when possible.
Prerequisites
IBM PowerVM Integration does not currently support redundant HMC configurations. The integration should only be configured for one HMC of a pair that manages the same group of hosts.
For HBA card-HBA port associations to be discovered, the following conditions must be met, in this order:
Cisco SAN Integration and Brocade SAN Integration need to be set up to monitor the same environment as Microsoft Hyper-V Integration, IBM PowerVM Integration, and VMware vSphere Integration.
A Cisco or Brocade SAN Integration full discovery (either scheduled or manual) must have completed prior to the Microsoft Hyper-V Integration, IBM PowerVM Integration, or VMware vSphere Integration full discovery (either scheduled or manual).
If this order is changed or these conditions are not met, HBA ports are displayed without their HBA card associations.
AIX uses managed system ID instead of managed system name when executing HMC commands. Issues can occur when the ID is not unique.