AIX PowerVM view

The AIX PowerVM view provides detailed information about PowerVM hosts, pools, partitions and saturation values in the AIX virtualization environment.

To access the AIX PowerVM view in the navigation pane of the Views tab, select Views > Virtualization > AIX > PowerVM.

Local settings

Manage the local thresholds by configuring the Maps Settings and Other Settings.

Field	Description
Maps Settings
CPU Utilization %	Modify the required values for displaying the threshold values for the CPU utilization on the Maps page of the AIX PowerVM view: In the Low Threshold box, edit the threshold value for CPU utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from 0 to value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of blue color. In the Good Threshold box, edit the threshold value for CPU utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Low Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of green color. In the Warn Threshold box, edit the threshold value for CPU utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Good Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of yellow color. The entities with capacity above the value in the Warn Threshold box are displayed in the shades of red color.
Memory Utilization %	Modify the required values for displaying the threshold values for the memory utilization on the Maps page of the AIX PowerVM view: In the Low Threshold box, edit the threshold value for CPU utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from 0 to value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of blue color. In the Good Threshold box, edit the threshold value for CPU utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Low Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of green color. In the Warn Threshold box, edit the threshold value for CPU utilization in percentage. The entities with capacity starting from the value in the Good Threshold box to the value below the value in this box are displayed in the shades of yellow color. The entities with capacity above the value in the Warn Threshold box are displayed in the shades of red color.
Other Settings
Entitlement Utilization %	Modify the required value for displaying the threshold values for the entitlement utilization in the pages of the AIX PowerVM view: In the Good threshold, edit the threshold value for CPU entitlement. In the Warn threshold, edit the threshold value for CPU entitlement.
Show Benchmark Type	Edit the required benchmark type in the box. Use the subresource for the BYBENCHMARK_VALUE resource.
Top/Bottoms Partition Rank - CPU Weight	Edit the required PowerVM CPU weight. This factor is used to rank VMs in the view.
Top/Bottoms Partition Rank - Memory Weight	Edit the required PowerVM memory weight. This factor is used to rank VMs in the view.
Top/Bottoms Partition Rank - Storage Weight	Edit the required PowerVM storage weight. This factor is used to rank VMs in the view.

Data views

Displays the details when the view was last refreshed. Click Refresh views to schedule all PowerVM VM views for materialization.

Important

The option to refresh views is available only when your user role has permissions to edit the view. For more details about permissions, see Configuring-authorization-profiles.

Optimizer thresholds

The Optimizer Thresholds link opens the Thresholds page in the Helix Capacity Optimization Console that you can use to configure metric thresholds and indicators. For more information, see Configuring-and-managing-thresholds-for-metrics-and-indicators and Indicators.

Pages in the view

For more information about the pages in this view, see the following topics:

AIX PowerVM view

Local settings

Maps Settings

Other Settings

Data views

Optimizer thresholds

Pages in the view

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