Future Saturations page in the AIX PowerVM view

The Future Saturations page in the PowerVM view displays all partitions that are projected to have CPU, memory, or file system saturation within the next 30 days. The 30-day default can be changed by modifying the 'Future Saturation – Show partitions whose forecasted days to saturation are under or equal to threshold' parameter. All values are calculated over the last full month and the current month.

The PowerVM Future Saturations tab allows you to toggle between viewing future saturation details for:

To access the page, select Views > Virtualization > AIX Views > PowerVM, and click the Future Saturations tab.

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Future saturation details for partitions

The Partition Future Saturations table lists future saturation information for all partitions in the selected domain.

Certain minimum amount of historical data is required to provide accurate Days to Saturation (DTS) values. Therefore, Yesterday and the Last 7 days time filter selection is not applied to DTS calculation. DTS calculation is always based on last 30 days of data.

Each row corresponds to a partition and shows the following information.


Future saturation details for hosts

The Host Future Saturation table lists future saturation information for all PowerVM hosts in the selected domain. Each row corresponds to a PowerVM host and shows the following information:


Example

Consider the following example to view a list of partitions that are saturated or nearing saturation and analyze them:

 

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