Overview of LPAR and Workload plans

This section describes in detail how to perform actions in an LPAR and Workload plan against your monthly historical models that demonstrate the effects of changes to your system. Through the exercises in an LPAR and Workload plan, you can develop alternative structures for your sysplex to view the effect on the monthly costs. Since MLC Products are priced based on the R4HA, an LPAR and Workload plan can show you configurations that reduce MSU Utilization, limit the contribution to peak values, and provide a way to explore options to discover the most cost-efficient structure for your enterprise.

Within any LPAR and Workload plan that you create, you can:

  • Work at the CPC level and perform actions against LPARs running on the CPC
  • Work at the LPAR level and perform actions against the workloads running on the LPAR

As you perform exercises and make changes to your plan, the MLC Planning tool executes and records the changes sequentially. At any time, you can view a list of the changes made to the plan. If you want to undo any action that was executed, you can use the viewer to remove the change. For more information, see Viewing-and-removing-plan-changes.

Tip

When performing an exercise in a LPAR and Workload plan, the following suggestions apply:

  • All LPAR level operations for a particular LPAR should be performed before any operation for another LPAR.
  • For a particular LPAR, the Defined Capacity operation should be performed before any Workload operation.

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  Developing-cost-reduction-plans


 

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