BMC AMI Ops Automation for Batch ThruPut Automated Capacity Management Guide

Automated Capacity Management (ACM) is an elective feature of BMC AMI Ops Automation for Batch ThruPut that is used in conjunction with either IBM's sub-capacity pricing or Tailored Fit Pricing consumption solutions to reduce software and hardware costs.  It monitors several different metrics that are the basis for software and hardware charges, and controls batch workload in order to reduce those values. This can significantly reduce software and hardware charges.

Where sub-capacity pricing and soft capping are implemented, by reducing workload before the limits are reached, you can avoid "running into the wall' - hitting the limit with a very large concurrent workload which can cause soft capping actions to be severe enough to cause problems with online response.  ACM minimizes the effects of reaching the capping limit or avoids capping altogether and enables your datacenter to lower your R4HA limit without impacting your online and critical batch systems.

For installations that have implemented IBM’s Tailored Fit Pricing (TFP) Software Consumption Solution, ACM builds on BMC AMI Ops Automation for Batch ThruPut batch workload management controls, allowing for selected batch workloads to be constrained when overall system load is high.  This improves overall CPU efficiency and results in fewer MSUs consumed for the same work, resulting in lower TFP software billing.

On systems with the Tailored Fit Pricing Hardware Consumption Solution (“TFP-HW”), ACM can detect when CPC usage is about to use part of the TFP-HW capacity corridor and constrain batch workloads to  avoid or reduce corridor use.  This same capability can also be used to reserve additional capacity added by OOCOD for high priority workloads.

This manual introduces the underlying concepts of the ACM feature of BMC AMI Ops Automation for Batch ThruPut, guides you through the setup process, and describes runtime interaction. It assumes you have completed an "essential implementation" and, therefore, have created a Policy with Service Groups to describe and control the processing of workload subject to Automated Capacity Management. This space is of interest to the BMC ThruPut Manager technical support person, who acts in consultation with performance and capacity management specialists.

This section assumes that you are familiar with the contents and examples contained in the BMC ThruPut Manager Usage-guide.

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