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• Who is Metron?

• System z Capacity Challenges

• What affects your monthly software invoice?

• How can athene® ES/1 assist?

• Recap

Agenda


Who are Metron?

• Established capacity management specialist

• UK & USA support– Long customer retention rates

• Professional services – Ensure rapid deployment and quick wins

• athene® ES/1 – Easy to deploy and use– Report in hours rather than in days or weeks


System z Challenges


• Maximize current environment

• Many applications being moved back to the mainframe

• Multi-tier applications

• Big Data

• Cloud Computing

Challenges


Reason for Capacity Management

Understand your workloads and implement continuous system optimization equals

“Stable IT Service” and “Cost Saving”

Increase

Bad

Good

Service（ Response time ） Workload

Few

ManyDecrease

Resource（ Cost ）


IT Services must be provided with no problem

CEO/CFO/CTO（ Top Management ） Users/L.O.BITSM Staff

Cost ！ More GoodResponse ！


What is Good?

Resource100 ％

100 ％

100 ％

Low

Medium

High

Good

Good

Bad

Good

Bad

Wasteful Use!

There is a problem(s)!

Good, but still remain a room

There is a problem(s)!

Best!

Not enough capacity!

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×◎

×

Resource

Resource

ResourceUtilization

PerformanceService level

SystemStatus

WorkloadBehavior

Bad


• Workload Licensing Charges

• Unusual workload changes

• Inaccurate forecasting

What affects your monthly invoice?


Workload Licensing Charges


athene® ES/1- Chart for IBM WLCWLC MSU Value Change

Monthly

Daily

You can see the highest value which was on Nov 1

Total MSU Value （※） change can be viewed

※ ： R4HA MSU

Check the hourly change on the highest day

View the yearly change

Highest was at 10am

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LPAR1 LPAR2 LPAR3 LPAR4

年次IIM0 － IIM0

2012/12/2 TUE 00:00 － 2013 /12/1 WED 23:00

最大合計

MSU

使用値

YearlyBoth March and December were the same and the highest

SMF70 and 89 are usedOne hour is the minimum interval


athene® ES/1 Sub Capacity Report


Unusual workload changes


athene® ES/1 WebSphere MQ Reports


Inaccurate Forecasting


athene® ES/1 Model – Increase ProdOnl 5%


Consolidated Results

Network

Infrastructure upgrade is needed to scale thru Final M&A

Planned infrastructure upgrade will allow scaling thru Final M&A

Pre Phase 2 model indicated storage utilization should be investigated based on high disk utilization. Customer provided storage utilization statistics to Metron. Customer and Metron agreed that storage had sufficient capacity. As planned, storage utilization will be monitored after each conversion. Infrastructure upgrade will allow scaling thru Final M&A

No infrastructure concerns thru Final M&A, Application tuning significantly reduced job execution times; Business impact assessment in progress

Customer Service

Planned network Infrastructure upgrade for Network volume will allow scaling thru Final M&A

No identifiable breakpoints, Final M&A volumes TBD

No infrastructure concerns thru Final M&A, Application tuning significantly reduced job execution times; Business impact assessment in progress

Data Warehouse

Shipping

Manufacturing

Call Center

Phase 2Phase 1 Phase 3 Final M&A Comments

Admin & HR


How can athene® ES/1 assist


Bottleneck AnalysisTuning Hints

Evaluate the tuning result after it was applied

DataPreparation Analysis Tuning Data

Preparation Analysis Reporting

Analysis AnalysisTuning

Tuning

Time, Manpower, Cost

●Done manually

“Data Preparation” and “Report Preparation” are not your real job

“Evaluation” time can be reduced by using a tool with recommendation feature

Automate processes as much as possible and save your time and effort. All you must do is to maintain SLA and to save Cost by recommending what your system should be.

Tuning for “Stable IT Operation” & “Saving Cost”

Save your time and effort


athene® ES/1 Web

athene® ES/1

Link to Knowledgebase


athene® ES/1 Web Reporting Dashboard


athene® ES/1- SMF Type 113 - MIPS vs. Effective CPI


athene® ES/1- Analyst


athene® ES/1- Rolling 4 Hour Average


ForecastingQuality of Service to Stakeholder

Modeling Trend

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athene® ES/1 120 Day Trend Charged CP MSU


Call Center Answer Report


Importance of correlation

CPU Utilization Response Time Transaction Throughput

CPU Utilization vs. Response Time

# Transactions vs. Response Time

Incident

Service Desk

Capacity Availability

SLM Problem

Component Service Business


Service Capacity – Single Pane


• Capacity Management is a Business Activity

• Comprehensive tool– Traditional data– External data & Interfaces– Business data– Centralized CMIS

• Data Display– Web Portal– Automated Scheduling & Distribution– Service / Application Views

Recap


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December 14 Hardware's a commodity - Why bother managing capacity?

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