IBM Systems and Technology Group Virtualization Engine Console

IBM Systems and Technology Group Virtualization Engine Console Access Provides the simplified view of your environment and a single point of control for managing your environment Gather Interact 3 Management Resources Launch Management Servers IBM Director, EWLM, RDS and others Common Tasks Health, Topology and others Virtual Resources Servers, storage and others Operating Environments VE Console discovers your environment and works with your existing management resources to harness their power into one experience Tools Virtual view Other launched consoles IBM Director i. Series Navigator Tivoli Storage Resource Manager EWLM Control Center and others Consistent user experience with common resources and tasks to simplify the needs of administration Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential Launch existing tools as needed for deeper analysis © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group VE Console Overview § Management user interface to the Virtualization Engine (VE) § Housed in Integrated Solutions Console (ISC) environment – Web-based – Portal-oriented § Visual identity for the VE: – I’ve installed it, now where do I find it? – Began as a single starting point – Growing into a single point of control § Abstracts OS and solution boundaries to deliver a simplified view 4 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group VE Console User Experience Themes § Health of my environment – – Health center Hardware status and problems § Relationships between my resources – – Resource topology Understanding resource dependencies § Apply my expertise to new areas – – Converged tasks Launch in context § Drill deep into OS management – – OS extensions for i 5/OS Launch in context for other OS’s § Keep VE environment running smoothly with minimal effort – – 5 Software Updates (for VE) Virtualization Readiness on welcome page Setup wizard, RDS configuration Single Sign-on mgmt Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group VE Console R 2 Integration Perspectives Management Servers ODI RM Enterprise Workload Manager Resource Mapping Services IBM Director VE Serviceability VE Security IBM Tivoli Monitoring Cluster Systems Manager Management Central VE Console Common Tasks Health Topology Workload Printers and Queues Hardware and Software Network and Web Servers Security Data and Storage Virtualization Engine Setup My Custom Tasks q q 6 Customer Resources x. Series i. Series p. Series z. Series HMC Storage systems Storage devices Operating Environments Launched Consoles DB 2 Control Center IBM Director i 5/OS Extensions i. Series Navigator Multiple Device Manager Web-based System Manager (HMC) Tivoli SAN Manager Tivoli Storage Resource Manager EWLM Control Center IBM Tivoli Directory Server Windows Linux i 5/OS AIX z/OS HMC Tivoli Storage Network VE Console integrates management servers and harness their power onto one experience Common tasks hide divisions of where work is accomplished Customer Resources are shown in consistent ways Multiple operating environments are acted upon in similar ways Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group VE Console Navigation Portfolio a § AAs gross measure of VE Console function is a look at its navigation portfolio. § Release 1 was just a start, supporting only: – Health Center – Launchpad Virtualization Engine Console Health View health center Run custom task Preferences General Charting Dashboard Management Sources Launchpad Release 1 Portfolio Release 2 Portfolio § Release 2 provides a significant functional increase. 8 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential Virtualization Engine Console Welcome Health Center Log/trace analyzer Resources Monitors Event actions Messages and logs Remote access Task Activity VE console task status Run custom task/scripting Workload management Workload monitors Printers and Queues Printer and queue management Hardware and Software Resource topology Hardware problems Partition wizard Software updates/fixes Hardware management Software distribution Hardware and software inventory System settings Network and Web Servers Network management Web server management Security User management Security configuration Data and Storage Databases Run SQL statements Database health Files Backup Storage management Virtualization Engine Setup VE Console setup wizard VE Console user preferences Resource grouping Single sign-on management RMS configuration and administration Launchpad © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group Major Functions § Health Center § Business Resource Topology § Hardware Management § Resource Dependency Services (RDS) Management § Partition Planning and Management § VE Serviceability § VE Management § OS Management § Launch-in-Context § Launchpad 9 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group Health Center § Provides consolidated health of administrator’s world § Eliminates the need for an admin to look at multiple consoles just to determine whether everything is OK. Health Center § Focus is: –Resource health –Monitoring –Problem identification –Corrective management Enterprise Workload Mgr Domain Manager EWLM 10 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5. x Monitoring Server IBM Director Mgmt Server Cluster Systems Mgr Mgmt Server ITM Director CSM Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential Mgmt Central (i 5/OS) Mgmt Server MC © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group VE Console Health Center 11 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential

IBM Systems and Technology Group Business Resource Topology § Graphical display of IT resources and relationships § Better understand dependencies between resources. § Logically group resources to reflect business objectives. § Create resources/relationships. § View resource properties § Zoom, pan, etc. § View relationships to discover side effects of problem resources 12 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group VE R 2 Topology 13 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential

IBM Systems and Technology Group VEC R 2 Topology 14 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential

IBM Systems and Technology Group VEC R 2 Topology 15 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential

IBM Systems and Technology Group Hardware Management § Hardware problem reporting from IBM Director § Access to power management functions § Launch-in-context for additional problem determination. – Launch directly to i. Series and p. Series HMC tasks – Launch Blade. Center Management Module § User can view problems from multiple Director servers to gain better understanding of hardware health 16 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group Resource Dependency Services (RDS) Management § Manages the discovery engine within RDS. § This discovery of resources ultimately populates the resources and relationships shown in the topology view. 17 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group OS Management § Navigate to and perform OS-specific management from the cross-platform console. § Multiple techniques employed: – Portlets for i 5/OS management. – Launch-in-Context for OS management through: • IBM Director • Web. SM • i. Series Navigator 18 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group VEC R 2 OS Extensions 19 Virtualize Everything IBM

IBM Systems and Technology Group Launch-in-Context § Console utility to launch specific-tasks in other consoles. § Launches the most-used functions from – IBM Director Console – Web. SM Console – i. Series Navigator Console § Launching is done from within the flow of a VE Console scenario. § Launch-in-Context is a tool for: – Coping with functions that have not yet migrated to the ISC – Leveraging function that will never migrate to the ISC § Customers prefer to have access to an entire scenario, even if it launches another console within its flow. 20 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group VEC R 2 Launch In Context 21 Virtualize Everything

IBM Systems and Technology Group Launchpad § Launch VE and other related consoles § Launch user-defined customer applications and consoles § Detects VE web consoles in the environment (e. g. , EWLM Control Center); automatically creates links for them § Create “Favorites with context” links with ability to group and organize. 22 – One-click to run a task on desired system – Subset favorite tasks on favorite systems – Create custom task list for users integrating VE tasks and customer tasks Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group VE Serviceability § Fix acquisition for VE management servers. § Wizards that help you: – Discover available fixes – Choose fixes to download – Download fixes – Distribute and Install fixes 23 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation

IBM Systems and Technology Group VE Management § Simplified management of the VE – Graphical topology of VE components installed within the customer’s environments – Console setup wizard – Wizards to manage single-sign-on (SSO) – Welcome/Readiness page – VE Console Preferences 24 Virtualize Everything IBM Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation

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