Datacenter Infrastructure Real-time Monitoring and Analytics

BVQ for IBM PowerVM

BVQ is an automated monitoring solution for cross-platform infrastructure. BVQ  enables the automated monitoring of your entire data center including the computing IBM PowerVM platform,  SAN and storage layers as an end-to-end solution.

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End-to-End Analytics

Turn Your Infrastructure Data
Into Answers

  • BVQ informs about performance issues and optimization possibilities using aggregated data and correlations from all layers of your data center
  • Uses real-time performance data
  • Reporting, alerting and analysis functions
  • Intelligent connection to ITSM systems including ServiceNow

About BVQ for IBM PowerVM

What data is collected and how?

BVQ collects topology and performance data. The data is collected via the IBM Power Systems HMC REST API. An agent needs to be installed on each Linux or AIX instance that collects performance and topology information that aren't available via HMC.

Data is correlated and integrated to provide insight into the performance and condition of the IBM PowerVM infrastructure, as well as IBM Storage and storage area network (SAN Brocade and Cisco).

What can BVQ for IBM PowerVM alert on and monitor?

Alerting provides immediate health status of the IBM PowerVM environment to aide in a pro-active approach of handling daily administration activities. The Alert engine helps check for system limits, configuration best practices violations, resource utilization levels. Users can see the IT health status via the “Systems Health Map” or receive notifications via email, Slack or a file.

Many alert rules are pre-defined and are easy to turn on and off.

See Table of metrics monitored below.

Systems Health Map

Automated IT Health Status for IBM PowerVM -Systems Health Map

With the BVQ Systems Health Map, visualize the IT health status of the IBM PowerVM, identify critical issues that need to be worked on, see what components are affected and how to proceed next to mitigate risks.  From a single pane, identify critical issues from across all IT layers for an end-to-end health status of Storage and SAN.

BVQ is constantly checking for errors in these main areas:  violations in best practices configuration, system limits and performance.

Monitoring Dashboards

Ready-to-go Monitoring Dashboards
-powered by Grafana

You can monitor the physical resources at the system level, virtual resources at the LPAR level and at the OS AIX & Linux level. The metrics that are monitored for IBM PowerVM environment:

  • Realtime and Historical Performance Views

  • SYSTEM

  • LPAR

  • VIOS

  • OS Level AIX*

  • OS Level Linux*

  • Processor

  • System Processors/Cores Activated, Utilized
    CPU Usage

  • X

  • Core Usage

  • LPAR Core Entitled & Utilization

  • X

  • X

  • Reporting

    Reports to Keep Management Informed

    Share reports efficiently by email or an HTML link that loads the latest data at any time. These reports can be scheduled, generated HTML or PDF file formats. The universal REST interface from BVQ makes it easy to use tools like Excel, Power BI or any tool that can read in data via REST.

    Expert UI

    In-Depth Technical Analysis Client Application for the Experts

    When deep root-cause analysis is needed, we offer the Expert GUI application. It’s high performing with the ability to draw and run hundreds of performance points from hundreds of components.  It offers the ability to drill down to enable root-cause analysis.

    SVA offers analysis services when time is of the essence. Our expert team can perform the analysis for you.

    Other Supported Platforms

    VMware

    NetApp Storage

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