HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND CAPACITY PLANNING

VISUAL Control Performance Planner provides historical performance analysis for iSeries problem identification, growth management and capacity planning. VISUAL Control Performance Planner provides intuitive graph generation for analyzing and forecasting systems performance and utilization. It is the best tool on the market for:

Growth Management and Trending - CPU /Disk space use by date, before and after graphs, projected trends, automated periodic reports, job/user group summaries …

Capacity Planning - Modeling projected workloads, server consolidation, upgrades, DASD… The graphical interface is highly intuitive and makes a perfect complement to the real-time performance monitoring and management features of VISUAL Control Center. It gives instant access to up to three years of detailed systems performance data, and accurately describes trends and predicts your future systems needs based on past performance. It also allows you to make hypothetical projections using different hardware configurations, allowing you to budget and upgrade with confidence based on detailed analytical reports:

Performance Problem Determination - Systems histories, detailed drill down to systems status, active jobs, disk status, users, identify the root of any performance problem.

Generate over 100 easy-to-understand graphs of systems performance using key performance metrics:

CPU
I/O
Disk
Memory
Response Times
Subsystems
Transaction
Jobs
Pages Spooled
Track and trend workloads, users, jobs, devices …
Test possible LPAR, DASD, Server Consolidation and upgrade configurations.
Upgrade with confidence and simple justification graphs.
See up to three years of performance data in easy-to-understand graphs.
Know when you need to upgrade
Try out possible configurations and "what if" scenario's
Upgrade with confidence and concrete justification.

Instantly adapt to changing workloads - The workload of your iSeries is constantly changing. VISUAL Control Center makes iSeries performance more predictable, so that your business never suffers. Non-urgent jobs that degrade global performance are prevented from abusing system resources, stabilizing response times even when running end-of-month tasks.