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Chapter 5. Management

IBM Director is the systems management software provided with the

IBM ^xSeries servers. This chapter covers the three plug-ins to IBM Director unique to IBM that are of particular relevance to the x440:

￿5.1, “Active PCI Manager” on page 130

Active PCI Manager guides you when installing new PCI adapters and can analyze an existing PCI configuration and suggest changes to improve performance. Works with x440 internal slots and RXE-100 slots.

￿5.2, “System Partition Manager” on page 150

System Partition Manager is used to physically partition an x440 complex (for example a 16-way) so that each partition behaves as an independent server.

￿5.3, “Process Control” on page 155

Process Control can help improve performance both for the server overall and for application users in general. Application vendors have no incentive to impose restrictions on their software. One application may have its priority set unnecessarily high, to the detriment of all other applications, or two applications may each try to use all available memory, causing contention. These types of ill-behaved applications make it virtually impossible to run many applications concurrently on a conventional server. By preventing resource-intensive applications from dominating server resources, IBM provides the means for application consolidation.

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