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HP Part Number: T8672-90001

Published: May 2008

© Copyright 2004-2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

Table of Contents

About This Document
Intended Audience
Typographic Conventions
Related Information
Publishing History
HP Encourages Your Comments
Assumptions
Finding More gWLM Information
1 Overview
What is gWLM?
Benefits of Using gWLM
Comparing PRM, WLM, and gWLM Features
Concepts and Terms for Using gWLM
The gWLM Management Model
How gWLM Allocates CPU Resources
Available Interfaces
2 Configuring gWLM to Manage Workloads
Policy Types
Choosing a Policy Type
Choosing Between an OwnBorrow Policy and a Utilization Policy
Combining the Different Policy Types
Seeing How gWLM Will Perform Without Affecting the System
Getting Started with gWLM
Tabs and Menus
Using the Wizard
Seeing gWLM in Action
Common Uses for gWLM
Fixing the Amount of CPU Resources a Workload Gets
Resizing a Workload’s Npar, Vpar, Virtual Machine, Pset, or FSS Group as Needed
Common Configuration Tasks
Setting up gWLM (Initial Setup Steps)
Changing from Advisory Mode to Managed Mode
Creating a New Policy
Editing a Policy
Changing Which Policy is Associated with a Workload
Adding a New Compartment or GiCAP Group Member to an SRD
Stop Managing a Workload
Stop Managing an SRD
3 Monitoring Workloads and gWLM
Monitoring Workloads
High-Level View
Graphical Reports
Viewing gWLM Reports in Monitor-Only Mode
Monitoring gWLM from the Command Line
Message Logs
Viewing HP Systems Insight Manager Events
Monitoring gWLM with GlancePlus
4 Security
General Security Topics
Securing gWLM Communications
5 Additional Configuration and Administration Tasks
Manually Adjusting CPU Resources
Manually Adjusting Memory Resources
Setting Aside Space for Historical Data
Backing up the VSE Management Software Database
Tips for Backup and Restore
Setting gWLM Properties
CMS Properties
Agent Properties
Communications Ports
Controlling gWLM’s Startup Behavior
Automatic Restart of gWLM’s Managed Nodes in SRDs (High Availability)
How the Automatic Restart Works
Related Events
Manually Clearing an SRD
Nesting Partitions
Changing the gWLM Resource Allocation Interval
Changing the Interval in HP SIM
Changing the Interval on the Command Line
Using gWLM with Hyper-Threading
Using gWLM with Hosts on Multiple LANs
Creating “Golden Images”
A Compatibility with Agents
Index

List of Figures

2-1 Top Controls of the Global Workload Manager Screen
5-1 Nested Partitions
5-2 Using gWLM with Hosts Separated by Firewalls

List of Tables

1 Where to Find Additional Information
1-1 Default Weights by Policy Type
2-1 Choosing a Policy Type
3-1 gWLM Log Files
   


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