What I like about Performance Toolkit for z/VM (Perfkit) besides working on and supporting the product while at the lab in Endicott... is that's the tool the z/VM lab still uses helping to simplify collaboration with the lab when/if required. Understand that it is a hardware/system tool over something with a true software focus. Having Perfkit is a pre-req for Omegamon, a product offered from our software group. Omegamon is handy if you also have z/OS, have requirements to track transactions and want/desire dashboards.
Worth noting along the lines of dashboards.... if you are also looking to simplify z/VM system administration, stay tuned for announcements around CSL WAVE as it pulls info from performance tools into nice dashboards as well. You can of course just get info from Linux directly with tools like TOP. Combined with z/VM commands enough information is obtainable to help keep your system healthy: http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/ No matter what product you decide works best for your org, go thru at least an internal solution assurance type review to understand the required resources/impact to your system as part of your decision. Kurt Acker IBM Smarter Planet, Smarter Data Centers Virtualization and Enterprise System Management Technologies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
