Simplify workload management across the infrastructure
The IBM Enterprise Workload Manager (EWLM) enables you to automatically monitor and manage multi-tiered, distributed, heterogeneous or homogeneous workloads across an IT infrastructure to better achieve defined business goals for end-user services.
These capabilities allow you to:
- Identify work requests based on service class definitions
- Track performance of those requests across server and subsystem boundaries
- Redirect work, using EWLM-enabled routers, to achieve specific performance goals for each service class
- Shift computing resources as needed to achieve specific performance goals for each service class
Monitor based on business goals
Enterprise Workload Manager provides goal-based, end-to-end performance monitoring of an application. It also influences network traffic routing decisions by network load balancers for improved application performance and server effectiveness. Using Enterprise Workload Manager, a system administrator can monitor multiple servers and answer such questions as:
- How is the work progressing?
- Are the business commitments for end-user service being met?
- If not, which components of which servers are causing the problem?
- What user types are affected?
- Specify a performance goal that applies to each class of user of a distributed application
- Identify where time is spent in a distributed application that spans different operating systems, applications, networks and routers
- Identify which servers are actively supporting a given application and what applications are running on a given server
Manage based on business goals
Enterprise Workload Manager provides goal-based, end-to-end management based on business goals. EWLM will shift CPU resources as needed to achieve the performance goals specified for a customer's workload.
Last updated 26 Oct 2006