Capacity Monitoring - Performance - Partitions

You can view the current resource consumption for all the partitions managed by the Hardware Management Console (HMC) in the Resources Summary pane of the performance view.

You can view the summary of the core usage and memory allocation for all the partitions that are managed by the HMC in the Cores and Memory pane.

The Cores pane provides information about the total number of cores or processors that are assigned to the Dedicated Proc partitions, total number of cores or processors that are allocated to the shared+dedicated partitions, total number of virtual processors that are allocated to the shared processor partitions.

The Memory pane provides information about the total amount of memory that is allocated to the partitions.

The table in the Resources Summary pane displays the performance state of all the partitions that are available in the data center of your environment.

On the left side of the window, you can use the filters to sort the partition information by selecting the following system metrics:

• Partition Type
• Core Usage
• Memory Allocation

You can filter the partition information by selecting the absolute value of the core usage or memory usage. Otherwise, you can filter the partition information based on the percentage of cores or memory that is allocated to the partition.

To view the performance details of the specific partition, click on the partition name in the PARTITION NAME column of the partition inventory table.

You can also search for a partition by entering the search string in the Search field. When you type in the Search field, a list of recently used search string is displayed. You can select the required string from the list or enter a new string that you want to search.

You can search and retrieve the following information about the partition:

• state of the partition
• name of the partition
• partition ID
• Operating System type
• Operating System Version
• core Usage of the partition
• entitled Cores of the partition
• virtual Processor assigned to the partition
• cpu mode of the partition
• shared processor pool to which the partition belong
• allocated memory to the partition
• associated system name

The Resources Summary pane is updated to reflect the data present in the partition inventory table. It will be updated regularly based on the refresh interval settings done.

To group the resources in the partition inventory table by assigning the resources to the predefined tag groups, select the resources that you want to assign to a tag and click Add a Tag, and then select a tag from a list of tags that is displayed, and click Apply. To view all the resources that are assigned to a tag, enter the tag name in the Search field. The partition inventory table displays all the resources that are grouped under the tag based on the search result. To export the partition data to the local drive in the form of a worksheet, click Export CSV. If you have filtered the partition data or performed a search for specific information, you can export only the filtered results or the search results by clicking on the Export CSV button.