Virtualization Infrastructure Aspects

Virtualization Infrastructure Aspects monitors the resource usage and availability of host, guests or virtual machines. It includes the virtualization discovery which discovers all the elements in a virtualized environment. It ensures the environment is healthy and available.

User Interface Reference

General	Provides an overview of the general attributes of the Virtualization Infrastructure Aspects.
CI Type	The type of CIs that can be assigned to the Aspect. This is the type of CI which is assigned to the Management Template. The Virtualization Infrastructure Aspects contain the Computer CI types.
Instrumentation	Provides an overview of the programs deployed to the CI types which contains the Aspect.
Aspects	Provides an overview of any Aspects that contain the Virtualization Infrastructure Aspect. You can expand each item in the list to see more details about the nested aspect.
Policy Templates	Provides an overview of the policy templates that contain the Virtualization Infrastructure Aspect. You can expand each item in the list to see more details about the policy template.

The Virtualization Infrastructure Aspects consists of the following:

IBM Power Guest Health

The IBM Power Guest Health Aspect monitors Guest availability in a Virtualized IBM LPAR Environment. This Aspect consists of the following policy templates:

CI Type	Policy Template	Indicator	Policy Description	Policy Type
Computer	Virt_IBMFrameAndLPARStateMonitor	NodeStatus	Monitors the IBM Frames and LPAR states.	Measurement Threshold
Computer	Virt_IBMWPARStateMonitor	NodeStatus	Monitors and reports on the state of IBM WPARs.	Measurement Threshold

Note Before deploying Virt_IBMFrameAndLPARStateMonitor policy, run the getSSHAuthentication.pl script to connect to the HMC. This script is located under the /var/opt/OV/bin/instrumentation directory on the node (frame). The getSSHAuthentication.pl script provides you password-less access to the configuration information on the HMC.

IBM Power Guest Performance

The IBM Power Guest Performance Aspect monitors Guest performance in a Virtualized IBM LPAR Environment. This Aspect consists of the following policy templates:

CI Type	Policy Template	Indicator	Policy Description	Policy Type
Computer	Virt_IBMLPARCpuEntlUtilMonitor-AT	CPULoad	Calculates the current CPU utilization (in percentage) of AIX LPARs. It indicates the logical system’s CPU utilization against the minimum entitled CPU. Entitled CPU is the number of guaranteed processing units allocated to a logical system.	Measurement Threshold Template
Computer	Virt_IBMLPARMemoryEntlUtilMonitor-AT	MEMLoad	Calculates the current memory utilization (in percentage) of all IBM LPARs on AIX in ACTIVE state. It indicates the LPARs memory utilization against the minimum entitled memory.	Measurement Threshold Template
Computer	Virt_IBMWPARCpuEntlUtilMonitor-AT	CPULoad	Calculates the current CPU utilization (in percentage) of AIX WPARs. It indicates the logical system’s CPU utilization against the minimum entitled CPU. Entitled CPU is the number of guaranteed processing units allocated to a logical system.	Measurement Threshold Template
Computer	Virt_IBMWPARMemoryEntlUtilMonitor-AT	MEMLoad	Calculates the current memory utilization (in percentage) of IBM WPARs (running on the monitoring LPAR) in ACTIVE state. It indicates the WPARs memory utilization against the minimum entitled memory.	Measurement Threshold Template

IBM Power Host Health

The IBM Power Host Health Aspect monitors Frame memory and CPU Utilization in a Virtualized IBM LPAR environment. This Aspect consists of the following policy templates:

CI Type	Policy Template	Indicator	Policy Description	Policy Type
IBM Frame	Virt_IBMLPARFrameCPUUtilMonitor	CPULoad	Monitors the LPAR Frame CPU utilization for IBM LPAR virtual infrastructure.	Measurement Threshold
IBM Frame	Virt_IBMLPARFrameMemoryUtilMonitor	MemoryLoad	Monitors the LPAR Frame Memory utilization for IBM LPAR Frame virtual infrastructure.	Measurement Threshold

Oracle Solaris Guest Health

The Oracle Solaris Guest Health Aspect monitors guest resources in Oracle Solaris zones environment. This Aspect consists of the following policy template:

CI Type	Policy Template	Indicator	Policy Description	Policy Type
Unix	Virt_OracleSolarisStateMonitor	NA	Checks the logical system state and raises an alert for Oracle Solaris containers.	Measurement Threshold Template

Oracle Solaris Guest Performance

The Oracle Solaris Guest Performance Aspect monitors guest Performance in a virtualized Oracle Solaris environment. This Aspect consists of the following policy templates:

CI Type	Policy Template	Indicator	Policy Description	Policy Type
Unix	Virt_OracleSolarisMemoryEntlUtilMonitor-AT	NA	Calculates the current memory utilization (in percentage) of all Solaris zones in RUNNING state. It indicates the zone’s memory utilization against the minimum entitled memory.	Measurement Threshold Template
Unix	Virt_OracleSolarisZoneCPUEntlUtilMonitor-AT	NA	Calculates the current CPU utilization (in percentage) of Solaris zones. It indicates the logical system’s CPU utilization against the minimum entitled CPU. Entitled CPU is the number of guaranteed processing units allocated to a logical system.	Measurement Threshold Template
Unix	Virt_OracleSolarisZoneSwapUtilMonitor-AT	NA	Monitors the swap utilization on Solaris zones.	Measurement Threshold Template

Oracle Solaris Host Health

The Oracle Solaris Host Health Aspect monitors the host resource utilization in a virtualized Oracle Solaris zones environment. This Aspect consists of the following policy templates:

CI Type	Policy Template	Indicator	Policy Description	Policy Type
Unix	Virt_OracleSolarisHostCPUUtilMonitor	NA	Monitors the CPU utilization on the host servers for Solaris zones.	Measurement Threshold
Unix	Virt_OracleSolarisHostMemoryUtilMonitor	NA	Monitors the physical memory utilization on Oracle Solaris zones.	Measurement Threshold
Unix	Virt_ OracleSolarisFmdProcessMonitor	NA	Monitors the fault manager daemon (fmd) running on Solaris zones.	Measurement Threshold
Unix	Virt_ OracleSolarisRcapdProcessMonitor	NA	Monitors the resource capping daemon (rcapd) running on Solaris zones.	Measurement Threshold
Unix	Virt_PerfAgentProcessMonitor	NA	Monitors the performance agent processes running on the nodes.	Measurement Threshold

Virtual Infrastructure Discovery

The Virtual Infrastructure Discovery Aspect discovers the virtual components such as hypervisor host, guest, and resource pool in a virtualization environment. This Aspect consists of the following policy template:

CI Type	Policy Template	Indicator	Policy Description	Policy Type
Computer	Virt_Discovery	NA	Discovers the virtual infrastructure components like hypervisor host, guest, and resource pool in a virtualization environment.	Service Auto-Discovery Template