Cost savings and expert system advice with athene ES/1

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Cost Savings and Expert System Advice with athene® ES1
Charles Johnson – Principal Consultant

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• Who is Metron?
• System z Capacity Challenges
• What affects your monthly software invoice?
• How can athene® ES/1 assist?
• Recap
Agenda

Who are Metron?
• Established capacity management specialist
• UK & USA support
– Long customer retention rates
• Professional services
– Ensure rapid deployment and quick wins
• athene® ES/1
– Easy to deploy and use
– Report in hours rather than in days or weeks

System z Challenges

• Maximize current environment
• Many applications being moved back to the mainframe
• Multi-tier applications
• Big Data
• Cloud Computing
Challenges

Reason for Capacity Management
Understand your workloads and implement continuous system
optimization equals
“Stable IT Service” and “Cost Saving”
Increase
Bad
Good
Service
（Response time）
Workload
Few
Many
Decrease
Resource
（Cost）

IT Services must be provided with no problem
CEO/CFO/CTO
（Top Management）
Users/L.O.BITSM Staff
Cost！
More Good
Response！

What is Good?
Resource
100％
100％
100％
Low
Medium
High
Good
Good
Bad
Good
Bad
Wasteful Use!
There is a problem(s)!
Good, but still remain a room
There is a problem(s)!
Best!
Not enough capacity!
△
×
○
×
◎
×
Resource
Resource
Resource
Utilization
Performance
Service level
System
Status
Workload
Behavior
Bad

• Workload Licensing Charges
• Unusual workload changes
• Inaccurate forecasting
What affects your monthly invoice?

Workload Licensing Charges

athene® ES/1- Chart for IBM WLC
WLC MSU Value Change
Monthly
Daily
You can see the highest
value which was on Nov 1
Total MSU Value（※） change can be viewed
※：R4HA MSU
Check the hourly
change on the
highest day
View the
yearly change
Highest was
at 10am
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
12月20日14:00
1月21日13:00
2月20日14:00
3月20日14:00
4月21日13:00
5月20日14:00
6月21日13:00
7月22日13:00
8月22日14:00
9月26日13:00
11月1日14:00
11月20日13:00
最大合計MSU使用値
年次
IIM0 － IIM0
2012/12/2 TUE 00:00 － 2013 /12/1 WED 23:00
【課金】最大合計MSU使用値(Z/OS)
LPAR1 LPAR2 LPAR3 LPAR4
Yearly
Both March and
December were the
same and the highest
SMF70 and 89 are used
One hour is the minimum interval

athene® ES/1 Sub Capacity Report

Unusual workload changes

athene® ES/1 WebSphere MQ Reports

Inaccurate Forecasting

athene® ES/1 Model – Increase ProdOnl 5%

Consolidated Results
Network
Infrastructure upgrade is needed to scale thru Final M&A
Planned infrastructure upgrade will allow scaling thru Final M&A
Pre Phase 2 model indicated storage utilization should be
investigated based on high disk utilization. Customer provided
storage utilization statistics to Metron. Customer and Metron
agreed that storage had sufficient capacity. As planned, storage
utilization will be monitored after each conversion.
Infrastructure upgrade will allow scaling thru Final M&A
No infrastructure concerns thru Final M&A, Application tuning
significantly reduced job execution times; Business impact
assessment in progress
Customer Service
Planned network Infrastructure upgrade for Network volume will
allow scaling thru Final M&A
No identifiable breakpoints, Final M&A volumes TBD
No infrastructure concerns thru Final M&A, Application tuning
significantly reduced job execution times; Business impact
assessment in progress
Data Warehouse
Shipping
Manufacturing
Call Center
Phase 2Phase 1 Phase 3 Final M&A Comments
Admin & HR

How can athene® ES/1 assist

Bottleneck Analysis
Tuning Hints
Evaluate the tuning result after
it was applied
Data
Preparation
Analysis Tuning
Data
Preparation
Analysis Reporting
Analysis AnalysisTuning
Tuning
Time, Manpower, Cost
●Done manually
“Data Preparation” and “Report
Preparation” are not your real job
“Evaluation” time can be reduced by using
a tool with recommendation feature
Automate processes as much as possible and save your time
and effort. All you must do is to maintain SLA and to save Cost
by recommending what your system should be.
Tuning for “Stable IT Operation” & “Saving Cost”
Save your time and effort

athene® ES/1 Web
athene® ES/1
Link to
Knowledgebase

athene® ES/1 Web Reporting Dashboard

athene® ES/1- SMF Type 113 - MIPS vs. Effective CPI

athene® ES/1- Analyst

athene® ES/1- Rolling 4 Hour Average

Forecasting
Quality of Service to Stakeholder
Modeling Trend

athene® ES/1 120 Day Trend Charged CP MSU

Call Center Answer Report

Importance of correlation
CPU Utilization Response Time
Transaction
Throughput
CPU Utilization vs.
Response Time
# Transactions vs.
Response Time
Incident Service Desk Capacity Availability
SLM Problem
Component Service Business

Service Capacity – Single Pane

• Capacity Management is a Business Activity
• Comprehensive tool
– Traditional data
– External data & Interfaces
– Business data
– Centralized CMIS
• Data Display
– Web Portal
– Automated Scheduling & Distribution
– Service / Application Views
Recap

Next Webinar
December 14
Hardware's a commodity - Why bother managing capacity?

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