Chapter 1 

Table of Contents

About This Document

Intended Audience

Related Information

HP Encourages Your Comments

Assumptions

What is gWLM?

Benefits of Using gWLM

Concepts and Terms You Need to Know to Use gWLM

Compatibility with Outside CPU / System Control

The gWLM Management Model

Policy Types

Choosing a Policy Type

Choosing Between an OwnBorrow Policy and a Utilization Policy

Combining the Different Policy Types

Seeing How gWLM Will Perform—Without Actually Affecting the System

Getting Started with gWLM

Tabs and Menus

Using the Wizard

Stopping gWLM

gWLM in Action

Common gWLM Tasks

Fixing the Amount of CPU a Workload Gets

Resizing a Workload’s Npar, Vpar, Virtual Machine, Pset, or FSS Group as Needed

Monitoring gWLM’s Effect on Workloads

High-level View

Graphical Reports

Other Administration Tasks

Initial Steps

Changing from Advisory Mode to Managed Mode

Creating a New Policy

Editing a Policy

Changing Which Policy is Associated with a Workload

Adding a New Npar / Vpar / Virtual Machine / Pset / FSS Group to an SRD

Stop Managing a Workload

Stop Managing an SRD

Finding More Information