Performance Management

Performance Management is proven to reduce costs, minimize unplanned outages, and maintain Service Level Agreements (SLAs) by ensuring applications run efficiently, and without degradation.

The Velocity Software products provide full performance management software allowing installations to operate efficiently and at high utilization. By providing full visibility into Operations and applications, installations often run at 10-20% higher utilization helping to reduce their hardware and software expenditures accordingly. By automating many operation functions, installations avoid outages or slowdowns at peak periods. With full instrumentation, alarms, alerts, and analytics, problems are captured, allowing them to be resolved in real time.

There are four critical elements to Performance Management that are fully provided with the Velocity Performance Suite (zVPS):

  1. Performance analysis to diagnose performance problems in real time with stored historical data.
  2. Capacity Planning facilities to understand capacity requirements over time.
  3. Chargeback capabilities with the ability to understand exactly what resource each server/program is consuming.
  4. Operations support with the ability to alert Operations of any situation that may impact production workloads.

All of the zVPS products are developed with the requirements of 1) Keep it simple, and 2) Minimize overhead. zVPS has hundreds of easily navigated screens, graphs and reports. Dashboards are easily created and tailored to meet user requirements. Find out more about zVPS.

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Modernization of the z/VM Platform

Velocity Software provides modern, web-based visibility into z/VM, Linux, z/VSE and z/OS as well as applications such as Openshift, MongoDB and Oracle. Our products deliver a leading cloud infrastructure that allows end users control over their servers and server configuration in a safe and secure environment - increasing productivity for both them and the increasingly smaller support staff. Velocity Software also provides modern operational support to alert Operators/Administrators to any situation that could impact the environment and reduces human error in real time. This includes sending data to tools like SPLUNK and Grafana.

Implementing Private Cloud on "Z" explains the benefits of using the Velocity Software products to create a private cloud environment.

Mainframe to Cloud in 2 Days tells how Velocity Software was able to use our suite of products to move from a bare metal machine to a fully functioning environment.

zPRO is the premiere z/VM modernization product on the market. It provides a secure PaaS (Platform as a Service), private Cloud enablement, Ansible access with SMAPI-free API's, LPAR, z/VM and Linux cloning, operational support and has features that outperform other vendor products - for a fraction of the total cost of ownership.

Accounting, Chargeback, & Capacity Planning With z/VPS

Accounting has become increasingly complex to measure on IBM Z and LinuxONE systems. Many numbers that were previously easy to identify must now be properly augmented against the real hardware being virtualized, something zVPS does extremely well. Data needs to be accurately collected and reported, along with an easy way to decifer that data. Velocity Software is easily the leader in providing resource-based chargeback, capacity planning and trending analysis with a full performance database. This allows for accurate resource consumption to be reported by virtual machine, by OpenShift container and pod, and for other applications running either in Linux or in any OpenShift environment.

Accounting for z/VM and Linux gives specifics on how to create accurate reports for servers/groups and desired resources for capacity planning and performance trending analysis.

Chargeback for z/VM and Linux explains how Velocity Software is used for customer chargeback.

Low Cost of Ownership of Running zVPS

Velocity Software saves installations money in multiple ways:

Data Monitoring for Additional Platforms and Applications

If it connects with SNMP (including many network printers, routers, etc), Velocity Software can measure it! Here is a list of examples of what is currently being measured:

Company Overview

Velocity Software has been committed to z/VM performance for over 35 years and brings performance expertise, platform modernization and z/VM education to the z/VM community. We are going strong and continue to look ahead for ways to better the environment and insure z/VM maintains its leadership as the number one virtualization platform.

Velocity Software works hard to both attract new customers and retain existing ones. With greater than 95% retention of customers that remain on z/VM over the last 35 years, it is easy to show that our customers believe in the products with support provided by Velocity Software.

Our customers range from Fortune 500 companies to smaller installations. Here are some customer comments: Customer Comments