This IBM® Redbooks® publication presents concepts, considerations, and high level deployment examples for technical professionals who design and operate multitenant utility computing environments hosted on IBM System p® and IBM AIX® Enterprise Edition. AIX Enterprise Edition brings together IBM enterprise management capabilities from Power Systems™, IBM AIX, and Tivoli® Software to provide a powerful set of integrated functions for infrastructure management in multitenant utility computing environments.

In this book, we focus on the following topics:

* Using System p, IBM AIX 6, and PowerVM™ virtualization technologies

* Provisioning in a multitenant computing environment on AIX and Power Systems

* Monitoring resources in a multitenant environment

* Accounting and chargeback in a multitenant AIX environment

AIX Enterprise Edition brings together several IBM products: AIX 6 operating system, IBM PowerVM Workload Partitions Manager™, Tivoli Application Dependency Discover Manager, Tivoli Monitoring, and IBM Usage and Accounting Manager Virtualization Edition for Power Systems. In addition to these products we also provide a system allocation example using Tivoli Provisioning Manager.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Multitenancy, PowerVM, and partitions

Chapter 3. Provisioning

Chapter 4. Monitoring resources in a multitenant environment

Chapter 5. Accounting

Appendix A. Software components used with TPM