Edit: The first link no longer works, the second link still does. AIX Enterprise Edition is still a thing, although what is included has changed over the years.
Originally posted September 16, 2008 on AIXchange
During last week’s IBM Power Systems Technical University in Chicago, IBM announced AIX Enterprise Edition. Take a few moments to look into this solution. I think you’ll be glad you did.
From IBM:
“The AIX Enterprise Edition is a new IBM offering that includes AIX 6 and several key manageability products. AIX Enterprise Edition consists of the AIX 6 operating system, the PowerVM Workload Partitions Manager for AIX (WPAR Manager), and three Tivoli products: Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM), IBM Tivoli Monitoring, and the IBM Usage and Accounting Manager Virtualization Edition for Power Systems. This offering delivers significant manageability capabilities beyond the capabilities of the standard AIX 6.1 product (AIX Standard Edition).”
In the past, if I wanted to control and relocate workload partitions with WPAR Manager, I had to buy a separate product. Now it’s bundled in Enterprise Edition. This is the product we need to take advantage of application mobility (the capability to move WPARs from one system running AIX 6.1 to another system running AIX 6.1).
Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) is designed to “discover system and application data center resources.” I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but it sounds like it makes it easier to visualize what’s going on in the computer room by telling me which applications are running on which virtual and physical machines. TADDM also locates changes in the data center, which can help make troubleshooting easier.
AIX Enterprise Edition also includes IBM Tivoli monitoring (ITM)–this allow us to monitor physical and virtual resources and, if need be, look at historical data. In addition, a usage and accounting manager (UAM) reports computer resource usage by a department or an organization. This can be handy if multiple departments want to be charged for their actual computing utilization.
I expect that purchasing the Enterprise Edition, as opposed to buying each package as a stand-alone product, would be a money-saver for your organization.
So read through the announcement, and contact your sales organization for more information if you think this would make sense in your environment.