Fortra Performance Navigator vs. Hitachi JP1/Performance Management

The best suited scenarios are disk feature trends based on the previous months usage. The product will hold the good amount of historical data [making] it easy to compare the data as needed. The before and after analysis [makes] it easy to identify the difference between those days. That particular report helped me a lot to compare the data.

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• Disk growth trends.
• Library size change difference.
• CPU, DASD, Memory usage and the Jobs count on month wise.
• Top takers (Jobs) of the CPU%.

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• It's a good tool and no such concerns.
• The product support is awesome.

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IBM i Doctor will also provide the best results since I am using the Performance Navigator for a longer period and its graphical representation attracted me more and [is] easy to understand. Also, the technical support was awesome. [When showing] the disk and CPU stats to the management (non-technical people), the product is very helpful since it is easy to understand the graphs.

Incentivized

• Disk growth analysis will help to identify the growth and to add the disk if required.
• CPU utilization report helped us a lot to find out the constant top takers.
• Memory pools utilization report helped a lot to understand the system performance.

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