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Recommendations for Implementing Geographic Logical Volume Manager (GLVM) On-Premises and on the Cloud
Power Systems

Draft Redpaper, last updated 28 Feb 2024

This IBM Redpaper introduces the AIX Geographic Logical Volume Manage and examines DR options for AIX, both on premises and in the Cloud. It also offers recommendations designed to ensure a smooth implementation and covers good practices around ongoing maintenance and monitoring. The main driver for writing this document was to address the varied experiences we have seen with the implementation of GLVM both standalone and when managed by PowerHA. While many implementations go smoothly and the customer experiences very few issues in production there are others that have been, shall we say, ... [more]


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IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Cookbook
Power Systems

Redbooks, published 30 Jan 2024

This IBM Redbooks® publication can help you install, tailor, and configure the new IBM PowerHA® 7.2.7 product, and understand new and improved features such as migrations, cluster administration, and advanced topics like using Resource Optimized High Availability (ROHA); creating a cross-site Logical Volume Manager (LVM) stretched campus cluster; and running IBM PowerHA SystemMirror® in the IBM Power Virtual Server environment. With this book, you can gain a broad understanding of the IBM PowerHA SystemMirror architecture. If you plan to install, migrate, or administer a high availability ... [more]


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Using Pacemaker to Create Highly Available Linux Solutions on IBM Power
Power Systems

Draft Redbooks, last updated 20 Dec 2023

High availability and business continuity continue to be focus themes for businesses as they work hard to provide infrastructure components to support the "always available" requirements for their critical business functions. In addition, many enterprises are starting to build critical business functions on Linux servers to take advantage of the openness and portability of those applications across both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructures. These combined requirements lead to the need for a solution that allows enterprises to support highly available Linux environments for critical ... [more]


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Using Ansible for Automation with IBM Power Systems
Power Systems

Draft Redbooks, last updated 20 Dec 2023

This IBM Redbooks publication will help you install, tailor and configure an automation environment using Ansible in an IBM Power server environment. Ansible is a versatile and easy to use IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. With Ansible you can automate almost anything: code deployment, network configuration, server infrastructure deployment, security and patch management, and cloud management. Ansible is implemented in an easy to use and human readable language (YAML) and uses SSH to connect to the managed systems, hence with no ... [more]


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IBM Power S1014, S1022s, S1022, and S1024 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 15 Aug 2022, last updated 5 Oct 2023

This IBM® Redpaper publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power S1014 (9105-41B), IBM Power S1022s (9105-22B), IBM Power S1022 (9105-22A), and IBM Power S1024 (9105-42A) servers that use the latest IBM Power10 processor-based technology and support the IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. The goal of this paper is to provide a hardware architecture analysis and highlight the changes, new technologies, and major features that are being introduced in these systems, such as the following examples:
- The latest IBM Power10 processor design, including the ... [more]


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SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems Architectural Summary
Power Systems

Draft Redpaper, last updated 21 Sep 2023

This IBM Redpaper publication delivers SAP HANA architectural concepts for successful implementation on IBM Power Systems servers. This update is designed to introduce the Power10 product line and how it enhances support for SAP HANA. Also discussed is the addition of support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a supported operating system for SAP workloads. This publication addresses topics for sellers, IT architects, IT specialists, and anyone who wants to understand how to take advantage of running SAP HANA workloads on Power Systems servers. Moreover, this document provides information to ... [more]


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IBM Power E1080 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 12 Oct 2021, last updated 30 Aug 2023

This IBM® Redpaper® publication provides a broad understanding of a new architecture of the IBM Power® E1080 (also known as the Power E1080) server that supports IBM AIX®, IBM i, and selected distributions of Linux operating systems. The objective of this paper is to introduce the Power E1080, the most powerful and scalable server of the IBM Power portfolio, and its offerings and relevant functions:
- Designed to support up to four system nodes and up to 240 IBM Power10™ processor cores The Power E1080 can be initially ordered with a single system node or two system nodes ... [more]


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IBM Power E1050: Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 31 Aug 2022, last updated 30 Aug 2023

This IBM® Redpaper publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power E1050 server (9043-MRX) that uses the latest IBM Power10 processor-based technology and supports IBM AIX® and Linux operating systems (OSs). The goal of this paper is to provide a hardware architecture analysis and highlight the changes, new technologies, and major features that are being introduced in this system, such as:
- The latest IBM Power10 processor design, including the dual-chip module (DCM) packaging, which is available in various configurations from 12 - 24 cores per socket.
- ... [more]


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IBM Virtual Machine Recovery Manager for IBM Power Cookbook
Power Systems

Redbooks, published 17 Aug 2023

This IBM Redbooks® publication is designed to give the reader a broad understanding of IBM Virtual Machine Recovery Manager (VMRM). VMRM is a family of solutions that provides high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) management solutions for users of IBM Power servers. The VMRM solutions include the following items:
- VMRM HA provides a single-site, high availability (HA) solution.
- VMRM DR provides a dual-site, disaster recovery (DR) solution.
- VMRM HADR and VMRM HADRHA combine HADR into a single management solution.
Because VMRM is based on virtual ... [more]


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IBM Power Virtual Server Guide for IBM AIX and Linux
Power Systems

Redbooks, published 10 Aug 2023, last updated 11 Aug 2023

This IBM Redbooks publication describes deployment, networking, and data management tasks on the IBM Power® Virtual Server by using sample scenarios. The team during the content development used available documentation, IBM Power Virtual Server environment, and additional software and hardware resources to document several types of scenarios: + IBM Power Virtual Server networking and data management deployment scenarios + Migration scenarios + Backup scenarios + Disaster recovery scenarios This book addresses topics for IT architects, IT specialists, developers, sellers, and anyone who wants ... [more]


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IBM Power System E980: Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 7 Sep 2018, last updated 28 Jun 2023

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication provides a broad understanding of a new architecture of the IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S) server that supports IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems (OSes). The objective of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power E980 offerings and relevant functions:
- The IBM POWER9™ processor, which is available at frequencies of 3.55 - 4.0 GHz.
- Significantly strengthened cores and larger caches.
- Supports up to 64 TB memory.
- Integrated I/O subsystem and hot-pluggable Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) ... [more]


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Implementing, Tuning, and Optimizing Workloads with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power
Red Hat

Redbooks, published 9 Jun 2023

Enterprises everywhere are challenged to provide new services and environments based on hybrid cloud. The new paradigm of using hybrid cloud solutions to meet new business requirements can be challenging. This IBM Redbooks® publication is designed to show you how to implement a hybrid cloud solution that uses the industry leading hybrid cloud platform (Red Hat OpenShift) on IBM Power based servers. By combining Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Power servers, you can create a highly reliable and scalable cloud environment. We provide hints and tips about how to install your Red Hat OpenShift ... [more]


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IBM PowerHA SystemMirror and IBM VM Recovery Manager Solutions Updates
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 11 May 2023

This IBM® Redpaper publication provides an overview of the business continuity solutions for applications running on IBM Power. IBM Power servers are designed for availability, reducing single points of failure (SPOFs), and providing redundant hardware components to minimize hardware failures that interrupt critical business functions. However, a highly available (HA) platform is not a guarantee of 100% availability, so IBM also developed software and strategies to help you to continue to run your business in the rare event of hardware, software, or site failures that impact your production ... [more]


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IBM Power System AC922 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 23 Jul 2018, last updated 2 May 2023

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power System AC922 server (8335-GTH and 8335-GTX models). The Power AC922 server is the next generation of the IBM POWER® processor-based systems, which are designed for deep learning (DL) and artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC). This paper introduces the major innovative Power AC922 server features and their relevant functions:
- Powerful IBM POWER9™ processors that offer up to 22 cores at up to 2.80 GHz (3.10 GHz turbo) performance with up to ... [more]


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SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers: Hybrid Cloud Solution
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 28 Apr 2023, last updated 2 May 2023

This IBM Redpaper publication will help you install, tailor and configure SAP HANA in your IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) hybrid cloud environment. We first provide a high level overview of hybrid cloud and then we show how you can integrate SAP services along with your SAP/HANA instances into a hybrid cloud environment. We present the benefits of running your SAP/HANA instance on IBM Power servers, either on premise or in the cloud. We then describe the currently available options for running SAP/HANA on PowerVS servers and provide you with installation and migration scenarios to help ... [more]


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Security Implementation with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power Systems
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 25 Apr 2023

Red Hat OpenShift is a powerful and flexible container orchestration platform that enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage applications in a cloud-native environment. As with any production system, you must ensure the security of an Red Hat OpenShift deployment, which includes secure deployment and configuration of the Red Hat OpenShift components, and ongoing maintenance and monitoring to ensure the continued security of the environment. This IBM® Redpaper publication provides a comprehensive overview of the security best practices for deploying Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power. It ... [more]


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Introduction to IBM PowerVM
Power Systems

Redbooks, published 13 Mar 2023, last updated 13 Mar 2023

Virtualization plays an important role in resource efficiency by optimizing performance, reducing costs, and improving business continuity. IBM PowerVM® provides a secure and scalable server virtualization environment for IBM AIX®, IBM® i, and Linux applications. PowerVM is built on the advanced reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features and leading performance of IBM Power servers. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces PowerVM virtualization technologies on Power servers. This publication targets clients who are new to Power servers and introduces the available ... [more]


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IBM Elastic Storage System Introduction Guide
Storage solutions

Redpaper, published 21 Nov 2022, last updated 22 Nov 2022

This IBM® Redpaper publication provides an overview of the IBM Elastic Storage® Server (IBM ESS) and IBM Elastic Storage System (also IBM ESS). These scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, are built on IBM Spectrum® Scale technology. Providing reliability, performance, and scalability, IBM ESS can be implemented for a range of diverse requirements. The latest IBM ESS 3500 is the most innovative system that provides investment protection to expand or build a new Global Data Platform and use current storage. The system allows enhanced, non-disruptive upgrades to grow ... [more]


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IBM Power Systems S922, S914, and S924 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 26 Jul 2018, last updated 26 Aug 2022

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power System S922 (9009-22A), IBM Power System S914 (9009-41A), and IBM Power System S924 (9009-42A) servers that support IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. The objective of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power S914, Power S922, and Power 924 offerings and their relevant functions:
- The new IBM POWER9™ processor, which is available at frequencies of 2.3 - 3.8 GHz, 2.8 - 3.8 GHz, 2.9 - 3.8 GHz, 3.4 - 3.9 GHz, 3.5 - 3.9 GHz, and 3.8 - 4.0 GHz.
- Significantly ... [more]


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IBM Power Systems Private Cloud with Shared Utility Capacity: Featuring Power Enterprise Pools 2.0
Power Systems

Redbooks, published 29 Sep 2021, last updated 4 Aug 2022

This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a guide to IBM Power Systems Private Cloud with Shared Utility Capacity featuring Power Enterprise Pools (PEP) 2.0. This technology enables multiple servers in an to share base processor and memory resources and draw on pre-paid credits when the base is exceeded. Previously, the Shared Utility Capacity feature supported IBM Power E950 (9040-MR9) and IBM Power E980 (9080-M9S). The feature was extended in August 2020 to include the scale-out IBM Power servers that were announced on 14 July 2020, and it received dedicated processor support later in the year. ... [more]


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IBM AIX and Enterprise Cloud Solutions
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 28 Jun 2022

This IBM® Redpaper® publication is a guide to IBM AIX and Enterprise Cloud Solutions. AIX has a history of more than 35 years. It enables enterprise clients to run their business applications on IBM Power servers. With the passage of time, it is always upgraded with new features and technology (such as virtualization, high availability, security, and private and public clouds) to meet industry expectations. AIX 7.3 and Power10 features further enable customers to get the best of both worlds; that is, reliable servers and operating systems with the latest technology. The goal of this ... [more]


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IBM Power Systems High Availability and Disaster Recovery Updates: Planning for a Multicloud Environment
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 27 May 2022

This IBM® Redpaper publication delivers an updated guide for high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) planning in a multicloud environment for IBM Power. This publication describes the ideas from studies that were performed in a virtual collaborative team of IBM Business Partners, technical focal points, and product managers who used hands-on experience to implement case studies to show HADR management aspects to develop this technical update guide for a hybrid multicloud environment. The goal of this book is to deliver a HADR guide for backup and data management on-premises and in a ... [more]


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IBM Power Systems S922, S914, and S924 Technical Overview and Introduction Featuring PCIe Gen 4 Technology
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 16 Jul 2020, last updated 18 Apr 2022

This IBM® Redpaper publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power System S914 (9009-41G), IBM Power System S922 (9009-22G), and IBM Power System S924 (9009-42G) servers that use the latest IBM POWER9™ processor-based technology and support the IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems (OSs). The goal of this paper is to provide a hardware architecture analysis and highlight the changes, new technologies, and major features that are being introduced in these systems, such as:
- The latest IBM POWER9 processor, which is available in various configurations for ... [more]


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IBM Power Systems Cloud Security Guide: Protect IT Infrastructure In All Layers
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 14 Apr 2022

This IBM® Redpaper publication provides a security and compliance solution that is optimized for on-premises and cloud-virtualized environments on IBM Power Systems servers, running IBM AIX®, IBM i and Linux. Security control and compliance are some of the key components that are needed to defend the virtualized data center and cloud infrastructure against ever evolving threats. The IBM business-driven approach to enterprise security that is used with solutions, such as IBM PowerSC, makes IBM a premier security vendor in the market today. In this book, we explore, test, and document ... [more]


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IBM Power Systems Virtual Server Guide for IBM i
Power Systems

Redbooks, published 30 Mar 2022

This IBM® Redbooks® publication delivers a how-to usage content perspective that describes deployment, networking, and data management tasks on the IBM Power Systems Virtual Server by using sample scenarios. During the content development, the team used available documentation, IBM Power Systems Virtual Server environment, and other software and hardware resources to document the following information:
- IBM Power Systems Virtual Server networking and data management deployment scenarios
- Migrations use case scenarios
- Backups case scenarios
- Disaster recovery case ... [more]


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Asynchronous Geographic Logical Volume Mirroring Best Practices for Cloud Deployment
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 18 Mar 2022

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes IBM Geographic Logical Volume Manager (GLVM) for data mirroring in cloud deployments. Asynchronous GLVM provides IBM AIX® based mirroring of data across distance over networks. It is highly recommended that Asynchronous GLVM be deployed with PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Enterprise Edition. PowerHA® SystemMirror® provides robust workload stack HA management, handles many errors in the environment, and helps recover Asynchronous GLVM better. PowerHA SystemMirror also provides interfaces for easy setup of Asynchronous GLVM and disk management. This IBM ... [more]


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High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options for IBM Power Cloud and On-Premises
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 17 Mar 2022

This IBM® Redpaper Redbooks publication positions the new high availability disaster recovery (HADR) options in the cloud against those options that are on-premises for IBM Power servers. Hybrid cloud applications on IBM Power servers are known for their high performance and reliability. The flexibility and available services options of IBM Cloud® ensures that the HADR for these hybrid applications on IBM Power is affordable and easy to use. This publication is intended to help with the basic requirements to configure and implement HADR for many cloud and on-premises configurations. This ... [more]


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Oracle on IBM Power Systems
Power Systems

Redbooks, published 8 Dec 2021

This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps readers to understand how Oracle uses the architectural capabilities of IBM Power Systems. This book delivers a technical snapshot of Oracle on Power Systems by using the general available and supported software and hardware resources to help you guide you to understand:
- Why use Oracle on Power Systems?
- Efficiencies and benefits of the Power Systems architecture.
- Strengths of the Power Systems architecture (differentiate the technology and align with Oracle DB requirements, processor architecture helpers, and IBM AIX® on IBM ... [more]


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Cloud Backup Management with PowerHA SystemMirror
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 14 Sep 2021

This IBM® Redpaper chapterexplains how to take a backup of your data by using either of two methods, and it explains how to recover your data if there is a disaster. This paper addresses topics for IT architects, IT specialists, developers, sellers, and anyone looking to implement and manage backups in the cloud. Moreover, this publication provides documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to the technical teams and solution guidance to the sales team. This book complements the documentation that is available at IBM Documentation and aligns with the educational materials that are provided ... [more]


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SAP HANA Data Management and Performance on IBM Power Systems
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 23 Jul 2021

This IBM® Redpaper® publication provides information and concepts about how to use SAP HANA and IBM Power Systems features to manage data and performance efficiently. The target audience of this paper includes architects, IT specialists, and systems administrators who deploy SAP HANA and manage data and SAP system performance.


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