SAP HANA and ESS: A Winning Combination
Storage Solutions

Redpaper, published 16 Aug 2018

SAP HANA on IBM® POWER® is an established HANA solution with which customers can run HANA-based analytic and business applications on a flexible IBM Power based infrastructure. IT assets, such as servers, storage, and skills and operation procedures, can easily be used and reused instead of enforcing more investment into dedicated SAP HANA only appliances. In this scenario, IBM Spectrum™ Scale as the underlying block storage and files system adds further benefits to this solution stack to take advantage of scale effects, higher availability, simplification, and performance. With the IBM ... [more]

IBM Power System E950 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Draft Redpaper, last updated 15 Aug 2018

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication gives a broad understanding of a new architecture of the IBM Power System E950 server that support IBM AIX®, and Linux operating systems. The objective of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power E950 offerings and relevant functions:

• The IBM POWER9™ processor, which is available at frequencies of 2.8 - 3.4 GHz.
• Significantly strengthened cores and larger caches.
• Supports up to 16 TB memory, which is 4 times more than the POWER8® E850.
• Integrated I/O subsystem and hot-pluggable Peripheral Component ... [more]

A Guide to JES3 to JES2 Migration
z Systems

Redbooks, published 15 Aug 2018

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides information to help clients that have JES3 and want to migrate to JES2. It provides a comprehensive list of the differences between the two job entry subsystems and provides information to help you determine the migration effort and actions. This book considers the features of JES2 as available on releases of IBM z/OS® V2R2 and V2R3. It should be used with JES3 to JES2 Migration Considerations, SG24-8083. This publication is divided into three parts:

• Part 1, “Planning to migrate from JES3 to JES2” on page 1, gives you ... [more]

IBM Power System E980 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Draft Redpaper, last updated 15 Aug 2018

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication gives a broad understanding of a new architecture of the IBM Power System E980 server that support IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. 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 to 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) Gen4 slots, double the ... [more]

IBM XIV Storage System Business Continuity Functions
Storage Solutions

Redbooks, published 16 Nov 2014, last updated 7 Aug 2018

The IBM XIV® Storage System has a rich set of copy functions suited for various data protection scenarios that enable you to enhance your business continuance, disaster recovery, data migration, and online backup solutions. These functions allow point-in-time copies, known as snapshots and full volume copies, and also include remote copy capabilities in either synchronous or asynchronous mode. A three-site mirroring function is now available to further improve availability and disaster recovery capabilities. These functions are included in the XIV software and all their features are ... [more]