Red Hat OpenShift V4.X and IBM Cloud Pak on IBM Power Systems Volume 2
Power Systems

Redbooks, published 19 Apr 2021

This IBM® Redbooks® publication educates and prepares its readers to understand and enter the multicloud era. This book takes you on a journey to understand the multicloud concept. This book provides a snapshot of the IBM Cloud® Solution, and it uses generally available and supported software and hardware resources to help you understand the following items:

• The rationale and methodology of this publication.
• New concepts and terminology.
• Reasons for moving native workloads to the cloud.
• Red Hat OpenShift V4.x on Power Systems.
• Reasons for using IBM ... [more]

IBM TS2900 Tape Autoloader
Tape storage

Web Doc, published 30 Jun 2016, last updated 19 Apr 2021

IBM® TS2900 Tape Autoloader is a low-entry tape storage solution that is designed to address capacity, data protection, reliability, availability, and affordability. With low profile IBM Ultrium® Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 8, 7, and 6 Half-High tape drives, and high-density storage capacity, the TS2900 is ideally suited for backup and archival operations.

IBM SAN Volume Controller Best Practices and Performance Guidelines
Software Defined Storage

Redbooks, published 15 Apr 2021, last updated 16 Apr 2021

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes several of the preferred practices and describes the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM SAN Volume Controller powered by IBM Spectrum® Virtualize V8.4. These practices are based on field experience. This book highlights configuration guidelines and preferred practices for the storage area network (SAN) topology, clustered system, back-end storage, storage pools, and managed disks, volumes, Remote Copy services, and hosts. Then, it provides performance guidelines for IBM SAN Volume Controller, back-end storage, and ... [more]

Matrix-Multiply Assist Best Practices Guide
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 14 Apr 2021, last updated 15 Apr 2021

This publication is for software developers who want to understand the Matrix-Mulitply Assist (MMA) function, particularly those writing libraries for high performance computing and machine learning applications.

IBM FlashSystem 7200 Product Guide
Flash storage

Redpaper, published 24 Apr 2020, last updated 14 Apr 2021

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This IBM® Redbooks® Product Guide publication describes the IBM FlashSystem® 7200 solution, which is a comprehensive, all-flash, and NVMe-enabled enterprise storage solution that delivers the full capabilities of IBM FlashCore® technology. In addition, it provides a rich set of software-defined storage (SDS) features, including data reduction and de-duplication, dynamic tiering, thin-provisioning, snapshots, cloning, replication, data copy services, and IBM HyperSwap® for high availability (HA). Scale-out and scale-up configurations further enhance capacity and throughput for better ... [more]