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This IBM Redbooks publication will help you install, tailor and configure an automation environment using Ansible in an IBM Power server environment.
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13 September 2024, Draft Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks publication details our new "8 9s across the enterprise" know-how by explaining resiliency concepts and then demonstrating how to build the LinuxONE Emperor 4 Resiliency Framework for RHOCP. This should include required hardware/software, configuration details for PR/SM and z/VM, explaining how GDPS xDR proxies work for z/VM and guests, how SSI contributes to business ...
12 September 2024, Redbooks
Highly sensitive workloads on Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE can use the premium protection of Crypto Express 8S adapters in CCA or EP11 mode. Workloads can use Crypto Express 8S adapters as directly attached Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) at various levels of virtualization: in an LPAR, a z/VM or KVM guest, or in a Kubernetes container on Red Hat OpenShift. With IBM z16 and LinuxONE 4 (GA 1.5) ...
11 September 2024, Draft Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power E1050 (9043-MRX). The IBM Power E1050 uses the latest IBM Power10 processor-based technology and supports IBM AIX® and Linux operating systems. The goal of this paper is to provide an analysis of the hardware architecture and highlight the changes, new technologies, and major features that are being introduced in ...
10 September 2024, Draft Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power S1012 (9028-21B), 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 ...
09 September 2024, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication captures several best practices and describes the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM Storage FlashSystem® and IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) products running IBM Storage Virtualize 8.6. These practices are based on field experience. This book highlights configuration guidelines and best practices for the storage area network (SAN) ...
29 August 2024, Draft Redbooks
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 ...
29 August 2024, Draft Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper provides comprehensive guidance for IBM® Storage Scale™ Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) policies applicable to internal and external storage pools. External pools can be provided with extra software from IBM such as IBM Storage Archive Enterprise Edition and IBM Storage Protect for Space Management. IBM Storage Scale is a clustered and scalable file system software from ...
29 August 2024, Draft Redpaper
This is a new version of REDP-5649-00 which was originally published in September 2021. It includes new functions and changes introduced for the IBM Power E1080. 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. ...
29 August 2024, Draft Redpaper
This IBM® Redpaper describes an IBM Data & AI solution for using IBM watsonx.data together with IBM Storage Scale. The paper showcases how IBM watsonx.data applications can benefit from the enterprise storage features and functions offered by IBM Storage Scale. IBM watsonx.data empowers enterprises to scale their analytics and AI capabilities, leveraging an open lakehouse architecture. With its ...
28 August 2024, Redpaper
What is the best strategy to an effective digital transformation of your business? How do you make your business more agile, productive, and less siloed so that you can provide engaging customer experiences rapidly and at lower costs? Answer: Accelerate your mainframe application modernization and leverage hybrid cloud. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides an overview of the IBM® ...
28 August 2024, Redbooks
The cloud is a part of the business technological landscape. As more workloads are being offloaded to IBM Z® based cloud environments, you must ensure that these workloads and environments are secure. In the ever-evolving landscape of IT, innovation and adaptability are paramount. Cloud computing, virtualization, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity are a few of the ...
23 August 2024, Redpaper
This IBM® Redpaper publication provides information about how to set up and configure IBM Db2® for z/OS® with Transport Layer Security (TLS), which is the modern version of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). This configuration is accomplished by using the IBM z/OS Communications Server Application Transparent Transport Layer Security (AT-TLS) services. This paper also describes the steps for ...
23 August 2024, Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power S1012 (9028-21B) which is an entry level server in the IBM Power10 Scale Out Server line. Like the other Power10 Scale Out Servers, the Power S1012 uses IBM Power10 processor-based technology and supports IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux (including Red Hat OpenShift). The Power S1012 is especially suited for use in small ...
23 August 2024, Draft Redbooks
The release of Red Hat OpenShift 4.14 brought the OpenShift Container Platform Multiple-Architecture Compute feature to IBM Power. Multi-Arch Compute provides a single heterogeneous cluster, enabling fit-for-purpose computing so clients can align tasks and applications to CPU strengths and software availability rather than one architecture. This support was expanded in Red Hat OpenShift 4.15 ...
21 August 2024, Draft Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication covers IBM TS7700 R5.4 and R5.4 PGA1. The IBM TS7700 is part of a family of IBM Enterprise tape products. This book is intended for system architects and storage administrators who want to integrate their storage systems for optimal operation. Building on over 25 years of experience, the R5.4 release includes many features that enable improved performance, ...
20 August 2024, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the concepts, architecture, and implementation of the IBM Storage DS8900F family. The book provides reference information to assist readers who need to plan for, install, and configure the DS8900F systems. This edition applies to DS8900F systems with IBM Storage DS8000® Licensed Machine Code (LMC) 7.9.30 (bundle version 89.30.xx.x), referred to as Release ...
19 August 2024, Redbooks
The exponential growth in data over the last decade coupled with a drastic adoption of artificial intelligence has opened organizations up to valuable insights, opportunities for improvements in efficiency, increases in profits, and overall deliver more business value both internally to employees and shareholders and externally to clients and consumers. The data that fuels these insights is the ...
18 August 2024, Draft Redpaper
Building on 25 years of virtual tape experience, the IBM® TS7700 (IBM TS7760 and TS7770) now can store virtual tape volumes in object storage. This IBM Redpaper publication helps you set up and configure the cloud object storage support for IBM Cloud® Object Storage or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The TS7700 supported offloading to physical tape for over two decades. Using a TS7700 ...
16 August 2024, Draft Redbooks
The IBM TS7700 features a functional enhancement that allows for the TS7700 to act as an object store for IBM DS8000® Transparent Cloud Tiering with IBM DS8000, DFSMShsm (HSM), and native DFSMSdss (DSS). This function can be used to move data sets directly from DS8000 to TS7700. This IBM Redpaper publication provides a functional overview of the features, provides client value information, and ...
15 August 2024, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication presents a general introduction to the latest (current) IBM® tape and tape library technologies. Featured tape technologies include the IBM LTO Ultrium and Enterprise 3592 tape drives, and their implementation in IBM tape libraries. This 19th edition includes information about the latest IBM Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 9 tape drive, IBM Diamondback tape ...
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