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IBM Power Systems Private Cloud with Shared Utility Capacity featuring Power Enterprise Pools 2.0
Power Systems
Draft Redbooks, last updated 18 Sep 2020
This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a guide to IBM Power Private Cloud with Shared Utility Capacity featuring Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 (also known as PEP 2.0). This technology allows multiple servers in an to share base processor and memory resources, and draw upon pre-paid credits when the base is exceeded. Previously, the Shared Utility feature supported IBM Power System E950 (9040-MR9) and IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S). It was extended in August 2020 to include the Scale-out Power Systems announced on 14th July 2020. The IBM Power System S922 (9009-22G), and IBM Power System S924 ... [more]
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 14 Sep 2020
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]
Red Hat OpenShift V4.3 on IBM Power Systems Reference Guide
Power Systems
Redpaper, published 10 Sep 2020
This IBM® Redpaper publication describes how to deploy Red Hat OpenShift V4.3 on IBM Power Systems servers. This book presents reference architectures for deployment, initial sizing guidelines for server, storage, and IBM Cloud® Paks. Moreover, this publication delivers information about initial supported Power System configurations for Red Hat OpenShift V4.3 deployment (bare metal, IBM PowerVM® LE LPARs, and others). This book serves as a guide for how to deploy Red Hat OpenShift V4.3 and provide start guidelines and recommended practices for implementing it on Power Systems and completing ... [more]
IBM Power System IC922 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems
Redpaper, published 2 Mar 2020, last updated 28 Aug 2020
This IBM® Redpaper publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power System IC922 (9183-22X) server that uses IBM POWER9™ processor-based technology and supports Linux operating systems (OSs). The objective of this paper is to introduce the system offerings and their capacities and available features. The Power IC922 server is built to deliver powerful computing, scaling efficiency, and storage capacity in a cost-optimized design to meet the evolving data challenges of the artificial intelligence (AI) era. It includes the following features:
- High throughput and ... [more]
IBM Power Systems Planning and Monitoring Best Practices for SAP Applications
Power Systems
Draft Redpaper, last updated 29 Jul 2020
This IBM Redpaper publication is part of a series of documents supporting clients and architects to plan, implement and operate SAP workloads on IBM Power Systems Servers. The focus of this publication is to plan and implement best practices for SAP workloads, and monitor the landscape for health. The target audiences of this book are architects, IT specialist, and systems administrators deploying SAP workloads whom often spend a lot of time and effort managing, provisioning, and monitoring SAP software systems and landscapes on IBM Power ... [more]
IBM Power Systems for SAS Viya 3.5 Deployment Guide
Power Systems
Draft Redbooks, last updated 17 Jul 2020
This IBM Redbooks publication provides options and best practices for deploying SAS Viya 3.5 on IBM POWER9 servers. SAS Viya is a complex set of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics solutions that require a properly planned infrastructure to meet the needs of the data scientists, business analysts, and application developers who will use Viya capabilities in their daily work activities. Regardless of the user role, the underlying infrastructure matters to ensure performance expectations and service level agreement (SLA) requirements are met or exceeded. Although the general planning ... [more]
Introduction Guide to the IBM Elastic Storage System
Storage Solutions
Redpaper, published 14 May 2020, last updated 3 Jul 2020
This IBM® Redpaper® publication provides an overview of the IBM Elastic Storage® Server (ESS) and IBM Elastic Storage System, which are scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, which is built on proven IBM Spectrum® Scale technology. Providing reliability, performance, and scalability, IBM Elastic Storage Servers and IBM Elastic Storage Systems can be implemented for a range of diverse requirements. This publication helps you to understand the solution and its architecture, and walks you through ordering the right solution for your environment, planning the installation ... [more]
Infrastructure Solutions: Design, Manage, and Optimize a 60 TB SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Data Warehouse
Power Systems
Redbooks, published 1 Feb 2008, last updated 2 Jul 2020
In order to improve the performance and operational efficiency of businesses worldwide, a customer using SAP® wanted to establish a global business program to define and implement a standardized, group-wide business process architecture and associated master data for the parameterization of the group of software tools. The expected growth of the number of users and the size of the database would be at a level never reached by other customers, however, so IBM® was asked to undertake the following tasks: * Test the application to be sure that it can sustain such growth. * Prove the ... [more]
IBM AIX Enhancements and Modernization
Power Systems
Redbooks, published 13 Jan 2020, last updated 13 May 2020
This IBM® Redbooks publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM AIX® operating system (OS) layout capabilities, distinct features, system installation, and maintenance, which includes AIX security, trusted environment, and compliance integration, with the benefits of IBM Power Virtualization Management (PowerVM®) and IBM Power Virtualization Center (IBM PowerVC), which includes cloud capabilities and automation types. The objective of this book is to introduce IBM AIX modernization features and integration with different environments:
- General AIX enhancements
- ... [more]
IBM Power Systems S922, S914, and S924 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems
Redpaper, published 26 Jul 2018, last updated 12 May 2020
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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