IBM Power Systems Redbooks

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

Draft Redpaper, last updated 18 Jan 2022

This IBM® Redpaper publication positions the new high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) options in the cloud against those options on-premises. Hybrid cloud applications on IBM Power Systems are known for its high performance and reliability. The flexibility and available services options of IBM cloud ensured high availability and disaster recovery of these hybrid applications on Power Systems affordable and easy to use. This publication is intended to help with the basic requirements to configure and implement the HA and DR for a number of on-premises and cloud configurations. ... [more]

IBM Power Systems Virtual Server Guide for IBM i
Power Systems

Draft Redbooks, last updated 4 Jan 2022

This IBM Redbooks publication delivers a how-to usage content perspective describing deployment, networking, and data management tasks on the IBM Power Systems Virtual Server using sample scenarios. The team during the content development utilized available documentation, IBM Power Systems Virtual Server environment, and additional software and hardware resources to: + Document IBM Power Systems Virtual Server networking and data management deployment scenarios. + Document migrations use case scenarios. + Document backups case scenarios. + Document disaster recovery case scenarios. This book ... [more]

IBM Power E1080 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 12 Oct 2021, last updated 9 Dec 2021

  (based on 1 review)

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]

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]

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

Redbooks, published 29 Sep 2021, last updated 7 Oct 2021

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]

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]

Introduction Guide to the IBM Elastic Storage System
Storage Solutions

Redpaper, published 13 Aug 2021

This IBM® Redpaper® publication provides an overview of the IBM Elastic Storage® Server and IBM Elastic Storage System. This edition introduces the IBM Elastic Storage System 3200. These scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, are 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. It describes ordering the best solution for your ... [more]

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.

SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems Backup and Recovery Solutions
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 27 May 2021

  (based on 1 review)

This IBM® Redpaper Redbooks publication provides guidance about a backup and recovery solution for SAP High-performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) running on IBM Power Systems. This publication provides case studies and how-to procedures that show backup and recovery scenarios. This publication provides information about how to protect data in an SAP HANA environment by using IBM Spectrum® Protect and IBM Spectrum Copy Data Manager. This publication focuses on the data protection solution, which is described through several scenarios. The information in this publication is distributed on an ... [more]

IBM PowerVC Version 2.0 Introduction and Configuration
Power Systems

Redbooks, published 26 May 2021

  (based on 6 reviews)

IBM® Power Virtualization Center (IBM® PowerVC™) is an advanced enterprise virtualization management offering for IBM Power Systems. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces IBM PowerVC and helps you understand its functions, planning, installation, and setup. It also shows how IBM PowerVC can integrate with systems management tools such as Ansible or Terraform and that it also integrates well into a OpenShift container environment. IBM PowerVC Version 2.0.0 supports both large and small deployments, either by managing IBM PowerVM® that is controlled by the Hardware Management Console ... [more]