IBM LinuxONE Redbooks

Practical Migration from x86 to LinuxONE
LinuxONE

Draft Redbooks, last updated 8 Apr 2024

LinuxONE is a portfolio of hardware, software, and solutions for an enterprise-grade Linux environment. It has been designed to run more transactions faster and with more security and reliability specifically for the open community. It fully embraces open source-based technology. The following LinuxONE servers are now available: The IBM® LinuxONE 4 LA1, IBM LinuxONE 4 LA2, IBM LinuxONE 4 AGL and LinuxONE Express. We describe these servers in “IBM LinuxONE servers” on page 5. IBM LinuxONE 4 is the latest iteration of IBM LinuxONE enterprise servers with on-chip AI inferencing and ... [more]

IBM LinuxONE Resiliency
IBM Z

Draft Redbooks, last updated 4 Apr 2024

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 continuity, and how to configure a single RHOCP cluster across multiple z/VM ... [more]

IBM Hyper Protect Platform: Applying Data Protection and Confidentiality in a Hybrid Cloud Environment
Security

Redbooks, published 23 Feb 2024

Protecting workloads and sensitive data throughout their lifecycle is a great concern across all industries and organizations. Increasing demands to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption and integration are changing the way data is securely stored, processed, and accessed. In addition, regulatory guidelines and standards are causing many businesses and organizations to implement zero trust policies and privacy enhancing techniques to restrict access to workloads as state of least privilege is established. A state of least privilege ensures that no user or workload has any more access to data than ... [more]

Finding an On-ramp to Your AI on IBM Z Journey
IBM Z

Draft Point-of-View, last updated 5 Feb 2024

This document focuses on conveying IBM's thought leadership around outlining a roadmap for customers, assisting them in understanding the best path to getting a jump start on an AI project on IBM Z. From evaluating use cases, to selecting the right use case and understanding the potential pitfalls, this document will discuss key considerations and highlight resources to help get you started.

Accelerate Mainframe Application Modernization with Hybrid Cloud
IBM Z

Point-of-View, published 31 Mar 2023, last updated 1 Nov 2023

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® strategy to help you modernize applications faster, at lower cost and less risk, by using IBM zSystems® and public cloud solutions together in your modernization journey. Included are ... [more]

IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z
LinuxONE

Redguide, published 14 Mar 2023, last updated 11 Jul 2023

Most industries are susceptible to fraud, which poses a risk to both businesses and consumers. According to The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, health care fraud alone causes the nation around $68 billion annually. This statistic does not include the numerous other industries where fraudulent activities occur daily. In addition, the growing amount of data that enterprises own makes it difficult for them to detect fraud. Businesses can benefit by using an analytical platform to fully integrate their data with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. With IBM Cloud Pak® for Data ... [more]

Mainframe Application Modernization Patterns for Hybrid Cloud
Cloud

Redbooks, published 27 Jun 2023, last updated 30 Jun 2023

As businesses digitally transform, they can impose significant demands on existing mainframe applications and data requiring the need to modernize to achieve business outcomes. To meet this need for modernization which includes greater agility, efficiency, and innovation, they are choosing a hybrid cloud strategy that brings together the best of IBM Z® and Cloud. IBM Z integrated into a hybrid cloud based on Red Hat OpenShift provides resiliency and secure architecture that allows for application workload placement on the "best fit" infrastructure to maximize scale, performance, and ... [more]

Solving challenges of instant payments by using AI on IBM zSystems
LinuxONE

Point-of-View, published 29 Jun 2023

A business oriented review to help you solve the challenges around instant payments by using artificial intelligence on IBM zSystems

Hybrid cloud with on-premises cloud on IBM Z or LinuxONE
Cloud

Redbooks, published 28 Oct 2022

Enterprises invested millions of dollars and spent decades on developing their on-premises infrastructure. As technology advances, so has the need to leverage that infrastructure, yet still modernize the enterprises’ software portfolio to use more contemporary infrastructure, tools, and languages. Enterprises require a unified, flexible, cost-optimal hybrid cloud with portable microservices and a reliable and securable on-premises infrastructure for data-intensive AI and mission-critical workloads. A hybrid cloud can help enterprises integrate their public and private clouds with their ... [more]

Oracle 19c on IBM LinuxONE
LinuxONE

Redbooks, published 15 Mar 2021, last updated 8 Sep 2022

This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you install, tailor, and configure Oracle 19c on the IBM LinuxONE platform.

Building a Red Hat OpenShift Environment on IBM Z
Cloud

Redbooks, published 10 Aug 2022

Cybersecurity is the most important arm of defense against cyberattacks. With the recent increase in cyberattacks, corporations must focus on how they are combating these new high-tech threats. When establishing best practices, a corporation must focus on employees’ access to specific workspaces and information. IBM Z® focuses on allowing high processing virtual environments while maintaining a high level of security in each workspace. Organizations not only need to adjust their approach to security, but also their approach to IT environments. To meet new customer needs and expectations, ... [more]

Leveraging LinuxONE to Maximize Your Data Serving Capabilities
LinuxONE

Redbooks, published 26 Apr 2022, last updated 24 May 2022

Data modernization enables organizations to access enterprise data and extend the business value of core data that has been collected over many years. Data modernization is any initiative or process that results in more relevant and accurate data or more efficient and timely data delivery and analyses that support both improved governance (management, science, and enforcement) and serve industry and public needs. This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes how to maximize the data serving capabilities on LinuxONE and how you can take advantage of these capabilities to modernize your ... [more]

Securing Your Critical Workloads with IBM Hyper Protect Services
LinuxONE

Redbooks, published 11 Feb 2022, last updated 22 Feb 2022

Many organizations must protect their mission-critical applications in production, but security threats also can surface during the development and pre-production phases. Also, during deployment and production, insiders who manage the infrastructure that hosts critical applications can pose a threat because of their super-user credentials and level of access to secrets or encryption keys. Organizations must incorporate secure design practices in their development operations and embrace DevSecOps to protect their applications from the vulnerabilities and threat vectors that can compromise ... [more]

Innovate at Scale and Deploy with Confidence in a Hybrid Cloud Environment
IBM Z

Redpaper, published 10 May 2021, last updated 20 Oct 2021

According to a recent study, CxOs have embraced hybrid cloud as an essential part of their digital transformation strategies. However, there are still several open-ended questions for most when assessing a hybrid cloud platform. This IBM® Redguide® publication examines some common business challenges and provides solutions based on a decade worth of experience. These solutions include:
- Responding to business needs faster
- Reducing IT cost
- Prioritizing digital transformation
- Adopting hybrid cloud as a de facto enterprise model
In early 2020, IBM and Red ... [more]

Data Serving with FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres on IBM LinuxONE
LinuxONE

Redbooks, published 14 Jul 2021

Enterprises require support and agility to work with big data repositories and relational databases. FUJITSU Enterprise Postgres is one of the leading relational database management systems (RDBMSs), and it is designed to work with large data sets. As more companies transform their infrastructures with hybrid cloud services, they require environments that protect the safety of their data and business rules. At IBM®, we believe that your data is yours and yours alone. The insights and advantages that come from your data are yours to use in the pursuit of your business objectives. IBM is ... [more]

Easily Deploy and Use CodeReady Workspaces on IBM Z and LinuxONE
Red Hat

Web Doc, published 18 May 2021

CodeReady Workspaces provides development teams a faster and more reliable foundation on which to work, and it gives operations centralized control and peace of mind. This article goes through the steps of deploying CodeReady Workspaces on IBM Z and LinuxONE.

Practical Migration from x86 to LinuxONE
LinuxONE

Redbooks, published 4 Jan 2021

***Coming soon! A 2024 version of this book, complete with IBM LinuxONE 4!*** LinuxONE is a portfolio of hardware, software, and solutions for an enterprise-grade Linux environment. It has been designed to run more transactions faster and with more security and reliability specifically for the open community. It fully embraces open source-based technology. Two servers are available for LinuxONE: The IBM® LinuxONE III LT1 and IBM LinuxONE III LT2. We describe these servers in “IBM LinuxONE servers” on page 5. Aside from still running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat ... [more]

Consolidation Planning Workbook: Practical Migration from x86 to IBM LinuxONE
LinuxONE

Redpaper, published 10 Dec 2020

  (based on 1 review)

IBM® LinuxONE is a portfolio of hardware, software, and solutions for an enterprise-grade Linux environment. It is designed to run more transactions faster and with more security and reliability specifically for the open community. It fully embraces open source-based technology. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides a technical sample workbook for IT organizations that are considering a migration from their x86 distributed servers to IBM LinuxONE. This publication provides you with checklists for each facet of your migration to IBM LinuxONE. This IBM Redbooks workbook assists you by ... [more]

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z Installation Guide
Red Hat

Redpaper, published 29 Sep 2020, last updated 16 Oct 2020

  (based on 3 reviews)

This IBM® Redpaper publication provides all the necessary steps to successfully install Red Hat OpenShift 4.4 on IBM Z® or LinuxONE servers. It also provides an introduction to OpenShift nodes, Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS, and Ansible. The steps that are described in this paper are taken from the official pages of the Red Hat website. This IBM Redpaper publication was written for IT architects, IT specialists, and others who are interested in installing Red Hat OpenShift on IBM ... [more]

Maximizing Security with LinuxONE
LinuxONE

Redpaper, published 10 Aug 2020

LinuxONE® is a hardware system that is designed to support and use the Linux operating system based on the value of its unique underlying architecture. LinuxONE can be used within a private and multi-cloud environment to support a range of workloads and service various needs. On LinuxONE, security is built into the hardware and software. This IBM® Redpaper® publication gives a broad understanding of how to use the various security features that make the most of and complement the LinuxONE hardware security features, including the following examples:
- Hardware accelerated ... [more]