SAP HANA Data Management and Performance on IBM Power Systems
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 1 Apr 2020

This IBM® Redpaper Redbooks publication provides information and concepts about how to take advantage of SAP HANA and IBM Power Systems features to manage data and performance efficiently. The target audience of this book includes architects, IT specialists, and systems administrators who deploy SAP HANA and manage data and SAP system performance.

IBM DS8000 High-Performance Flash Enclosure Gen2 (DS8000 R9.0)
Disk storage

Redpaper, published 20 Dec 2019, last updated 31 Mar 2020

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes the IBM DS8880 High-Performance Enclosure (HPFE) Gen2 architecture and configuration, as of DS8900 Release 9.0. The IBM® DS8000® High-Performance Flash Enclosure Gen2 (HPFE Gen2) is a 2U storage enclosure that is installed in pairs in DS8900F and DS8880 models. The flash enclosure and Flash RAID adapters are installed in pairs. Each storage enclosure pair can support 16, 32, or 48 encryption-capable flash drives (2.5-inch, 63.5 mm form ... [more]

Securing Your Critical Workloads with IBM Hyper Protect Services
LinuxONE

Redbooks, published 30 Mar 2020, last updated 31 Mar 2020

Many organizations must protect their mission-critical applications in production, but security threats can also 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 given 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 their ... [more]

IBM FlashSystem 9200 Product Guide
Flash storage

Draft Redpaper, last updated 31 Mar 2020

This IBM® Redbooks® Product Guide publication describes the IBM FlashSystem® 9200 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]

IBM FlashSystem 9200R Rack Solution Product Guide
Flash storage

Draft Redpaper, last updated 31 Mar 2020

The FlashSystem 9200R Rack Solution provides a way of ordering a clustered FlashSystem 9200 with a dedicated Fibre Channel network and optional expansion enclosures, delivered ready-assembled in a rack.

IBM Power Systems Infrastructure I/O for SAP Applications
Power Systems

Draft Redpaper, last updated 30 Mar 2020

This IBM Redpaper publication outlines experience gained by the authors on architectures working well in client environments. With IBM POWER the value is to have the flexibility, seamlessly fitting new applications and workloads into a single datacenter, and even consolidate them into a single server. The approach taken is to highlight all viable options and describe the pros and cons to select the correct option for a specific datacenter. The target audiences of this book are architects, IT specialist, and systems administrators deploying SAP workloads whom often spend a lot of time and ... [more]

The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM Z Volume 5: KVM
IBM Z

Draft Redbooks, last updated 27 Mar 2020

This IBM Redbooks publication gives a broad explanation of the kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) on IBM Z and how it can exploit the z/Architecture. It focuses on the planning of the environment and provides installation and configuration definitions that are necessary to build, manage, and monitor a KVM on Z environment. This publication applies to the supported Linux on Z distributions (Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu) This IBM Redbooks publication is useful to IT architects, system administrators, and those who plan for and install KVM on IBM Z. The reader is expected to have a good ... [more]

SAP HANA Platform Migration
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 25 Mar 2020

This IBM® Redpaper publication provides SAP HANA platform migration information and details for successful planning for migration to IBM Power Systems servers. This publication addresses topics for sellers, IT architects, IT specialists, and anyone who wants to migrate and manage SAP workloads on Power Systems servers. Moreover, this guide provides documentation to transfer how-to skills to the technical teams, and it provides solution guidance to the sales team. This publication complements documentation that is available at IBM Knowledge Center, and it aligns with educational materials ... [more]

IBM DS8900F Architecture and Implementation
Disk storage

Redbooks, published 18 Feb 2020, last updated 24 Mar 2020

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the concepts, architecture, and implementation of the IBM DS8900F family. This book provides reference information to assist readers who need to plan for, install, and configure the DS8900F systems. This edition applies to DS8900F systems running microcode Release 9.0 (Bundle 89.0 / Licensed Machine Code (LMC) 7.9.0.xxx). The DS8900F family offers two new classes:

• IBM DS8910F: Flexibility Class all-flash: The Flexibility Class is designed to reduce complexity while addressing various workloads at the lowest DS8900F family entry cost. ... [more]

SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems Architectural Summary
Power Systems

Draft Redpaper, last updated 24 Mar 2020

This IBM Redpaper publication publication delivers SAP HANA architectural concepts for successful implementation on IBM Power Systems servers. This publication addresses topics for sellers, IT architects, IT specialists, and anyone who wants to understand how to take advantages of running SAP HANA workloads on IBM Power Systems servers. Moreover, this guide provides documentation to transfer how-to skills to the technical teams, and it provides solution guidance to the sales team. This publication complements documentation that is available at IBM Knowledge Center, and it aligns with ... [more]