27 May 2022, Redpaper
This IBM® Redpaper publication delivers an updated guide for high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) planning in a multicloud environment for IBM Power. This publication describes the ideas from studies that were performed in a virtual collaborative team of IBM Business Partners, technical focal points, and product managers who used hands-on experience to implement case studies to show HADR management aspects to develop this technical update guide for a hybrid multicloud environment. The goal of this book is to deliver a HADR guide for backup and data management on-premises and in a ...
IBM Power Systems Cloud Security Guide: Protect IT Infrastructure In All Layers
14 April 2022, Redpaper
This IBM® Redpaper publication provides a security and compliance solution that is optimized for on-premises and cloud-virtualized environments on IBM Power Systems servers, running IBM AIX®, IBM i and Linux. Security control and compliance are some of the key components that are needed to defend the virtualized data center and cloud infrastructure against ever evolving threats. The IBM business-driven approach to enterprise security that is used with solutions, such as IBM PowerSC, makes IBM a premier security vendor in the market today. In this book, we explore, test, and document ...
SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems Architectural Summary
21 September 2023, Draft Redpaper
This IBM Redpaper publication delivers SAP HANA architectural concepts for successful implementation on IBM Power Systems servers. This update is designed to introduce the Power10 product line and how it enhances support for SAP HANA. Also discussed is the addition of support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a supported operating system for SAP workloads. This publication addresses topics for sellers, IT architects, IT specialists, and anyone who wants to understand how to take advantage of running SAP HANA workloads on Power Systems servers. Moreover, this document provides information to ...
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror and IBM VM Recovery Manager Solutions Updates
11 May 2023, Redpaper
This IBM® Redpaper publication provides an overview of the business continuity solutions for applications running on IBM Power. IBM Power servers are designed for availability, reducing single points of failure (SPOFs), and providing redundant hardware components to minimize hardware failures that interrupt critical business functions. However, a highly available (HA) platform is not a guarantee of 100% availability, so IBM also developed software and strategies to help you to continue to run your business in the rare event of hardware, software, or site failures that impact your production ...
Security Implementation with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power Systems
25 April 2023, Redpaper
Red Hat OpenShift is a powerful and flexible container orchestration platform that enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage applications in a cloud-native environment. As with any production system, you must ensure the security of an Red Hat OpenShift deployment, which includes secure deployment and configuration of the Red Hat OpenShift components, and ongoing maintenance and monitoring to ensure the continued security of the environment. This IBM® Redpaper publication provides a comprehensive overview of the security best practices for deploying Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power. It ...
Practical Migration from x86 to Linux on IBM Z
30 April 2024, Draft Redbooks
There are many reasons why you would want to optimize your servers through virtualization using Linux on IBM Z®: Too many distributed physical servers with low utilization A lengthy provisioning process that delays the implementation of new applications Limitations in data center power and floor space High total cost of ownership (TCO) Difficulty allocating processing power for a dynamic environment This IBM Redbooks® publication provides a technical planning guide and example for IT organizations to migrate from their x86 environment to Linux on ...
Using Pacemaker to Create Highly Available Linux Solutions on IBM Power
20 December 2023, Draft Redbooks
High availability and business continuity continue to be focus themes for businesses as they work hard to provide infrastructure components to support the "always available" requirements for their critical business functions. In addition, many enterprises are starting to build critical business functions on Linux servers to take advantage of the openness and portability of those applications across both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructures. These combined requirements lead to the need for a solution that allows enterprises to support highly available Linux environments for critical ...
IBM Virtual Machine Recovery Manager for IBM Power Cookbook
17 August 2023, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks® publication is designed to give the reader a broad understanding of IBM Virtual Machine Recovery Manager (VMRM). VMRM is a family of solutions that provides high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) management solutions for users of IBM Power servers. The VMRM solutions include the following items: VMRM HA provides a single-site, high availability (HA) solution. VMRM DR provides a dual-site, disaster recovery (DR) solution. VMRM HADR and VMRM HADRHA combine HADR into a single management solution. Because VMRM is based on virtual ...
Practical Migration from x86 to LinuxONE
08 April 2024, Draft Redbooks
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 ...
IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX Cookbook
30 January 2024, Redbooks
This IBM Redbooks® publication can help you install, tailor, and configure the new IBM PowerHA® 7.2.7 product, and understand new and improved features such as migrations, cluster administration, and advanced topics like using Resource Optimized High Availability (ROHA); creating a cross-site Logical Volume Manager (LVM) stretched campus cluster; and running IBM PowerHA SystemMirror® in the IBM Power Virtual Server environment. With this book, you can gain a broad understanding of the IBM PowerHA SystemMirror architecture. If you plan to install, migrate, or administer a high availability ...
09 May 2024, Redbooks
IBM® Storage FlashSystem® and IBM SAN Volume Controller solutions incorporate some of the top IBM technologies that are typically found only in enterprise-class storage systems, which raise the standard for storage efficiency in midrange disk systems. These cutting-edge storage systems extend the comprehensive storage portfolio from IBM and can help change the way organizations address the ongoing information explosion. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces the features and functions of an IBM Storage Virtualize V8.6 storage system through several examples. This book is aimed at ...
Performance and Best Practices Guide for IBM Spectrum Virtualize 8.5
03 October 2023, Redbooks
This IBM® Redbooks® publication captures several best practices and describes the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM FlashSystem® and IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) products running IBM Spectrum® Virtualize 8.5. These practices are based on field experience. This book highlights configuration guidelines and best practices for the storage area network (SAN) topology, clustered system, back-end storage, storage pools and managed disks (MDisks), volumes, Remote Copy services, and hosts. This book explains how you can optimize disk performance with the IBM Easy Tier® ...