This presentation highlights the High Availability solution for Red Hat Enterprise Linux for System z. (HA for zLinux using SNA solution on top of RHEL)

1. Red Hat London
System z Update
Filipe Miranda
fmiranda@redhat.com
Global Lead for Linux on System z
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2. Agenda
Red Hat Inc.
Red Hat in a nutshell
New Supported Hardware
RHEL 6.4 GA Highlights
RHEL6
Hot add CPU
Featured ISV Partner
Oracle
Sine Nomine Associates
RHN Satellite
Customer References
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3. Red Hat Inc.
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5. IBM zEnterprise certified
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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6. Red Hat Production Technical Support
10 years of standard official technical support
Production I Phase
•Bug fix errata Production III Phase
•Feature enhancements •Only urgent fixes
•Updated hardware support
Production II Phase
•Transition period
•Minor hardware updates
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7. High Level Roadmap and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 for
System z Highlights
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8. Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Level Roadmap
2010 2011 2012 2013
4.8 End of Life: February 29, 2012
5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.x EOF: 2017
6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.x EOF: 2020
RHEL 7.0 under development
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9. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
GA: Feb 21 2013
New features for System z
FCP end-to-end data checking
s390utils enhancements to support new features
Storage Class Memory aka Flash Express support
Support for the Transactional-Execution Facility in zEC12
Crypto Express 4th generation adapter card support in z90crypt
libica enhancements
Improved compression performance for zlib
and more!
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10. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Hot add CPU Demo
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12. Featured ISV Partners
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13. Oracle Database 11.2.0.3.0 is certified on IBM: Linux System z Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6
Oracle Real Application Clusters 11.2.0.3.0 is certified on IBM: Linux
System z Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
IBM Source: http://goo.gl/6OphH
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14. High Availability and Clustered FileSystem
New ISV Support
•Sine Nomine Associates
•Support High Availability and Clustered File System GFS2 for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux on System z
•Contacts: Filipe Miranda <fmiranda@redhat.com>
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15. High Availability and Clustered FileSystem
Same software solution offered by Red Hat on x86 but enhanced for the IBM
System z Platform
Supports Clusters on the same z/VM environment, Clusters on different z/VM
environments, different CECs using the fence_zvm and fence_zvmip.
Supported on RHEL 5.8+ and RHEL 6.2+
Technical Support available as a third party add-on directly from the
developer - SNA - Standard and 24/7 email and telephone support
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16. SNA High Availability Demo
SME6 SME7 SME8
Cluster Cluster Cluster
Management Node 1 Node 2
Console
SME LPAR
Mainframe Environment
This was a live demo - Including slides with screenshots for reference
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28. Simulating a application outage and failover action
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29. Simulating virtual machine outage
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32. RHN Satellite Overview
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33. Manage the lifecycle of all Red Hat systems from x86 to
Mainframe from a centralized console.
Simplify updates, change of configuration files, security alerts,
and more
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34. RHN Satellite console screenshots
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37. RHN Satellite Demo
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38. Customer References
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
on IBM System z
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43. Thank you
Gracias
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