Building a Microsoft Hyper-V cloud with IBM solutions: IBM System x3650 M3 and IBM XIV Storage help maximize cloud deployments. New IBM System x and software analytics solutions at http://ibm.co/POzlQv.
Within today’s smarter planet much of IT administration is
performed within the context of managing a complete virtual
system. The integration of network and storage administration
with virtual server administration is a natural fit. This end-to-end
view of the IT environment allows administrators to make
choices at each layer that fit into an overall architecture...
Complexity can work its way into any IT infrastructure, driven by the rollout of new applications and unanticipated change. However, adding servers in response to each demand for new workloads drives the need for more datacenter space, power, cooling, network cabling, data storage
The document discusses how Linux applications can be consolidated and migrated from physical x86 servers to virtual servers running on IBM System z mainframe servers. It describes how the IBM z/VM hypervisor allows a single System z server to run hundreds of Linux virtual machines. Using virtualization provides benefits like reduced costs, improved efficiency, and the ability to quickly deploy new applications. The document also outlines tools like IBM VMControl Image Manager and CSL-Wave that simplify managing the Linux virtual machines and hidden the complexity of the z/VM environment.
The document discusses how IBM XIV storage is well-suited for cloud computing environments due to its massively parallel architecture, ability to scale performance with capacity, and provide elasticity. It delivers consistent high performance at lower costs than traditional storage. Key features that make it suitable include powerful virtualization, predictable performance even with mixed workloads, ease of management, and ability to meet service level agreements for tenants. Case studies show how XIV storage helps accelerate cloud implementations and lower costs.
Learn how Cloud Ready for Linux on System z provides the functions needed to enable the deployment of an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS) Cloud environment on Linux on System z.For more information on System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
A private cloud provides cloud computing benefits like scalability and elasticity using dedicated resources controlled by the organization. It can deliver infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) models. Microsoft offers private cloud solutions using Windows Server, Hyper-V, and System Center to build a flexible private cloud with self-service provisioning and integrated management.
This document discusses virtualization solutions from IBM and VMware. It notes that these companies provide workload-optimized systems, consultative services, and heterogeneous management to help companies move to more fully virtualized environments and cloud computing. Specifically, it highlights IBM's eX5 systems which are designed for virtualization and deliver mainframe-inspired reliability, lower costs, and energy savings when used with VMware's vSphere platform. The collaboration between IBM and VMware provides innovative virtualization solutions delivering high performance, density, reliability, and availability.
- IBM introduces two new expert integrated systems called PureSystems: the PureFlex System and PureApplication System.
- The PureFlex System provides an integrated hardware and software stack including compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and systems management capabilities.
- The PureApplication System is optimized for specific applications and workloads like WebSphere and DB2.
- Both systems are designed for choice, simplicity, and expertise to reduce the time, effort and risk of deploying and managing systems.
Within today’s smarter planet much of IT administration is
performed within the context of managing a complete virtual
system. The integration of network and storage administration
with virtual server administration is a natural fit. This end-to-end
view of the IT environment allows administrators to make
choices at each layer that fit into an overall architecture...
Complexity can work its way into any IT infrastructure, driven by the rollout of new applications and unanticipated change. However, adding servers in response to each demand for new workloads drives the need for more datacenter space, power, cooling, network cabling, data storage
The document discusses how Linux applications can be consolidated and migrated from physical x86 servers to virtual servers running on IBM System z mainframe servers. It describes how the IBM z/VM hypervisor allows a single System z server to run hundreds of Linux virtual machines. Using virtualization provides benefits like reduced costs, improved efficiency, and the ability to quickly deploy new applications. The document also outlines tools like IBM VMControl Image Manager and CSL-Wave that simplify managing the Linux virtual machines and hidden the complexity of the z/VM environment.
The document discusses how IBM XIV storage is well-suited for cloud computing environments due to its massively parallel architecture, ability to scale performance with capacity, and provide elasticity. It delivers consistent high performance at lower costs than traditional storage. Key features that make it suitable include powerful virtualization, predictable performance even with mixed workloads, ease of management, and ability to meet service level agreements for tenants. Case studies show how XIV storage helps accelerate cloud implementations and lower costs.
Learn how Cloud Ready for Linux on System z provides the functions needed to enable the deployment of an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS) Cloud environment on Linux on System z.For more information on System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
A private cloud provides cloud computing benefits like scalability and elasticity using dedicated resources controlled by the organization. It can deliver infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) models. Microsoft offers private cloud solutions using Windows Server, Hyper-V, and System Center to build a flexible private cloud with self-service provisioning and integrated management.
This document discusses virtualization solutions from IBM and VMware. It notes that these companies provide workload-optimized systems, consultative services, and heterogeneous management to help companies move to more fully virtualized environments and cloud computing. Specifically, it highlights IBM's eX5 systems which are designed for virtualization and deliver mainframe-inspired reliability, lower costs, and energy savings when used with VMware's vSphere platform. The collaboration between IBM and VMware provides innovative virtualization solutions delivering high performance, density, reliability, and availability.
- IBM introduces two new expert integrated systems called PureSystems: the PureFlex System and PureApplication System.
- The PureFlex System provides an integrated hardware and software stack including compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and systems management capabilities.
- The PureApplication System is optimized for specific applications and workloads like WebSphere and DB2.
- Both systems are designed for choice, simplicity, and expertise to reduce the time, effort and risk of deploying and managing systems.
This document discusses how System z mainframes provide a better business cloud platform compared to other options. It highlights key cloud requirements like scalability, resilience, elasticity and security that System z addresses through its virtualization, Parallel Sysplex clustering, and other features. Examples are given of organizations successfully using System z in infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS), and software (SaaS) cloud models to gain benefits like simplified management, high availability, energy efficiency and operational efficiency.
PowerVM is IBM's virtualization technology for its Power Systems servers. It allows consolidating multiple workloads onto a single physical server through logical partitioning. A comparison of PowerVM and x86 virtualization shows that PowerVM achieves higher performance and resource utilization. Industry-standard benchmarks like TPC-C and SAP SD 2-tier show PowerVM maintaining or exceeding native performance levels, while x86 systems see performance decreases with virtualization. PowerVM's tight integration with the Power hardware and firmware delivers benefits like stronger isolation, scalability, and availability compared to software-based x86 virtualization.
This document discusses running Linux on IBM System z mainframe computers. It begins with a brief history and introduction to zLinux, including how it originated from separate efforts to port Linux to IBM's largest servers. The document then covers topics like the benefits of virtualization, server consolidation, and integrated Linux processors on System z mainframes. It also lists several popular Linux distributions that run on zLinux and the benefits these provide, such as cost savings through reduced software licensing fees, energy costs, facilities needs, and improved productivity.
Huawei FusionCloud is Huawei's cloud computing solution that provides optimized, agile, and efficient private, public, and hybrid cloud platforms for carriers. It consists of 3 major parts: FusionSphere cloud operating system compatible with OpenStack, FusionCube converged infrastructure for automated "cloud in a box", and FusionAccess cloud access software for seamless access across devices and networks. FusionCloud addresses challenges carriers face in building distributed cloud infrastructure from multiple vendors through unified management of heterogeneous resources and flexible scheduling across data centers while avoiding vendor lock-in.
This chapter discusses key concepts related to cloud computing including types of virtualization, cloud service models, and benefits of cloud adoption. It describes virtualization of servers, storage, networks, and services. Server virtualization allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server. Storage virtualization presents physical storage devices as a single logical pool. Network virtualization logically segments network traffic. Service virtualization provides services like load balancing. Virtualization management coordinates provisioning and orchestration of virtual resources.
IBM Flex System NAS solutions with Windows Storage Server 2012 provide highly available and scalable network attached storage. The solutions include IBM Flex System servers, storage, and networking combined with Windows Storage Server 2012. This allows for deploying either a unified storage server with local storage or a highly available unified NAS gateway with shared storage. The solutions deliver file sharing, block storage, and infrastructure services to heterogeneous environments while improving performance, availability, manageability and reducing costs.
IBM Managed Hosting - Linux virtual serviceswebhostingguy
This document provides an overview of IBM's Linux virtual services solution. The solution allows customers to replace physical servers with virtual servers running Linux on IBM zSeries mainframes. Key aspects include:
- Virtual servers are isolated and secured within virtual "cages" on the mainframe.
- Customers pay based on the processing, storage, and networking capacity needed via "service units".
- The solution provides reliability, scalability, reduced costs, and simplified management compared to physical servers.
Innovation for Participation - Paul De Decker, Sun Microsystemsrobinwauters
The document discusses Sun Microsystems' strategy of providing an open source software stack called Solaris AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) that is optimized to run on their Solaris operating system. It promotes the benefits of the Solaris operating system and tools to help speed development and deployment. Additionally, it outlines Sun's approach of providing many free and open source software options along with support services to gain customers.
POWER VM with IBM i and live partition mobilityCOMMON Europe
IBM Power Systems provide virtualization capabilities through PowerVM. PowerVM allows customers to run multiple logical partitions (LPARs) on a single physical server. This improves resource utilization and reduces costs compared to a traditional one partition per server model. Key PowerVM technologies include the hypervisor, dynamic logical partitioning, shared processor pools, virtual I/O server, and live partition mobility. The virtual I/O server (VIOS) allows client partitions like IBM i to leverage virtualized storage, network, and other I/O resources rather than each requiring physical adapters.
Excellent slides on the new z13s announced on 16th Feb 2016Luigi Tommaseo
The document discusses new features and capabilities of the IBM z13s mainframe system. Key points include:
- The z13s provides greater scale for Linux and z/OS workloads compared to previous models, with up to 2x increase in memory and I/O bandwidth.
- It features capabilities like simultaneous multi-threading, vector processing, faster encryption, and improved compression to accelerate analytics and security workloads.
- The system is designed to support hybrid cloud, blockchain, APIs, analytics, and security initiatives through integration with Linux on zSystems, IBM Cloud, and other platforms and services.
virtualization tutorial at ACM bangalore Compute 2009ACMBangalore
This document summarizes a tutorial on the hardware revolution in server virtualization. It begins with an overview of server virtualization technologies including VMM architectures and the criteria for a processor to be virtualizable. It then discusses the challenges of virtualizing x86 processors due to their architecture. The document outlines software techniques like binary translation and para-virtualization used for CPU, memory, and I/O virtualization. It also reviews hardware techniques enabled by technologies like VT-x, EPT, and SR-IOV. The summary concludes with a brief discussion of future trends in manageability and security relating to server virtualization.
Colocube offers enterprise cloud and private cloud services with high performance, secure infrastructure. Their managed cloud platforms provide features like automatic failover, secure storage, firewalls and load balancing. They utilize redundant Dell servers and networking equipment across multiple data centers for reliability. Customers can deploy virtual machines with Windows, Linux or FreeBSD and manage them through a cloud management console. Colocube's services are designed for high availability and security.
The document summarizes the advantages of IBM LinuxONE systems over traditional x86 servers for running Linux workloads. LinuxONE systems provide massive scale with high performance, throughput, and security across many workloads like MongoDB, Docker containers, and virtual machines. They also have significantly lower total cost of ownership compared to solutions on x86 servers due to higher utilization rates and lower management costs.
Virtualization is a new method regarding using computing resources efficiently, by maximizing energy efficiency, extend the life of the hardware and also recycles. Virtualization technology is a system of work done by the software can merge some real physical systems into a single virtual form commonly known as virtualization without prejudice advantages over the single system. Of course, this system can reduce the amount of hardware, electrical energy consumption and time used thereby increasing the level of efficiency and effectiveness. Also, virtualization certainly reduces heat energy arising from the number of installed hardware, thereby reducing the increase in temperature geothermal (Global Warming). Some virtualization includes Server Virtualization, Network Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Grid Computing, Application Virtualization, Storage Virtualization, Virtualization and Thin Client Platform.
VIOS provides I/O virtualization on Power Systems by enabling virtual adapters. This allows IBM i partitions to access storage through the VIOS. There are two main methods: 1) VSCSI, where storage is assigned to the VIOS which then maps it to IBM i clients, and 2) NPIV, where the hypervisor assigns unique WWPNs to virtual fiber channels connecting the VIOS to storage arrays. NPIV requires an NPIV-capable switch and has limitations such as a maximum of 64 active client connections per physical port.
The document discusses IBM's XIV storage system as a solution for tier 1 enterprise applications. It provides an overview of the challenges facing tier 1 storage, including supporting mixed virtualized workloads, high performance I/O, simplicity, scalability, and evolving to private cloud. The IBM XIV is designed to address these challenges through its architecture, performance, ease of use, scalability, and data efficiency. Case studies show how large financial, wholesale, and consumer firms have deployed the XIV successfully for mission critical applications. The future outlook is that IBM is well positioned but will face challenges from competitors improving their scale-out block storage solutions.
The document summarizes the IBM XIV Storage System, which provides high-performance, highly reliable enterprise storage. Key points:
- It uses a distributed, massively parallel architecture to deliver consistent, predictable performance without hotspots or need for manual tuning.
- Features include redundant components, quick rebuilds, self-healing capabilities, and support for non-disruptive maintenance and upgrades.
- It offers simple, intuitive management through a graphical interface and mobile app, eliminating most storage administration tasks.
- The system scales linearly through the addition of modules, maintaining performance as capacity increases for both traditional and cloud environments.
When you go into the supermarket do you ever wonder how many different products are on the shelves? Do you wonder how they determine what goes on each shelf? All of the shelves are shared among many products. What gets placed on the bottom shelf? What goes on the top? One week your favorite item might be at eye level, and the next time there may be a sale item in that same spot. How do they determine the value (such as return per foot of frontage) of each shelf?...
This document summarizes the results of performance tests conducted on SAP HANA to demonstrate its efficiency and scalability for real-time business intelligence (BI) queries on large datasets. Key findings include:
- HANA processed a 100TB dataset representing 5 years of sales data across a 16-node cluster, with queries returning results in under 4 seconds.
- Throughput testing showed HANA could process over 52,000 queries per hour under mixed concurrent workloads.
- HANA achieved over 20x data compression and was able to analyze the entire dataset without additional configuration or tuning.
Learn about xREF: IBM x86 Server Reference.This document is a quick reference guide to the specifications of the currently available models. Each page can be used in a stand-alone format and provides a dense and comprehensive summary of the features of that particular server model. For more information on SAP HANA, visit http://ibm.co/1brCGOt.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Creating a more efficient IT infrastructure is not some passing fad, it is an essential ingredient in today's business environment. Now that the possibilities for IT efficiency are known, there is no way to return to a care-free past...
Storage virtualization has come a long way in the past seven years. After a false start in 2001, fraught with inflates expectations and products deficiencies, the category fell into infamy...
This document discusses how System z mainframes provide a better business cloud platform compared to other options. It highlights key cloud requirements like scalability, resilience, elasticity and security that System z addresses through its virtualization, Parallel Sysplex clustering, and other features. Examples are given of organizations successfully using System z in infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS), and software (SaaS) cloud models to gain benefits like simplified management, high availability, energy efficiency and operational efficiency.
PowerVM is IBM's virtualization technology for its Power Systems servers. It allows consolidating multiple workloads onto a single physical server through logical partitioning. A comparison of PowerVM and x86 virtualization shows that PowerVM achieves higher performance and resource utilization. Industry-standard benchmarks like TPC-C and SAP SD 2-tier show PowerVM maintaining or exceeding native performance levels, while x86 systems see performance decreases with virtualization. PowerVM's tight integration with the Power hardware and firmware delivers benefits like stronger isolation, scalability, and availability compared to software-based x86 virtualization.
This document discusses running Linux on IBM System z mainframe computers. It begins with a brief history and introduction to zLinux, including how it originated from separate efforts to port Linux to IBM's largest servers. The document then covers topics like the benefits of virtualization, server consolidation, and integrated Linux processors on System z mainframes. It also lists several popular Linux distributions that run on zLinux and the benefits these provide, such as cost savings through reduced software licensing fees, energy costs, facilities needs, and improved productivity.
Huawei FusionCloud is Huawei's cloud computing solution that provides optimized, agile, and efficient private, public, and hybrid cloud platforms for carriers. It consists of 3 major parts: FusionSphere cloud operating system compatible with OpenStack, FusionCube converged infrastructure for automated "cloud in a box", and FusionAccess cloud access software for seamless access across devices and networks. FusionCloud addresses challenges carriers face in building distributed cloud infrastructure from multiple vendors through unified management of heterogeneous resources and flexible scheduling across data centers while avoiding vendor lock-in.
This chapter discusses key concepts related to cloud computing including types of virtualization, cloud service models, and benefits of cloud adoption. It describes virtualization of servers, storage, networks, and services. Server virtualization allows multiple virtual machines to run on a single physical server. Storage virtualization presents physical storage devices as a single logical pool. Network virtualization logically segments network traffic. Service virtualization provides services like load balancing. Virtualization management coordinates provisioning and orchestration of virtual resources.
IBM Flex System NAS solutions with Windows Storage Server 2012 provide highly available and scalable network attached storage. The solutions include IBM Flex System servers, storage, and networking combined with Windows Storage Server 2012. This allows for deploying either a unified storage server with local storage or a highly available unified NAS gateway with shared storage. The solutions deliver file sharing, block storage, and infrastructure services to heterogeneous environments while improving performance, availability, manageability and reducing costs.
IBM Managed Hosting - Linux virtual serviceswebhostingguy
This document provides an overview of IBM's Linux virtual services solution. The solution allows customers to replace physical servers with virtual servers running Linux on IBM zSeries mainframes. Key aspects include:
- Virtual servers are isolated and secured within virtual "cages" on the mainframe.
- Customers pay based on the processing, storage, and networking capacity needed via "service units".
- The solution provides reliability, scalability, reduced costs, and simplified management compared to physical servers.
Innovation for Participation - Paul De Decker, Sun Microsystemsrobinwauters
The document discusses Sun Microsystems' strategy of providing an open source software stack called Solaris AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) that is optimized to run on their Solaris operating system. It promotes the benefits of the Solaris operating system and tools to help speed development and deployment. Additionally, it outlines Sun's approach of providing many free and open source software options along with support services to gain customers.
POWER VM with IBM i and live partition mobilityCOMMON Europe
IBM Power Systems provide virtualization capabilities through PowerVM. PowerVM allows customers to run multiple logical partitions (LPARs) on a single physical server. This improves resource utilization and reduces costs compared to a traditional one partition per server model. Key PowerVM technologies include the hypervisor, dynamic logical partitioning, shared processor pools, virtual I/O server, and live partition mobility. The virtual I/O server (VIOS) allows client partitions like IBM i to leverage virtualized storage, network, and other I/O resources rather than each requiring physical adapters.
Excellent slides on the new z13s announced on 16th Feb 2016Luigi Tommaseo
The document discusses new features and capabilities of the IBM z13s mainframe system. Key points include:
- The z13s provides greater scale for Linux and z/OS workloads compared to previous models, with up to 2x increase in memory and I/O bandwidth.
- It features capabilities like simultaneous multi-threading, vector processing, faster encryption, and improved compression to accelerate analytics and security workloads.
- The system is designed to support hybrid cloud, blockchain, APIs, analytics, and security initiatives through integration with Linux on zSystems, IBM Cloud, and other platforms and services.
virtualization tutorial at ACM bangalore Compute 2009ACMBangalore
This document summarizes a tutorial on the hardware revolution in server virtualization. It begins with an overview of server virtualization technologies including VMM architectures and the criteria for a processor to be virtualizable. It then discusses the challenges of virtualizing x86 processors due to their architecture. The document outlines software techniques like binary translation and para-virtualization used for CPU, memory, and I/O virtualization. It also reviews hardware techniques enabled by technologies like VT-x, EPT, and SR-IOV. The summary concludes with a brief discussion of future trends in manageability and security relating to server virtualization.
Colocube offers enterprise cloud and private cloud services with high performance, secure infrastructure. Their managed cloud platforms provide features like automatic failover, secure storage, firewalls and load balancing. They utilize redundant Dell servers and networking equipment across multiple data centers for reliability. Customers can deploy virtual machines with Windows, Linux or FreeBSD and manage them through a cloud management console. Colocube's services are designed for high availability and security.
The document summarizes the advantages of IBM LinuxONE systems over traditional x86 servers for running Linux workloads. LinuxONE systems provide massive scale with high performance, throughput, and security across many workloads like MongoDB, Docker containers, and virtual machines. They also have significantly lower total cost of ownership compared to solutions on x86 servers due to higher utilization rates and lower management costs.
Virtualization is a new method regarding using computing resources efficiently, by maximizing energy efficiency, extend the life of the hardware and also recycles. Virtualization technology is a system of work done by the software can merge some real physical systems into a single virtual form commonly known as virtualization without prejudice advantages over the single system. Of course, this system can reduce the amount of hardware, electrical energy consumption and time used thereby increasing the level of efficiency and effectiveness. Also, virtualization certainly reduces heat energy arising from the number of installed hardware, thereby reducing the increase in temperature geothermal (Global Warming). Some virtualization includes Server Virtualization, Network Virtualization, Memory Virtualization, Grid Computing, Application Virtualization, Storage Virtualization, Virtualization and Thin Client Platform.
VIOS provides I/O virtualization on Power Systems by enabling virtual adapters. This allows IBM i partitions to access storage through the VIOS. There are two main methods: 1) VSCSI, where storage is assigned to the VIOS which then maps it to IBM i clients, and 2) NPIV, where the hypervisor assigns unique WWPNs to virtual fiber channels connecting the VIOS to storage arrays. NPIV requires an NPIV-capable switch and has limitations such as a maximum of 64 active client connections per physical port.
The document discusses IBM's XIV storage system as a solution for tier 1 enterprise applications. It provides an overview of the challenges facing tier 1 storage, including supporting mixed virtualized workloads, high performance I/O, simplicity, scalability, and evolving to private cloud. The IBM XIV is designed to address these challenges through its architecture, performance, ease of use, scalability, and data efficiency. Case studies show how large financial, wholesale, and consumer firms have deployed the XIV successfully for mission critical applications. The future outlook is that IBM is well positioned but will face challenges from competitors improving their scale-out block storage solutions.
The document summarizes the IBM XIV Storage System, which provides high-performance, highly reliable enterprise storage. Key points:
- It uses a distributed, massively parallel architecture to deliver consistent, predictable performance without hotspots or need for manual tuning.
- Features include redundant components, quick rebuilds, self-healing capabilities, and support for non-disruptive maintenance and upgrades.
- It offers simple, intuitive management through a graphical interface and mobile app, eliminating most storage administration tasks.
- The system scales linearly through the addition of modules, maintaining performance as capacity increases for both traditional and cloud environments.
When you go into the supermarket do you ever wonder how many different products are on the shelves? Do you wonder how they determine what goes on each shelf? All of the shelves are shared among many products. What gets placed on the bottom shelf? What goes on the top? One week your favorite item might be at eye level, and the next time there may be a sale item in that same spot. How do they determine the value (such as return per foot of frontage) of each shelf?...
This document summarizes the results of performance tests conducted on SAP HANA to demonstrate its efficiency and scalability for real-time business intelligence (BI) queries on large datasets. Key findings include:
- HANA processed a 100TB dataset representing 5 years of sales data across a 16-node cluster, with queries returning results in under 4 seconds.
- Throughput testing showed HANA could process over 52,000 queries per hour under mixed concurrent workloads.
- HANA achieved over 20x data compression and was able to analyze the entire dataset without additional configuration or tuning.
Learn about xREF: IBM x86 Server Reference.This document is a quick reference guide to the specifications of the currently available models. Each page can be used in a stand-alone format and provides a dense and comprehensive summary of the features of that particular server model. For more information on SAP HANA, visit http://ibm.co/1brCGOt.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Creating a more efficient IT infrastructure is not some passing fad, it is an essential ingredient in today's business environment. Now that the possibilities for IT efficiency are known, there is no way to return to a care-free past...
Storage virtualization has come a long way in the past seven years. After a false start in 2001, fraught with inflates expectations and products deficiencies, the category fell into infamy...
Learn about Workload Management Update for z/OS 1.10 and 1.11. For more information on IBM System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about IBM Ported Tools for z/OS: Supplementary Toolkit for z/OS Feature User's Guide and Reference. This document presents the information you need to set up and use IBM Ported Tools for z/OS: Supplementary Toolkit for z/OS Feature.This document is for the system programmers who run a z/OS system with z/OS UNIX System Services (z/OS® UNIX), and for their users who use IBM Ported Tools for z/OS: Supplementary Toolkit for z/OS Feature. On other open systems, some system programmer tasks may be done by an administrator. For more information on IBM System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Visit http://bit.ly/KWh5Dx to 'Follow' the official Twitter handle of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about Batch Modernization on z/OS, which Provides an overview of current batch processing technology, Discusses how to use, simplify, and improve batch processing, Includes example scenarios that use batch processing. For more information on IBM System z, visit http://ibm.co/PNo9Cb.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Optimize Your VMware SDDC with IBM InfrastructurePaula Koziol
VMware vRealize Automation can optimize VMware SDDCs with IBM infrastructure by:
1) Providing a single point of control for managing VMs across multiple platforms and cloud infrastructures, both on-premises and off-premises.
2) Simplifying and improving the efficiency of VM management across heterogeneous hybrid cloud environments with a unified VMware skillset.
3) Optimizing workload deployment based on application characteristics through automated provisioning and lifecycle management from a single cloud management platform.
Technical overview in relation to the IBM SmartCloud offering (Private Cloud - IaaS) for IBM i customers: the reference architecture leverages IBM PowerVM virtualisation and IBM VMControl virtualisation and automation management capabilities. Self service portal, VM provisioning, metering and billing are provided by IBM SmartCloud Entry.
Join Marc Trouard-Riolle from Citrix Cloud Product Marketing for the latest presentation in the Citrix Cloud Master Class series.
In this session you will hear about building private enterprise clouds with Citrix CloudPlatform:
Learn about hypervisor, storage and networking considerations within private cloud use cases
Build a tailored availability zone for traditional workloads
See a step-by-step demonstration of building an enterprise private cloud
Looking to take the Cloud journey for your organisation? This comprehensive presentation covers everything that you need to know about building your Cloud. The presentation was part of IBM Cloud Innovation Forum India and was presented by Subram Natarajan, Technical Sales Executive, Systems & Technology Group and Dr. Rajendra Gupta, Executive Architect, IBM Software Group.
ASZ-3034 Build a WebSphere Linux Cloud on System z: From Roll-Your-Own to Pre...WASdev Community
Do you need the most reliable, secure, and cost-effective on-premise cloud platform? Look no further: a cloud based on WebSphere and Linux on System z is the answer. This presentation traces the evolution of successful server consolidation to Linux on System z, from brute-force physical moves to virtual topology to sophisticated workload placement. We'll cover techniques and considerations to ensure a rich, dense, enterprise environment. The material is derived from interactions with our enterprise mainframe customers running world-class data centers.
We will briefly describe the new Enterprise Cloud System that unites leading IBM software, storage, and server technologies into one simple, flexible, and secure factory-integrated solution.
We will show examples of System z based cloud environments which provide everything you expect from System z: extreme reliability, secure, geo-dispersed, high performance clouds. We will describe application development and deployment patterns that both help and hurt in a virtualized cloud environment. From the admin perspective we will explore heap and GC tuning, idle server tuning, and stacking options. We will also present a very effective performance tuning approach for large scale virtualized environments.
We also present WebSphere Liberty profile performance in a virtualized environment, relative to a traditional WebSphere application server.
IBM Flex System offers a brand new platform for creating solutions to address emerging market applications, such as Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, and Smarter Planet. In this paper, we described how to create a custom private cloud configuration that uses Flex System. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/18vDnp6.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Virtualization technologies allow IT organizations to consolidate workloads running on multiple operating systems and software stacks and allocate platform resources dynamically to meet specific business and application requirements. Leadership virtualization has become the key technology to efficiently deploy servers in enterprise data centers to drive down costs and become the foundation for server pools and cloud computing technology. Therefore, the performance of this foundation technology is critical for the success of server pools and cloud computing.
This document provides an overview of virtualization and cloud computing technologies. It defines virtualization as using software to allow multiple operating systems to run on a single hardware host. A hypervisor manages shared access to the physical resources. The document outlines the history of virtualization and describes popular virtualization platforms like Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, and cloud services from Amazon Web Services, Google Apps, and Windows Azure. Benefits of cloud computing include reduced costs, increased storage, flexibility, and mobility. Public, private and hybrid cloud models are discussed along with case studies of major cloud providers.
IBM® Power® servers are built to help clients respond faster to business demands,
protect data from core to cloud and streamline insights and automation while
maximizing reliability in a sustainable way. Power servers can modernize
applications and infrastructure with a hybrid cloud experience to provide the agility
companies need.
IBM Cloud Paris Meetup - 20180628 - IBM Cloud PrivateIBM France Lab
IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes platform that allows organizations to develop modern applications using microservices architectures within their own datacenters. It includes Kubernetes for container orchestration, Cloud Foundry for application development and deployment, and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning on public and private clouds. IBM Cloud Private provides middleware, analytics and other services through Helm charts as well as core operational services for security, DevOps and hybrid integration. It can run on existing infrastructure from IBM, Dell, Cisco, NetApp, Lenovo and others.
Enterprise messaging and IBM MQ is a critical part of any system, this session shows you how MQ is rapidly evolving to meet your needs. Irrespective of your platform or environment, this session introduces many of the updates to MQ in 2019 and 2020, whether that's in administration, building fault tolerant, scalable messaging solutions, or securing your systems.
IBM Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)- Feb 2019 by Gianfranco Mollojoemolls
Presenting IBM Cloud IaaS during "Tech Up Tour 2019" to Customers and BPs @ IBM HQ in Rome, Italy
#ibmcloud #digitaltransformation #infrastructuremodernization #multicloud
CTU June 2011 - Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012Spiffy
The document discusses Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. It summarizes the key features and capabilities of SCVMM 2012 including fabric management, deployment and upgrade processes, dynamic optimization, private clouds, self-service user roles, and integration with public clouds like Windows Azure. The presentation includes demonstrations of building and delegating private clouds with SCVMM 2012.
Citrix CloudPlatform is a turn-key cloud solution that provides fast time to value through a simple one-package installation. It is proven to scale beyond 40,000 hosts per region and multiple regions, providing users virtually unlimited computing resources on demand. It offers granular tracking and metering of resource usage for showback/chargeback. The solution is hypervisor and storage agnostic, and supports enterprise-grade networking and security for multi-tenant environments through logical and physical isolation.
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 enables building private clouds and federating them to public clouds. VMM 2012 focuses on fabric management, services, cloud deployment, and fabric management. It allows highly automated management of Hyper-V, storage, networks, and other infrastructure. VMM 2012 also supports building private clouds with capabilities like self-service user roles, quotas, and templates to model multi-tier applications. Additionally, a product called Concero allows extending private clouds built with VMM 2012 into the public Azure cloud for a hybrid approach.
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Building a Microsoft Hyper-V cloud with IBM solutions
1. IBM Systems and Technology Group System Storage
Solution Brief
Building a Microsoft
Hyper-V cloud with
IBM solutions
IBM System x3650 M3 and IBM XIV Storage
help maximize cloud deployments
A private cloud is a combination of physical servers, storage,
Highlights networking and management software that enables customers to receive
capacity on demand by creating virtual machines from physical
• Deploy a private cloud to attain highly resource pools. Companies can realize the following benefits:
agile and dynamic IT environments
• Realize higher resource utilization and • Deploying a private cloud in an organization’s data center can help
optimization of resources through businesses attain highly agile and dynamic IT environments.
shared use
• Abstracting the physical hardware infrastructure allows higher resource
• Monitor, deploy and maintain physical utilization and optimization of resources through shared use.
and virtual servers using cloud • Using cloud management tools to monitor, deploy and maintain
management tools
physical and virtual servers can occur while providing reporting,
• Provide reporting, metering and metering and resource billing as needed.
resource billing as needed • Creating resource groups for customers from the cloud’s pool of
• Associate billing metrics for each capacity can enable IT organizations to associate billing metrics for
resource unit such as CPU, memory each resource unit such as CPU, memory and storage.
and storage
From the IT consumer perspective, cloud services appear to have infinite
capacity and are accessed via a self-service portal that allows individual
organizations to create and repurpose virtual resources as needed.
The IBM® Private Cloud Offering (PCO) for Microsoft Private Cloud
Fast Track configuration is a validated, ready-to-use configuration of
servers, networking and storage systems that provide a reliable, scalable,
available, high-performance, fault-tolerant management and computing
platform for your cloud deployments.
Building a complete cloud platform with
Microsoft and IBM components
A private cloud environment built upon a robust and reliable
foundation of IBM System x® servers, IBM XIV® Storage Systems,
IBM switches and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with the
Hyper-V hypervisor provides exceptional high availability and fault
tolerance for the most demanding virtual environments. To successfully
achieve the uptimes demanded by today’s critical business applications
and organizations, the private cloud must contain both management
and production layers.
2. IBM Systems and Technology Group System Storage
Solution Brief
The private cloud management layer is built on a pair of IBM performance workhorses in the industry. XIV Fibre Channel
System x3650 M3 systems using Windows failover clustering (FC) and Internet SCSI (iSCSI) connectivity are well suited
and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Microsoft for private cloud end-to-end virtualization environments.
Hyper-V. For domain authentication, an IBM System x3550
M3 active directory server facilitates cloud security. Cloud Finally, the private cloud layers are linked together by a
management utilizes Microsoft System Center Operations converged networking framework made up of redundant IBM
Manager (SCOM) with the IBM Hardware Management Pack; B32 and IBM B24Y switches in a fault-tolerant configuration.
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) Each host server in the management and Hyper-V production
with the IBM Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) clusters uses two Brocade dual-port converged network
Pack; and Microsoft SCVMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 services. adapters (CNAs) to provide highly optimized redundant paths
This unique combination of Microsoft System Center tools, for both SAN and LAN traffic.
extended with IBM upward-integration components, supports
key administrative cloud functions. Together, these components form a high-performing, cost-
effective solution that supports Microsoft Hyper-V cloud
The private cloud production layer consists of an 8-node environments for business-critical applications that include
cluster of IBM System x3650 M3 2-socket servers running Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. All cluster servers are attached SharePoint and even many custom third-party solutions.
to the highly reliable IBM XIV Storage System, which scales
up to 243 TB of usable enterprise-class disk storage for cloud Figure 1 shows the general configuration of the IBM PCO.
servicing needs while being one of the most user-friendly
Figure 1: The IBM Private Cloud Offering
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3. IBM Systems and Technology Group System Storage
Solution Brief
Microsoft Hyper-V and failover clustering virtual hard disk files. Creating several large CSVs helps to host
Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology is an virtual machine operating system files and balance the load across
increasingly key cloud component that is included as a role in Microsoft cluster nodes. Optional CSVs help host virtual hard
x64 versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise disk (VHD) files for application data depending on their
and Datacenter editions or as a stand-alone, console-based functional design. Using fixed VHDs helps to maximize
hypervisor in the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 product (available performance. Additional storage volumes help provide iSCSI or
for download from http://www.microsoft.com/hvs). Virtual VM pass-through disks as required.
machines can support up to four virtual processors and 64 GB
of memory, depending on the operating system loaded. Furthermore, spreading virtual machines and CSVs across an
active/active group of cluster members helps to maximize
Each virtual machine has its own operating system instance hardware resource utilization based on the number of highly
and is completely isolated from the host operating system as available virtual machines present and the total number of
well as other virtual machines (VMs). VM isolation helps parent hosts participating in the cluster. Similarly, the
promote higher business-critical application availability while spreading of XIV LUNs across every spindle inside the XIV
the Microsoft failover clustering feature, found in the storage array provides consistent I/O response to the cluster
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Datacenter without needing administrator planning or intervention.
Editions, can dramatically improve production uptimes. As Users should still make sure enough physical server resources
such, Microsoft failover clustering plays a pivotal role in the are available to handle all virtual machines in an N-1
IBM PCO solution and careful consideration is built into the configuration to accommodate maintenance windows or
network and storage design. unplanned cluster failovers. Once a management failover
cluster is successfully deployed, a separate virtual machine can
Each clustered Hyper-V node uses four converged network be created for SCVMM.
ports to handle LAN and SAN communication functions such
as Hyper-V management, VM connectivity, failover cluster Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine
heartbeats, cluster shared volume (CSV) traffic, and live Manager 2008 R2
migration communication as well as other desired networks. SCVMM simplifies private cloud management for both
SAN I/O is spread across all four Brocade CNA ports using physical and virtual systems from a single administrative
Microsoft Windows native multipath I/O (MPIO) enabled by console. Administrators have the ability to create virtual
the XIV Host Attachment Kit. Using the Brocade Host machine templates to rapidly and intelligently deploy VMs
Connectivity Manager, logical separation of the Ethernet to Microsoft failover clusters. Acting as a virtual machine
networks is achieved through the use of two CNA network deployment hub, SCVMM supports live migrations, quick-
interface card teams comprised of separate cluster role-based storage migrations and straightforward automation
virtual LANs. capabilities leveraging Windows PowerShell. It enables
performance and resource optimization of virtual machines
The majority of IBM XIV Storage System volumes are allocated triggered by SCOM alerts, which contribute to greater VM
for virtual machine CSV use. In order to eliminate storage control and efficiency. PRO Packs, such as the IBM PRO
array–related “hot spots,” XIV volumes (LUNs) are automatically Pack, allow automated VM cluster migrations in response to
spread across every disk inside the XIV storage array. The XIV defined SCOM triggers that can resolve problematic
LUN is then defined by single LUN-to-CSV mapping via the resource states or balance critical workloads across cluster
easy-to-use XIV GUI. In other words, each individual XIV LUN hosts. Part of the same family, SCVMM tightly integrates
represents a single CSV. CSVs are concurrently visible to all with SCOM and substantially enhances private cloud
cluster nodes and store the virtual machine configuration and management and monitoring.
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4. IBM Systems and Technology Group System Storage
Solution Brief
Microsoft System Center Operations IBM System x3650 M3
Manager 2007 R2 At the core of the IBM PCO solution, IBM System x servers
SCOM provides centralized administration from a single deliver the performance and reliability required for
GUI, and provides multilayer monitoring of health, virtualizing business-critical applications in Hyper-V cloud
performance and availability of private cloud environments— environments. To provide the expected virtualization
across hardware, hypervisors, operating systems and even performance to handle any Microsoft production
applications. The IBM Hardware Management Pack is environment, IBM System x3650 M3 servers can be equipped
available to add IBM-specific monitoring and information to with up to two Intel 6-core processors for a total of
SCOM. Operations Manager primarily caters to Windows- 12 processing cores and up to 288 GB of memory. Hot-
based monitoring but also supports heterogeneous swappable power supplies and fans as well as remote
environments for customers who want to build non-Windows management via keyboard, video and mouse, which enables
virtual machines. Additionally, SCOM 2007 R2 also offers continuous remote management capabilities, help solidify
uncomplicated reporting and authoring capabilities to track the dependability IBM customers have grown accustomed
performance against private cloud service-level agreements. to with System x servers.
Through the Microsoft Self-Service Portal, administrators
actually define many of the service-level resources and By virtualizing with Microsoft Hyper-V technology on IBM
complete the private cloud management layer. System x3650 M3 servers (Figure 2), businesses reduce
physical server sprawl, data center footprints, power
Microsoft SCVMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 consumption and total cost of ownership (TCO). Virtualizing
SCVMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 is the primary customer the server environment also results in lower server
web-based interface for dynamic virtual machine administrative overhead, giving IT administrators the
management. It is a free, partner-extensible software package capability to manage more systems than with exclusively
that allows service providers to dynamically pool, allocate and physical environments. Highly available critical applications
manage data center resources. Private cloud administrators residing on clustered host servers can be managed with
sell virtual resource services to customers seeking to reduce greater flexibility and minimal downtime due to the Hyper-V
IT costs. Budget-oriented organizations can purchase virtual premier migration features. Perform live migrations during
infrastructure resources made up of server, storage, and physical server maintenance windows to prevent production
networking hardware that is managed and hosted by private downtime by simply failing over virtual machines. Continuous
cloud service providers. This increases IT flexibility for those operation is accomplished by transferring VM memory pages
customers that benefit from an automated, user-friendly web between servers across the network while VMs are still
portal. SCVMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 easily supports cloud running. The final transition occurs within the TCP/IP
customer solutions by providing metering, billing and timeout window, resulting in zero client downtime. Realize
reporting. SCVMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 is also tightly greater IT flexibility by using virtualization to streamline the
integrated with the System Center family of products, and deployment and upgrade processes for both physical and
simplifies service provider billable unit mappings for server, virtual machines.
storage and networking hardware resources.
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5. IBM Systems and Technology Group System Storage
Solution Brief
In addition, experience a greater return on investment (ROI) optimizes performance and integrates seamlessly with cloud
and a lower TCO from reduced hardware requirements technologies to give you the agility needed to handle growth
by maximizing resource utilization of all physical server while helping ensure high availability and data protection.
investments. Benefit by optimizing infrastructure to simplify
and standardize IT administration and curb labor costs. The XIV data protection design incorporates active-active N+1
Also realize reduced downtime costs by easily moving and redundancy of all data modules, disk drives, interconnect
balancing workloads across different resources. Improve switches and UPS units, and offers multipath FC and iSCSI
operational agility and flexibility in managing maintenance host connectivity. Three UPS units protect all disks, cache and
schedules when responding to today’s dynamic IT demands. electronics with redundant power supplies and fans, which help
to further promote impressive hardware and software reliability
with enterprise-class availability. The XIV also employs a
predetermined data distribution model that helps ensure fast
recovery from failures by anticipating and predicting failures
through proactive error and pre-failure detection, and
employing corrective healing before failures occur.
From a storage administrator’s perspective, XIV has earned a
reputation for being one of the most user-friendly storage
arrays available. The XIV storage array incorporates a
management architecture that allows XIV storage to grow
or change without a need for hot spot administration and
Figure 2: IBM System x3650 M3 planning. Combining the no-hot-spot management feature
with the XIV family’s ability to self-heal and automatically
IBM XIV and XIV Gen3 Storage Systems load balance server workloads minimizes the need for storage
IBM XIV Storage Systems are excellent choices for administration time and skills.
Microsoft virtualized cloud environments. The IBM XIV
family of arrays was built to provide easy-to-use, enterprise- In addition to the high availability and reliability features,
class storage, offering IBM CE installation and maintenance, the XIV family offers performance characteristics to meet
phone home, synchronous and asynchronous mirroring, demanding cloud-based workloads. The 15-module XIV
snapshots, thin provisioning, performance reporting and 2810/2812-A14 distributed architecture provides a combined
redundant hardware components. The IBM XIV total of up to 240 GB of cache and individual modules
complements IBM System x3650 M3 servers and the powered by quad-core Intel Xeon processors; similarly, the
Brocade converged networking infrastructure in an end-to- new XIV Gen3 model provides even higher performance with
end Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track solution by up to 360 GB of cache. Six dedicated host interface modules
delivering proven disk storage, starting as small as six ensure optimal, pseudo-balanced data distribution among all
modules and 27 TB (usable) and scaling to 15 modules and 180 1 TB or 2 TB Serial ATA (SATA) disks to eliminate hot
over 243 TB (usable). IBM XIV eliminates the complexity of spots. This data distribution feature has become increasingly
managing enterprise storage, never compromising important due to the larger LUNs used by multiple virtual
performance or reliability, while offering incredibly low machines typically deployed in cloud environments. Since every
TCO. Its grid architecture delivers virtual storage that LUN has access to all operating spindles, all the time, the chance
of bottlenecking on the storage is greatly reduced when
compared to traditional architectural approaches using RAID
sets and hot spares.
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6. IBM Systems and Technology Group System Storage
Solution Brief
This unique grid architecture helps provide the following key • With the XIV family’s “one price for all features” pricing
benefits: model, there are no hidden costs for multipath software or
replication features—specifically, every XIV includes the
• Continuous, predictable high performance without following with purchase: snapshot capability, thin provisioning,
traditional complex tuning requirements asynchronous and synchronous data replication, advanced
• 4 Gb FC and 1 Gb iSCSI host connectivity management, performance reporting, monitoring and alerting,
• No single point of failure and full support of Microsoft technologies including
• Industry-leading rebuild times in the event of disk or module GeoClustering, Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS)
failures (less than 60 minutes for 2 TB drives) and MPIO.
• Innovative snapshot functionality that includes snap-of-snap,
restore-of-snap and a nearly unlimited number of snapshots IBM Converged Switch B32
• Nondisruptive maintenance and upgrades The IBM Converged Switch B32 (Figure 3) enables access
• Per host/cluster QoS capability to prioritize workloads based to LAN and SAN environments over a common server
on business criticality connection by utilizing data center bridging (DCB) and
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols. The B32 uses
The newest model in the XIV family, the IBM XIV Storage full Fibre Channel Forwarding capabilities and connects to
System Gen3 storage array (model 2810/2812-114) contains servers via Brocade CNAs. The switch offers 24-10 Gbps
all the benefits of the XIV family plus the following DCB Ethernet ports that can transport both FCoE and
performance enhancements: regular Ethernet traffic. FCoE can be forwarded into an FC
SAN network through the eight 8 Gbps FC ports on the B32.
• Up to 4 times the throughput (10 GB/sec) of the previous
generation, improving performance for business intelligence, The consolidation of server SAN and LAN ports and
archiving and other I/O-intensive applications corresponding cables simplify configuration and cabling in
• Up to 3 times improved response time of the previous server cabinets and reduce acquisition costs. With fewer
generation, enabling faster transaction processing and greater components using power and cooling, organizations can save
scalability for online transaction processing, database and significant operating costs as well. For the IBM private cloud
email applications solution, 10 Gbps DCB Ethernet ports provide connectivity
• Power to serve even more applications from a single system between hosts and uplinks to the LAN aggregation layer and
with a substantial hardware upgrade that includes an to the IBM Ethernet Switch B24Y carrying iSCSI traffic. FC
InfiniBand interconnect, larger cache (up to 360 GB of ports are used to connect to the IBM XIV Storage System.
combined memory), faster SAS disk controllers and increased
processing power—plus, each Gen3 interface module delivers
8 Gb FC and 1 Gb iSCSI connectivity
• Option for future upgradeability to solid-state drive (SSD)
Caching for breakthrough SSD performance levels at a
fraction of typical SSD storage costs (planned availability for
Gen3 in the first half of 2012)
Figure 3: IBM Converged Switch B32
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7. IBM Systems and Technology Group System Storage
Solution Brief
IBM Ethernet Switch B24Y IBM XIV storage, can provide up to 96 physical CPU cores, just
The IBM Ethernet Switch B24Y (Figure 4) is a high- over 2 TB of memory and up to 243 TB of usable disk space.
performance Ethernet/IP switch offering 24-1 GbE ports and The IBM Hardware Management Pack and PRO Pack, for
four 10 GbE ports versatile enough to be used for stacking, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and System
uplinks or connectivity to end devices. Designed for wire-speed Center Virtual Machine Manager, provide valuable monitoring
and non-blocking performance, the B24Y with symmetric flow of cloud environments and identify and resolve potential issues
control capabilities is well suited for connecting servers to before they negatively impact business-critical application
storage in an iSCSI environment. Users can manage the device uptimes. In addition, you can streamline organizational processes
using an industry-standard command-line interface or through and costs by rapidly deploying, managing and recycling virtual
a web management GUI. machines using SCVMM while employing Microsoft Self-
Service Portal 2.0 to provide metering, billing and self-service
The IBM private cloud solution uses the B24Y to provide a provisioning to supported organizations.
secure, redundant back-end management network to the
attached hosts and Microsoft Active Directory servers as well For more information or to place an order, please contact
as iSCSI connectivity to the XIV storage. your IBM sales or business partner representative.
The following IBM Business Partners can provide
integration and customization services for your IBM-based,
Microsoft Private Cloud or Hyper-V project:
Avanade Inc. (www.avanade.com):
Avanade provides business technology services and solutions
that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft
Figure 4: IBM Ethernet Switch B24Y
technologies to help customers improve performance,
productivity and sales for organizations in all industries.
Realizing value with the IBM Private Avanade has the expertise to automate IT operational
Cloud Offering processes in a Microsoft environment. Through automation,
Discover the true value delivered by IBM’s affordable and Avanade can help clients reduce their dependency on
innovative private cloud solutions for Microsoft environments manual tasks, reducing opportunity for error, and freeing IT
based on insight and proven experience gained from IBM’s operational staff to focus on higher-value activities.
diverse partner and customer relationships. IBM and its
business partners are committed to the tradition of providing The Avanade knowledge can help extend proactive (and
industry-leading server, storage and networking hardware and automated) management of supporting infrastructures,
virtualization services and solutions that improve high including network, storage, security and other components
availability, efficiency, ROI and satisfaction for the most that are core to delivering IT services. Avanade Cloud
demanding Microsoft IT environments. Services Manager helps provide a renewed and enhanced
perspective on IT Service management, extending across
The IBM Private Cloud Offering for Microsoft Private various Information Technology Infrastructure Library
Cloud Fast Track helps bring business to the next level of (ITIL) principles, including Incident Management,
virtualization. It successfully creates a capacity-on-demand Problem Management, Change Management and
environment that pools compute, storage and networking Configuration Management.
resources. Combine IBM System x servers, XIV storage systems
and Brocade networking with Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization For additional information, refer to www.avanade.com or send
to optimize utilization levels and maximize return on investment. an e-mail to Avanade directly at DataCenter@avanade.com
An 8-node cluster of IBM System x3650 M3 servers, backed by to get started.
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