1) The document discusses using "cost per workload" as a new metric for evaluating the economics of virtualized platforms like zEnterprise. It shows how consolidating different types of workloads onto optimized platforms can achieve the lowest cost per workload.
2) Examples are given comparing the cost per workload of consolidating heavy I/O, heavy transaction, and light workloads onto x86 systems, Power Systems, and zEnterprise. The zEnterprise typically achieves the lowest cost per workload.
3) A hypothetical example consolidating 500 mixed workloads shows that while hardware costs may be higher on zEnterprise, the total cost of ownership over 3 years is lower due to lower software costs and cost per workload.
Supercharge Your Savings and Mainframe Performancexmeteorite
Specialty processors were introduced by IBM as a way to lower the cost of mainframe computing, but most organizations have not been able to move significant workloads off the central processors. There are many legacy applications that cannot take advantage of specialty processors. NEON zPrime makes this happen with zPrime™.
In this whitepaper, we will look at multiple case studies that demonstrate how Smarter Computing delivers improved IT economics. The case studies cover different IT domains—
optimized systems, federated data, Cloud and new service delivery models.
- Next-generation Intel Xeon 5500 processors provide additional performance through features like QuickPath architecture, integrated memory controllers, Turbo Mode, and Hyper-Threading.
- DDR3 memory is available in both RDIMM and UDIMM formats, with RDIMMs offering greater capacity but higher cost.
- ProLiant G6 servers feature improvements over G5 like support for PCIe 2.0, SSDs, 10Gb Ethernet, and more powerful Smart Array controllers.
The document discusses IBM System z processors and how their capabilities have required changes in how CPU management is approached, focusing on features introduced in recent years like zAAP, zIIP, defined capacity limits, blocked workloads, and z10 HiperDispatch which optimizes cache usage by consistently dispatching work to the same physical CPU. It also provides guidance on how to evolve CPU reporting to account for these new capabilities and their instrumentation in SMF records and RMF.
Next Generation Business Service Management: Strategy and RoadmapNovell
This session covers the strategic direction of the Business Service Management solution from Novell within the data center, as well as the strategy moving forward.
Teradata Co-existing Systems Parallel Efficiency -- Calculation & Reconfigura...Shaheryar Iqbal
1. The document discusses calculating parallel efficiency for co-existing systems by determining the relative performance of different node models.
2. It outlines 8 steps to derive relative node power from usage data, map configurations to a base model, determine bottlenecks, calculate usable/unusable CPU capacity, and determine current/potential efficiency.
3. Two case studies are presented applying the methodology to customer systems with different node configurations.
IBM software is optimized to take full advantage of Power Systems hardware. Key IBM software products like DB2, WebSphere Application Server, Cognos Business Intelligence, and Rational Developer are tuned at every level from applications to middleware to operating systems to fully leverage Power Systems' massive parallelism, threading, memory, and reliability. This optimization allows IBM software on Power Systems to deliver industry-leading performance, scalability, efficiency and value for customers.
The document discusses analyzing and optimizing the performance of a Teradata system. It covers generating reports on CPU utilization, memory usage, disk I/O, and parallel efficiency across nodes and processors. The reports can identify issues such as CPU bottlenecks, memory depletion, disk contention, and load imbalances that impact performance. Addressing problems revealed in the reports, such as through query optimization or system reconfiguration, can improve the overall parallel efficiency and throughput of the Teradata platform.
Supercharge Your Savings and Mainframe Performancexmeteorite
Specialty processors were introduced by IBM as a way to lower the cost of mainframe computing, but most organizations have not been able to move significant workloads off the central processors. There are many legacy applications that cannot take advantage of specialty processors. NEON zPrime makes this happen with zPrime™.
In this whitepaper, we will look at multiple case studies that demonstrate how Smarter Computing delivers improved IT economics. The case studies cover different IT domains—
optimized systems, federated data, Cloud and new service delivery models.
- Next-generation Intel Xeon 5500 processors provide additional performance through features like QuickPath architecture, integrated memory controllers, Turbo Mode, and Hyper-Threading.
- DDR3 memory is available in both RDIMM and UDIMM formats, with RDIMMs offering greater capacity but higher cost.
- ProLiant G6 servers feature improvements over G5 like support for PCIe 2.0, SSDs, 10Gb Ethernet, and more powerful Smart Array controllers.
The document discusses IBM System z processors and how their capabilities have required changes in how CPU management is approached, focusing on features introduced in recent years like zAAP, zIIP, defined capacity limits, blocked workloads, and z10 HiperDispatch which optimizes cache usage by consistently dispatching work to the same physical CPU. It also provides guidance on how to evolve CPU reporting to account for these new capabilities and their instrumentation in SMF records and RMF.
Next Generation Business Service Management: Strategy and RoadmapNovell
This session covers the strategic direction of the Business Service Management solution from Novell within the data center, as well as the strategy moving forward.
Teradata Co-existing Systems Parallel Efficiency -- Calculation & Reconfigura...Shaheryar Iqbal
1. The document discusses calculating parallel efficiency for co-existing systems by determining the relative performance of different node models.
2. It outlines 8 steps to derive relative node power from usage data, map configurations to a base model, determine bottlenecks, calculate usable/unusable CPU capacity, and determine current/potential efficiency.
3. Two case studies are presented applying the methodology to customer systems with different node configurations.
IBM software is optimized to take full advantage of Power Systems hardware. Key IBM software products like DB2, WebSphere Application Server, Cognos Business Intelligence, and Rational Developer are tuned at every level from applications to middleware to operating systems to fully leverage Power Systems' massive parallelism, threading, memory, and reliability. This optimization allows IBM software on Power Systems to deliver industry-leading performance, scalability, efficiency and value for customers.
The document discusses analyzing and optimizing the performance of a Teradata system. It covers generating reports on CPU utilization, memory usage, disk I/O, and parallel efficiency across nodes and processors. The reports can identify issues such as CPU bottlenecks, memory depletion, disk contention, and load imbalances that impact performance. Addressing problems revealed in the reports, such as through query optimization or system reconfiguration, can improve the overall parallel efficiency and throughput of the Teradata platform.
This document provides a technical comparison of two types of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) designs: line-interactive and double-conversion online. It describes the advantages and disadvantages of each, noting they are best suited for different power ranges. The document also discusses considerations for determining which UPS topology best suits the needs of specific IT equipment and environments.
The document discusses IBM's Capacity on Demand (CoD) program which allows customers to temporarily activate additional computing resources on an as-needed basis and pay only for what they use. It describes the different types of CoD options available for Power5 and Power6 systems including permanent activations, on/off CoD for temporary usage billed by the day, and trial CoD. It provides details on the implementation process, including registration, contracts, ordering enablement codes, activating and reporting usage, and billing. Customers can gain flexibility to respond quickly to changing needs while avoiding costs for unused capacity.
This document summarizes a presentation on datacenter computing trends and problems. It discusses how cooling is a major source of energy inefficiency in datacenters. It also explains how servers are rarely fully utilized but operate least efficiently during common usage of 30% load. The document advocates for achieving better energy proportionality so servers can be more efficient during typical usage levels. It presents approaches like disaggregated memory and servers that break CPU-memory co-location to improve efficiency and consolidation.
SAP Virtualization Week 2012 - The Lego Cloudaidanshribman
This document discusses a research project called Hecatonchire that aims to provide distributed shared memory (DSM) capabilities to cloud computing. Hecatonchire breaks down physical servers into their core components of CPU, memory, and I/O, and extends existing cloud software like KVM, QEMU, and libvirt to allow virtual machines to transparently access remote resources. Some key capabilities discussed include live migration, flash cloning for rapid auto-scaling, memory pooling to access unused memory on remote hosts, and the long term goal of implementing true DSM across the cluster. The presentation was given by researchers from SAP Research in Belfast and Israel.
J&B Group was facing server sprawl issues with 20 Dell servers running various applications. They implemented an IBM xSeries virtualization solution with VMware software to consolidate servers. This reduced their server footprint to 6 virtual servers on one xSeries 440 system. It provided benefits like smaller data center footprint, lower maintenance costs, improved disaster recovery capabilities and faster ROI of less than a year. They plan to add another xSeries 445 system for high availability and split the workload between the two systems.
This document discusses how Tilera's manycore architecture provides a solution for the increasing performance, power efficiency, and space requirements of cloud computing datacenters. It summarizes that Tilera chips offer significantly higher performance per watt than x86 servers through the use of low-power cores in high densities. This allows for slashing total cost of ownership through reduced capital and operating expenses for a given workload. The document also outlines how Tilera's architecture and software stack provide scalable performance through standard programming models and tools.
Understand the approaches and best practices for integrating client side applications - both desktop and mobile - with various server-side technologies.
Fabian Urban (27) is an IT Consultant at FORTIS IT-Services GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. He is a web development expert for both - client and server side technologies.
During his professional career he designed and implemented interfaces and automated services to share data between affiliate partners and CRM and billing solutions at the telecommunications industry.
As a passionate rich internet application developer he has not only implemented web technology solutions, but has always tried to validate and optimize available frameworks to the limit of possibilities. Besides organizing and holding sessions at the Ext JS User Group Hamburg, he will talk about modern RIAs at the SenchaCon 2011.
This document summarizes Guillermo Talavera Velilla's PhD thesis defense presentation on optimizing address generation for low-power embedded VLIW processors. The presentation covered:
1) The goal of optimizing energy consumption during address generation for data access in VLIW processors for embedded systems.
2) How embedded systems demand both performance and energy efficiency.
3) Techniques like data transfer and storage exploration that optimize data locality and reduce storage requirements through code transformations.
4) How address calculation and control flow were bottlenecks identified after applying these transformations.
PRIMERGY Bladeframe: Caratteristiche e beneficiFSCitalia
The document discusses the complexity of managing today's datacenters and how it results in applications being tied to specific IT resources. It introduces PRIMERGY BladeFrame, which provides a centralized managed server pool and resource management platform to help reduce this complexity. The platform uses a "black box" approach to highly integrate hardware and resource management. It allows for central, dynamic allocation of processors, network, I/O, and storage on demand. This can help provide less complexity, increased agility, and reduced costs for the datacenter.
Id105 fortify your ibm lotus notes and ibm lotus domino infrastructure agai...waukema
This document provides a methodology for developing a business case to justify maintaining an IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure against competitive alternatives. It outlines steps to baseline the current environment, optimize it to reduce costs, and evaluate the total cost of ownership against migration options over time. A sample customer example shows how to assess server hardware, operating systems, networking, storage, support costs and more to determine the most cost effective solution.
NEC's thin client terminals work with their Virtual PC Center (VPCC) virtual desktop solution to provide secure, centralized management of desktop environments. The terminals eliminate storing data on individual client devices, minimizing the risk of data loss and enabling simple administration. Users can access their desktop from any terminal. The terminals range from high performance models with local applications and multimedia to more basic secure and affordable options. They connect to VPCC servers running virtual desktops to provide flexible, mobile computing.
Thomas Lantermann from Mitsubishi Electric presented on emulating manufacturing processes. Emulation involves defining a production process in 3D and controlling, managing, and optimizing it in advance using software. This allows companies to reduce start-up costs and time, increase quality from the beginning, find bottlenecks, and optimize energy usage and costs per part before real-world implementation. Lantermann demonstrated emulation software using a 3D model and programmable logic controller.
The document discusses VPLEX, EMC's multi-site active-active storage solution. VPLEX allows synchronous data access across data centers for high availability and disaster recovery. It uses clustered controllers and virtualization to provide redundancy. VPLEX can also integrate with RecoverPoint for continuous data protection and replication across three sites.
IBM System z - zEnterprise a future platform for enterprise systemsIBM Sverige
July 22. 2010 changed the world of enterprises with consolidated systems. Hear more about IBM's technological break through within System z, which can simplify and optimize your systems further and create greater business value. Talare: Jørgen R Andersen, Nordic Regional Manager System z, IBM DK och Ray Jones, VP WW SW System z, IBM US. Denna presentation hölls vid ett seminariepass för System Z på IBM Software Day 2010.
Performance and scalability of Informix ultimate warehouse edtion on Intel Xe...Keshav Murthy
Talk at Information on Demand Conference 2011. As part of the Informix Ultimate Warehouse Edition, Informix
Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) transparently provides up to several
orders of a magnitude speed up in query performance for
Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), as well as enormous administrative
cost savings. Combined with the Intel Xeon E7 processor series,
Informix and the Accelerator brings the performance and
scalability of IDS solutions to new levels. This presentation will
give best practices and benefits of IWA and the Intel Xeon E7
processors, and highlight the implications and performance
benefits of running IDS and IWA on these processors, compared
to previous releases of IDS and prior Intel server platforms.
Embedded Database Technology | Interbase From Embarcadero TechnologiesMichael Findling
The document describes InterBase SMP, a highly scalable embedded database. Key features include built-in symmetric multiprocessing support for high performance on multi-core systems, journaling for improved transaction processing and disaster recovery, and encryption of data and communications for enhanced security. InterBase SMP is suitable for embedding in applications and supports multiple platforms and connectivity options.
IBM Power Systems provides powerful servers for businesses. The document highlights IBM's Power7 and Power6 servers, which offer high performance, energy efficiency, and consolidation capabilities. IBM has seen success migrating customers from other vendors' systems to Power servers. Analysts note IBM's leadership in the UNIX server market and the strong performance of Power7 compared to competitors' offerings.
The document is a presentation about evolving CPU management on IBM System z mainframes to account for new capabilities introduced in recent years. It discusses technologies like zAAP, zIIP, and ICF processors and how they are managed differently than general purpose CPUs. It also covers topics like workload capping, blocked workloads, hyperdispatch, and new SMF records that can provide useful data for monitoring and reporting on CPU usage in a dynamic environment. The presentation provides an overview of these concepts to help attendees evolve their approach to CPU management and performance reporting.
Power Optimization Through Manycore Multiprocessingchiportal
The document discusses power optimization techniques for mobile devices. It describes how many-core multiprocessing using smaller, more efficient processor cores can improve performance and scalability while reducing power compared to single large cores. Specifically, ARM's big.LITTLE processing combines high-performance Cortex-A15 cores for intensive tasks with power-efficient Cortex-A7 cores for less demanding tasks, allowing dynamic task migration between core types to optimize for both performance and power efficiency. Software changes are needed to decompose tasks and take advantage of the multiple core types.
This document summarizes a case study analyzing the energy efficiency, memory usage, and performance of IBM mainframe systems. The study consolidated 200 distributed servers running low-utilization workloads onto a single IBM z10 mainframe, reducing total power consumption by 43% and floorspace needs by 50%. It analyzed how memory and processor configurations on the z10 impact performance and power efficiency. The mainframe was found to be very energy efficient due to high consolidation capabilities and little additional power needed to increase utilization.
This document provides a technical comparison of two types of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) designs: line-interactive and double-conversion online. It describes the advantages and disadvantages of each, noting they are best suited for different power ranges. The document also discusses considerations for determining which UPS topology best suits the needs of specific IT equipment and environments.
The document discusses IBM's Capacity on Demand (CoD) program which allows customers to temporarily activate additional computing resources on an as-needed basis and pay only for what they use. It describes the different types of CoD options available for Power5 and Power6 systems including permanent activations, on/off CoD for temporary usage billed by the day, and trial CoD. It provides details on the implementation process, including registration, contracts, ordering enablement codes, activating and reporting usage, and billing. Customers can gain flexibility to respond quickly to changing needs while avoiding costs for unused capacity.
This document summarizes a presentation on datacenter computing trends and problems. It discusses how cooling is a major source of energy inefficiency in datacenters. It also explains how servers are rarely fully utilized but operate least efficiently during common usage of 30% load. The document advocates for achieving better energy proportionality so servers can be more efficient during typical usage levels. It presents approaches like disaggregated memory and servers that break CPU-memory co-location to improve efficiency and consolidation.
SAP Virtualization Week 2012 - The Lego Cloudaidanshribman
This document discusses a research project called Hecatonchire that aims to provide distributed shared memory (DSM) capabilities to cloud computing. Hecatonchire breaks down physical servers into their core components of CPU, memory, and I/O, and extends existing cloud software like KVM, QEMU, and libvirt to allow virtual machines to transparently access remote resources. Some key capabilities discussed include live migration, flash cloning for rapid auto-scaling, memory pooling to access unused memory on remote hosts, and the long term goal of implementing true DSM across the cluster. The presentation was given by researchers from SAP Research in Belfast and Israel.
J&B Group was facing server sprawl issues with 20 Dell servers running various applications. They implemented an IBM xSeries virtualization solution with VMware software to consolidate servers. This reduced their server footprint to 6 virtual servers on one xSeries 440 system. It provided benefits like smaller data center footprint, lower maintenance costs, improved disaster recovery capabilities and faster ROI of less than a year. They plan to add another xSeries 445 system for high availability and split the workload between the two systems.
This document discusses how Tilera's manycore architecture provides a solution for the increasing performance, power efficiency, and space requirements of cloud computing datacenters. It summarizes that Tilera chips offer significantly higher performance per watt than x86 servers through the use of low-power cores in high densities. This allows for slashing total cost of ownership through reduced capital and operating expenses for a given workload. The document also outlines how Tilera's architecture and software stack provide scalable performance through standard programming models and tools.
Understand the approaches and best practices for integrating client side applications - both desktop and mobile - with various server-side technologies.
Fabian Urban (27) is an IT Consultant at FORTIS IT-Services GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. He is a web development expert for both - client and server side technologies.
During his professional career he designed and implemented interfaces and automated services to share data between affiliate partners and CRM and billing solutions at the telecommunications industry.
As a passionate rich internet application developer he has not only implemented web technology solutions, but has always tried to validate and optimize available frameworks to the limit of possibilities. Besides organizing and holding sessions at the Ext JS User Group Hamburg, he will talk about modern RIAs at the SenchaCon 2011.
This document summarizes Guillermo Talavera Velilla's PhD thesis defense presentation on optimizing address generation for low-power embedded VLIW processors. The presentation covered:
1) The goal of optimizing energy consumption during address generation for data access in VLIW processors for embedded systems.
2) How embedded systems demand both performance and energy efficiency.
3) Techniques like data transfer and storage exploration that optimize data locality and reduce storage requirements through code transformations.
4) How address calculation and control flow were bottlenecks identified after applying these transformations.
PRIMERGY Bladeframe: Caratteristiche e beneficiFSCitalia
The document discusses the complexity of managing today's datacenters and how it results in applications being tied to specific IT resources. It introduces PRIMERGY BladeFrame, which provides a centralized managed server pool and resource management platform to help reduce this complexity. The platform uses a "black box" approach to highly integrate hardware and resource management. It allows for central, dynamic allocation of processors, network, I/O, and storage on demand. This can help provide less complexity, increased agility, and reduced costs for the datacenter.
Id105 fortify your ibm lotus notes and ibm lotus domino infrastructure agai...waukema
This document provides a methodology for developing a business case to justify maintaining an IBM Lotus Notes and Domino infrastructure against competitive alternatives. It outlines steps to baseline the current environment, optimize it to reduce costs, and evaluate the total cost of ownership against migration options over time. A sample customer example shows how to assess server hardware, operating systems, networking, storage, support costs and more to determine the most cost effective solution.
NEC's thin client terminals work with their Virtual PC Center (VPCC) virtual desktop solution to provide secure, centralized management of desktop environments. The terminals eliminate storing data on individual client devices, minimizing the risk of data loss and enabling simple administration. Users can access their desktop from any terminal. The terminals range from high performance models with local applications and multimedia to more basic secure and affordable options. They connect to VPCC servers running virtual desktops to provide flexible, mobile computing.
Thomas Lantermann from Mitsubishi Electric presented on emulating manufacturing processes. Emulation involves defining a production process in 3D and controlling, managing, and optimizing it in advance using software. This allows companies to reduce start-up costs and time, increase quality from the beginning, find bottlenecks, and optimize energy usage and costs per part before real-world implementation. Lantermann demonstrated emulation software using a 3D model and programmable logic controller.
The document discusses VPLEX, EMC's multi-site active-active storage solution. VPLEX allows synchronous data access across data centers for high availability and disaster recovery. It uses clustered controllers and virtualization to provide redundancy. VPLEX can also integrate with RecoverPoint for continuous data protection and replication across three sites.
IBM System z - zEnterprise a future platform for enterprise systemsIBM Sverige
July 22. 2010 changed the world of enterprises with consolidated systems. Hear more about IBM's technological break through within System z, which can simplify and optimize your systems further and create greater business value. Talare: Jørgen R Andersen, Nordic Regional Manager System z, IBM DK och Ray Jones, VP WW SW System z, IBM US. Denna presentation hölls vid ett seminariepass för System Z på IBM Software Day 2010.
Performance and scalability of Informix ultimate warehouse edtion on Intel Xe...Keshav Murthy
Talk at Information on Demand Conference 2011. As part of the Informix Ultimate Warehouse Edition, Informix
Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) transparently provides up to several
orders of a magnitude speed up in query performance for
Informix Dynamic Server (IDS), as well as enormous administrative
cost savings. Combined with the Intel Xeon E7 processor series,
Informix and the Accelerator brings the performance and
scalability of IDS solutions to new levels. This presentation will
give best practices and benefits of IWA and the Intel Xeon E7
processors, and highlight the implications and performance
benefits of running IDS and IWA on these processors, compared
to previous releases of IDS and prior Intel server platforms.
Embedded Database Technology | Interbase From Embarcadero TechnologiesMichael Findling
The document describes InterBase SMP, a highly scalable embedded database. Key features include built-in symmetric multiprocessing support for high performance on multi-core systems, journaling for improved transaction processing and disaster recovery, and encryption of data and communications for enhanced security. InterBase SMP is suitable for embedding in applications and supports multiple platforms and connectivity options.
IBM Power Systems provides powerful servers for businesses. The document highlights IBM's Power7 and Power6 servers, which offer high performance, energy efficiency, and consolidation capabilities. IBM has seen success migrating customers from other vendors' systems to Power servers. Analysts note IBM's leadership in the UNIX server market and the strong performance of Power7 compared to competitors' offerings.
The document is a presentation about evolving CPU management on IBM System z mainframes to account for new capabilities introduced in recent years. It discusses technologies like zAAP, zIIP, and ICF processors and how they are managed differently than general purpose CPUs. It also covers topics like workload capping, blocked workloads, hyperdispatch, and new SMF records that can provide useful data for monitoring and reporting on CPU usage in a dynamic environment. The presentation provides an overview of these concepts to help attendees evolve their approach to CPU management and performance reporting.
Power Optimization Through Manycore Multiprocessingchiportal
The document discusses power optimization techniques for mobile devices. It describes how many-core multiprocessing using smaller, more efficient processor cores can improve performance and scalability while reducing power compared to single large cores. Specifically, ARM's big.LITTLE processing combines high-performance Cortex-A15 cores for intensive tasks with power-efficient Cortex-A7 cores for less demanding tasks, allowing dynamic task migration between core types to optimize for both performance and power efficiency. Software changes are needed to decompose tasks and take advantage of the multiple core types.
This document summarizes a case study analyzing the energy efficiency, memory usage, and performance of IBM mainframe systems. The study consolidated 200 distributed servers running low-utilization workloads onto a single IBM z10 mainframe, reducing total power consumption by 43% and floorspace needs by 50%. It analyzed how memory and processor configurations on the z10 impact performance and power efficiency. The mainframe was found to be very energy efficient due to high consolidation capabilities and little additional power needed to increase utilization.
The zEnterprise system is a "system of systems" that integrates IBM's leading technologies to dramatically improve productivity in multi-architecture data centers and private clouds. It is the world's fastest and most scalable enterprise system with unrivalled reliability, security, and manageability. The zEnterprise is also the industry's most efficient platform for large scale data center simplification and consolidation.
The document discusses VMware vSphere 4.0, which delivers virtualization solutions for compute, storage, and networking. It provides industry-leading consolidation ratios through features like virtual SMP and large memory support for virtual machines. vSphere 4.0 improves efficiency through technologies like distributed resource scheduling, storage thin provisioning, and fault tolerance. It also maximizes application availability, security, and scalability through integrated services.
Fremtidens platform til koncernsystemer (IBM System z)IBM Danmark
Efter 22. juli 2010 vil verden se anderledes ud – i hvert fald hvis man er en koncern med mange sammensatte systemer. Lær mere om IBM’s teknologiske gennembrud inden for System z, der kan forenkle og optimere dine systemer yderligere og skabe større forretningsværdi. Præsentationen er relevant for såvel nye brugere, som for dem der har anvendt System z i flere år.
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The document discusses scaling tier-based applications using Space Based Architecture (SBA). SBA uses a common data and processing grid to virtualize tiers, enabling applications to scale out processing across commodity hardware. This approach parallelizes transactions, reduces serialization overhead between tiers, and allows dynamic scalability through automated deployment of services on a grid. The session will provide examples of how financial and telecom applications achieve scalability using SBA.
This paper identifies the value proposition created by implementing IBM zEnterprise as an integrated, heterogeneous, and virtualized platform supporting Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in cloud computing deployments.
The paper begins by expanding the definition of the private cloud and comparing the concepts of homogenous and heterogeneous clouds. Then we further develop the concept of fit-for-purpose workload deployment and the cost proposition for deployment in a private cloud. We utilize a defined workload metric to determine the impact of zEnterprise on the Total Cost of Acquisition (TCA) and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
The document discusses Hewlett-Packard's (HP) new innovations in converged infrastructure for cloud computing. It introduces HP's new ProLiant Gen 7 servers, including scale-up servers, FlexFabric networking solutions, and intelligent power supplies. The document also discusses how HP's converged infrastructure solutions help customers transition to cloud computing models in a more evolutionary manner.
Migrating server workloads to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on Intel Xeon...Principled Technologies
Consolidating to a virtualized environment that supports VMs running the original operating systems can help you save on data center costs and eliminate retuning and testing costs that can be necessary when porting applications. You can reinstall the operating systems, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8, on VMs and copy the application software and configuration to them. Selecting a virtual environment that optimizes performance and improves price/performance can lead to significant savings in the data center. You can get better performance and greater efficiency by replacing several older servers with newer ones powered by Intel® Xeon® processors running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, reducing the number of servers you need to run and maintain.
In our tests, we easily and successfully migrated a middleware application running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a two- to three-year-old bare-metal server to virtual machines on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 Hypervisor using Intel® Xeon® processors E5-2690.
Not only was there minimal disruption of the workload, but performance increased dramatically—by 90.3 percent when we ran one VM and by 143.8 percent when we ran two VMs.
These findings demonstrate that moving older servers to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization VMs with newer Intel® Xeon® processors can provide all of the benefits of virtualization while significantly improving application performance.
NexGen Storage provides next generation hybrid storage systems designed for affordable, high performance virtual infrastructure. Their systems deliver the lowest combined cost per IOPS and per GB of storage, and include storage QoS guarantees to ensure application performance. NexGen uses PCIe solid-state drives and software-defined storage management to accelerate workloads while controlling performance and prioritizing applications.
The document discusses how smarter computing through the integration of big data, optimized systems, and cloud computing can unlock new insights and value. It summarizes that 1) big data streams and traditional data integrated in optimized systems can deliver new insights, 2) cloud computing will play a fundamental role by masking complexity and enabling rapid deployment, and 3) IBM's integrated and workload-optimized systems can accelerate the path to smarter computing by tightly integrating appliances and flexible systems.
Citrix XenDesktop on vSphere - Virsto Launch May 9, 2012Virsto Software
Virsto Storage Hypervisor Adds Support for Citrix XenDesktop--
Virsto® Software, an innovative provider of VM-centric storage hypervisor software, today announced that it is deepening its commitment to Citrix desktop virtualization solutions with the release of a beta program for Citrix® XenDesktop® on vSphere. The integration of Virsto’s purpose-built storage hypervisor for virtual machines (VMs) with Citrix XenDesktop delivers dramatic savings on storage in virtual desktop deployments with accelerated provisioning and simplified management of thousands of virtual desktops.
The document discusses threads and processes, comparing their use on Intel/AMD and Cell processors. Threads allow parallelism within a process by sharing the process's resources, while processes have separate memory spaces and allow true concurrency. The Cell uses minimal firmware and gives the user full control over process management, unlike Intel/AMD which rely more on the operating system.
1) Running heavy I/O workloads on a mainframe can save over $1 million compared to running the same workloads on x86 servers due to the mainframe's ability to run more virtual machines using less spare capacity.
2) A mainframe can run 240 virtual machines using 70% CPU utilization, while an x86 server would need 24 servers with 192 CPUs total to run the same number of virtual machines and meet service level requirements.
3) The main reasons for the mainframe's advantage are its specialized "shared everything" architecture and I/O subsystems that allow for more efficient resource sharing and workload distribution compared to smaller scale x86 servers.
Infoboom webcast, August 23, 2011. This session covers the futures of IT storage, including the shifting roles of SSD, disk and tape; convergence of LAN and SAN networks into a data center network; and the emergence of storage for Cloud Computing.
Tony Pearson presented on the future of storage. Key points included:
1) Advances in technologies like flash storage, storage virtualization, data deduplication, and cloud storage are changing how organizations manage their storage assets and treat storage as a pooled resource.
2) The roles of different storage types are shifting, with solid state drives becoming more optimal for primary data and disk and tape more suited to backup data and long term retention.
3) Improvements in bandwidth are driving convergence of networks and protocols like FCoE, iSCSI, and CIFS.
4) Cloud computing is driving standardization, automation, and management approaches that also impact internal IT departments.
IBM zEnterprise System and IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager deliver the gold standard of enterprise computing and extends mainframe-like governance and qualities of service to special purpose workload optimizers and general purpose IBM POWER7 and System x Application Server Blades
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Integrated Service Management (ISM) will be key to IBM's System z and zEnterprise cloud success. ISM provides flexibility and agility in optimizing IT infrastructure through capabilities like workload management, virtualization support, and provisioning that have been part of System z for decades. Moving to an ISM model allows customers to better manage their infrastructure as a strategic business service and ultimately optimize their overall service delivery.
IBM has been innovating in cloud computing technologies for over 45 years. The IBM zEnterprise platform is the industry's only heterogeneous cloud solution, combining cloud characteristics with the leading capabilities of System z for efficiency, manageability, scalability, and security. IBM Cloud Computing on System z is transforming businesses by providing better qualities of service, advanced workload optimization, and efficient resource consolidation.
This document discusses how smarter computing strategies using IBM System z can help address challenges around increasing data growth, inefficient IT infrastructure utilization, and rising operating costs. It notes how IBM has transformed its own IT infrastructure through server consolidation, virtualization, and automation on IBM System z mainframes, achieving an estimated $4.1 billion in savings over 5 years through 80% less energy usage, 85% reduced floor space, and lowering the number of data centers, servers, and applications. The document promotes System z as a solution to optimize server utilization through reducing sprawl, automating processes, and workload scheduling.
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2. New metric
for the age
of Smarter
Computing COST PER
WORKLOAD
Accurately allocating cost in a
virtualized environment
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3. Smarter Computing With zEnterprise
Platforms Optimized For Consistent Structured
Different Workloads Management
z/OS z/VM AIX Linux
Best fit for workload Consistent structured practices
Lowest Cost Of Lowest Cost Of
Acquisition Per Operation Per
Workload Workload
Lowest Cost Per Workload
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4. Agenda
Platforms Optimized For Consistent Structured
Different Workloads Management
z/OS z/VM AIX Linux
Right fit for workload Consistent structured practices
Lowest cost per workload Lowest labor costs
Cost Per Workload Why zBX is better than
Examples do-it-yourself
Consolidate standalone zManager labor savings
workloads Benefits of workload
Claims processing management
Consolidate hybrid front ends
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5. Consolidating Workloads With Heavy I/O
Requirements
Benchmark to 10 workloads Virtualized on Intel
determine which per Intel blade 8 core Blade
platform provides $21,413 per workload
the lowest TCA
over 3 years
15 workloads PowerVM on PS701
per POWER7 blade 8 core Blade
Workloads
$14,325 per workload
IBM WebSphere ND
Monitoring software
On 4 core “Older” Intel
Online banking workloads,
240 workloads z/VM on zEnterprise CPF
each driving 22
transactions per second, per 32-way z/VM 32 IFLs
with 1 MB I/O per $14,052 per workload
transaction I/O bandwidth
Consolidation ratios derived from IBM internal studies. z196 32-way performance large scale pool
projected from z196 8-way and z10 32-way measurements. zBX with x blades is
a statement of direction only. Results may vary based on customer workload
profiles/characteristics. Prices will vary by country.
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6. Consolidating Heavy Workloads
Benchmark to Virtualized on Intel
determine which 1 workload 8 core Blade
platform provides per Intel blade $214,133 per
the lowest TCA workload
over 3 years
2 workloads PowerVM on PS701
per POWER7 blade 8 core Blade
Workloads
more parallel $107,437 per
IBM WebSphere ND
threads workload
Monitoring software
On 8 core Nehalem
servers
Online banking workloads, 23 workloads
each driving 460 z/VM on zEnterprise CEC
transactions per second with per 32-way z/VM 32 IFLs
light I/O $146,631 per
Consolidation ratios derived from IBM internal studies. z196 32-way performance workload
projected from z196 8-way and z10 32-way measurements. zBX with x blades is
a statement of direction only. Results may vary based on customer workload
profiles/characteristics. Prices will vary by country.
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7. Consolidating Light Workloads
Benchmark to 36 workloads Virtualized on Intel
determine which per Intel blade 8 core Blade
platform provides Fast low cost
$5,948 per workload
the lowest TCA threads
over 3 years
34 workloads PowerVM on PS701
per POWER7 blade 8 core Blade
Workloads
$6,320 per workload
IBM WebSphere ND
Monitoring software
On 4 core “Older” Intel
Online banking workloads,
each driving 22 transactions 270 workloads z/VM on zEnterprise CEC
per second with light I/O per 32-way z/VM 32 IFLs
$12,491 per workload
Consolidation ratios derived from IBM internal studies. z196 32-way performance
projected from z196 8-way and z10 32-way measurements. zBX with x blades is
a statement of direction only. Results may vary based on customer workload
profiles/characteristics. Prices will vary by country.
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8. Cost Per Workload Reveals True Value
25 heavy
True Value: Cost Per Workload
240 heavy workloads
I/O
Workloads
235 light
Cost Of Hardware Is Misleading
workloads
Run 500 workloads Cost of Cost of Cost per
Hardware Software Workload
56 Intel Blades
(8 cores per blade)
448 cores total $1.7M $9.8M $23.0K
1 zEnterprise
Best fit $2.7M $4.7M $15.0K
192 cores total
Note: 3yr TCA. CPO benchmarks. Equal mix of WAS ND and DB2 workloads. List prices.
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9. Agenda
Platforms Optimized For Consistent Structured
Different Workloads Management
z/OS z/VM AIX Linux
Right fit for workload Consistent structured practices
Lowest cost per workload Lowest labor costs
Cost Per Workload Why zBX is better than
Examples do-it-yourself
Consolidate standalone zManager labor savings
workloads Benefits of workload
Claims processing management
Consolidate hybrid front ends
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10. Customer Case Study –
Insurance Claim Processing Company
Primary Stable Business
Government Insurance Claims Processing
Medicare/Medicaid/Defense/State
Growth Business
Commercial Claims Processing
Two Existing Commercial Claims Processing Systems
− Homegrown CICS/DB2 Application on Mainframe
− ISV 3rd-party Package running on HPUX
Which platform is the low-cost option for future growth in
commercial claims?
10
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11. Two Commercial Claims Processing Systems
HP Servers + ISV IBM System z CICS/DB2
Which system
costs less for
Production Servers
HP 9000 Superdome rp4440 future
HP Integrity rx6600
growth?
Total MIPS 11,302
MIPS Used for commercial
Dev/Test Servers claims processing
HP 9000 Superdome rp5470 Calculate production/dev/test 2418
HP Integrity rx6600
cost per
Claims per year 327,652 Claims per year 4,056,000
workload
Buy Build
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12. Allocated Annual Costs For Two Systems
Mainframe Distributed
Provided by customer
Hardware 1,302,205 87,806 finance department
Hardware Maint 315,548
Software IBM MLC 4,842,384
Software Non IBM OTC 647,843 196,468
Software Non IBM MLC 5,027,936
Storage 877,158
Network 418,755
Support Staff 2,324,623 257,289
Platform + Staff Total 15,756,452 541,563
Platform + Staff Claims Allocation 3,371,880 (21.4%) 541,563 (100%)
Billing Center 1,611,650
Call Center 2,920,090
Development 1,907,382
Total 9,811,002 541,563
Claims Processed 4,056,000 327,652
$ Per Claim 2.42 0.87
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13. Allocated Annual Costs For Two Systems
Mainframe Distributed
Provided by customer
Hardware 1,302,205 87,806 finance department
Hardware Maint 315,548
Software IBM MLC 4,842,384
Mainframe costs easily
Software Non IBM OTC 647,843 196,468 identified, distributed
Software Non IBM MLC 5,027,936 costs difficult to identify
Storage 877,158
Network 418,755
Support Staff 2,324,623 257,289
Platform + Staff Total 15,756,452 541,563
Platform + Staff Claims Allocation 3,371,880 (21.4%) 541,563 (100%)
Billing Center 1,611,650
Call Center 2,920,090
Development 1,907,382
Total 9,811,002 541,563
Claims Processed 4,056,000 327,652
$ Per Claim 2.42 0.87
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14. Allocated Annual Costs For Two Systems
Mainframe Distributed
Provided by customer
Hardware 1,302,205 87,806 finance department
Hardware Maint 315,548
Software IBM MLC 4,842,384
Mainframe costs easily
Software Non IBM OTC 647,843 196,468 identified, distributed
Software Non IBM MLC 5,027,936 costs difficult to identify
Storage 877,158
Network 418,755 Billing and Call center
costs allocated to
Support Staff 2,324,623 257,289
mainframe, but would be
Platform + Staff Total 15,756,452 541,563 the same for either
option
Platform + Staff Claims Allocation 3,371,880 (21.4%) 541,563 (100%)
Billing Center 1,611,650
Call Center 2,920,090
Development 1,907,382
Total 9,811,002 541,563
Claims Processed 4,056,000 327,652
$ Per Claim 2.42 0.87
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15. Allocated Annual Costs For Two Systems
Mainframe Distributed
Provided by customer
Hardware 1,302,205 87,806 finance department
Hardware Maint 315,548
Software IBM MLC 4,842,384
Mainframe costs easily
Software Non IBM OTC 647,843 196,468 identified, distributed
Software Non IBM MLC 5,027,936 costs difficult to identify
Storage 877,158
Network 418,755 Billing and Call center
costs allocated to
Support Staff 2,324,623 257,289
mainframe, but would be
Platform + Staff Total 15,756,452 541,563 the same for either
option
Platform + Staff Claims Allocation 3,371,880 (21.4%) 541,563 (100%)
Billing Center 1,611,650 Development still
required to customize
Call Center 2,920,090 packaged software for
Development 1,907,382 each new contract
Total 9,811,002 541,563
Claims Processed 4,056,000 327,652
$ Per Claim 2.42 0.87
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16. True Workload Costs For Either Option
Mainframe Distributed
Hardware 1,302,205 87,806
Hardware Maint 315,548
Software IBM MLC 4,842,384
Software Non IBM OTC 647,843 196,468
Software Non IBM MLC 5,027,936
Storage 877,158 ?
Network 418,755 ?
Support Staff 2,324,623 257,289
Platform + Staff Total 15,756,452 541,563
Platform + Staff Claims Allocation 3,371,880 (21.4%) 541,563 (100%)
Billing Center same same
Call Center same same
Development 1,907,382 123,031
Total 5,279,262 664,594
Claims Processed 4,056,000 327,652 Mainframe has lower
$ Per Claim 1.30 2.03 cost per workload
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17. A Note On Support Staff Annual Costs
HP Servers + ISV IBM System z CICS/DB2
$0.79 per claim
Production Servers
HP 9000 Superdome rp4440
$0.12 per claim
HP Integrity rx6600
Total MIPS 11,302
MIPS Used for commercial
Dev/Test Servers claims processing
HP 9000 Superdome rp5470 production/dev/test 2418
Mainframe
HP Integrity rx6600
support staff has
Claims per year 327,652 6.6x better Claims per year 4,056,000
productivity
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18. A Note On Processing Equivalence
Current Computing Capacity Allocated For Distributed is
38918 RPE’s
Using the Scaling Factor (Claims/Sec Distributed /
Claims/Sec Mainframe) we calculate that processing the
equivalent Claims volume on the mainframe would require
only 195.46 MIPS
This gives us an RPE/MIPS factor of 199.10 (Distributed
capacity to Mainframe capacity ratio)
We have studied Offloads that range from 122 RPE/MIPS
to 670 RPE/MIPS
18
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19. Agenda
Platforms Optimized For Consistent Structured
Different Workloads Management
z/OS z/VM AIX Linux
Right fit for workload Consistent structured practices
Lowest cost per workload Lowest labor costs
Cost Per Workload Why zBX is better than
Examples do-it-yourself
Consolidate standalone zManager labor savings
workloads Benefits of workload
Claims processing management
Consolidate hybrid front ends
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20. Collapse Web Front End Workloads Into
zEnterprise Platform
Web facing Message CICS/DB2
front-end hub core system
Run as ensemble of virtual
servers
Unified management of
virtual machines
Manage ensemble as a
AIX on Power DataPower z/OS single workload with service
Blade
XI50z goals
WAS ESB CICS/DB2 Assign best fit to Power
blade and XI50z for lowest
cost per workload
AIX z/OS
Embedded pre-configured
zEnterprise BladeCenter zEnterprise data network
Extension (xBX) z196
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21. DataPower XI50z – Built For Purpose Appliance
Enterprise Microsoft BizTalk Server 492 messages per sec
Service Bus Windows on Intel Server
benchmark BizTalk
$764 per mps
4 sockets, 32 cores
comparison Server
128 GB
Windows
Oracle Service Bus 5,839 messages per sec
OSB Oracle Linux on HP DL380
$120 per mps
2 sockets, 12 cores
Linux 128 GB
messages messages
DataPower
XI50z
5,117 messages per sec
$33 per mps
Tests consists of measuring maximum throughput DataPower
of ESB while performing a variety of message
mediation workloads: pass-through, routing,
XI50z in zBX
transformation, and schema validation HS 22, 8 cores
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22. Web Front Ends Cost 58% Less On zEnterprise
28 front end Competitive App Server
applications on older 57 SPARC T3-1B blades
in SUN racks
SPARC T2+ servers 2 HP DL380 servers
(for ESB)
936 cores total
Web
Facing
28 workloads
each driving Upgrade to $11.7M
1975 tps
new SPARC T3 3yr TCA
hardware HW+SW
SPARC T5440 WebSphere App Server
32 core servers 28 POWER7 blades
2 DataPower XI50z
HP DL380 servers in zBX
(for ESB) 224 cores total
Power Blades $4.9M
in zBX 3yr TCA
HW+SW
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23. Web Front Ends Cost 58% Less On zEnterprise
Why?
Competitive App Server
57 SPARC T3-1B blades
in SUN racks
2 HP DL380 servers WAS on PS701
(for ESB)
936 cores total delivers 1.84x
processing capacity
Competitive
Upgrade to $11.7M
new SPARC T3 Application Server
3yr TCA
hardware HW+SW cannot effectively
utilize the threads
available in T3
blade
WebSphere App Server DataPower better
28 POWER7 blades
2 DataPower XI50z price/performance
in zBX
224 cores total Need to over
provision SPARC T3
Power Blades $4.9M since no zManager
in zBX 3yr TCA
HW+SW
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24. SAP Applications Cost 20% Less On zEnterprise
20 front end SAP
applications on older 38 SPARC T3-1B
blades in SUN rack
SPARC T2+ servers 608 cores total
T3-1B z196
SAP
Upgrade to $1.2M
20 workloads
new SPARC T3
3yr TCA
hardware HW+SW
20
SPARC T5440
32 core servers 23 POWER7 blades
538,120 total SAPs in zBX
640 cores total 184 cores total
zBX z196
Power Blades $0.97M
in zBX 3yr TCA
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25. Agenda
Platforms Optimized For Consistent Structured
Different Workloads Management
z/OS z/VM AIX Linux
Right fit for workload Consistent structured practices
Lowest cost per workload Lowest labor costs
Cost Per Workload Why zBX is better than
Examples do-it-yourself
Claims processing zManager labor savings
Consolidate standalone Benefits of workload
workloads management
Consolidate hybrid front ends
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26. Compare The Costs For 92 Hybrid Workloads
I see how fit for
purpose can cut costs,
POWER7 blades in
but why do I need zBX BladeCenter chassis
racks?
Can’t I just use
BladeCenters to do it Web Facing
myself? Do-It-Yourself
72 workloads
SAP
20 workloads
POWER7 blades
in zBX racks with
zManager zEnterprise
(Manage+Automate)
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27. Labor Cost Trends Favor A Centralized
Structured Approach To Management
Intel - Virtual Servers/FTE z/OS - MIPS/FTE
500
450
Large scale consolidation and
t
400
en
consistent structured
em
350
management practices drive
ov
300
pr increases in labor productivity
Im
250
x
18
200
150
Small scale consolidation with
100
ment
50 3.9x Improve ad hoc management achieves
0 lesser gains
2000/01 2007/08
Year
The more workloads you consolidate and manage with
consistent structured practices…
the lower the management labor cost
Source: IBM Scorpion Studies and IDC Three Data
Centers – One Vision.PDF (IDC, 2010) zEnterprise Economics - IBM SWG CPO - Mar 2011 27
28. zManager Provides Structured Management For
zEnterprise Virtual Environments
Process Typical Distributed zManager
Management Practices
Asset Discover assets with ad hoc Automated discovery and
Management methods management of entitlement assets
Manual entitlement management
Deployment Manually configure hypervisor and Automated deployment of
Management build networks hypervisor and attachment to
integrated networks
Security Different ways to manage Centralized, fine-grained
Management administrator access administrator access management
Change No visibility into impact of changes Track dependencies for change
Management impact
Capacity and No end-to-end transaction End-to-end transaction monitoring to
Performance monitoring isolate issues
Management Manually adjust CPU resources to Automatic CPU resource
meet changing workload demands adjustments to meet changing
workload demands
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29. Hypervisor Setup And Configuration Lab Test –
Do-It-Yourself vs. zManager
DIY Tasks (per Blade) Elapsed Time Labor Time
Initial communication setup & education 6 min 26 sec 6 min 26 sec
Boot VIOS disc & install (creates LPAR for VIOS automatically) 37 min 59 sec 36 min
Configure VIOS networking 2 min 49 sec 2 min 49 sec
Create new storage pool for LPARs 35 sec 35 sec
Install VIOS service fix packs 61 min 5 sec 20 sec
TOTAL TIME 1 hr 48 min 52 sec 46 min 10 sec
zManager Tasks (per Blade) Elapsed Time Labor Time
Add entitlement for a blade 90 min 92 sec
TOTAL TIME 1 hr 30 min 1 min 32 sec
97% reduction
in labor time
Source: IBM CPO Internal Study zEnterprise Economics - IBM SWG CPO - Mar 2011 29
30. Network Setup And Configuration Lab Test –
Do-It-Yourself vs. zManager
Do-It-Yourself Tasks (for two BladeCenters) Elapsed/Labor Time
Planning (includes time to go over docs, etc) 5 hrs
Cabling 2 hrs
AMM Configuration 2 hrs
Logical Configuration (L2) 8 hrs
Blades network configuration 4 hrs
Testing 2 hrs
Documenting the configuration 3 hrs
TOTAL TIME 26 hrs
zManager Tasks (for two BladeCenters) Elapsed/Labor Time
Planning 3 hrs
Cabling (pre-cabled in zBX) 0 hrs
AMM Configuration (done in zBX) 0 hrs
Logical configuration (L2) 30 mins
Blades network configuration 1 hr 30 mins
Testing (pre-tested) 0 hrs
Documenting the configuration (all part of zManager) 0 hrs
TOTAL TIME 5 hrs 81% reduction
in labor time
Source: IBM CPO Internal Study zEnterprise Economics - IBM SWG CPO - Mar 2011 30
31. Performance Manager Lab Test –
Automatic Allocation Of CPU Resource
Time
zManager monitors
virtual machine
Workload 2 (W2)
performance and
automatically adjusts
15 minutes CPU resources as
Goal
needed
Considers priority and
Workload 1 (W1)
performance relative
to service level
agreement goals
2. Performance Manager is 4. W1 reaches
turned on. zManager detects performance
W1 is underperforming. goal. Reduces the need to
1. No performance
over-provision CPU
management. W1
is underperforming,
3. Over time, zManager resources
adjusts CPU resources,
and W2 is over- taking from W2 and
performing. giving to W1.
Source: IBM CPO Internal Study zEnterprise Economics - IBM SWG CPO - Mar 2011 31
32. zManager Performance Management Reduces
Need To Overprovision CPU Resource
Without zManager With zManager
Total CPU Resource Needed
Total CPU Resource Needed
110% No additional CPU
No additional CPU
resourcesneeded
resource needed
100% 100%
10% more CPU
resources needed Unexpected 20% spike
in average demand,
Performance Manager
Unexpected increases entitlement by
20% spike in 20%
average 13.2% 13.2%
demand
Workload 1 Workload 1
11% 11%
Average utilization
Average utilization
Performance manager
reduces entitlement by
20%
11% Workload 2 Workload 2
11%
8.8%
Must overprovision CPU resource for Performance manager enables trading off
both workloads by 10% to handle resource from lower priority workload,
unexpected spike in demand avoiding the need to overprovision
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33. Case Study:
Compare The Costs For 92 Hybrid Workloads
62
POWER7 blades in 5 Blades Cost
BladeCenter chassis of Acquisition $7,325K
Labor $ 987K
Total (3yr) $8,312K
$30.1K per
Web Facing
Do-It-Yourself
72 workloads Data
Processing
workload per year
20 workloads
zBX Cost
of Acquisition $6,994K
Labor $ 714K
72 Web facing hybrid
applications, 2 per POWER7
blades
56 Total (3yr) $7,708K
POWER7 blades
20 SAP hybrid applications, 1
per POWER7 blade. DIY blades
over provisioned by 10%
in two zBX racks with
zManager zEnterprise $27.9K per
because no zManager
performance manager (Manage+Automate) workload per year
Cost of CICS/DB2 and SAP
components of workloads not
included
Labor costs are for blade
management only 28% less labor cost and 7% less cost per workload
Labor rate $159,600 per year
Results may vary based on customer workload
profiles/characteristics. Prices will vary by country. zEnterprise Economics - IBM SWG CPO - Mar 2011 33
34. zManager Labor Reduction Benefits
4289 total hours per year reduced
by 28% to 3104 hours per year
Change Management Deployment Management
Automatic setup and
Standardization of images
configuration of the
and firmware, visibility into Reduced
hypervisor and out-of-the-
relationships among by 33%
box networks
resources
Reduced Reduced
by 41% by 52% Capacity/Performance
Management
Automation to
Reduced isolate and fix issues
by 9%
Security Management Reduced
by 20% Asset Management
Centralized fine-grain Automated discovery,
administrator access entitlement management
control
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35. Summary
Cost per workload is the
key metric for the new IT
economics
Fit for purpose reduces
cost of acquisition per
workload
zEnterprise integrated
management reduces cost
of labor per workload
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38. Backup
zEnterprise Economics - IBM SWG CPO - Mar 2011 38
39. Web Workloads - Performance Data
Server Description Cores RPE RPE2 TPS TPS
(Measured) (Calculated)
T5440 Sun SPARC Enterprise 32 102,617 21,580 5,300
T5440 (4U) UltraSPARC Max throughput
SPARCT2+ T2+ 1.6GHz 4MB with multi JVM run
(4ch/32co) using Solaris
32 core containers
T3-1B Oracle SPARC T3-1B 16 61,249 11,520 2829
SPARC T3 1.65GHz Calculated as
16 core (1ch/16co) 5300*(11520/21580)
Power 710 Power 710 Express (2U) 8 60,208 14,920 5,670
Power7 3.55GHz
8 core (1ch/8co)
PS701 IBM BladeCenter PS701 8 53,189 13,730 5218
Express Power7 3.0GHz
Calculated as
8 core (1ch/8co) 5670*(13730/14920)
WAS on PS701 versus WLS on T3-1B is 1.84x
WLS on T5440 versus WLS on T3-1B is 1.87x
WLS on T5440 versus WAS on PS701 is nearly 1x
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