IBM Power Systems Redbooks

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

Redpaper, published 20 Apr 2020, last updated 8 May 2020

This IBM® Redpaper publication describes practical experiences to run SAP workloads to take advantage of IBM Power Systems I/O capabilities. With IBM POWER® processor-based servers, you have the flexibility to fit seamlessly new applications and workloads into a single data center, and even consolidate them into a single server. This approach highlights all viable options and describes the pros and cons of each one to select the correct option for a specific data center. The target audiences of this book are architects, IT specialists, and systems administrators deploying SAP workloads, who ... [more]

SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems Architectural Summary
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 20 Apr 2020

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

IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2.3 for IBM AIX and V7.22 for Linux
Power Systems

Redbooks, published 16 Sep 2019, last updated 16 Apr 2020

  (based on 2 reviews)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps strengthen the position of the IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® for Linux solution with well-defined and documented deployment models within an IBM Power Systems™ environment, which provides customers a planned foundation for business resilience and disaster recovery (DR) for their IBM Power Systems infrastructure solutions. This book addresses topics to help answer customers' complex high availability (HA) and DR requirements for IBM AIX® and Linux on IBM Power Systems servers to help maximize system availability and resources and provide technical ... [more]

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

Redpaper, published 1 Apr 2020

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

SAP HANA Platform Migration
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 25 Mar 2020

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

Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks on IBM Power Systems: Volume 1
Red Hat

Redbooks, published 2 Mar 2020, last updated 12 Mar 2020

  (based on 2 reviews)

This IBM® Redbooks® publication educates and prepares the readers to understand and enter the multicloud era. This book describes a journey to the following aspects of multicloud and associated context of application modernization:
- Introduction to the rationale and methodology of this publication
- Concepts and terminology
- Why move to the cloud?
- Introduction to containers and orchestration with Kubernetes
- Introduction to OpenShift on Power Systems
- Why IBM? Why IBM Power Systems?
- Reference architecture for Red Hat OpenShift on Power Systems ... [more]

IBM Power Systems Virtualization Operation Management for SAP Applications
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 3 Mar 2020

Businesses are using IBM® Power Systems servers and Linux to consolidate multiple SAP workloads onto fewer systems, increasing infrastructure utilization; reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS); and scalability, and reducing cost. This IBM Redpaper publication describes key hardware and software components of an SAP solution stack. Furthermore, this book addresses non-functional items like RAS, security, and issue handling. Practical help for planning, implementation, configuration, installation, and monitoring of a solution stack are provided. This publication addresses topics ... [more]

IBM Power Systems Security for SAP Applications
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 19 Feb 2020

This IBM Redpaper highlights the RAS and security features on the hardware, hypervisor, Linux, and SAP application levels. It highlights what is transparent, what needs enablement, and also the known prerequisites for the use of these features.

IBM Power System E980: Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 7 Sep 2018, last updated 10 Jan 2020

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication provides a broad understanding of a new architecture of the IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S) server that supports IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems (OSes). The objective of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power E980 offerings and relevant functions:
- The IBM POWER9™ processor, which is available at frequencies of 3.55 - 4.0 GHz.
- Significantly strengthened cores and larger caches.
- Supports up to 64 TB memory.
- Integrated I/O subsystem and hot-pluggable Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) ... [more]

IBM Power System L922 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 31 Jul 2018, last updated 19 Dec 2019

  (based on 1 review)

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM Power System L922 (9008-22L) server, which was designed for data-intensive workloads such as databases and analytics in the Linux operating system. The objective of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power L922 offering and its relevant functions:
- The new IBM POWER9™ processor, available at frequencies of 2.7 - 3.8 GHz, 2.9 - 3.8 GHz, and 3.4 - 3.9 GHz.
- Significantly strengthened cores and larger caches.
- Two integrated memory controllers that allow double the memory footprint ... [more]

IBM Db2 Mirror for i Getting Started
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 11 Dec 2019, last updated 13 Dec 2019

IBM® Db2® Mirror for i provides a new solution for continuous availability for an IBM i environment based on an active-active clustering design that uses a low-latency communication protocol for synchronous database replication. With Db2 Mirror, IBM i customers can benefit from continuous application availability for both planned and unplanned outages. Db2 Mirror can help reduce or eliminate application downtime for regular maintenance operations such as program temporary fix (PTF) installations, operating system (OS) upgrades, or for planned server outages. This IBM Redpaper publication ... [more]

IBM Power Systems LC921 and LC922: Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 12 Sep 2018, last updated 10 Dec 2019

  (based on 1 review)

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power Systems™ LC921 and LC922 (9006-12P and 9006-22P)) servers that use the current IBM POWER9™ processor-based technology and supports Linux operating systems (OSes). The objective of this paper is to introduce the offerings and their capacities and available features. These new Linux scale-out systems provide differentiated performance, scalability, and low acquisition cost, and include the following features:
- Superior throughput and performance for high-value Linux workloads.
- Low ... [more]

IBM Power System AC922 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 23 Jul 2018, last updated 10 Dec 2019

  (based on 1 review)

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power System AC922 server (8335-GTH and 8335-GTX models). The Power AC922 server is the next generation of the IBM POWER® processor-based systems, which are designed for deep learning (DL) and artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC). This paper introduces the major innovative Power AC922 server features and their relevant functions:
- Powerful IBM POWER9™ processors that offer up to 22 cores at up to 2.80 GHz (3.10 GHz turbo) performance with up to ... [more]

IBM Power System E950: Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 28 Aug 2018, last updated 9 Dec 2019

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication gives a broad understanding of a new architecture of the IBM Power System E950 (9040-MR9) server that supports IBM AIX®, and Linux operating systems. The objective of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power E950 offerings and relevant functions:
- The IBM POWER9™ processor, which is available at frequencies of 2.8 - 3.4 GHz.
- Significantly strengthened cores and larger caches.
- Supports up to 16 TB of memory, which is four times more than the IBM POWER8® processor-based IBM Power System E850 server.
- Integrated I/O ... [more]

IBM Power Systems H922 and H924 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 1 Aug 2018, last updated 9 Dec 2019

  (based on 1 review)

This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power System H924 (9223-42H), and IBM Power System H922 (9223-22H) servers that support memory-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, and deliver superior price/performance for mission-critical applications in IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. The objective of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power H92 and Power H922 offerings and their relevant functions:
- The new IBM POWER9™ processor, which is available at frequencies of 2.8 - 3.8 GHz, 2.9 - 3.8 GHz, 2.8 - 3.8 GHz, 3.4 - ... [more]

SAP Landscape Management 3.0 and IBM Power Systems Servers
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 7 Nov 2019

  (based on 1 review)

This IBM® Redpaper publication is part of a series of technical documentation to help the enablement of SAP on Linux for IBM Power Systems servers and IBM System Storage™ servers. This book describes how by using SAP Landscape Management (SAP LaMa) 3.0 software that clients gain full visibility and control over their SAP and non-SAP systems, including the underlying physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. With SAP LaMa, you can automate repetitive tasks to manage critical applications across complex, hybrid IT landscapes. This publication helps you to better control IT costs and ... [more]

Cognitive Computing Featuring the IBM Power System AC922
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 17 Oct 2019

This IBM® Redpaper publication describes the advantages of using IBM Power System AC922 for cognitive solutions, and how it can enhance clients’ businesses. In order to optimize the hardware and software, IBM partners with NVIDIA, Mellanox, H2O.ai, SQream, Kinetica, and other prominent companies to design the Power AC922 server, specifically enhanced for the cognitive era. Most of its outstanding hardware features, such as NVIDIA NVLink 2.0 and PCIe 4.0, are described in this publication to illustrate the advantages that clients can realize in comparison with IBM competitors. We also ... [more]

Experiences Installing Firepower Services on an ASA5525X Technical Enablement Series
Security

Redpaper, published 7 Oct 2019

This IBM Redpaper describes a case study that involves software and hardware from Cisco Systems, Inc. Specifically, a Cisco FirePOWER module — also known as a SourceFire (SFR) module — was installed on a Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA). The case study reveals the steps, issues, and decision points of such an installation. The scope of this case study is as follows: FirePOWER 6.2.0 on an ASA 5525-X running code level 9.6.2 from the Command Line Interface (CLI). We do not discuss the ASDM installation method. This document addresses the needs of Network Administrators, Security ... [more]

IBM Power Systems Enterprise AI Solutions
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 25 Sep 2019

This IBM® Redpaper publication helps the line of business (LOB), data science, and information technology (IT) teams develop an information architecture (IA) for their enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) environment. It describes the challenges that are faced by the three roles when creating and deploying enterprise AI solutions, and how they can collaborate for best results. This publication also highlights the capabilities of the IBM Cognitive Systems and AI solutions:
- IBM Watson® Machine Learning Community Edition
- IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator (WMLA) ... [more]

Simplify Management of IT Security and Compliance with IBM PowerSC in Cloud and Virtualized Environments
Power Systems

Redbooks, published 7 Sep 2019

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a security and compliance solution that is optimized for virtualized environments on IBM Power Systems™ servers, running IBM PowerVM® and IBM AIX®. Security control and compliance are some of the key components that are needed to defend the virtualized data center and cloud infrastructure against ever evolving new threats. The IBM business-driven approach to enterprise security that is used with solutions, such as IBM PowerSC™, makes IBM the premier security vendor in the market today. The book explores, tests, and documents scenarios using IBM ... [more]