This IBM® Redbooks® publication addresses topics to use the virtualization strengths of the IBM POWER8® platform to solve clients' system resource utilization challenges and maximize systems' throughput and capacity.

This book addresses performance tuning topics that will help answer clients' complex analytic workload requirements, help maximize systems' resources, and provide expert-level documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to the worldwide teams.

This book strengthens the position of IBM Analytics and Big Data solutions with a well-defined and documented deployment model within a POWER8 virtualized environment, offering clients a planned foundation for security, scaling, capacity, resilience, and optimization for analytics workloads.

This book is targeted toward technical professionals (analytics consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) who are responsible for providing analytics solutions and support on IBM Power Systems™.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Solution reference architecture

Chapter 3. IBM POWER8 for analytics workloads

Chapter 4. Scenario: How to implement the solution components

Chapter 5. Scenario: Integration of the components for the solution

Chapter 6. Scenario: How to use the solution

Appendix A. Advanced implementation

Appendix B. Planning Ambari node roles