IBM Cloud Redbooks

13 November 2024, Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication details the configuration and best practices for using the IBM Storage FlashSystem® family of storage products within a VMware environment. Topics illustrate planning, configuring, operations, and preferred practices that include integration of IBM Storage FlashSystem storage systems with the VMware vCloud suite of applications: VMware vSphere Web Client ...

13 November 2024, Redbooks

The release of Red Hat OpenShift 4.14 brought the OpenShift Container Platform Multiple-Architecture Compute feature to IBM Power. Multi-Arch Compute provides a single heterogeneous cluster, enabling fit-for-purpose computing so clients can align tasks and applications to CPU strengths and software availability rather than one architecture. This support was expanded in Red Hat OpenShift 4.15 ...

11 November 2024, Redbooks

This IBM Redbooks® publication helps you install, tailor, and configure an automation environment by using Red Hat Ansible in an IBM Power server environment. Ansible is a versatile IT automation platform that you use to deploy and maintain your applications and systems. With Ansible, you can automate almost anything: code deployment, network configuration, server infrastructure deployment, ...

10 October 2024, Redpaper

The ever-expanding demands of data storage in today's information-intensive landscape place a significant burden on IT professionals tasked with managing storage infrastructure. Manual processes for provisioning resources, troubleshooting issues, and performing routine maintenance tasks can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, hindering overall efficiency. This IBM Redpaper equips you with ...

03 October 2024, Redpaper

The IBM TS7700 features a functional enhancement that allows for the TS7700 to act as an object store for IBM DS8000® Transparent Cloud Tiering with IBM DS8000, DFSMShsm (HSM), and native DFSMSdss (DSS). This function can be used to move data sets directly from DS8000 to TS7700. This IBM Redpaper publication provides a functional overview of the features, provides client value information, and ...

02 October 2024, Redbooks

High availability and business continuity continue to be focus themes for businesses as they work hard to provide infrastructure components to support the "always available" requirements for their critical business functions. In addition, many enterprises are starting to build critical business functions on Linux servers to take advantage of the openness and portability of those applications ...

25 September 2024, Redpaper

Metro disaster recovery (DR) provides two-way synchronous data replication between IBM® Fusion HCI clusters installed at two sites. In the event of a site disaster, applications can be failed over to the second site. The replication between the sites is synchronous, hence, the Metro DR solution is only available for metropolitan distance data centers with 40 milliseconds latency or less. This ...

28 August 2024, Redpaper

What is the best strategy to an effective digital transformation of your business? How do you make your business more agile, productive, and less siloed so that you can provide engaging customer experiences rapidly and at lower costs? Answer: Accelerate your mainframe application modernization and leverage hybrid cloud. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides an overview of the IBM® ...

29 July 2024, Redpaper

Because of the financial impacts and brand reputation damage that can result from cyberattacks on your business, modernization of your z/TPF environment must be done with security at the forefront. This Redbook provides information about securing and enhancing the cybersecurity features of your z/TPF systems, ensuring both current and future needs are met.

03 July 2024, Redbooks

The IBM® Diamondback tape library is the next-generation ultra-high density tape storage solution available from IBM. The Diamondback is designed to easily scale out and fit into any data center or server room, with each frame having only the footprint of a standard server rack. Designed with a focus on simplicity and density, the library can be deployed quickly and easily managed using ...