This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes deployment, networking, and data

management tasks on the IBM Power Virtual Server by using sample scenarios.

The team during the content development used available documentation, IBM Power Virtual

Server environment, and additional software and hardware resources to document several

types of scenarios:

 IBM Power Virtual Server networking and data management deployment scenarios

 Migration scenarios

 Backup scenarios

 Disaster recovery scenarios

This book addresses topics for IT architects, IT specialists, developers, sellers, and anyone

who wants to implement and manage workloads on an IBM Power Virtual Server. Moreover,

this publication provides documentation to transfer how-to skills to the technical teams, and

solution guidance to the sales team. This book compliments the documentation available at

IBM Documentation and aligns with the educational materials that are provided by IBM

Systems Technical Education.

Chapter 1. IBM Power Virtual Server

Chapter 2. Deployment options

Chapter 3. IBM Power Virtual Server in the IBM Cloud network

Chapter 4. Migration to Cloud with IBM Power Virtual Server

Chapter 5. Managing Workloads on IBM Power Virtual Server for IBM AIX and Linux deployments

Chapter 6. IBM Power Virtual Server Backup

Appendix A. Global Replication Services solution using Power Virtual Server

Appendix B. Migration planning