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..

Chapter1. IBM Power Systems Virtual Server

Chapter 2. IBM Power Systems Virtual Server backup and migration overview

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

Chapter 4. Managing Workloads on IBM Power Virtual Server for IBM AIX and Linux deployments

Chapter 5. Migration and deployment to Cloud with IBM Power Virtual Server

Chapter 6. Migrating IBM AIX or Linux VM to off-premises Power Virtual Servers

Appendix A. Global Replication Services solution using IBM Power Virtual Server