IBM® Power SystemsTM servers coupled with IBM PowerVM® technology are designed to help clients build a dynamic infrastructure, helping to reduce costs, manage risk, and improve service levels. IBM PowerVM delivers industrial-strength virtualization for IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux environments on IBM POWER® processor-based systems. IBM PowerVM V2.2.3 is enhanced to continue its leadership in cloud computing environments. Through the chapters of this IBM Redbooks® publication, you will learn about the following topics: New management and performance tuning software products for PowerVM solutions. Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) Performance Advisor has been enhanced to provide support for N_Port Identifier Virtualization (NPIV) and Fibre Channel, Virtual Networking and Shared Ethernet Adapter, and Shared Storage Pool configurations. IBM Power Virtualization Performance (PowerVPTM) is introduced as a new visual performance monitoring tool for Power Systems servers. The scalability, reliability, and performance enhancements introduced with the latest versions of the VIOS, IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility, and the Hardware Management Console (HMC). As an example, this book goes through the Shared Storage Pool improvements that include mirroring of the storage pool, dynamic contraction of the storage pool, dynamic disk growth within the storage pool, and scaling improvements. This book is intended for experienced IBM PowerVM users who want to enable 2013 IBM PowerVM virtualization enhancements for Power Systems. It is intended to be used as a companion to the following publications: IBM PowerVM Virtualization Introduction and Configuration, SG24-7940 IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing and Monitoring, SG24-7590

The IBM® Hardware Management Console (HMC) provides systems administrators a tool for planning, deploying, and managing IBM Power SystemsTM servers. This IBM Redbooks® publication is an extension of IBM Power Systems HMC Implementation and Usage Guide, SG24-7491. It explains the new features of IBM Power Systems Hardware Management Console Version V8.8.1.0. The major function that the HMC provides are Power Systems server hardware management and virtualization (partition) management. You can find information about virtualization management in the following documents: IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing and Monitoring, SG24-7590 IBM PowerVM Virtualization Introduction and Configuration, SG24-7940 IBM PowerVM Enhancements What is New in 2013, SG24-8198 IBM Power Systems SR-IOV: Technical Overview and Introduction, REDP-5065 The following new features of HMC V8.8.1.0 are described: HMC V8.8.1.0 enhancements System and Partition Templates HMC and IBM PowerVM® Simplification Enhancements Manage Partition Enhancement Performance and Capacity Monitoring HMC V8.8.1.0 upgrade changes

The IBM® Hardware Management Console (HMC) provides to systems administrators a tool for planning, deploying, and managing IBM Power SystemsTM servers. This IBM Redbooks® publication is an extension of IBM Power Systems HMC Implementation and Usage Guide, SG24-7491 and also merges updated information from IBM Power Systems Hardware Management Console: Version 8 Release 8.1.0 Enhancements, SG24-8232. It explains the new features of IBM Power Systems Hardware Management Console Version V8.8.1.0 through V8.8.4.0. The major functions that the HMC provides are Power Systems server hardware management and virtualization (partition) management. Further information about virtualization management is in the following publications: IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing and Monitoring, SG24-7590 IBM PowerVM Virtualization Introduction and Configuration, SG24-7940 IBM PowerVM Enhancements What is New in 2013, SG24-8198 IBM Power Systems SR-IOV: Technical Overview and Introduction, REDP-5065 The following features of HMC V8.8.1.0 through HMC V8.8.4.0 are described in this book: HMC V8.8.1.0 enhancements HMC V8.8.4.0 enhancements System and Partition Templates HMC and IBM PowerVM® Simplification Enhancement Manage Partition Enhancement Performance and Capacity Monitoring HMC V8.8.4.0 upgrade changes

IBM® PowerVM® virtualization technology is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages the virtual environments on POWER5-, POWER5+, IBM POWER6®, and IBM POWER7®-based systems. PowerVM is available on IBM Power SystemsTM, and IBM BladeCenter® servers as optional Editions, and is supported by the IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. You can use this set of comprehensive systems technologies and services to aggregate and manage resources by using a consolidated, logical view. Deploying PowerVM virtualization and IBM Power Systems offers you the following benefits: Lower energy costs through server consolidation Reduced cost of your existing infrastructure Better management of the growth, complexity, and risk of your infrastructure This IBM Redbooks® publication is an extension of IBM PowerVM Virtualization Introduction and Configuration, SG24-7940. It provides an organized view of best practices for managing and monitoring your PowerVM environment concerning virtualized resources managed by the Virtual I/O Server.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a comprehensive guide that covers cloud security considerations for IBM Power SystemsTM. The first objectives of this book are to examine how Power Systems can fit into the current and developing cloud computing landscape and to outline the proven Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (CCRA) that IBM employs in building private and hybrid cloud environments. The book then looks more closely at the underlying technology and hones in on the security aspects for the following subsystems: IBM Hardware Management Console IBM PowerVM IBM PowerKVM IBM PowerVC IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack IBM Bluemix This publication is for professionals who are involved in security design with regard to planning and deploying cloud infrastructures using IBM Power Systems.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes the IBM VM Recovery Manager for Power Systems, and addresses topics to help answer customers' complex high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) requirements for IBM AIX® and Linux on IBM Power Systems servers to help maximize systems' availability and resources, and provide technical documentation to transfer the how-to skills to users and support teams. The IBM VM Recovery Manager for Power Systems product is an easy to use and economical HA and DR solution. Automation software, installation services, and remote-based software support help you streamline the process of recovery, which raises availability and recovery testing, and maintains a state-of-the-art HA and DR solution. Built-in functions and IBM Support can decrease the need for expert-level skills and shorten your recovery time objective (RTO), improve your recovery point objective (RPO), optimize backups, and better manage growing data volumes. This book examines the IBM VM Recovery Manager solution, tools, documentation, and other resources that are available to help technical teams develop, implement, and support business resilience solutions in IBM VM Recovery Manager for IBM Power Systems environments. This publication targets technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) who are responsible for providing HA and DR solutions and support for IBM Power Systems.

This IBM® RedpaperTM publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power System S824L (8247-42L) server that supports the Linux operating systems. The objective of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power S824L offerings and their relevant functions: The new IBM POWER8TM processor, which is available at frequencies of 3.02 GHz and 3.42 GHz A processor that is designed to accommodate high-wattage adapters, such as NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs), that provide acceleration for scientific, engineering, Java, big data analytics, and other technical computing workloads Based on OpenPOWER technologies Two integrated memory controllers with improved latency and bandwidth Improved reliability, serviceability, and availability (RAS) functions IBM EnergyScaleTM technology that provides features, such as power trending, power-saving, power capping, and thermal measurement This publication is for professionals who want to acquire a better understanding of IBM Power SystemsTM products. This paper expands the current set of IBM Power Systems documentation by providing a desktop reference that offers a detailed technical description of the Power S824L server. This paper does not replace the latest marketing materials and configuration tools. It is intended as an additional source of information that, together with existing sources, can be used to enhance your knowledge of IBM server solutions.