IBM PowerVM Enhancements What is New in 2013

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IBM Redbooks, May 22, 2014 - Computers - 132 pages

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

 

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Contents

Common terms and phrases

agent installation AHAFS AIX operating system caavg_private capacity central processing unit chdev chrepos Cluster Name cluster status clustername SSP command default dynamic logical partitioning enhanced ent9 Example failgrp failure group Fibre Channel firmware grep Hardware Management Console Hypervisor IBM i agent IBM Power Systems IBM Power Virtualization IBM PowerVP IBM PowerVP dashboard IBM Redbooks interface IPv6 Jumbo Frames Live Partition Mobility logical unit Logical Volume Manager LPAR lscluster Management Console HMC migration mirroring monitoring Node Node Name Number of disks OK Node padmin partition agent Performance Advisor tool physical volumes pkts recv pkts sent Power IFL Power Systems server POWER7 PowerLinux processing unit Protocol PVID repository disk SERVER VIO Shared Ethernet Adapter shared processor pool Shared Storage Pool SSP cluster sspmirrahdisk1 SSPpool supported system agent uDid vioa1.pwrvc.ibm.com vioal VIOS Performance Advisor VIOS Version VIOSs virtual Ethernet adapter Virtual I/O Server VLAN VLAN ID

Bibliographic information

TitleIBM PowerVM Enhancements What is New in 2013
IBM redbooks
AuthorsScott Vetter, Guillermo Corti, Sylvain Delabarre, Ho Jin Kim, Ondrej Plachy, Marcos Quezada, Gustavo Santos, IBM Redbooks
PublisherIBM Redbooks, 2014
ISBN0738439460, 9780738439464
Length132 pages
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