Exploring the World of Zenterprise Hybrid: How Does It Work and What’S the Point?

3/03/2014

Glenn Anderson, IBM Lab Services and Training Exploring the World of zEnterprise Hybrid: How Does it Work and What’s the Point?

Winter SHARE March 2014 Session 15124

IBM zEnterprise System – Hybrid Offering Overview

IBM zEnterprise EC12 zEnterprise Unified zEnterprise BladeCenter and BC12 Resource Manager Extension (zBX)

. Optimized to host large-scale . Centralized management . IBM Blades and appliances in mission-critical applications - extends Mainframe QoS and dedicated, high performance database, transaction servers governance practices to private network distributed environments 2

History of Blades…..

• 1999 – Data center inefficiency

History of Blades…..

• 1999 – Data center inefficiency – Easier way to deploy large numbers of rack mount web servers in data centers – A new server form factor…lower power consumption without sacrificing performance

History of Blades…..

What is a Blade Server?

• Blade servers offer a standardized method of deploying multiple processors, memory and I/O resources by placing those resources on plug-in boards that slide into a standard chassis

Power and Signal Paths

IBM BladeCenter Family

zBX – Compute Nodes

. IBM WebSphere® DataPower . Select IBM System x and IBM POWER7 Integration Appliance XI50 for blades zEnterprise – Front end applications capable of benefiting from closer proximity to – Purpose-built hardware for simplified deployment and hardened security helps • Centralized data servers … businesses quickly react to change and e.g. DB2®, Oracle reduce time to market • Core transaction processors … – DataPower XI50z can provide connectivity, e.g. WebSphere, WebLogic, CICS®, IMS™ gateway functions, data transformation, protocol bridging, and intelligent load – Applications certified to run on zBX supported distribution. blades outside the zBX will run on them when installed in the zBX – no recertification required

XI50z HX5 PS701

Inside a Power7 Blade

System x Hypervisor

• Integrated KVM based Hypervisor supplied by Unified Resource Manager (xHyp) • KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine – Open source virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware

• For System x blade on zBX, loaded as firmware – Linux Kernel + KVM + zManager components

zBX Overview

. zBX is built with integrated IBM certified components IBM zEnterprise – Standard parts – TOR switch, BladeCenter Chassis, Power Distribution BladeCenter Extension (zBX) Units, Optional Acoustic Panels Machine Type: 2458 Mod 003 – Optional optimizer - IBM WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 for zEnterprise (DataPower XI50z) ordered as a feature of zBX (for attachment to zEC12 and zBC12) . Up to 112 blades are supported on zBX – System x and POWER7 blades are acquired through existing channels – IBM System x Blades – up to 56 • IBM BladeCenter HX5 (7873) dual-socket 16-core blades, four supported memory configurations for zBX – 64 GB, 128 GB, 192 GB, 256 GB – IBM POWER7 Blades – up to 112 • IBM BladeCenter PS701 Express - 8-core processor 3.0GHz, three configurations supported in zBX - 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB – Up to 28 DataPower XI50z blades (double wide) – Ability to mix and match blades in the same chassis and number of blades supported varies by type . System z support – Blades assume System z warranty and maintenance when installed in the zBX . Investment protection – Upgrade the Model 002 to Model 003 . Top Exit I/O and Power Cabling

zBX Operating System Environments

. Operating Systems are customer acquired and installed . Unified Resource Manager will install hypervisor on blades in the zBX zBX Machine Type: 2458, Model: 003 – Integrated hypervisor (KVM-based) for System x blades – PowerVM™ Enterprise Edition for POWER7 blades . Support for Linux and Windows environments on System x blades in zBX – 64-bit version support only – Linux: Red Hat RHEL 5.5 and up, 6.0 and up & SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 (SP4) and up and SLES 11 SP1 and up – Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (SP2) (Datacenter Edition recommended) . Support of AIX environments on POWER7 blades in zBX – AIX: AIX 5.3 Technology Level 12 or higher, AIX 6.1 Technology Level 5 or higher, AIX 7.1 . Certifications inherited from blades – SAP support for Linux and Windows on x86 blades in the zBX . PowerHA™ SystemMirror Standard Edition for AIX supported for the zBX with PS701 blades . RMF XP – provides monitoring of workloads running across the zEnterprise – Gain a comprehensive end-to-end view of Enterprise performance data – Resource Monitoring in IBM z/OSMF provides performance metrics from connected Linux on System z, Linux on System x or AIX systems, along with z/OS metrics © 2013 IBM Corporation

zEnterprise Storage Resources

zBX Storage Topology

zEnterprise zBX Hybrid Architecture

System z Select IBM Blades Optimizers

Windows Linux Linux ® z/TPF and Linux Windows AIX on XI50z XI50z ®

on on on IBM ® z/OS® ® 64-bit POWER7® z/VSE System x System z System z DataPower DataPower

z/VM® KVM KVM POWER VM EE Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor with Unified Resource Manager Resource with Unified System z PR/SM™

z HW Resources Blade HW Resources System z Hardware Management Console (HMC) Management z Hardware System Support Element zBX

zEnterprise Ensemble Private Layer 2 Data Network (OSA Express 5S)

Unified Resource Manager Private Management Network

Private High Speed Data Network (Layer 2) Customer Network Customer Network

zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager

What is it? How is it different? Unified Resource Manager provides . Heterogeneous management: Total systems management across heterogeneous resources. APIs facilitate enterprise infrastructure awareness to optimize the wide management. system resources in accordance with . Integration: Single point of control, common skills for understanding the policies assigned to resources, reduced complexity of day to day operations.. that particular workload. . Monitoring. New dashboard for CPU resources and energy Functions are grouped into suites of management. tiered functionality that enable different . Simplified installation: Auto discovery and configuration of levels of capability – Manage, Advanced resources and workloads with single interface Management and Automate. . Secure: Improved network security with lower latency, less hops and less complexity. Improved control of access due to management of hypervisors as firmware. . Service and support management: Virtual machines and blades able to perform hardware problem detection, reporting and call home

Unified Resource Manager (zManager) design points

. Incorporate “hardware management / platform management” capabilities into robust firmware to control each attached hardware component – mainframe to blade – Hypervisors managed as firmware – Network managed by firmware – improved access control – Single management point of control – the HMC - reduced complexity of day-to-day operations – Simplified installation - auto discovery and configuration of resources inserted into the zBX . Deliver workload awareness to optimize the system resources in accordance with understanding the policies assigned to that particular workload. . System z service and support management for the server (zEC12, zBC12, z196 or z114) AND the virtual machines and blades – Monitoring of heterogeneous architectures for problems, logging and analyzing of events, initiating recovery procedures, call home and notifying the user – all with time stamps to maintain data and transaction integrity . zManager offers virtual server provisioning and management for Linux guests running on z/VM – Simplified skill level needed to manage a Linux on z/VM environment

Manage your mainframe and distributed with the same tools, same techniques, same practices

Defining an Ensemble

x86 Power Linux Linux Linux zOS zOS zOS zOS zOS AIX AIX AIX Linux Linux Linux AIX AIX AIX ISS Linux Linux Linux AIX AIX AIX ISS DP Linux Linux Linux Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Machine Virtual Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Machine Virtual AIX AIX AIX ISS DP Linux Linux Linux Cell AIX AIX AIX DP Linux Linux Linux Cell

z/VM DWA HPC DWA

xHyp pHyp DWA xHyp pHyp PR/SM xHyp pHyp xHyp pHyp . An ensemble is a collection of up to eight xHyp pHyp Z CPU, Memory and IO AMM AMM AMM SE z Blade Extension z Blade Extension zEnterprise nodes that are managed collectively z Blade Extension by the Unified Resource Manager as a single logical virtualized system Linux Linux Linux zOS zOS zOS zOS zOS Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine . A zEnterprise node is a z196, z114, zBC12 or z/VM PR/SM zEC12 with 0 or 1 zBX. Z CPU, Memory and IO SE The zBX may contain from 1 to 4 racks each containing up to two BladeCenters. zEnterprise x86 Power Linux Linux Linux zOS zOS zOS zOS zOS AIX AIX AIX Linux Linux Linux AIX AIX AIX ISS Linux Linux Linux AIX AIX AIX ISS DP Linux Linux Linux Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Machine Virtual AIX AIX AIX ISS DP Linux Linux Linux Cell AIX AIX AIX DP Linux Linux Linux

nodes are deployed within a single site Cell

z/VM DWA HPC DWA

xHyp pHyp DWA xHyp pHyp PR/SM xHyp pHyp xHyp pHyp xHyp pHyp Z CPU, Memory and IO AMM . Automated failover to ensemble back up HMC AMM AMM SE z Blade Extension z Blade Extension z Blade Extension HMC – Unified Resource Manager

x86 Power Linux Linux Linux zOS zOS zOS zOS zOS AIX AIX AIX Linux Linux Linux AIX AIX AIX ISS Linux Linux Linux AIX AIX AIX ISS DP Linux Linux Linux Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Virtual Machine AIX AIX AIX ISS DP Linux Linux Linux Cell AIX AIX AIX DP Linux Linux Linux Cell

z/VM DWA HPC An ensemble allows you to have a DWA

xHyp pHyp DWA xHyp pHyp PR/SM xHyp pHyp xHyp pHyp xHyp pHyp single pool of resources –integrating Z CPU, Memory and IO AMM AMM AMM SE z Blade Extension z Blade Extension system and workload management z Blade Extension across the multi-system, multi-tier, multi-architecture environment. zEnterprise Node zEnterprise Ensemble

Ensemble Management

Hypervisor Report

zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager – zBX Model 003 Platform Management

Hypervisor Management Energy Management  Manage and control communication between virtual server operating systems and the hypervisor Monitoring and trend reporting of CPU energy efficiency  Integrated deployment and configuration of hypervisor  Hypervisors (except z/VM) shipped and serviced as Static power savings firmware Ability to query maximum potential power  Management of ISO images  Creation of virtual networks Resource Workload Awareness Resource Workload and Platform Performance Awareness Availability Monitoring and Reporting  HMC provides a single consolidated and  Monitor and report availability based consistent view of resources on policy  Wizard-driven set up of resources in  Provide availability status for virtual accordance with specified business servers associated with a workload process Operational Controls  Ability to monitor and report performance  Auto-discovery and configuration support for new  Load balance recommendations resources (including storage)  Manage to a performance policy  Cross platform hardware problem detection, reporting and call home HMC Virtual Server Lifecycle Management  Physical hardware configuration, backup and restore  Single view of virtualization across platforms.  Delivery of system activity using new user interface  Ability to deploy multiple, cross-platform virtual  Dynamic add of storage for POWER7 blades servers within minutes Management of virtual networks including Network Management access control Monitoring and collecting metrics of networking resources Integration of HiperSockets network with IEDN Management of virtual networks including access control Key  Manage suite  Automate suite

Unified Resource Manager: Management of zEnterprise from external tools

zManager Application API allows programmatic Programming Interface (API) is a access to the same functions new implementation in the HMC exploited by the HMC User . Enabled via the Web Services Interface (UI) – such as: API on the HMC . List and get properties for core . Network support available with (traditional) entities, ensemble, SSL for connection security workloads, virtual networks, virtual hosts, virtual servers, . Supports modern scripting storage, zBX infrastructure (as languages (e.g., Perl, Python) well as provide that have HTTP supporting start/stop/restart for many of libraries these also) . Fully documented and . Can provide service oriented supported for customer and functions like metrics retrieval third-party use and inventory . HMC UI remains in place, HMC . Manage energy management supported and will continue to modes be extended as Unified Resource Manager evolves . Help on recover actions of virtual actions . APIs are governed by the functions they involve such as . Access monitoring information ‘Manage’ or ‘Automate’ for mobile apps . And more …

Management and monitoring tailored to your environment

zManager Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) allow programmatic access to the same functions exploited by the HMC User Interface (UI) . Can provide service oriented functions like metrics retrieval and inventory . Manage energy management modes . Help on recover actions of virtual actions . Access monitoring information for mobile apps

RMF XP – provides monitoring of workloads running across the zEnterprise . Gain a comprehensive end-to-end view of Enterprise performance data . Resource Monitoring in IBM z/OSMF provides performance metrics from connected Linux on System z, Linux on System x or AIX systems, along with z/OS metrics

Tivoli’s Integrated Service Management Portfolio provides a unifying layer for enterprise-wide integration . IBM Automation Control for z/OS provides additional comprehensive Application and Resource Management capabilities for zEnterprise

. Tivoli OMEGAMON for z/OS which provides system and network monitoring and performance management across cloud environments

zEnterprise Lifecycle Management of Virtual Resources

Deployment Production • Instantiate new workload • Add virtual resources into • Monitor virtual workload resources • Specify targets for goal oriented resource mgmt t P • Manual or n ro automatic adaption according to business e d priorities m u of resources in y c o t workload to l io p n achieve business e goals D

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physical resources Ensemble Hardware Ensemble Hardware Ensemble Hardware • Define workloads Network Storage

zEnterprise ensemble resource pools

System x Blade – New Virtual Server

System x Blade – New virtual Server

zManager CPU Resource Mgmt Function

• z/VM, PowerVM and System x (KVM based) Hypervisors – Virtual Server CPU Management provides the ability to manage CPU resources across virtual servers based on a goal-oriented performance policy.

• PR/SM Hypervisor – Does not make resource management adjustments based on PPM Policy. Only IRD dynamically influences the PR/SM hypervisor

zManager CPU Resource Mgmt

Ensemble Workload Balancing

Recommendations (SASP) Load Balancer Load Balance Load Balance

Load Balance zLinux: Web Server Web zLinux: Server Web zLinux: zLinux: Web Server Web zLinux: HMC zLinux: Web Server Web zLinux: zLinux: Web Server Web zLinux: zLinux: Web Server Web zLinux: AIX Web Server AIX AIX Web Server AIX Linux: Web Server Linux: z/VM Web Server Linux: Web Server Linux: z/VM

Hypervisor Hypervisor

SE SE Z System Z System

Z Ensemble

GDPS Capabilities for zEnterprise Business Continuity

. Metro Mirror or Global Mirror configurations – Data consistency across system z (z/OS, System z Host Select IBM Blades Optimizers zVM, and Linux on System z) and distributed systems running in zBX Linux z/TPF Linux on Linux on Windows AIX on – Single point of control z/OS System z on System x on POWER7 z/VSE System z System x . xDR for z/OS and Linux applications on DataPower XI50z DataPower DataPower XI50z z/VM system z Blade Blade Blade Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization – Data consistency, HyperSwap™ with Unified ResourceManager System z PR/SM – Planned/Unplanned site switches z HW Resources Blade HW Resources . Distributed Cluster Management (DCM ) System z HardwareManagement Console (HMC) Support Element zBX • Tivoli System Automation Application Manager Private data network (IEDN) • Veritas® Cluster Server clusters – Coordinated Planned and unplanned site switches for • zEnterprise sysplex CKD CKD CKD CKD Metro • Distributed Cluster Servers in zBX Metro (Windows, AIX, Linux) Mirror FBA FBA FBA FBA . GDPS Automated multi-site recovery for zBX announced July 23,2013 Global FBA FBA FBA FBA – Extends GDPS/PPRC continuous Mirror availability/disaster recover capabilities to FBA FBA FBA FBA virtual servers in a zBX – Help facilitate the management of planned and Primary Secondary unplanned outages across IBM zEnterprise

OK, that’s how it works. Now, what’s the point?

Positioning the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX) Hybrid System

Features . Multiple Mainframe OS Support. . Multi-Architecture Distributed OS Support. . Excellent Platform for workloads that favor mainframe servers and require cross-platform workload optimization. . Strong Mainframe Governance extended to Hybrid resident workloads. . Converged Infrastructure Architecture providing value for mainframe dependent workloads.

Best Fit: Workloads that have current or emerging mainframe dependencies.

Workload Deployments Often Look Like This………

zEnterprise Choice of Best Fit Deployment

zEnterprise Simplifies the Hybrid Environment

zEnterprise with zBX or... zEnterprise with PureSystems… or both: Additional Flexibility

Hybrid computing with Use existing 10 GbE to zEnterprise attach PureSystems to zEnterprise

. The industry’s first . Supports additional blade heterogeneous cloud choices platform . Works with existing . Extend IBM System z hypervisors (including ® 10GbE governance to POWER7 connection HyperV and VMware) and IBM System x blades . Supports Image mobility . Application integration with . Integrated storage for Microsoft Windows distributed environments . Greater opportunity for . More connectivity options consolidation and simplification . Consistent business controls across FlexSystems applications and platforms

Hybrid Computing on zEnterprise Keeps Getting Smarter

Vision: . zEnterprise is a hybrid system and always will be . zEnterprise will continue to invest in improving the virtualization and management capabilities . zEnterprise will seamlessly integrate with emerging Cloud-based IT management paradigms . zEnterprise will more tightly integrate with STG Portfolio over time . zEnterprise and STG will continue to leverage the Tivoli® portfolio to deliver enterprise wide management capabilities across all STG systems including PureSystems

Hybrid computing on zEnterprise keeps getting smarter

Future Vision . Support of zBX with the next generation server . Technology configuration extensions in the zBX . CEC and zBX Delivery of new – Continued investment in hybrid function proving the virtualization and management capabilities for hybrid computing environment . CPU Management for x86 blades – Enablement of Infrastructure . Support for Windows 12, and as a Service (IAAS) for Cloud current LDP OS releases Current Focus . Unified Resource Manager . GDPS® automated site recovery Improvements and extensions . Monitor and management of heterogeneous for zBX resources. – Guest Mobility . DataPower XI50z appliance can help simplify, . Ensemble Availability Manager – – Monitoring Instrumentation monitoring and reporting govern, and enhance the security of XML, Web – Autonomic Management and IT services . Support for Layer 2 functions . Support for AIX on POWER7®, and Linux® and communications Windows on System x. . Integration with STG Portfolio . Extending mgt functions of Unified Resource . Support of next generation . zEnterprise and STG will continue Manager with APIs hardware technologies to leverage the Tivoli portfolio to . Support of zBX on zEC12 . zBX firmware currency deliver enterprise wide mgmt . Enhanced Tivoli monitoring, discovery and capabilities across all STG availability/automation for zBX resources . Stand-alone zBX node systems . Image mgmt support for x86 and power blades . Support for next generation 54 though ISD DataPower Appliance

zEnterprise zBX Hybrid Architecture

System z Select IBM Blades Optimizers

Windows Linux Linux ® z/TPF and Linux Windows AIX on XI50z XI50z ®

on on on IBM ® z/OS® ® 64-bit POWER7® z/VSE System x System z System z DataPower DataPower

z/VM® KVM KVM POWER VM EE Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor with Unified Resource Manager Resource with Unified System z PR/SM™

z HW Resources Blade HW Resources System z Hardware Management Console (HMC) Management z Hardware System Support Element zBX

zEnterprise Ensemble Private Layer 2 Data Network (OSA Express 5S)

Unified Resource Manager Private Management Network

Private High Speed Data Network (Layer 2) Customer Network Customer Network

Glenn Anderson, IBM Lab Services and Training Exploring the World of zEnterprise Hybrid: How Does it Work and What’s the Point?

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