Exploring the World of Zenterprise Hybrid: How Does It Work and What’S the Point?
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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 (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 1 3/03/2014 (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 2 3/03/2014 (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 3 3/03/2014 (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 4 3/03/2014 History of Blades….. • 1999 – Data center inefficiency (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 5 3/03/2014 (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 6 3/03/2014 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 (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 7 3/03/2014 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 • 2001 – RLX Technologies – New term…”blade server” 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 (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 8 3/03/2014 Power and Signal Paths IBM BladeCenter Family (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 9 3/03/2014 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 (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 10 3/03/2014 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 (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 11 3/03/2014 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 (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 12 3/03/2014 zEnterprise Storage Resources zBX Storage Topology (c) 2014 IBM Corporation 13 3/03/2014 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. 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