THE TOTAL ENTERPRISE SOLUTION IBM DB2 Universal Database Cluster on Linux and IBM ^ Xseries
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THE TOTAL ENTERPRISE SOLUTION IBM DB2 Universal Database cluster on Linux and IBM ^ xSeries The Total Enterprise Solution The Challenge SMART database Organizations today face the The benefits of Linux clusters, challenging job of integrating including superior performance technologies to pull together a at a low cost, are well known. comprehensive solution that fits When you add to the mix the their business needs and IT built-in clustering capabilities of ® budgets. IBM DB2 Universal Database™ for Linux, you get a rock-solid A complete data center solution foundation for all your enterprise e-business data processing consists of enterprise class applications, databases, needs. management tools, network infrastructure and server Powerful hardware hardware. Until recently such IBM has extensive and proven ® solutions were based on experience with clustered UNIX proprietary systems and involved computers. IBM ^ significant investment in capital, xSeries™ has applied that time and resources to assemble, knowledge to produce servers integrate, test, manage and that are armor-plated for Linux, support. This scenario has optimized for database changed dramatically with Linux® workloads, and deliver clusters and best-of-breed tremendous power at a fraction software, hardware and services of the price. from IBM and its partners. Demanding applications This demonstration is a proof of The combination of DB2 and how even the strictest Linux on xSeries, with the latest ® ® requirements can easily be Intel and AMD processors – satisfied, with the right 32 and 64bit technologies alike, combination of products, to is powerful enough to run highly implement a total data demanding business ® management solution. applications, including SAP R/3, mySAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM), mySAP Business Intelligence (BI) and IBM Websphere Application Server. Reliable management High-speed network Platform support and services Managing a clustered Products from Mellanox, You don't have to go at it alone. environment is easy using InfiniSwitch, Lane15, Paceline IBM Global Services Linux SMART technologies built into and Voltaire, based on professionals help you install, DB2 software and xSeries InfiniBand architecture, provide migrate, configure and tune your hardware along with the network fabric to meet the database solution. IBM’s strong management tools from IBM high-speed connectivity relationships with its Linux Tivoli software. The availability requirements of database partners, supplemented by and reliability of the solution is servers and storage within in the expertise from SuSE Linux, further enhanced using Legato cluster. The InfiniBand fabric United Linux and Mandrakesoft NetWorker® and SteelEye features chips from IBM gives you the confidence and LifeKeeper®. Turbolinux InfiniBlue and Mellanox. support to deploy even the most PowerCockpit™ facilitates time- critical solutions. saving deployment of servers in the cluster. TOTAL ENTERPRISE SOLUTION Logical Overview Applications • SAP R/3 • mySAP Business Intelligence • mySAP Customer Relationship Management • IBM WebSphere Application Server Relational Database IBM DB2 Universal Database for Linux (Enterprise Server Edition High Availability Management with partitioning support) • Legato NetWorker (Backup and Restore) • DB2 Control Center, • SteelEye LifeKeeper Operating System DB2 Health Center (Failover) (Database management, • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server monitoring & tuning) • Mandrake LinuxProSuite Edition • Tivoli Monitoring (Systems monitoring) Network Attached Storage • TurbolinuxPowerCockpit Server Hardware (Server Provisioning) • IBM TotalStorage NAS100 • IBM x330 (40 node cluster) • IBM x342 (system management node) • IBM x440 (database management node) InfiniBandNetwork Fabric • Mellanox • JNI and Mellanox HCAs • Voltaire InfiniBand Router Scalability pays great returns Many IT professionals are concerned about whether their The performance story gets even relational database system on better with high-speed InfiniBand Linux will be able to scale as network fabric. Host channel workloads increase. DB2 adaptors and switches based on software and xSeries servers for IBM InfiniBlue and Mellanox Linux help you avoid large InfiniBridge silicon featured in upfront costs as well as components from InfiniSwitch, migration and training costs JNI, OmegaBand, Paceline and later. They can be deployed Voltaire can meet the most based on your initial demanding needs for fast, low- requirements and then scale as latency communication between large as your business demands. database partitions in the cluster. Managers and IT professionals The possibilities are indeed tasked with selecting and The result of combining these empowering. You can build implementing a data leading technologies is a powerful clusters using IBM management solution that is powerful supercomputer at a ^ xSeries servers robust enough for mission critical fraction of the cost of a special running Linux. IBM DB2 enterprise needs, yet flexible purpose machine with equivalent Universal Database Enterprise enough to deliver exceptional capabilities. Server Edition provides a single value to small businesses, often database that can be distributed evaluate technologies based on High levels of availability across such a cluster. You can the following criteria: DB2 Universal Database is easily scale up by adding a new setting the standard for quality machine to the cluster, which will 9 Scalability and reliability in the database trigger DB2 to automatically 9 Price/Performance industry. As more mission-critical redistribute data to the new 9 Availability applications are implemented on partition. 9 Manageability Linux, IBM's ability to bring 9 Interoperability mainframe-level Proven performance at a low reliability to this environment has cost become a major factor for When you run DB2 Universal customers choosing DB2. Database and xSeries servers on the Linux platform, you can ^ IBM xSeries servers expect the high performance offer a reliable foundation for your business needs to support leading Linux-based computing. its growth. With the IBM X-Architecture™ advantage, you can feel DB2, running on xSeries server confident about the availability of hardware, is a proven leader in the hardware running your core several performance business applications. benchmarks on Linux. “DB2 for Linux lets us maximize our benefit from the economies and performance of the Linux operating system, providing a powerful, cost-efficient data management foundation for our BI cluster.” - Wolfgang Schlippes-Thiede, BISP Product Manager and Operational Manager of Hosting Center, Triaton Legato NetWorker protects Tivoli management products Furthermore, DB2 and xSeries critical business information by simplify the management of have introduced validation simplifying, centralizing, and distributed systems. Tivoli programs designed to set automating backup and recovery Monitoring provides monitoring standards in interoperability on operations. Legato NetWorker for essential system resources, Linux. Module for DB2 provides online to detect bottlenecks and backup and quick, granular-level potential problems, and to Conclusion recovery, helping to reduce automatically recover from This demonstration is a proof downtime and administrative critical situations. Tivoli NetView point for implementing total costs. extends traditional network enterprise solutions on Linux management to ensure the using scalable data management SteelEye’s LifeKeeper affords availability of critical business software, running on a powerful increased availability to DB2 systems and to provide rapid server cluster and an extremely operating environments on resolution of problems. fast network fabric, xSeries hardware by effectively complemented with tools that monitoring system and Turbolinux PowerCockpit provide extreme reliability and application health. In the event of dramatically slashes the time intelligent management. an outage, LifeKeeper allows required for server provisioning applications to automatically from hours or days to minutes. The right products working in failover to other servers in the Using multicast technology, harmony enhance productivity, cluster providing continuous for example, PowerCockpit can reduce costs of deployment and access to DB2 and restored get several database servers up simplify management of critical data. and running in just a few e-business applications. In other minutes. words, they empower you to Easily managed focus on your business rather DB2 greatly reduces the Seamless interoperability than the technology on which it complexity of data management We recognize that today's runs. by eliminating, simplifying, and business environment is automating many tasks heterogeneous and there is a traditionally associated with great need for different maintaining an enterprise class technologies to integrate database. These advances are seamlessly. Starting with a vision the first implementation of the of making Linux ready for Self Managing and Resource business, coupled with strong Tuning (SMART) project and the relationships, the technology first step towards making vendors featured here have autonomic computing a reality created a highly capable for database implementations. enterprise class solution. Infrastructure Technologies Delivering the total enterprise and fast deployment cycle. The of choice for the customer but for solution does emphasize the chosen connectivity and physical the excellent integration and needs for choosing