IBM Systems Group eServer p5 Capacity On Demand Dave Nypaver Marketing Manager, On Demand and Software © 2004 IBM Corporation This presentation is intended for the education of IBM and Business Partner sales personnel. It should not be distributed to customers. IBM Systems Group Agenda Topics to be covered are: – Why Capacity on Demand is Value to Clients – Differences in Capacity on Demand between eServer p5 and pSeries – eServer p5 Capacity on Demand offering details © 2004 IBM Corporation page 2 IBM Systems Group Field Skills & Education IBM Systems Group IBM eServer pSeries and p5 Capacity on Demand After completed this topic, you should be able to: ❧ Explain why On Demand features are important to your clients ❧ Highlight eServer p5 Capacity on Demand abilities ❧ Describe differences between pSeries and eServer p5 on demand features page 3 © 2004 IBM Corporation page 3 IBM Systems Group Field Skills & Education IBM Systems Group Why is On Demand Important to you? ❧ Server capacity you need, when you need it ❧ Address your non-disruptive growth needs ❧ Build in flexibility to address spikes in demand ❧ Increased configuration flexibility ❧ Increased reliablity ❧ Deploy new services quickly ❧ Gain additional workload throughput and automated systems performance leveling Customer Capacity Growth Defer 70-80% of Temporary Capacity payment for on Demand inactive capacity… Permanent Capacity Upgrade Planned on Demand (CUoD) Actual *Capacity on Demand Features available on selected models of eServer p5 © 2004 IBM Corporation page 4 IBM Systems Group Field Skills & Education IBM Systems Group What is different in Power5? Feature Description POWER4 POWER5 Permanent Processor Key enabled, upgrade for inactive processors ! ! Activation Permanent Memory Key enabled, upgrade for inactive memory ! ! Activation Prepay, debit account approach ! ! Reserve CUoD (currently called On/Off in Power4) On/Off CUoD Post pay, usage billing approach ! Trial CoD 30 day trial of all available CoD resources ! ! Additional Trial with processor CUoD activation (2 Processors and 4GB Memory ! Capacity Backup Disaster recovery offering on high-end ! ! systems Shared Processor Pool Activate CoD processors in shared processor ! pool (AIX 5.3 Only) *Capacity on Demand Features available on selected models of eServer p5 © 2004 IBM Corporation page 5 IBM Systems Group Field Skills & Education IBM Systems Group p5 On Demand Abilities ❧ Building Blocks • Processors on Demand • Memory on Demand Entry Midrange High End ❧ Activations • Permanent • Processor in increments of one Processors 1/4 2/16 8/64 • Memory in 1GB increments Memory(GB) n/a 4/8 8/16 • Reserve ( Temporary, pre-pay) • Processors only Building Blocks 16/32 • Increments of 30 processor days Reserve(Pre-pay) 1 proc 1 proc 1 proc • On/Off On Demand (Temporary, post-pay) • Processors and Memory Processor Days x30 days x30 days x30 days • Trial Capacity on Demand • Processors and Memory On/Off (Post pay) • 30 consecutive days (no charge) Processors 1 Proc day proc day 1 proc day ❧ Special Offerings Memory 1GB day 1GB day 1 GB day • Capacity BackUp (CBU) Trial (days) 30 30 30 ❧ Implementation • Requires HMC console • AIX 5.3 required for Reserve CoD x/y represents x active units out of a total of y © 2004 IBM Corporation page 6 IBM Systems Group Field Skills & Education IBM Systems Group Permanent Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) Pay for non disruptive growth available when you need it Rapid deployment of new applications No reboot necessary to utilize newly activated resources !Available on Entry, Midrange, and High End Servers !Upgrade memory and processors !Simple, secure, and fast activation !No requirement to ever activate in the future !No additional contracts or monitoring !No disposal encumbrance EXAMPLES: !Staged performance upgrades during server consolidation !Staged performance during system bring up !Response to growing demand encumbrance © 2004 IBM Corporation page 7 IBM Systems Group Field Skills & Education IBM Systems Group Reserve Capacity on Demand More than just prepaid processing power on demand Capacity for Unpredictable Demands Event peaks - promotions, events, etc. Low cost alternative to exploit inactive processors !Price/Performance – low cost solution to smooth out intermittent, unpredictable capacity requirements available just when you need it !Significant performance throughput improvement when you place “inactive processors” in the shared processor pool !Automatic resource “activation” and release based on total system utilization !Flexibility to manage unpredictable processing power requirements and total system utilization !Additional capacity automatically available when you need it Details • Can be used on any inactive processors • Ordered in increments of 30 Processor Days • Menu interface to activate and deactivate • No additional contracts or monitoring • No disposal encumbrance • NOTE: Pre-reqs AIX 5.3 © 2004 IBM Corporation page 8 IBM Systems Group Field Skills & Education IBM Systems Group Reserve CoD with Processor Pooling CustomerCustomer ScenarioScenario "" 16-way16-way p5p5 isis purchasedpurchased withwith 1212 activeactive processorsprocessors andand 44 CoDCoD processorsprocessors "" 6060 processorprocessor daysdays ofof reservereserve CoDCoD purchasedpurchased toto addressaddress temporarytemporary workloadworkload spikesspikes "" AdministratorAdministrator enablesenables reservereserve CoDCoD onon thethe inactiveinactive processorsprocessors byby addingadding themthem toto thethe sharedshared processorprocessor poolpool "" 44 workloadsworkloads areare loadedloaded onon thethe system,system, distributeddistributed acrossacross thethe sharedshared processorprocessor poolpool "" DuringDuring thethe lastlast twotwo weeksweeks ofof eacheach quarter,quarter, temporarytemporary spikesspikes areare seenseen whichwhich areare satisfiedsatisfied withwith standbystandby capacitycapacity 1.1. Day Day 4,4, webweb promopromo drivesdrives upup activity,activity, 11 processorprocessor dayday ofof CUoDCUoD dynamicallydynamically deployeddeployed toto maintainmaintain responseresponse timetime 2.2. Days Days 1313 andand 14,14, quarterquarter endend processingprocessing drivesdrives upup processingprocessing demands,demands, 55 processorprocessor daysdays (2+3)(2+3) ofof CUoDCUoD activationsactivations usedused toto satisfysatisfy thethe requirementrequirement Daily Processor Usage 16 Web Server 1) Web Promotion 2) Quarter end 4 inactive 14 processing Accounting 16-way 12 logically ERPpartitioned 10 into 4 virtual 8 12 active servers 6 Shared Pool Processors Database 4 2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011121314 Days © 2004 IBM Corporation page 9 IBM Systems Group Field Skills & Education IBM Systems Group On / Off Capacity on Demand For the predictable peeks in processing Power requirements Repeating weekly, monthly, annual demand Event peaks - promotions, events, etc. Unexpected demand requirements !Price/Performance – lower cost solution to cover predictable and planned peek processing requirements, available just when you need it for only as long as you need it… for memory and processors !You Pay AFTER you have utilized the additional resources… only pay for what you have used !You precisely control how much resource is turned on, when it gets turned on, and when it gets released or turned off !Data is collected by the system, transmitted to IBM and billed quarterly !Additional resources available just when you need them Details • Supports both processors and memory • Utility model, contract required • Menu interface to activate and deactivate © 2004 IBM Corporation page 10 IBM Systems Group Field Skills & Education IBM Systems Group Trial Capacity on Demand One time, 30 days of no additional charge use Test out inactive capacity !30 processor day trial period for all the “inactive” memory and processors installed on the server !No charge, just get the activation key from the IBM web site !You can control the amount of resource you want to test, partial upgrades, or try all that you have installed !After the test drive, then exploit one of the CoD upgrade offerings #Permanent Activation #Reserve CoD #On/Off CoD Details • Available to active through dialog on HMC immediately without any activation key • Trial Capacity on Demand function can also be used to immediately activate resources while processing an order for a permanent activation code. © 2004 IBM Corporation page 11 IBM Systems Group Field Skills & Education IBM Systems Group CoD: Flexible User Interface User can choose how to manage Cod Resources GUI Interface (HMC Console) Command Line instructions (HMC Console) To set an activation key for either permanent or On/Off Capacity on Demand: chcuod -c cuod -m 7040-681*1234567 -o s -k 1234 © 2004 IBM Corporation page 12 IBM Systems Group Field Skills & Education IBM Systems Group pSeries Capacity BackUp Offering (CBU) Significant cost savings to help insure you have emergency backup Production System !A Total system installed in your backup/recovery site !Use your processor days for Backup/Recovery testing or in the event of a disaster to quickly assume production processing !Use the activated processors for new application/quality assurance testing !Can be converted to replace your lost production system Details "System Configurations " High end server models $ 32-Way or 64-Way servers $ 4 active processors $ 720 processor days included "Rapid activation of processors when required " Via Reserve Capacity on Demand (Reserve CoD) $ Reserve CoD processor activation passcode