System i and System p Solution Planning System i and System p Solution Planning Note Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page 77 and the IBM Systems Safety Information manual, G229-9054. Eleventh Edition (September 2007) © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2004, 2007. US Government Users Restricted Rights – Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Safety and environmental notices ........................v About this topic ................................ix Capacity on Demand ..............................1 What’s new for Capacity on Demand ...........................1 PDF files for Planning ................................1 Planning for software ................................2 Planning for operating systems ............................2 Planning for AIX ................................2 Planning for i5/OS ...............................3 Planning for Linux ...............................3 Planning for applications ..............................4 Planning for the Virtualization Engine ..........................5 Planning for consoles, interfaces, and terminals ........................7 Types of consoles, interfaces, and terminals ........................7 Advanced System Management Interface ........................7 Hardware Management Console ...........................7 iSeries consoles and interfaces ...........................8 5250 terminal emulator .............................8 Control panel ................................8 iSeries Access ................................9 iSeries Navigator ...............................9 Operations Console ..............................9 Twinaxial console...............................9 Thin Console ................................10 Virtual Partition Manager............................10 Special considerations for choosing i5/OS consoles ...................10 System p5 and eServer OpenPower interfaces and terminals .................11 ASCII terminal ...............................11 Graphics terminal ..............................11 System Management Services menus ........................11 Virtual terminal ...............................12 Integrated Virtualization Manager .........................12 Solutions with the Hardware Management Console .....................14 HMC capabilities ...............................14 Hardware Management Console specifications......................14 Hardware Management Console compatible servers and models................14 Hardware Management Console requirements and benefits .................15 Hardware Management Console configurations .....................17 Local Hardware Management Console with ASMI and SMS ................17 Redundant Hardware Management Consoles .....................18 Remote Hardware Management Consoles and clients ..................19 Hardware Management Console with Operations Console .................21 Hardware Management Console and the twinaxial console ................21 Scenarios: Hardware Management Console for IBM eServer i5 ................22 Scenario: Hardware Management Console as a remote DHCP server .............22 Scenario: Hardware Management Console as a Web-Based System Manager Remote Server .....22 Scenario: Hardware Management Console Management Console as a remote 5250 proxy server ....22 Scenarios: Hardware Management Console and Operations Console in an integrated environment . 23 Scenario: Hardware Management Console and the twinaxial console in a traditional iSeries environment 23 Scenarios: Hardware Management Console for System p servers................24 Scenario: Hardware Management Console with remote UNIX secure shell access .........24 Scenario: Hardware Management Console and graphics with ASCII terminals in an integrated environment ................................24 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2004, 2007 iii Scenarios: Hardware Management Console for eServer OpenPower Servers ............24 Scenario: Hardware Management Console with remote Linux secure shell access .........24 Solutions without the Hardware Management Console ....................25 IBM eServer i5 ................................25 Operations Console..............................25 Twinaxial console ..............................25 Thin Console ................................25 System p5 and IBM eServer p5 ..........................26 IBM eServer OpenPower servers ..........................26 Planning for consoles, interfaces, and terminals for your service environment ............26 Planning for logical partitions .............................27 Planning for workloads ...............................29 Planning for capacity ...............................29 Planning for capacity with AIX ...........................30 Planning for capacity with i5/OS ..........................31 Planning for capacity with Linux ..........................32 Planning for performance..............................33 Planning for performance with AIX .........................33 Planning for performance with i5/OS ........................35 Planning for performance with Linux.........................35 Planning for availability ...............................37 Planning for availability with AIX ...........................37 Planning for availability with i5/OS ..........................38 Planning for availability with Linux ..........................39 Planning for service processor failover ..........................40 Planning for networking communications .........................44 Planning for network software ............................44 Planning for network hardware............................46 Planning for remote access .............................48 Planning for network security ............................49 Planning for network performance ..........................51 Planning for network availability ...........................53 Planning for network management ..........................54 Planning for InfiniBand networks ............................55 Overview of InfiniBand products and networks ......................55 Planning switch networks .............................56 Planning for hardware................................57 Planning for your physical site ............................57 Planning for I/O ................................58 Special planning considerations for auxiliary write cache I/O adapters .............58 Planning for disk space ..............................60 Planning for an Enterprise Storage Server environment ....................60 Planning for removable media ............................61 Planning for printers ...............................61 Planning for hardware no longer supported .......................62 Planning for service and support ............................62 Planning for testing.................................64 Planning for IBM services ..............................65 Planning for IBM services .............................65 Planning for IBM i5/OS services ...........................66 Planning for IBM Linux services ...........................67 Appendix. Accessibility features.........................75 Notices ...................................77 Trademarks ...................................78 Electronic emission notices ..............................79 Class A Notices .................................79 Class B Notices .................................82 Terms and conditions ................................85 iv System i and System p: Solution Planning Safety and environmental notices Safety notices may be printed throughout this guide: v DANGER notices call attention to a situation that is potentially lethal or extremely hazardous to people. v CAUTION notices call attention to a situation that is potentially hazardous to people because of some existing condition. v Attention notices call attention to the possibility of damage to a program, device, system, or data. World Trade safety information Several countries require the safety information contained in product publications to be presented in their national languages. 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