Customization and Configuration Guide For the POWER7 750 Technical Support [email protected] November 16, 2009 2 Introduction............................................................................................................................... 5 IBM Power™ 750..................................................................................................................... 5 Highly scalable and modular business systems for business flexibility and efficiency ....... 5 Reliability, Availability, Serviceability ............................................................................ 6 I/O Drawers................................................................................................................... 7 External Storage................................................................................................................ 7 Enhanced Virtualization for Consolidation ...................................................................... 8 Reduce operating costs ..................................................................................................... 9 IBM Power 750 Server Supported Operating Systems..................................................... 9 Harware Management Console (HMC):............................................................................... 9 Modular System x3550......................................................................................................... 9 Network Switch .................................................................................................................. 10 Power on Wheels Environment .............................................................................................. 10 Overview............................................................................................................................. 11 What is Power on Wheels? ................................................................................................. 11 POWER on Wheels Features:............................................................................................. 11 Logical Layout of IBM POWER on Wheels...................................................................... 13 Transaction Flow: ............................................................................................................... 14 Installed Software ................................................................................................................... 14 Operating Systems Installed ............................................................................................... 15 VIO Server:..................................................................................................................... 15 Power on Wheels VIO Server Configuration: ................................................................ 15 AIX ................................................................................................................................. 15 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server.................................................................................... 16 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ....................................................................................... 16 Applications Installed ......................................................................................................... 16 WebSphere Application Server........................................................................................... 16 Lx86 .................................................................................................................................... 16 IBM HTTP Server............................................................................................................... 17 DB2 Server.......................................................................................................................... 17 Web Graphical User Interface ............................................................................................ 17 Web Monitoring Tool: LPARMon ..................................................................................... 18 Load Driver: JMeter........................................................................................................... 18 System Access ........................................................................................................................ 19 Logging into a server .......................................................................................................... 19 Verifying the environment...................................................................................................... 20 Restoring an LPAR................................................................................................................. 24 Beyond the Demo ................................................................................................................... 25 WebSphere.......................................................................................................................... 25 DB2 Server.......................................................................................................................... 25 Additional Excercises ............................................................................................................. 27 How to Run WebSphere Application Server Version 5 Samples on DB2 ......................... 27 Creating a new LPAR using the HMC interface ................................................................ 37 Dynamic Logical Partitioning............................................................................................. 42 Configure Virtual Ethernet LPAR to LPAR communication............................................. 45 3 How to record a script using Jmeter ................................................................................... 62 How to use Rational Performance Tester ........................................................................... 65 Working With IBM Director and Active Energy Manager ................................................ 69 How to add storage from external storage array................................................................. 73 Appendix A............................................................................................................................. 86 Disk mapping of VIO server for POWER7 750 ................................................................. 86 Appendix C ......................................................................................................................... 91 Sample host file ....................................................................................................................... 92 Network Diagram .................................................................................................................... 94 Power on Wheels ................................................................................................................ 96 Appendix D............................................................................................................................. 98 Trade Scenario .................................................................................................................... 98 Appendix E ........................................................................................................................... 106 Installing Applications Under Linux RedHat ................................................................... 106 Installing from source files: .......................................................................................... 107 Appendix F............................................................................................................................ 109 Installing and migrating x86 applications onto a PowerVM Lx86 system....................... 109 Migrating the x86 system configuration....................................................................... 109 User authentication ................................................................................................... 109 Remote file systems .................................................................................................. 110 x86 configuration and daemons................................................................................ 110 Environment variables .............................................................................................. 110 Installing x86 applications ................................................................................................ 110 Transfer data, or set access to application data......................................................... 111 Create access to required devices ................................................................................. 111 Example: Creating access to a CD drive....................................................................... 111 Mounting from within a POWER shell: ....................................................................... 111 Mounting from within an x86 shell: ............................................................................. 112 Installing Java applications in x86World...................................................................... 112 Supported Java versions................................................................................................ 112 Configuring x86World for Java.................................................................................... 112 Example: installing IBM’s J2SE