IBM Power Systems literature

This article provides a quick and easy way to implement an IBM Systems Director solution with DB2 that leverages IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition Launchpad for AIX released with IBM Systems Director Enterprise Edition for Power Systems.

The energy required to power and cool computers can be a significant cost to a business - reducing profit margins and consuming resources. In response to these challenges, the IBM EnergyScale technology has been developed for IBM Power systems.

This document is intended to address most frequently asked questions concerning AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 performance on Power Systems, and provide best practice guidelines for most commonly seen performance issues.

Active Memory Expansion can effectively reduce physical memory requirements of a partition, increasing the consolidation capacity of multiple AIX partitions on a single system. This paper describes the positive performance impacts of Active Memory ...

POWER7 RAS

This white paper reviews the strategy and roadmap for Power Systems and the IBM i operating environment.

This white paper shows how customers can rely on IBM WebSphere Software to deliver their business applications FAST and EFFICIENTLY - like all finely tuned machines!

IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) helps automate the discovery and inventory of IBM software deployed across an organization and it produces reports that help IT asset managers. This paper describes the key features and benefits of ILMT (Version 7.2.2) for ...

IBM Power Virtualization Manager (IBM PowerVM) Active Memory (AMS) technology takes PowerVM virtualization to a new level of consolidation and virtualization by optimizing memory utilization. AMS intelligently shares memory by dynamically moving it from ...

This paper describes the capabilities and benefits of the AIX 5.2 Workload Partitions for AIX 7 product.

Short, to-the-point white paper explaining the difference between low-cost 'consumer' SSD and the enterprise class SSD used by Power Systems and Storage Systems.

This document describes data that is exchanged between the Hardware Management Console (HMC) and the IBM Service Delivery Center (SDC) and the methods and protocols for this exchange.

The IBM EnergyScaleTM technology that has been developed for IBM POWER7 Processor based systems, provides excellent tools to manage energy usage while delivering optimal performance.

Active Memory Expansion can effectively provide more memory to AIX 6.1 (or later) clients running on a POWER7 server. This 25 page white paper provides excellent insights into its usage and considerations.

The latest IBM advances in virtualization offer broader platform support and greater scalability than ever before. This paper will discuss the advantages of virtualization, highlight IBM PowerVM, and analyze the performance of virtualization technologies ...

The energy required to power and cool computers can be a significant cost to a business - reducing profit margins and consuming resources. In response to these challenges, the IBM EnergyScale technology has been developed for the IBM POWER6 ...

In IBM's view, servers must be designed to avoid both planned and unplanned outages, and to maintain a focus on application uptime. This paper gives an in-depth view of how IBM creates highly available servers for business-critical applications.

Solid State Drives (SSDs) can provide high performance. This paper shares insights on SSDs in I/O subsystems for AIX, IBM i and Linux Power.

The IBM POWER6 Availability strategy is deeply rooted in an extensive history spanning multiple decades of mainframe development. This white paper provides an overview of the design features which allow a POWER6 system to recover transparently without an ...

Integrate SSDs into your storage infrastructure to improve application performance and increase productivity. Leverage SSD storage to maximize performance, improve application response time, reduce energy, reduce space and reduce cost. Use IBM tools to ...