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Advantages of True Enterprise Solid State Drives (SSDs) in Enterprise Systems Last updated, November 2009 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.	View PDF ( 83 KB )
IBM i and Power Systems: Leveraging Virtualization in the Datacenter for Flexibility and Business Continuity Last updated, November 2009 Use this IDC whitepaper with clients and prospects to demonstrate how IBM i on Power Systems is an ideal solution when a more resilient and manageable infrastructure is required for business-critical workloads.	View PDF ( 178 KB )
IBM EnergyScale for POWER6 Processor-Based Systems Last updated, October 2009 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 processor-based systems.	View PDF ( 1.9 MB )
A Comparison of PowerVM and x86-Based Virtualization Performance Last updated, October 2009 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 using industry standard benchmarks	View DOC ( 325 KB ) View PDF ( 154 KB )
Performance Impacts of Flash SSDs Upon IBM Power Systems Last updated, June 2009 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.	View PDF ( 1.5 MB )
IBM Power Systems: Designed for Availability Last updated, June 2009 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 impact on a system partition.	View PDF ( 870 KB )
IBM Power Platform Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) - Highly Available IBM Power Systems Servers for Business-Critical Applications Last updated, June 2009 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.	View PDF ( 3.2 MB )
Performance Value of Solid State Drives using IBM i Last updated, May 2009 Solid State Drives (SSD) represent a new way of providing higher performance I/O. This paper shares insights on where SSD fits, what benefits might be expected and some implemention points. A sample applications under IBM i are provided.	View PDF ( 226 KB )
IBM PowerVM Active Memory Sharing Performance Last updated, May 2009 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 one partition to another on demand.	View PDF ( 799 KB )
IBM PowerVM Active Memory Sharing: An Overview Last updated, April 2009 This white paper provides an introduction to the Active Memory Sharing capability of PowerVM, including typical customer use cases.	View PDF ( 80 KB )
Driving Business Value on Power Systems with Solid State Drives Last updated, April 2009 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 detect hot data and migrate to SSD.	View PDF ( 515 KB )
IBM Power 595 and 570 Server CEC Concurrent Maintenance Last updated, April 2009 This white paper provides a technical overview and description of the CEC concurrent maintenance functions. It also includes lanning guides to help the system administrator obtain the maximum system availability benefits from these new functions.	View PDF ( 1023 KB )
IBM AIX on POWER IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) Performance Last updated, March 2009 This paper describes the performance of IBM GX bus based InfiniBand adapters in IBM Power Servers.	View PDF ( 835 KB )
IBM Power Systems: Designing and Implementing Serviceability Last updated, March 2009 The IBM POWER6 Serviceability strategy evolves from the service architecture deployed on POWER5 processor-based servers. This white paper provides an overview of the progressive steps of error detection, analysis, reporting and repairing found in a POWER6 processor-based server.	View PDF ( 218 KB )
IBM Power Systems: Designed for Reliability Last updated, March 2009 The IBM POWER6 Reliability strategy is that highly reliable servers are built with highly reliable components and evolves from, and improves upon, the Reliability design points developed throughout the IBM POWER program.	View PDF ( 151 KB )
Using PM for Power Systems to help understand the impact of an IBM Power server on IT operations Last updated, February 2009 PM for Power Systems, in conjunction with the WLE, can help you start to answer the questions about the benefits you could potentially receive from a new IBM Power server. It can help you plan for and manage the growth and performance of your system.	View PDF ( 168 KB )
Six + Six Reasons to Upgrade to IBM i 6.1 Last updated, December 2008 This paper describes the key enhancements available in IBM i 6.1.	View PDF ( 386 KB )
Managing IBM Power Servers with IBM Systems Director 6.1 Last updated, November 2008 Trends in virtualization and server consolidation require management capabilities without complexity. This whitepaper details how IBM Power Systems administrators can leverage key systems management features of IBM Systems Director 6.1 to achieve their company's goals in these areas.	View PDF ( 508 KB )
Smart IOA Performance with External Storage Performance Last updated, May 2008 This 13-page white page shares many insights on the enhanced performance capabilities of externally attached SAN disk storage running IBM i (formally i5/OS) 6.1. POWER6 processor technology and smart IOA technology are key aspects of these enhancements.	View PDF ( 81 KB )
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