SAP Landscape Management 3.0 and IBM Power Systems Servers

by Edmund Haefele

Author	: Edmund Haefele
Publisher	: IBM Redbooks
Total Pages	: 60
Release	: 2019-11-07
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0738458228

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This IBM® Redpaper publication is part of a series of technical documentation to help the enablement of SAP on Linux for IBM Power Systems servers and IBM System StorageTM servers. This book describes how by using SAP Landscape Management (SAP LaMa) 3.0 software that clients gain full visibility and control over their SAP and non-SAP systems, including the underlying physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. With SAP LaMa, you can automate repetitive tasks to manage critical applications across complex, hybrid IT landscapes. This publication helps you to better control IT costs and increase business agility, for example, by freeing staff to focus on more strategic work rather than manual, error-prone tasks. The target audiences of this book are architects, IT specialists, and systems administrators deploying SAP LaMa 3.0 whom often spend much time and effort managing and provisioning SAP software systems and landscapes.

SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems: High Availability and Disaster Recovery Implementation Updates

by Dino Quintero

Author	: Dino Quintero
Publisher	: IBM Redbooks
Total Pages	: 186
Release	: 2019-07-16
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 073845785X

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication updates Implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions with SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems, REDP-5443 with the latest technical content that describes how to implement an SAP HANA on IBM Power SystemsTM high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solution by using theoretical knowledge and sample scenarios. This book describes how all the pieces of the reference architecture work together (IBM Power Systems servers, IBM Storage servers, IBM SpectrumTM Scale, IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® for Linux, IBM VM Recovery Manager DR for Power Systems, and Linux distributions) and demonstrates the resilience of SAP HANA with IBM Power Systems servers. This publication is for architects, brand specialists, distributors, resellers, and anyone developing and implementing SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems integration, automation, HA, and DR solutions. This publication provides documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to the technical teams, and documentation to the sales team.

IBM Power Systems Performance Guide: Implementing and Optimizing

by Dino Quintero

Author	: Dino Quintero
Publisher	: IBM Redbooks
Total Pages	: 372
Release	: 2013-05-01
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0738437662

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication addresses performance tuning topics to help leverage the virtualization strengths of the POWER® platform to solve clients' system resource utilization challenges, and maximize system throughput and capacity. We examine the performance monitoring tools, utilities, documentation, and other resources available to help technical teams provide optimized business solutions and support for applications running on IBM POWER systems' virtualized environments. The book offers application performance examples deployed on IBM Power SystemsTM utilizing performance monitoring tools to leverage the comprehensive set of POWER virtualization features: Logical Partitions (LPARs), micro-partitioning, active memory sharing, workload partitions, and more. We provide a well-defined and documented performance tuning model in a POWER system virtualized environment to help you plan a foundation for scaling, capacity, and optimization . This book targets technical professionals (technical consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) responsible for providing solutions and support on IBM POWER systems, including performance tuning.

IBM PowerVC Version 2.0 Introduction and Configuration

by Scott Vetter

Author	: Scott Vetter
Publisher	: IBM Redbooks
Total Pages	: 368
Release	: 2021-05-26
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0738459739

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IBM® Power Virtualization Center (IBM® PowerVCTM) is an advanced enterprise virtualization management offering for IBM Power Systems. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces IBM PowerVC and helps you understand its functions, planning, installation, and setup. It also shows how IBM PowerVC can integrate with systems management tools such as Ansible or Terraform and that it also integrates well into a OpenShift container environment. IBM PowerVC Version 2.0.0 supports both large and small deployments, either by managing IBM PowerVM® that is controlled by the Hardware Management Console (HMC), or by IBM PowerVM NovaLink. With this capability, IBM PowerVC can manage IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux workloads that run on IBM POWER® hardware. IBM PowerVC is available as a Standard Edition, or as a Private Cloud Edition. IBM PowerVC includes the following features and benefits: Virtual image capture, import, export, deployment, and management Policy-based virtual machine (VM) placement to improve server usage Snapshots and cloning of VMs or volumes for backup or testing purposes Support of advanced storage capabilities such as IBM SVC vdisk mirroring of IBM Global Mirror Management of real-time optimization and VM resilience to increase productivity VM Mobility with placement policies to reduce the burden on IT staff in a simple-to-install and easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) Automated Simplified Remote Restart for improved availability of VMs ifor when a host is down Role-based security policies to ensure a secure environment for common tasks The ability to enable an administrator to enable Dynamic Resource Optimization on a schedule IBM PowerVC Private Cloud Edition includes all of the IBM PowerVC Standard Edition features and enhancements: A self-service portal that allows the provisioning of new VMs without direct system administrator intervention. There is an option for policy approvals for the requests that are received from the self-service portal. Pre-built deploy templates that are set up by the cloud administrator that simplify the deployment of VMs by the cloud user. Cloud management policies that simplify management of cloud deployments. Metering data that can be used for chargeback. This publication is for experienced users of IBM PowerVM and other virtualization solutions who want to understand and implement the next generation of enterprise virtualization management for Power Systems. Unless stated otherwise, the content of this publication refers to IBM PowerVC Version 2.0.0.

SAP Backup using Tivoli Storage Manager

by Budi Darmawan

Author	: Budi Darmawan
Publisher	: IBM Redbooks
Total Pages	: 440
Release	: 2013-04-26
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0738432970

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In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we give an overview of different data management topics related to a typical SAP® data center. The intrinsic functionality of SAP is not designed to completely handle all the tasks of a data center by itself, but the SAP system offers several interface possibilities to attach external tools to it to accomplish this task We explain SAP basic concepts and the issues with SAP data management. We introduce Tivoli® Storage Manager and all of its products that are related to SAP data management. We provide some comparison between database backup and recovery tools. Finally, we discuss data archiving using IBM DB2® CommonStore for SAP, and discuss high availability requirements and disaster recovery considerations. The second part of this book discusses a practical implementation of SAP backup and recovery with Tivoli Storage Manager. We implement this setup on two separate SAP systems: one running DB2 and the other running Oracle® database. We also implement LAN-free backup and FlashCopy® scenarios. In the sample implementation section, we show many different tasks, such as backup and restore, database recovery, backup monitoring, and tuning. We also cover some advanced backup/availability considerations, such as split mirror backup and standby databases. This book helps individuals that operate an SAP environment to devise a strategy for a sound and comprehensive data backup solution using the IBM Tivoli Storage Management product family.

Deploying SAP Software in Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power Systems

by Dino Quintero

Author	: Dino Quintero
Publisher	: IBM Redbooks
Total Pages	: 90
Release	: 2021-04-22
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0738459585

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This IBM® Redpaper publication documents how to containerize and deploy SAP software into Red Hat OpenShift 4 Kubernetes clusters on IBM Power Systems by using predefined Red Hat Ansible scripts, different configurations, and theoretical knowledge, and it documents the findings through sample scenarios. This paper documents the following topics: Running SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA, and SAP NetWeaver on-premises software in containers that are deployed in Red Hat OpenShift 4 on IBM Power Systems hardware. Existing SAP systems running on IBM Power Systems can be repackaged at customer sites into containers that use predefined Red Hat Ansible scripts. These containers can be deployed multiple times into Red Hat OpenShift 4 Kubernetes clusters on IBM Power Systems. The target audiences for this paper are Chief Information Officers (CIOs) that are interested in containerized solutions of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, developers that need containerized environments, and system administrators that provide and manage the infrastructure with underpinning automation. This paper complements the documentation that is available at IBM Knowledge Center, and it aligns with the educational materials that are provided by IBM GarageTM for Systems Education.

IBM PowerAI: Deep Learning Unleashed on IBM Power Systems Servers

by Dino Quintero

Author	: Dino Quintero
Publisher	: IBM Redbooks
Total Pages	: 278
Release	: 2019-06-05
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0738442941

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a guide about the IBM PowerAI Deep Learning solution. This book provides an introduction to artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL), IBM PowerAI, and components of IBM PowerAI, deploying IBM PowerAI, guidelines for working with data and creating models, an introduction to IBM SpectrumTM Conductor Deep Learning Impact (DLI), and case scenarios. IBM PowerAI started as a package of software distributions of many of the major DL software frameworks for model training, such as TensorFlow, Caffe, Torch, Theano, and the associated libraries, such as CUDA Deep Neural Network (cuDNN). The IBM PowerAI software is optimized for performance by using the IBM Power SystemsTM servers that are integrated with NVLink. The AI stack foundation starts with servers with accelerators. graphical processing unit (GPU) accelerators are well-suited for the compute-intensive nature of DL training, and servers with the highest CPU to GPU bandwidth, such as IBM Power Systems servers, enable the high-performance data transfer that is required for larger and more complex DL models. This publication targets technical readers, including developers, IT specialists, systems architects, brand specialist, sales team, and anyone looking for a guide about how to understand the IBM PowerAI Deep Learning architecture, framework configuration, application and workload configuration, and user infrastructure.

Implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions with SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems

by Dino Quintero

Author	: Dino Quintero
Publisher	: IBM Redbooks
Total Pages	: 226
Release	: 2018-02-05
Genre	: Computers
ISBN	: 0738456357

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This IBM® RedpaperTM publication addresses topics for architects, brand specialists, distributors, resellers, and anyone developing and implementing SAP HANA on IBM Power SystemsTM integration, automation, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR) solutions. This book provides documentation to transfer how-to-skills to the technical teams, and documentation to the sales team. This guide describes how to implement an SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems solution from end to end and includes HA and DR guidelines by using theoretical knowledge, field experience, and sample scenarios. The contents of this book follow the guidelines from SAP regarding HANA installation on IBM Power Systems plus all the preferred practices that are gathered from the experiences of those consultants in hundreds of past HANA installations in customers' environments. This book is a hands-on guide and is targeted at technical staff who want to install SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems, and also use SAP HANA and IBM Power Systems HA solutions. SAP HANA and SUSE screen captures that are used in this publication belong to their respective owners. The residency team showed them in the publication to demonstrate the implementation and integration parts of the solution with IBM Power Systems.

Management Information Systems

by Kenneth C. Laudon

Author	: Kenneth C. Laudon
Publisher	: Pearson Educación
Total Pages	: 618
Release	: 2004
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 9789702605287

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Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner. The twelfth edition focuses on the major changes that have been made in information technology over the past two years, and includes new opening, closing, and Interactive Session cases.