Lab Services UK&I IBM Power Systems Team Key Skills, Offerings & Consultants

IBM Power Key Areas and Topics Types of engagements: Pre and post sales technical guidance and assistance (to IBM, BPs and customers) Workshops Solution design assistance and verification Proof of concepts Power to Cloud (PowerCare) Education and skills transfer IBM Power Systems Installation (working closely with the BP services teams) Problem Determination Critsit assistance Product updates Anything IBM Power related…....

Who are UK&I Power Server Lab Services? Name Role Location Email address Mug shot Irene King Manager London irene_king@uk.ibm.com John Markey Opportunity Mgr Dublin markejoh@ie.ibm.com John Wright Technical Consultant Warwick john.wright@uk.ibm.com Turgut Genc TurgutGenc@uk.ibm.com Tom Watts watts1t@uk.ibm.com Stu Cunliffe Technical Consultant & Technical Team Leader s_cunliffe@uk.ibm.com

IBM Power Systems Key Areas and UK&I Primary Consultants Cloud: Stuart Cunliffe Linux on Power: Tom Watts Lab Services Mission ”Enable and accelerate the adoption of new and emerging technologies” The skills across the team expand into multiple areas e.g. each member of the team is highly skilled in PowerVM, AIX, PowerHA,Power6/7/8. Each ’key area’ has more than one qualified consultants (a primary and secondary consultant) We still expect IBMers, BPs and customers to maintain their existing relationships with Lab Services members; however aligning key areas with consultants can assist with people new to dealing with Lab Service or for new products and offerings For each of the key areas the primary consultant is responsible for maintaining a relationship with the product owners and developers to keep abreast of the latest features and roadmaps. The primary consultant is also responsible for passing the latest information on to interested parties including the IBM team, BPs and customers. Analytics/Big Data: John Wright Traditional Power: Turgut Genc

IBM Power Key Areas and Topics Cloud PowerVC inc Cloud Mgr Hybrid Cloud integration BlueMix Automation for DevOps Vmware vRealize Automation OpenSource Databases Geographically Dispersed Resiliency (GDR) Linux on Power High Performance Computing KVM Installation and Optimisation IFLs Linux Clustering Linux Health Checks Analytics & Big Data SAP HANA Hortonworks Hadoop Traditional IBM Power PowerVM AIX/PowerVM tuning IBM Power System Migration Power Enterprise Pools Performance Assessments Availability Assessments PowerHA Power Health Checks

Cloud Topic Primary Consultant Secondary Consultant Comments PowerVC Stuart Cunliffe John Wright Standard and Cloud Editions Cloud Design Workshops Run in conjunction with EAP team (Frank Heard) BlueMix Design Workshops Run in conjunction with EAP team (Frank Heard) and GTS DevOps Tom Watts Automation for DevOps Integration VMware vRealize Automation PowerVC integration with customer VMware vRA estate. Open Source Databases Database as a service implementation. Geographically Dispersed Resiliency Design and implementation of cross-site GDR solution.

Analytics and Big Data Topic Primary Consultant Secondary Consultant Comments SAP HANA PoC John Wright Tom Watts Operated out of SBNK. SAP HANA PoC with SLES HA SAP HANA Workshop Discussion around requirements for SAP HANA; OS, storage, file systems SAP HANA Installation OS installation, HANA installation, System Replication Configuration, SLES HA SAP HANA Performance Review Performance optimisation study focusing on OS levels, patch levels, file system configuration, and network tuning Big Data PoC Build and test of infrastructure for a Hortonworks deployment Big Data Installation OS, network, and storage configuration in preparation for HDP installation.

Linux on Power Topic Primary Consultant Secondary Consultant Comments High Performance Computing Tom Watts Stuart Cunliffe xCAT, GPU integration, SDK’s and compiler installation KVM Redhat and Ubuntu KVM distros, migration from PowerKVM Linux Installation Manual, Kickstart, other Linux Optimisation Kernel tunables, fs layout, networks Linux Clustering IFLs Linux Health Check

Traditional IBM Power Systems Topic Primary Consultant Secondary Consultant Comments PowerVM Turgut Genc Tom Watts Including provisioning and availability IBM Power Systems Migration Stuart Cunliffe Planning, automation and validation of migrating to the latest POWER h/w. Power Enterprise Pools Assistance with planning and implementing PEPs. Live Partition Mobility and Simplified Remote Restart LPM and SRR readiness review and testing. Performance assessments Workload optimisation review including PowerVM, AIX, IBM I, CPU, memory, disk I/O, n/w performance, etc. Availability Assessments Review including h/w, VIOS, HMC, FSP, LPARs, OS, backup/recover, etc. PowerHA for AIX Standard or Enterprise Edition. IBM Power Systems Health Check Health check of any aspect of the customer IBM Power estate.