IBM PowerLinuxTM a powerful combination Artem Rusin IBM Forum 2012 – Estonia Tallinn, October 9, 2012

IBM PowerLinuxTM a powerful combination AGENDA: Opensource – industry study IBM and Linux IBM PowerLinuxTM, Linux on POWERTM IBM hardware portfolio for Linux Benefits of running Linux on POWERTM IBM October 2012 Announcements

Opensource – why do we use it ? Opensource adoption 50% - prefer opensource 75% - consider opensource equal to proprietary software * source: based on OpenLogic survey (556 respondents, mainly medium and large enterprizes: http://www.openlogic.com/wazi/bid/187999/

Concerns ? * source: based on OpenLogic survey (556 respondents, mainly medium and large enterprizes: http://www.openlogic.com/wazi/bid/187999/

How familiar are we with opensource ? * source: based on OpenLogic survey (556 respondents, mainly medium and large enterprizes: http://www.openlogic.com/wazi/bid/187999/

Opensource – most commonly used ? * source: based on OpenLogic survey (556 respondents, mainly medium and large enterprizes: http://www.openlogic.com/wazi/bid/187999/

IBM contribution LINUX kernel development: Source: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2012/04/linux-foundation-releases-annual-linux-development-report/

IBM contribution LINUX kernel: Kernel base architecture support Security Systems Management RAS Virtualization Filesystems Opensource Ecosystem: Apache Eclipse Mozilla Firefox PHP, Samba OpenOffice.org Communities: The Linux Foundation Open Software Initiative POWERLinux Community

LINUX on POWERTM What is it NOT ? NOT AIX with Linux compatibility layer NOT a Linux emulator NOT x86 Linux running on x86 emulator on POWER hardware platform /

LINUX on POWERTM What is it ? IBM POWER – one of the 20+ hardware architectures supported NATIVELY by LINUX kernel, libaries, compilers IBM POWER – one of 5 hardware architectures supported by major Linux Enterprise Vendors [RHEL, SLES] /

LINUX on POWERTM Red Hat Enterprise Linux*: Suse Linux Enterprise Server**: *source: https://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/server/compare.html ** source: https://www.suse.com/products/server/technical-information/

LINUX on POWERTM Supported POWER hardware, benefits: Virtualization [PowerVM] Performance [POWER7, SMT4] RAS Power 770 Power 750 Power 775 Power 720/740 Power 710/730 Power 755 PS Blades PS Blades HMC

IBM PowerLinuxTM New in IBM hardware portfolio: industry standard LINUX only servers: rack server: IBM PowerLinuxTM 7R2 compute node: IBM Flex System p24L High value linux solutions: Big data analytics [IBM Infosphere, BigInsights, Apache Hadoop] Opensource infrastructure services [Apache, Tomcat, Postfix, Sendmail, Bind, Samba, OpenLDAP] Databases, middleware, management tools, development kits Workload optimized – Watson

IBM PowerLinuxTM IBM PowerLinuxTM 7R1: LINUX only, 2U, rack server Single socket, 8 POWER7 cores up to 128 GB of RAM PowerVMTM hypervisor

IBM PowerLinuxTM IBM PowerLinuxTM 7R2: LINUX only, 2U, rack server (8246-L2C/8246-L2S) Two sockets, 8 POWER7 cores each up to 256 GB of RAM PowerVMTM hypervisor superior economics

5 PCI-e Gen2 low-profile, short slots IBM PowerLinuxTM Memory modules (max of 4) Up to 4 DIMMs per module 8GB/16GB/32GB options 256 GB max. memory i Fans Two POWER7 processor modules (sockets) 8 cores each, 16 total 3.55 or 3.3 GHz options Fans Dual Power supplies 200-240V 5 PCI-e Gen2 low-profile, short slots GX bus Two USB ports Two Serial ports Two HMC ports GX bus

IBM PowerLinuxTM 7R2 positioning PowerLinux 7R2 Power 730 8246-L2C 8246-L2S 8231-E2C Operating System 2U Storage Drawer (24 SFF HDDs or SSDs) n/a Yes 4U PCI-e Expansion Drawer (10 PCIe or 10 PCIe + 18 SFFs) POWER7 Architecture 8-core 3.55 GHz 8-core 3.3 GHz 4-core 3.0 GHz or 3.7 GHz 6-core 3.7 GHz Planar Dual Socket DDR3 Memory 8 / 16 / 32 GB options 32GB to 256 GB 4 / 8 / 16 / 32 GB options 8GB to 256GB Base Ethernet 4-port, 1 gigabit SAS SFF Bays Up to 6 HDD or SSD PCIe Gen2 Slots 5 PCIe x8 Gen2 Low Profile Slots (+ dedicated x4 Gen2 slot for Ethernet above) Integrated SAS/SATA Yes / RAID 0/10 std (RAID 5/6 opt) GX++ Slots Two ( One shared ) Integrated Ports 3 USB, 2 Serial, 2 HMC DVD bay 1 slim-line Tape/RDX bay 1 Half Height ( Optional ) Virtualization Management IVM / HMC Redundant Power, Cooling EnergyScale Thermal Power Management Device (TPMD) Warranty 3 Years

IBM PowerLinuxTM IBM Flex System p24L Compute Node: LINUX only, half width Flex System compute node Two sockets, 6 or 8 POWER7 cores each up to 256 GB of RAM PowerVMTM hypervisor Up to 14 Flex System p24L in a 10U Flex System Chassis

IBM PowerLinuxTM The difference in running LINUX on POWER Benefits of using PowerVMTM VIOS – virtualized devices, networks, NPIV Dedicated or shared CPU Micro-PartitioningTM Dynamic Reconfiguration – CPU, Memory, I/O „Virtualization without limits” Trusted hypervisor

IBM PowerLinuxTM The difference in running LINUX on POWER PowerVMTM editions PowerVM Editions Express Standard Enterprise Concurrent VMs 2 per server 10 per core (up to 1000) Virtual I/O Server    Suspend/Resume Shared Processor Pools Shared Storage Pools Thin Provisioning Live Partition Mobility Active Memory Sharing

IBM PowerLinuxTM LINUX on POWER PowerVMTM

IBM PowerLinuxTM The difference in running LINUX on POWER Installation process: Installation Toolkit Value add LoP tools [Linux on Power] Simplified Setup Tool for popular workloads

IBM PowerLinuxTM The difference in running LINUX on POWER Linux on Power tools: DynamicRM (RSCT) ServiceRM (RSCT) ESAgent Lsvpd, lscfg, lsmcode ibmit4linux-docs nmon SRC sst

IBM PowerLinuxTM The difference in running LINUX on POWER Performance: POWER7, 8 cores per chip [3,55 GHz or 3.3 GHz] 4SMT per core 32MB Embedded L3 Cache Performance gain vs. POWER6 up to 1.5 X per core Reduced energy consumption POWER7 CORE L2 Cache L3 Cache and Chip Interconnect MC1 MC0 Local SMP Links Remote SMP & I/O Links F A S T L3 REGION

IBM PowerLinuxTM The difference in running LINUX on POWER RAS: Reliability Availability Serviceability

IBM PowerLinuxTM The difference in running LINUX on POWER RAS features RAS Item Power 710 Power 720 Power 730 Power 740 Power 750 Redundant / Hot Swap Fans & Blowers ● Hot Swap DASD & Media / PCI Adapters ▬ Concurrent Firmware Update Redundant / Hot Swap Power Supplies ◙ Dual disk controllers (split backplane) Processor Instruction Retry Alternate Processor Recovery Storage Keys PowerVM™/Live Part. Mobility/Live App Mobility Redundant Service Processors Redundant System Clocks Redundant / Hot Swap Power Regulators Dynamic Processor Sparing Memory Sparing Hot GX Adapter Add and Cold Repair Hot-node Add / Cold-node Repair Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add Dynamic Service Processor &System Clock Failover Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add for all nodes** Enterprise Memory Hot GX Adapter Repair Midplane connection for inter-nodal communication Active Memory Mirroring for Hypervisor ● standard ◙ optional ▬ unavailable

IBM PowerLinuxTM The difference in running LINUX on POWER RAS features RAS Item Power 750 Power 770 Power 780 Power 795 Redundant / Hot Swap Fans & Blowers ● Hot Swap DASD / Media / PCI Adapters Concurrent Firmware Update Redundant / Hot Swap Power Supplies ◙ Dual disk controllers (split backplane) Processor Instruction Retry Alternate Processor Recovery Storage Keys PowerVM™/Live Part. Mobility/Live App Mobility Redundant Service Processors ▬ ●* Redundant System Clocks Redundant / Hot Swap Power Regulators Dynamic Processor Sparing Memory Sparing Hot GX Adapter Add and Cold Repair Hot-node Add / Cold-node Repair Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add Dynamic Service Processor &System Clock Failover Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add for all nodes** Enterprise Memory Hot GX Adapter Repair Active Memory Mirroring for Hypervisor PowerFlex ● standard ◙ optional ▬ unavailable * Requires at least two instances [servers]

IBM PowerLinuxTM The difference in running LINUX on POWER The Community: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl

IBM October Announcements: Power770 and 780 POWER7+ processors (CPU frequency, more L3 cache) 20-30% increase in performance Hardware assisted AME, filesystem encryption Increased RAS, energy efficiency Increased amount of VMs per core 128 POWER7+ cores in one Power780 server Enterprise System Pools – CoD [P780 only] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl

IBM October Announcements: Power795 64GB RAM DIMM – up to 16 TB of memory Hybrid I/O, Gen2 I/O connections directly out of processor book Enterprise System Pools – CoD Power System Software Enhanced PowerVMTM virtualization [a minimum of 5% of a core per VM - 20VMs per core] PowerHA HyperSwap PowerSC with Trusted Surveyor – policy based security, compliance https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/group/tpl

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