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

2. 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…....

3. Who are UK&I Power Server Lab Services?
Name
Role
Location
address
Mug shot
Irene King
Manager
London
John Markey
Opportunity Mgr
Dublin
John Wright
Technical Consultant
Warwick
Turgut Genc
Tom Watts
Stu Cunliffe
Technical Consultant & Technical Team Leader

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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.