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

2. 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

3. 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:

4. Concerns ?
* source: based on OpenLogic survey (556 respondents, mainly medium and large enterprizes:

5. How familiar are we with opensource ?
* source: based on OpenLogic survey (556 respondents, mainly medium and large enterprizes:

6. Opensource – most commonly used ?
* source: based on OpenLogic survey (556 respondents, mainly medium and large enterprizes:

7. IBM contribution LINUX kernel development:
Source:

8. 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

9. 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 /

10. 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] /

11. LINUX on POWERTM Red Hat Enterprise Linux*:
Suse Linux Enterprise Server**:
*source:
** source:

12. 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

13. 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

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

15. 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

16. 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 V
5 PCI-e Gen2 low-profile, short slots
GX bus
Two USB ports
Two Serial ports
Two HMC ports
GX bus

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. IBM PowerLinuxTM
LINUX on POWER
PowerVMTM

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

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

26. 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

27. 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]

28. IBM PowerLinuxTM The difference in running LINUX on POWER
The Community:

29. 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]

30. 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

31. IBM PowerLinuxTM a powerful combination
Thank you for your attention ;-)
IBM Forum 2012 – Estonia
Tallinn, October 9, 2012