Competitive Profiles Datasheet IBM - eServer p5 595
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The eServer p5 595 is a 64 core POWER5 based server which was announced in October 2004 along with the smaller p5-590. It is housed in up to two 42U rack cabinets and is comprised of an 18U Central Electronics Complex (CEC) and up to eight I/O drawers. The p5-595 uses dual core POWER5 processors which, at the time of introduction, were available at 1.65GHz or 1.9GHz with 36MB of shared L3 cache. A minimum of 16 active processor cores is required. Between 8GB and 2TB of memory is supported, although the maximum amount of DDR2 memory is 1TB. All disk storage and I/O expansion slots are housed in I/O drawers, each containing 20 PCI-X slots and 16 drive bays. With the maximum of 12 I/O drawers a fully configured p5-595 supports up to 240 I/O slots and 192 disk drives.
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IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Considerations for SAS 9 on the IBM eServer p590
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This storage whitepaper presents the results, and recommendations regarding various SAS 9.1 disk layouts tested at the Beaverton Test Labs. The storage disk layout was modified and monitored in concert with CPU sizing exercises by a combined SAS and IBM SAS International Competency Center (ICC) team. The test environment consisted of SAS 9.1 on the IBM® p590 eServer™ with AIX® 5.3 and the IBM TotalStorage DS4000. Workload for the testing was provided by the SAS Extract Transform Load (ETL) Test Suite. The SAS 9.1 hardware test environment and disk layouts tested during the benchmark are detailed in this document. Relative results of the storage testing are presented in this paper along with recommendations regarding the IBM TotalStorage DS4000 disk layout for SAS 9.1.
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IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool Installation and Users Guide
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Use the IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool to allocate or deallocate volumes on a supported remote storage network and to save and restore network-storage configurations. IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool adds a set of dircli commands that you can use to allocate or deallocate volumes on a supported remote storage network. It also adds options to the BladeCenter Configuration Manager task that you can use to save a SAN configuration profile that can be applied to new blade servers when they are added or replaced, effectively remapping the remote storage to the new blade.
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Hardware Virtualization
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Virtualization
• Multiple consumers share a resource while maintaining the illusion that each consumer owns the full resource
– Memory, processor(s), storage, peripherals, entire machines
• Goes all the way back to Popek and Goldberg [1974]
• Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) or hypervisor is the software layer that provides one or more Virtual Machine (VM) abstractions
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Solaris Operating System Hardware Virtualization Product Architecture
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In the IT industry, virtualization is a mechanism of presenting a set of logical computing resources over a fixed hardware configuration so that these logical resources can be accessed in the same manner as the original hardware configuration. The concept of virtualization is not new. First introduced in the late 1960s on mainframe computers, virtualization has recently become popular as a means to consolidate servers and reduce the costs of hardware acquisition, energy consumption, and space utilization. The hardware resources that can be virtualized include computer systems, storage, and the network.
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Understanding Full Virtualization, Paravirtualization, and Hardware Assist
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In 1998, VMware figured out how to virtualize the x86 platform, once thought to be impossible, and created the market for x86 virtualization. The solution was a combination of binary translation and direct execution on the processor that allowed multiple guest OSes to run in full isolation on the same computer with readily affordable virtualization overhead. The savings that tens of thousands of companies have generated from the deployment of this technology is further driving the rapid adoption of virtualized computing from the desktop to the data center. As new vendors enter the space and attempt to differentiate their products, many are creating confusion with their marketing claims and terminology. For example, while hardware assist is a valuable technique that will mature and expand the envelope of workloads that can be virtualized, paravirtualization is not an entirely new technology that offers an “order of magnitude” greater performance.
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Optical Network Installation Guide
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This document is intended to serve as a guide for architecting and deploying fiber optic networks in a customer environment. This installation planning guide describes some basic fundamentals of fiber optic technology, considerations for deployment, and basic testing and troubleshooting procedures.
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