Implementing the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) in a Cross Platform Environment
Implementing the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) in a Cross Platform Environment

Author: Dino Quintero

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2011-06-30

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0738435473

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a documented deployment model for IBM GPFSTM in a cross-platform environment with IBM Power SystemsTM, Linux, and Windows servers. With IBM GPFS, customers can have a planned foundation for file systems management for cross-platform access solutions. This book examines the functional, integration, simplification, and usability changes with GPFS v3.4. It can help the technical teams provide file system management solutions and technical support with GPFS, based on Power Systems virtualized environments for cross-platform file systems management. The book provides answers to your complex file systems management requirements, helps you maximize file system availability, and provides expert-level documentation to transfer the how-to skills to the worldwide support teams. The audience for this book is the technical professional (IT consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists) who is responsible for providing file system management solutions and support for cross-platform environments that are based primarily on Power Systems.

Implementing the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) in a Cross Platform Environment
Implementing the IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) in a Cross Platform Environment

Author: Dino Quintero

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13:

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a documented deployment model for IBM GPFSTM in a cross-platform environment with IBM Power SystemsTM, Linux, and Windows servers. With IBM GPFS, customers can have a planned foundation for file systems management for cross-platform access solutions. This book examines the functional, integration, simplification, and usability changes with GPFS v3.4. It can help the technical teams provide file system management solutions and technical support with GPFS, based on Power Systems virtualized environments for cross-platform file systems management. The book provides answers to your complex file systems management requirements, helps you maximize file system availability, and provides expert-level documentation to transfer the how-to skills to the worldwide support teams. The audience for this book is the technical professional (IT consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists) who is responsible for providing file system management solutions and support for cross-platform environments that are based primarily on Power Systems.

Implementing an IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Cluster using Linux on Power
Implementing an IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Cluster using Linux on Power

Author: Dino Quintero

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0738440744

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication demonstrates and documents how to implement and manage an IBM PowerLinuxTM cluster for big data focusing on hardware management, operating systems provisioning, application provisioning, cluster readiness check, hardware, operating system, IBM InfoSphere® BigInsightsTM, IBM Platform Symphony®, IBM SpectrumTM Scale (formerly IBM GPFSTM), applications monitoring, and performance tuning. This publication shows that IBM PowerLinux clustering solutions (hardware and software) deliver significant value to clients that need cost-effective, highly scalable, and robust solutions for big data and analytics workloads. This book documents and addresses topics on how to use IBM Platform Cluster Manager to manage PowerLinux BigData data clusters through IBM InfoSphere BigInsights, Spectrum Scale, and Platform Symphony. This book documents how to set up and manage a big data cluster on PowerLinux servers to customize application and programming solutions, and to tune applications to use IBM hardware architectures. This document uses the architectural technologies and the software solutions that are available from IBM to help solve challenging technical and business problems. This book is targeted at technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) that are responsible for delivering cost-effective Linux on IBM Power SystemsTM solutions that help uncover insights among client's data so they can act to optimize business results, product development, and scientific discoveries.

IBM Software Defined Environment
IBM Software Defined Environment

Author: Dino Quintero

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2015-08-14

Total Pages: 820

ISBN-13: 0738440442

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM Software Defined Environment (SDE) solution, which helps to optimize the entire computing infrastructure--compute, storage, and network resources--so that it can adapt to the type of work required. In today's environment, resources are assigned manually to workloads, but that happens automatically in a SDE. In an SDE, workloads are dynamically assigned to IT resources based on application characteristics, best-available resources, and service level policies so that they deliver continuous, dynamic optimization and reconfiguration to address infrastructure issues. Underlying all of this are policy-based compliance checks and updates in a centrally managed environment. Readers get a broad introduction to the new architecture. Think integration, automation, and optimization. Those are enablers of cloud delivery and analytics. SDE can accelerate business success by matching workloads and resources so that you have a responsive, adaptive environment. With the IBM Software Defined Environment, infrastructure is fully programmable to rapidly deploy workloads on optimal resources and to instantly respond to changing business demands. This information is intended for IBM sales representatives, IBM software architects, IBM Systems Technology Group brand specialists, distributors, resellers, and anyone who is developing or implementing SDE.

IBM Platform Computing Solutions Reference Architectures and Best Practices
IBM Platform Computing Solutions Reference Architectures and Best Practices

Author: Dino Quintero

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0738439479

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication demonstrates and documents that the combination of IBM System x®, IBM GPFSTM, IBM GPFS-FPO, IBM Platform Symphony®, IBM Platform HPC, IBM Platform LSF®, IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition, and IBM Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition deliver significant value to clients in need of cost-effective, highly scalable, and robust solutions. IBM depth of solutions can help the clients plan a foundation to face challenges in how to manage, maintain, enhance, and provision computing environments to, for example, analyze the growing volumes of data within their organizations. This IBM Redbooks publication addresses topics to educate, reiterate, confirm, and strengthen the widely held opinion of IBM Platform Computing as the systems software platform of choice within an IBM System x environment for deploying and managing environments that help clients solve challenging technical and business problems. This IBM Redbooks publication addresses topics to that help answer customer's complex challenge requirements to manage, maintain, and analyze the growing volumes of data within their organizations and provide expert-level documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to the worldwide support teams. This IBM Redbooks publication is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) who are responsible for delivering cost-effective computing solutions that help optimize business results, product development, and scientific discoveries.

Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Disk System
Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Disk System

Author: Jure Arzensek

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2014-12-19

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0738439185

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM Storwize® V7000 Unified Disk System, a virtualized storage system that consolidates block and file workloads into a single storage system. Advantages include simplicity of management, reduced cost, highly scalable capacity, performance, and high availability. It also offers improved efficiency and flexibility through built-in solid-state drive optimization, thin provisioning, IBM Real-time CompressionTM, and nondisruptive migration of data from existing storage. The system can virtualize and reuse existing disk systems, which offers a greater potential return on investment. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the following Redbooks publications to get the most from this book: Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 V6.3, SG24-7938 Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller V6.3, SG24-7933 Real-time Compression in SAN Volume Controller and Storwize V7000, REDP-4859 SONAS Implementation and Best Practices Guide, SG24-7962 SONAS Concepts, Architecture, and Planning Guide, SG24-7963

IBM Platform Computing Solutions
IBM Platform Computing Solutions

Author: Dino Quintero

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2012-12-07

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0738437484

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This IBM® Platform Computing Solutions Redbooks® publication is the first book to describe each of the available offerings that are part of the IBM portfolio of Cloud, analytics, and High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions for our clients. This IBM Redbooks publication delivers descriptions of the available offerings from IBM Platform Computing that address challenges for our clients in each industry. We include a few implementation and testing scenarios with selected solutions. This publication helps strengthen the position of IBM Platform Computing solutions with a well-defined and documented deployment model within an IBM System x® environment. This deployment model offers clients a planned foundation for dynamic cloud infrastructure, provisioning, large-scale parallel HPC application development, cluster management, and grid applications. This IBM publication is targeted to IT specialists, IT architects, support personnel, and clients. This book is intended for anyone who wants information about how IBM Platform Computing solutions use IBM to provide a wide array of client solutions.

IBM Technical Computing Clouds
IBM Technical Computing Clouds

Author: Dino Quintero

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0738438782

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This IBM® Redbooks® publication highlights IBM Technical Computing as a flexible infrastructure for clients looking to reduce capital and operational expenditures, optimize energy usage, or re-use the infrastructure. This book strengthens IBM SmartCloud® solutions, in particular IBM Technical Computing clouds, with a well-defined and documented deployment model within an IBM System x® or an IBM Flex SystemTM. This provides clients with a cost-effective, highly scalable, robust solution with a planned foundation for scaling, capacity, resilience, optimization, automation, and monitoring. This book is targeted toward technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) responsible for providing cloud-computing solutions and support.

A Guide to the IBM Clustered Network File System
A Guide to the IBM Clustered Network File System

Author: Ira Chavis

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2012-08-03

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0738450103

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The Clustered Network File System (CNFS) is a capability based on IBM® General Parallel File System (GPFSTM) running on Linux® which, when combined with System x® servers or BladeCenter® Servers, IBM TotalStorage® Disk Systems, and Storage Area Networks (SAN) components, provides a scalable file services environment. This capability enables customers to run a General Parallel File System (GPFS) data-serving cluster in which some or all of the nodes actively export the file system using NFS. This IBM RedpaperTM publication shows how Cluster NFS file services are delivered and supported today through the configurable order process of the IBM Intelligent Cluster. The audience for this paper includes executive and consultant decision makers and technical administrators who want to know how to implement this solution.

Implementing IBM Spectrum Scale
Implementing IBM Spectrum Scale

Author: Dino Quintero

Publisher: IBM Redbooks

Published: 2015-12-02

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 0738454656

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This IBM® RedpaperTM publication describes IBM SpectrumTM Scale, which is a scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, built on proven IBM General Parallel File System (GPFSTM) technology. Providing reliability, performance and scalability, IBM Spectrum ScaleTM can be implemented for a range of diverse requirements. This publication can help you install, tailor, and configure the environment, which is created from a combination of physical and logical components: hardware, operating system, storage, network, and applications. Knowledge of these components is key for planning an environment. However, to appreciate potential benefit first requires a simpler understanding of what IBM Spectrum Scale actually provides. This publication illustrates several example deployments and scenarios to demonstrate how IBM Spectrum Scale can be implemented. This paper is for technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists). These professionals are responsible for delivering cost-effective cloud services and big data solutions, helping to uncover insights among client data and be able to take actions to optimize business results, product development, and scientific discoveries.