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 IBM System p Solutions for Web-tier Consolidation
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| Family of Web-tier consolidation solutions |
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- Helps clients select from a wide array of powerful, yet low-cost System p servers and BladeCenter JS22 blades and middleware components capable of satisfying a wide range of consolidation requirements for Web and business applications
- Designed to lower energy consumption and reduce hardware and certain software costs as well as improve flexibility and increase server resource utilization
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| Build and deploy Web applications |
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- Open, tuned and easy to deploy Web middleware stacks, including popular LAMP and IBM middleware components
- Available on your choice of the Linux or AIX operating systems
- Familiar programming tools and techniques help reduce effort and time to consolidate applications
- Integrated Stack for SUSE Linux Enterprise features proven, enterprise-quality software components, including IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition software and IBM DB2 Express-C software for highly demanding Web environments
- Java Software Development Kits (SDK) obtained through the IBM developerWorks portal or bundled with WebSphere software helps clients develop new Java applications more easily
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| IBM System p servers and BladeCenter JS22 blades |
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- Designed to provide excellent application performance and high reliability
- Includes simultaneous multithreading to help increase commercial system performance and processor utilization
- Features high memory and I/O bandwidth designed to deliver data faster for the needs of memory-intensive applications
- Potential to consolidate environments consisting of a few x86 servers to hundreds of servers onto fewer, more powerful high-performance servers.
- Helps enable consolidation of both Web applications and business applications to extend the benefits of consolidation across the enterprise
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| Micro-Partitioning™ technology in IBM Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV) |
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- Allows clients to use the entire System p processor and memory capacity of each server
- Allows the creation of partitions with less than a full processor
- Designed to allow clients to consolidate a large number of single-purpose x86 servers running Web applications at low utilization levels
- Helps clients to efficiently consolidate applications with a range of performance and memory requirements on the same system
- Enables clients to fine tune their consolidation implementation, choosing between small dedicated partitions and larger partitions supporting workload from multiple x86 servers
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| Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) feature in APV |
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- Enables clients to share a single physical I/O adapter helping to reduce costs by reducing the number of physical I/O adapters
- Designed to support both dedicated and shared I/O implementations in virtualized partitions
- Affords clients the flexibility to choose between dedicating and sharing I/O adapters to help optimize performance for a range of applications
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| Mainframe-inspired Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) features in System p and BladeCenter JS22 platforms |
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- Helps keep the system up and running
- Helps increase system availability to process more Web transactions when needed
- Helps reduce the computing cost for completing critical transactions and the untimely financial impact of application unavailability
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| Live Partition Mobility optional in APV |
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- Designed to move a running partition from one POWER6™ server to another with no application downtime
- Helps improve system utilization, application availability and energy savings
- Designed to reduce or eliminate application downtime due to regular server maintenance
- Helps clients rebalance server provisioning to better adapt to changing requirements
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| Optional third-party high-availability software solutions |
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- Provides flexible options for autonomic failover
- Helps improve application availability
- Reduces the administration burden of recovering from system and application failures
- Helps enable larger consolidation configurations
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| IBM Server Consolidation Factory |
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- Includes an assortment of optional services delivered by IBM and qualified IBM Business Partners
- Helps mitigate business interruption risks through a proven methodology implemented by experts
- Designed to help clients identify the solution that most closely satisfies their consolidation requirements
- Provides expert advise based on experience and knowledge from engagements with other clients
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