Helps reduce complexity by consolidating Web applications from numerous x86 servers onto fewer powerful, yet low-cost IBM System p™ and BladeCenter® JS22 Express platforms
Helps lower energy costs and better manage growth with affordable IBM Advanced POWER™ Virtualization technology
Build and deploy Web applications using popular LAMP and IBM middleware components on a choice of Linux® or IBM AIX® operating systems to help realize strategies for innovation
Designed to improve application uptime with an array of reliability features and options and high-availability solutions from IBM and ISV partners
Many data centers have hit-the-wall on floor space, energy consumption, personnel and service level agreement (SLA) achievability, trying to keep pace with the rapid demand for new applications. To maximize return on IT investments, clients are revamping their application deployment strategies, migrating from sprawling server farm implementations comprised of single-purpose x86 servers to a consolidated workload approach.
Using virtualization technologies, clients are implementing these new applications on flexible and expandable infrastructure capable of efficiently accommodating the workload from many servers on only a single or a few servers. Through consolidation of applications, clients can improve IT efficiency and help reduce the high energy, space and system costs that can come with constantly dedicating x86 servers to each new application. The need for a more energy efficient implementation is no more prevalent than in the Web-tier as organizations frantically race to build new Web applications and services.
To help accelerate this movement towards consolidation, IBM offers a family of Web-tier consolidation solutions using powerful yet low-cost System p and BladeCenter JS22 Express platforms configured with Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV)1. These solutions help clients select from a wide array of server models and middleware components capable of satisfying consolidation requirements for Web applications ranging from a few servers to hundreds of servers.
Designed for organizations and businesses with an expanding Web infrastructure, IBM System p Solutions for Web-tier Consolidation consolidate Web and business applications from x86 servers to help lower energy consumption and reduce hardware and certain software costs as well as improve flexibility and increase server resource utilization.
Solution components include: System p servers and BladeCenter JS22 Express blade servers running your choice of supported Linux operating system (OS) or AIX, the IBM industrial-strength UNIX® OS; IBM feature-rich, yet affordable APV technology; open, tuned and easy to deploy Web middleware components including the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python) stack and Integrated Stack for SUSE Linux Enterprise; Java™ Software Development Kits (SDK) for building new Java applications; A selection of optional third-party high-availability software solutions and services from the IBM Server Consolidation Factory delivered by IBM and qualified IBM Business Partners.
Solution summary
IBM System p Solutions for Web-tier Consolidation feature powerful, yet low-cost IBM System p™ servers and BladeCenter® JS22 blade servers running IBM Advanced POWER™ Virtualization to help clients consolidate a combination of Web and business applications from a few x86 servers to hundreds of servers. These solutions for consolidating workload help clients to lower energy consumption and reduce hardware and certain software costs as well as improve flexibility and increase server resource utilization. Solution components include:
System p and BladeCenter JS22 platforms running your choice of supported Linux® operating systems or AIX®, the IBM industrial-strength UNIX® operating system;
Advanced POWER Virtualization (optional on some models) to help organizations consolidate multiple operating systems and software stacks on a single platform with advanced features designed to improve application uptime, increase application performance and extend the processor and memory resources available for virtualized applications;
Open, tuned and easy to deploy Web middleware stacks for System p and BladeCenter JS22 platforms running Linux on POWER and AIX operating systems including the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python) stack and Integrated Stack for SUSE Linux Enterprise, featuring proven, enterprise-quality IBM WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition and DB2® Express-C software components;
Java™ Software Development Kits (SDK) easily obtained through the IBM developerWorks® portal or bundled with WebSphere software;
A selection of optional high-availability software solutions for POWER processor based servers running both the AIX and Linux operating systems providing flexible options for autonomic failover which can help reduce the impact of and eliminate some workload outages and;
An assortment of optional services from the IBM Server Consolidation Factory delivered by IBM and qualified IBM Business Partners ranging from helping to assess your IT environment and recommending a consolidation solution to testing and deploying a consolidation solution.
