IBM System p™ Server Consolidation solutions combined with IBM System Storage™ offerings enable enterprises to significantly reduce the number of single-application servers and consolidate them on fewer, more powerful high-performance servers that are less costly to manage. Advanced virtualization capabilities provide the flexibility to dynamically adjust system resources to meet peak demands across all workloads from Web servers to ERP, CRM and database-intensive business applications. High-performance processing enables greater operational efficiency by reducing the number of servers to be managed, while helping to ensure that mission-critical service level requirements are met. With Capacity Upgrade on Demand (optionally available on select servers), enterprises can enable additional processing capacity without disrupting current operations. These System p advantages can be extended by leveraging System Storage disk, tape and storage virtualization solutions to consolidate and lower costs of storage as well.
Server consolidation using System p5™ servers can help . . .
- Reduce the IT infrastructure complexity and cost of management by reducing the number of physical servers and the associated floor space and utility costs
- Increase operational efficiency with higher utilization of server processor, network and database resources with optional Advanced POWER™ Virtualization (standard on select models) and storage virtualization
- Deliver high-performance and reliability features to meet availability and performance service levels via IBM POWER5™ technology
- Enable flexible growth to meet business demands with Capacity Upgrade on Demand (optionally available on select servers)
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IBM System p Solutions for Web-tier Consolidation
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 onto fewer System p servers to help lower energy consumption, reduce hardware and software costs, improve flexibility and increase server resource utilization.
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Data center consolidation
Centralizing data centers, and rationalizing a diverse set of applications onto fewer, more powerful servers can help improve IT resource utilization to meet service levels and provide the flexibility to meet changing business demands. IBM System p5 590 and 595 servers include features which enable you to consolidate many different types of AIX 5L™ and Linux® workloads on a single server, and then shift or add capacity as needed to increase the agility of your IT operations.
Mission-critical application consolidation
Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Resource Management, and database access applications require high levels of performance and availability, and the flexibility to shift processing power and resources to the areas that need it most. IBM System p5 570, 590, and 595 servers deliver outstanding performance, and with Advanced POWER™ Virtualization (optional with the p5-570) provide improved IT resource utilization to meet service levels.
Single workload consolidation
Server sprawl is a problem that increases the costs of maintenance, software licenses, facilities, and creates more work for an already overtaxed IT staff. IBM BladeCenter JS21 blades and System p5 550Q servers deliver outstanding price/performance and, like all POWER5 processor-based systems, give you the flexibility to consolidate common AIX 5L and Linux workloads on a single space-saving server.
Web server consolidation
Consolidating Web servers can help improve manageability and reduce costs of maintaining Internet/intranet operations. The IBM BladeCenter JS21, System p5 550, 550Q and 560Q deliver outstanding price/performance and reliability for Web server consolidation helping to reduce the risk of abandoned transactions.
Storage systems
IBM System Storage provides disk and tape systems with superior virtualization capabilities that complement server consolidation, enabling you to simplify the infrastructure and reduce costs. IBM System Storage solutions are architected for and rigorously tested with System p servers, which can give you smooth and fast integration with your server consolidation project. Learn more about the storage solutions that meet your needs:
Virtualization
IBM Advanced POWER Virtualization provides the ability to dynamically allocate processing power and share resources across consolidated workloads. This can give you improved IT resource utilization to meet service levels, and the flexibility to meet changing business demands. It comes standard with IBM System p5 590 and 595 servers, is available at no additional charge with the BladeCenter JS21, and can be purchased separately for other System p5 models.
Clustering
Businesses must be prepared for unexpected outages whether due to equipment failures, accidents, or natural disasters. IT organizations must provide the means to prevent these outages when possible, and minimize the impact when they are not. IBM High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing software delivers automatic failure detection and rapid recovery to help reduce operational risk of highly consolidated mission-critical applications.
Billing and charge-back
One challenge that many IT organizations face is that when servers are consolidated and resources are virtualized, they can no longer show their internal departments the detailed costs for use of those resources. The Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager can help you understand and bill internal departments for their specific usage of consolidated resources across multiple platforms and sub-systems regardless of whether they are physical or virtualized.
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