With the IBM i and selected Power Systems™ servers, valuable education and services vouchers are included at no additional charge. Vouchers are designed to help you more fully understand and use the advanced features and capabilities of IBM i. Vouchers are only available with selected new Power Systems servers and vouchers are not available with system upgrades.
| Machine Type | Name | # of cores | Processor Type | Configuration Requirements | # of Service vouchers | # of Education Vouchers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7778-23X | BladeCenter JS23/43 | 4-8 | POWER6 | IBM i (#0775) | 1 | 0 |
| 7891-73X | BladeCenter PS703 | 16 | POWER7 | IBM i (#0775) | 1 | 0 |
| 7891-74X | BladeCenter PS704 | 32 | POWER7 | IBM i (#0775) | 1 | 0 |
| 7998-60X | BladeCenter JS12 | 2 | POWER6 | IBM i except for iEdition Express Configurations (#0775) | 1 | 0 |
| 7998-61X | BladeCenter JS22 | 4 | POWER6 | IBM i except for iEdition Express Configurations (#0775) | 1 | 0 |
| 7988-60X | BladeCenter JS12 | 2 | POWER5 | IBM i (#0775) | 1 | 0 |
| 7988-61X | BladeCenter JS22 | 4 | POWER5 | IBM i (#0775) | 1 | 0 |
| 8202-E4B | 720 | 4 | POWER7 | Solution Edition #4975 see Special Services below for restrictions | 1 | 0 |
| 8202-E4C | 720 | 4 | POWER7 (IOC) | Solution Edition #4928 see Special Services below for restrictions | 1 | 0 |
| 8202-E4D | 720 | 4 | POWER7+ | Solution Edition #4928 see Special Services below for restrictions | 1 | 0 |
| 8202-E4C | 720 | 4 | POWER7 (IOC) | IBM i for Business Intelligence: #4934 | 1 | 0 |
| 8202-E4D | 720 | 4 | POWER7+ | IBM i for Business Intelligence: #4934 | 1 | 0 |
| 8202-E4B | 720 | 6-8 | POWER7 | Express edition: #0778 Solution edition: #4971 | 1 | 0 |
| 8202-E4C | 720 | 6-8 | POWER7 (IOC) | Express edition: #0779 Solution edition: #4927 | 1 | 0 |
| 8202-E4D | 720 | 6-8 | POWER7+ | Express edition: #0779 Solution edition: #4927 | 1 | 0 |
| 8202-E4C | 720 | 6 | POWER7 (IOC) | IBM i for Business Intelligence: #4935 or #4936 | 1 | 0 |
| 8202-E4D | 720 | 6 | POWER7+ | IBM i for Business Intelligence: #4935 or #4936 | 1 | 0 |
| 8203-E4A | 520 | 2 | POWER6 | i Edition: #9636, #9637, #9638 | 2 | 0 |
| 8203-E4A | 520 | 4 | POWER6 | i Edition: #9639, #9640, or #9643 | 2 | 0 |
| 8204-E8A | 550 | 2-8 | POWER6 | i Edition #9642 | 1 | 1 |
| 8205-E6B | 740 | 4-16 | POWER7 | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code or Solution Edition: #4972 | 1 | 1 |
| 8205-E6C | 740 | 4-16 | POWER7 (IOC) | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code or Solution Edition: #4972 or #4929 | 1 | 1 |
| 8205-E6D | 740 | 8-16 | POWER7+ | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code or Solution Edition: #4972 or #4929 | 1 | 1 |
| 8231-E2B | 730 | 8-16 | POWER7 | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 1 | 1 |
| 8231-E2C | 730 | 8-16 | POWER7 (IOC) | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 1 | 1 |
| 8231-E2D | 730 | 8-16 | POWER7+ | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code or Solution Edition: #4972 or #4929 | 1 | 1 |
| 8233-E8B | 750 | 6-32 | POWER7 | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 1 | 1 |
| 8408-E8D | 750 | 8-32 | POWER7+ | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 1 | 1 |
| 8234-EMA | 560 | 4-16 | POWER6 | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 1 | 1 |
| 8406-70Y | BladeCenter PS700 | 4 | POWER7 | IBM i | 1 | 0 |
| 8406-71Y | BladeCenter PS701 | 8 | POWER7 | IBM i | 1 | 0 |
| 8406-71Y | BladeCenter PS702 | 16 | POWER7 | IBM i | 1 | 0 |
| 9117-MMA | 570 | 4-32 | POWER6 | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 1 | 1 |
| 9117-MMB | 770 | 12-64 | POWER7 | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 1 | 1 |
| 9117-MMC | 770 | 12-64 | POWER7 (IOC) | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 1 | 1 |
| 9117-MMD | 770 | 12-64 | POWER7+ | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 1 | 1 |
| 9119-FHA | 595 | 8-64 | POWER6 | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 3 | 3 |
| 9119-FHB | 795 | 8-16 | POWER7 | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 3 | 3 |
| 9179-MHB | 780 | 16-64 | POWER7 | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 3 | 3 |
| 9179-MHC | 780 | 16-64 | POWER7 (IOC) | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 3 | 3 |
| 9179-MHD | 780 | 16-128 | POWER7+ | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 3 | 3 |
| 9406-520 | 520 | 1, 2 | POWER5 | Enterprise Edition | 1 | 0 |
| 9406-525 | 525 | 2 | POWER5 | Express Edition | 1 | 0 |
| 9406-550 | 550 | 4 | POWER5 | Enterprise and Solution Editions | 1 | 1 |
| 9406-570 | 570 | 4-16 | POWER5 | Enterprise Edition | 1 | 3 |
| 9406-595 | 595 | 16-64 | POWER5 | Enterprise Edition | 5 | 5 |
| 9406-MMA | 570 | 4-16 | POWER6 | IBM i Primary OS #2145 or i Specify Code | 1 | 1 |
| 9408-M25 | 520 | 2 | POWER6 | i Edition: #6761, #6762, or #6763 | 2 | 0 |
| 9409-M50 | 550 | 4 | POWER6 | i Edition #7006 | 1 | 1 |
These services are available for the IBM i and selected Power Systems servers. A more complete description of the service and what can be offered will be sent once the system registration has been determined to be valid. The offerings are designed to help you "get started" in a leading-edge application. With help from an expert on IBM's technical team at your side, you will quickly take advantage of your new system's capabilities.
One voucher is required for any one of these services.
Services overviews (generally available for most machine type/models - see below for exceptions)
IBM i Performance Assessment and Knowledge Transfer
This service includes analysis of system wide performance data focused not only on machine setup but also the applications running on your system. This service uses performance tools to review a variety of factors such as memory pool management, disk utilization, CPU analysis, Java and database settings. Alternatively, this service could also be used to determine the amount of improvement SSDs can provide to your IBM i partition. Specific objects will be identified to help ensure you get the most benefit from your SSD implementation. Best practices will be shared so that you can keep your SSDs performing optimally. If you already have SSDs and are not getting the performance improvement you expected, or the performance seems to have degraded over time, this service can be used to reconfigure them for best performance.
- DB2 for IBM i Best Practices
This service will help you implement best practices for DB2 for IBM i. This offering can be used to understand the basics of DB2 including management tools, SQL performance and tuning, tools to be used for performance monitoring and analysis, and topics of interest such as stored procedures, triggers, and XML. Alternatively, this service can be utilized to assess the performance of SQL in your client server and IBM i applications as well as a review of memory pool and subsystem setup. This offering provides an assessment of the SQL environment with recommendations as well as discusses the enablement of query optimization techniques.
- Getting Started with PowerVM Virtual I/O Server and IBM i
This service is designed to help you get started with IBM PowerVM Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) to host I/O for IBM i client partitions. Depending on your environment and desired solution, this offering could provide planning and high level design services for effectively utilizing VIOS in an environment that includes IBM i. Alternatively, this offering could assist with installation and deployment of VIOS on a Power System with IBM i.
- Getting Started with DB2 Web Query for IBM i
The service offering will help you get started with developing and running reports using DB2 Web Query. IBM experts will help you install the software, create and import meta data, help you import query/400 definitions and assist you in building reports using report and/or graphing assistant components.
- Getting started with IBM i and BladeCenter®
This service provides assistance in getting started with IBM i and BladeCenter. The service may include assistance in the install of BladeCenter hardware, performing firmware updates, or installing VIOS and network configuration.
- Getting Started with BladeCenter and System x® Solutions for IBM i
This service will help get your company's Integrated BladeCenter and System x environment up and running quickly. The service can be applied towards the installation of an iSCSI attached BladeCenter or System x server solution.The service will include installation of IBM Director on IBM i and creation of configuration objects on the IBM i side. Installation of the customer-acquired Microsoft® Windows ServerTM operating system on the Blade or System x server will be included.
- Getting Started with IBM Systems Director
This service is designed to help you get started with IBM Systems Director. This service will provide a planning session for installing IBM Systems Director to manage your IBM i and Power Environment. An IBM Lab Services Consultant will work with you to understand your systems management requirements and will assist you in creating a roadmap of how IBM Systems Director can provide added benefit in managing, monitoring and updating IBM i, Firmware, HMC, BladeCenter, and other components of your Power solution.
- Getting Started with Secure Perspective for IBM i
This service will help you with the deployment of Secure Perspective on your IBM i. This includes installing the product, setting up the administrative users and controlled systems, brainstorming access control policies, and demonstrating how to use the tool.
- Getting Started with AIX with IBM i for Power Systems
This service will provide assistance in using an AIX partition on Power Systems that will allow IBM i customers to explore the possibilities of AIX running alongside IBM i.
- Getting Started with Linux with IBM i for Power Systems
This service will provide assistance in using a Linux partition on Power Systems that will allow IBM i customers to explore the possibilities of Linux running alongside IBM i.
- Getting Started with WebSphere® with IBM i for Power Systems
This service will get your company started utilizing a WebSphere Application Server on IBM i. The service can be used to help validate an initial installation or utilize some of the more advanced features that Websphere has to offer such as Websphere portal, Websphere Network deployment or Websphere Security.
- Migration Assistance
This service will assist you in migrating from older IBM hardware to new IBM hardware.
- IBM Quick Install for SAP Business All-in-One
This service provides assistance in SAP on IBM i installation services. Our SAP NetWeaver on IBM i expert will lay down the operating system, database and an SAP system landscape, pre-built by SAP labs, pre-verified by SAP on IBM i experts, and all delivered as a bundled solution via tape. Upon restoring the bundle, the landscape will be ready for you to begin customizing your SAP solution.
- IBM i Security HealthCheck Assessment
This service is to perform a technical security analysis for one partition. The service will help you investigate powerful user profiles, password practices, and the use of group profiles. The service will also examine the use of adopted authority and authorization lists, communications and TCP/IP exposures, current system value settings, and sensitive output queues and/or job queues.
- Getting Started with Zend and MySQL on IBM i
The service offering will help you get prepared to develop and run applications based on PHP and MySQL on IBM i. The service will include items such as installing PHP and MySQL on IBM i, including Zend Core for IBM i, Zend Studio for IBM i on one client, and MySQL for IBM i on one server. In addition to installing the software, the service includes running sample PHP applications that get data out of DB2 for IBM i and MySQL for IBM i.
- IBM i Availability HealthCheck
The service offering will conduct a IBM i Availability HealthCheck which is an analysis of a customer’s IBM i IT infrastructure for potential areas of exposure as well as a review of their system management processes for adherence to best practices. The intent is to identify significant risks and provide recommendations to help mitigate those risks.
- IBM i BRMS Assessment
The BRMS assessment service will provide an analysis for tuning BRMS on your IBM i environment. The BRMS settings including policies, control groups, network setup, logs and others will be reviewed.
- Getting Started with PowerHA on IBM i
This service is designed to help you get started with IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for i. Depending on your environment and desired solution this could provide planning and high-level design services to review the considerations for effectively utilizing PowerHA for i to enhance backup, high availability, and disaster recovery. Alternatively this service offering could assist with the installation and deployment of the PowerHA for i solution.
- External storage and PowerHA for IBM i
This service will provide planning and high-level design services to review the considerations for effectively attaching IBM TotalStorage DS6000 or DS8000 to IBM i so as to achieve optimal performance and redundancy. IBM will also describe the use of PowerHA with Copy Services (Flash Copy, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror) as it relates to enhanced backup, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery solutions. Topics of discussion may include the logical storage configuration, virtualization of disk, locating the Load Source Unit in external storage, multi-path support, SAN switch zoning, independent Auxiliary Storage Pools (IASP), and deployment of PowerHA for IBM i.
- Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Express Installation for IBM i
This service provides for a rapid installation of EnterpriseOne on an IBM i partition. Our IBM i experts will install the images which have been pre-built, tested, and distributed by Oracle. The installation includes the Deployment Server, the Server Manager Console, and the standard JDE EnterpriseOne environments (Production, Pristine, Prototype, Development) on IBM i which will be ready to apply Oracle Business Accelerators and for you to make your own customizations. The service also includes a review and adjustment of some of the key performance tuning settings.
Special services
Services for the Power 720 machine type 8202-E4B FC 4975 and 8202-E4C 4 Core 4928 are limited to the following 1/2 day IBM delivered remote services:
- Availability Technology Check-up
IBM will conduct an IBM Power Systems i Availability Technology Check-up to review your current Power i environment and provide a high-level assessment of your overall availability readiness. This service is conducted remotely and provides up to 4 hours of consulting assistance. This IBM Power Systems i Improved Availability Technology Check-up is designed to identify significant risks and provide recommendations to help leverage your Power i installation deliver real business value.
- System Security Review
Utilizing an IBM i collection tool this service analyzes over 700 pieces of security information on your IBM i to determine the level of risk in your IBM i operating environment. Areas examined include, user profile administration, network configuration, operational configuration, application administration, system settings, audit journal, IFS, and many other key security related components. Our IBM i security consultants will then evaluate those results and report to you the areas of risk that you should consider giving more attention.
- SQL Performance Review
In this SQL performance review service a DB2 performance specialist will review the contents of the SQL Plan Cache from the partition of your choice. This review will include analyzing at least the top 10 slowest queries in terms of total run time and providing recommendations for improving the performance of those queries. A written report will be provided and a follow-up one hour call will be scheduled to explain the findings and answer questions related to database performance.
- IBM Quick Install for SAP Business All-in-One
This service provides assistance in SAP on IBM i installation services. Our SAP NetWeaver on IBM i expert will lay down the operating system, database and an SAP system landscape, pre-built by SAP labs, pre-verified by SAP on IBM i experts, and all delivered as a bundled solution via tape. Upon restoring the bundle, the landscape will be ready for you to begin customizing your SAP solution.
Services only available for POWER7 machine type/models ordered with CBU - specify feature (0444, 4896, or 4898):
- Getting Started with CBU and Power HA
This 3 day service is designed to help you get started with IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for i. This service could provide planning and high-level design services to review the considerations for effectively utilizing PoweHA for i to enhance backup, high availability, and disaster recovery. The primary focus will be to work toward the installation and deployment of a "remote" secondary system (CBU edition) to be used in conjunction with your primary system to improve your overall business resiliency. The scope of the service will depend on your environment and desired solution with PowerHA.
Services only available for POWER7 machine type/models ordered with IBM i for Business Intelligence #4934, #4935, or #4936:
- From Set-up to Operational Reporting with IBM i for Business Intelligence
The IBM i for Business Intelligence Edition includes everything you need to get an operational reporting environment up and running with minimal effort. This 3 day service will set up data transportation processes between your production IBM i system and the new Business Intelligence Edition, creating an operational data store for reporting purposes. Included in the services will be installation and initial set up of DB2 Web Query, including meta data creation and development of reports that showcase several different reporting options.
Get the skills you need to take advantage of IBM i. As part of this program, you can redeem your voucher to attend one of the classes or conferences listed below. Only one education voucher is required to attend any one of these courses or conferences.
OW78/OW780
3.0 days
Websphere Application Server V6.0 Performance for IBM i
This course is designed for IBM i professionals whose responsibilities include performance analysis and tuning for IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM i based solutions.
OW79/OW790
3.0 days
Websphere Application Server V6.1 Performance for IBM i
This course is designed for IBM i professionals whose responsibilities include performance analysis and tuning for IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM i based solutions.
OW86/OW860
2.0 days
IBM i Application Development using WDSC Version 6.0
Learn how to use the PC based tools included in IBM WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSC) for System i Version 6.0 to create and maintain your IBM i RPG and COBOL host applications. Learn how to move from the 5250 green screen tools to workstation tools, featuring a Graphical User Interface (GUI).
OW87/OW870
2.0 days
IBM i Application Development using WDSC V7.0
This course introduces IBM i application developers to using WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSc) to develop IBM i host applications (RPG, COBOL, and CL). The lectures and hands-on exercises show IBM i developers how to perform the same tasks they do in Program Development Manager (PDM) and/or Source Entry Utility (SEU) as well as highlight features that are unique to WDSc.
AS90/AS900
3.0 days
IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.0 Administration on IBM i
Learn about the installation and administration of IBM HTTP Server and WebSphere Application Server on IBM i. Learn to use the administrative interfaces for WebSphere administration, deploy various applications, secure applications, troubleshoot, backup and recover, and the Network Deployment environment. This course uses WebSphere Application Server V6.0 on IBM i.
AS94/AS940
3.0 days
IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Administration on IBM i
This course is intended for system administrators who need to install, configure, and maintain WebSphere Application Server on IBM i. This education uses WebSphere Application Server V6.1 on IBM i. If education using Websphere Application Server V6.0 on IBM i is preferred, refer to CC# AS900.
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