January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
306 pages
7h 38m
English
book
IBM PowerVC Version 1.3.2 Introduction and Configuration
by Javier Bazan Lazcano, Martin Parrella
Overview
IBM® Power Virtualization Center (IBM® PowerVC™) is an advanced, enterprise virtualization management offering for IBM Power Systems™. This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces IBM PowerVC and helps you understand its functions, planning, installation, and setup.
IBM PowerVC Version 1.3.2 supports both large and small deployments, either by managing IBM PowerVM® that is controlled by the Hardware Management Console (HMC) by IBM PowerVM NovaLink, or by managing PowerKVM directly. With this capability, IBM PowerVC can manage IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux workloads that run on IBM POWER® hardware.
IBM PowerVC is available as a Standard Edition, or as a Cloud PowerVC Manager edition.
IBM PowerVC includes the following features and
benefits:
Virtual image capture, deployment, and management
Policy-based virtual machine (VM) placement to improve
use
Management of real-time optimization and VM resilience to
increase productivity
VM Mobility with placement policies to reduce the burden on IT
staff in a simple-to-install and easy-to-use graphical user
interface (GUI)
Role-based security policies to ensure a secure environment for
common tasks
The ability to enable an administrator to enable Dynamic
Resource Optimization on a schedule
IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager includes all of the IBM PowerVC Standard Edition features and adds:
A Self-service portal that allows the provisioning of new VMs
without direct system administrator intervention. There is an
option for policy approvals for the requests that are received from
the self-service portal.
Pre-built deploy templates that are set up by the cloud
administrator that simplify the deployment of VMs by the cloud
user.
Cloud management policies that simplify management of cloud
deployments.
Metering data that can be used for chargeback.
This publication is for experienced users of IBM PowerVM and other virtualization solutions who want to understand and implement the next generation of enterprise virtualization management for Power Systems.
Unless stated otherwise, the content of this publication refers to IBM PowerVC Version 1.3.2.
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