Book description
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides best practices for planning, installing, maintaining, and monitoring the IBM PowerVM® Enterprise Edition virtualization features on IBM POWER7® processor technology-based servers.
PowerVM is a combination of hardware, PowerVM Hypervisor, and software, which includes other virtualization features, such as the Virtual I/O Server.
This publication is intended for experienced IT specialists and
IT architects who want to learn about PowerVM best practices, and
focuses on the following topics:
Planning and general best practices
Installation, migration, and configuration
Administration and maintenance
Storage and networking
Performance monitoring
Security
PowerVM advanced features
This publication is written by a group of seven PowerVM experts
from different countries around the world. These experts came
together to bring their broad IT skills, depth of knowledge, and
experiences from thousands of installations and configurations in
different IBM client sites.
Table of contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Examples
- Notices
- Preface
-
Chapter 1: Introduction and planning
- Keeping track of PowerVM features
- Virtual I/O Server specifications
-
Planning your Virtual I/O Server environment
- System Planning Tool
- Document as you go
- Hardware planning
- Sizing your Virtual I/O Server
- IBM Systems Workload Estimator
- Shared or dedicated resources
- Single, dual, or multiple Virtual I/O Servers
- Network and storage components
- Slot numbering and naming conventions
- Operating systems on virtual client partitions
- Chapter 2: Installation, migration, and configuration
- Chapter 3: Administration and maintenance
- Chapter 4: Networking
- Chapter 5: Storage
- Chapter 6: Performance monitoring
- Chapter 7: Security and advanced IBM PowerVM features
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Related publications
- Index (1/2)
- Index (2/2)
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM PowerVM Best Practices
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2012
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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