Implementing and Managing a High-performance Enterprise Infrastructure with Nutanix on IBM Power Systems

Implementing and Managing a High-performance Enterprise Infrastructure with Nutanix on IBM Power Systems

by Dino Quintero, Ricardo Dobelin Barros, Miguel Gomez Gonzalez, Luis Daniel Gonzalez Diaz, Slav Martinski, Gabriel Padilla Jimenez, Ismael Solis Moreno, Alan Verdugo Munoz
Released March 2020
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738458564

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Book description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication describes how to implement and manage a hyperconverged private cloud solution by using theoretical knowledge, hands-on exercises, and documenting the findings by way of sample scenarios.

This book also is a guide about how to implement and manage a high-performance enterprise infrastructure and private cloud platform for big data, artificial intelligence, and transactional and analytics workloads on IBM Power Systems.

This book use available documentation, hardware, and software resources to meet the following goals:


  • Document the web-scale architecture that demonstrates the simple and agile nature of public clouds.
  • Showcase the hyperconverged infrastructure to help cloud native applications mine cognitive analytics workloads.
  • Conduct and document implementation case studies.
  • Document guidelines to help provide an optimal system configuration, implementation, and management.

This publication addresses topics for developers, IT architects, IT specialists, sellers, and anyone that wants to implement and manage a high-performance enterprise infrastructure and private cloud platform on IBM Power Systems. This book also provides documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to the technical teams, and solution guidance to the sales team. This book compliments any documentation that is available in IBM Knowledge Center, and aligns with the educational materials that are provided by the IBM Systems Software Education (SSE).

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. Preface
    1. Authors
    2. Now you can become a published author, too!
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction to Nutanix and Hyperconverged computing for cloud native applications and cognitive workloads
    1. 1.1 Hyperconverged infrastructure
    2. 1.2 What is a Hyperconverged infrastructure?
    3. 1.3 Nutanix on IBM Power Systems
    4. 1.4 IBM Power Systems architecture for Nutanix
  5. Chapter 2. Using a hyperconverged infrastructure with Nutanix on IBM Power Systems
    1. 2.1 Combining IBM Power Systems and Nutanix
      1. 2.1.1 Why IBM?
      2. 2.1.2 Why Nutanix?
    2. 2.2 Simplifying your data center
      1. 2.2.1 Focus on applications, not infrastructure
      2. 2.2.2 Eliminate bottlenecks
      3. 2.2.3 Ease of DevOps
      4. 2.2.4 Increasing security without adding silos
  6. Chapter 3. System configuration, reference architecture, and systems management for Nutanix on IBM Power Systems
    1. 3.1 Starting Nutanix on IBM Power Systems
      1. 3.1.1 Available configurations
    2. 3.2 Build blocks: Nutanix on IBM Power Systems
    3. 3.3 Nutanix web console: Prism Central
    4. 3.4 Verifying and preparing the environment for deployment
      1. 3.4.1 Cluster details
      2. 3.4.2 Image configuration
      3. 3.4.3 Network configuration
    5. 3.5 Deploying a virtual machine
  7. Chapter 4. Configuration and management recommended practices
    1. 4.1 Nutanix disaster recovery
      1. 4.1.1 Implementing disaster recovery
    2. 4.2 Configuring a protection domain (async DR)
      1. 4.2.1 General guidelines
  8. Chapter 5. Nutanix use cases
    1. 5.1 Installing packages in Nutanix
    2. 5.2 MongoDB overview
      1. 5.2.1 Document-based query language
    3. 5.3 Installation and configuration of a MongoDB Shard in a Nutanix Cloud
      1. 5.3.1 MongoDB and Nutanix
      2. 5.3.2 Reference architecture
      3. 5.3.3 Installing MongoDB on Nutanix
      4. 5.3.4 Configuring a MongoDB replica set
      5. 5.3.5 Recommended practices
    4. 5.4 Nutanix command line interface
    5. 5.5 Nutanix REST API
  9. Chapter 6. Deployment scenarios
    1. 6.1 Deploying AIX by using a cloud-ready image by way of Prism
    2. 6.2 Deploying a router VM
    3. 6.3 OpenVPN
      1. 6.3.1 Configuring an OpenVPN VM
  10. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Online resources
    3. Help from IBM
  11. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Implementing and Managing a High-performance Enterprise Infrastructure with Nutanix on IBM Power Systems
  • Author(s): Dino Quintero, Ricardo Dobelin Barros, Miguel Gomez Gonzalez, Luis Daniel Gonzalez Diaz, Slav Martinski, Gabriel Padilla Jimenez, Ismael Solis Moreno, Alan Verdugo Munoz
  • Release date: March 2020
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738458564