Pump Up with IBM PowerLinux

Pump Up with IBM PowerLinux by POWER ITPro With advent of PowerVM, makes Linux full-fledged peer OS on same level as AIX and IBMI At application level, functions as industry-standard platform for Red Hat and SUSE distros Pewer Linux Under hardware hood, # of features make PowerLinux intrinsically Can exploit IBM's application services, including DB2 and WebSphere Collection of products and technologies aimed at making IBM Power Systems an attractive destination for Linux-based applications FASTER, CHEAPER Runs on all Can deploy in PureSystems line using Flex System p24L PowerLinux Computer Node Power Systems MORE SCALABLE servers Pricing Per virtual machine PowerVM + POWER7 VMware + Dell $8,211 $15,474 per virtual machine per virtual machine = one supported web facing virtualized machine 47% H LOWER COST PER VIRTUAL MACHINE Features that most impact Linux Hypervisor is read-only firmware shipped POWER VM Supports standard hypervisor features live VM migration, shared SAN storage pools, dynamic CPU with OS unlike x86 hypervisors that run as separately installed, changeable software OS OS OS allocation HYPERVISOR Security features make PowerLinux with PowérVM much more immune than x86-based Linux with VMware HARDWARE REPORTED VULNERABILITIES 100 Power VM + VIOS x86 VMWare MICRO- can allocate. Ohe as itie as twentieth toa VM PARTIONING to provide greater workload management flexibility • Cap CPU usage for 1 or more VMs SHARED PROCESSOR POOLS (SPPS) • Automatically move CPU capacity between VMs VM #1 VM #2 VM #3 ACTIVE MEMORY DEDUPLICATION can reduce MEMORY CONSUMPTICN by up to 50% Lets all VMs share a single copy of duplicate memory pages, automatically splitting a common copy if one or more VMs writes changes to it. Sources: "PowerLinux pumps up Linux apps"-Mel Beckman for Power IT Pro "IBMPowerVM Virtualization Technology on IBM POWER7 Systems: A Comparison of PowerVM and VMware vSphere (41 & 5.0) Virtualization Performance."- Edison Croup, 201 1 "IBM Powerlinux - How and why are custom ers uşing Linux on Power Systems" - Chuck Bryan, 2012 poweritpro.com Penguin illustration by Matt Wiebe Infographic design by Jen Cintora, Penton Marketing Services @PowerlTPro Pump Up with IBM PowerLinux by POWER ITPro With advent of PowerVM, makes Linux full-fledged peer OS on same level as AIX and IBMI At application level, functions as industry-standard platform for Red Hat and SUSE distros Pewer Linux Under hardware hood, # of features make PowerLinux intrinsically Can exploit IBM's application services, including DB2 and WebSphere Collection of products and technologies aimed at making IBM Power Systems an attractive destination for Linux-based applications FASTER, CHEAPER Runs on all Can deploy in PureSystems line using Flex System p24L PowerLinux Computer Node Power Systems MORE SCALABLE servers Pricing Per virtual machine PowerVM + POWER7 VMware + Dell $8,211 $15,474 per virtual machine per virtual machine = one supported web facing virtualized machine 47% H LOWER COST PER VIRTUAL MACHINE Features that most impact Linux Hypervisor is read-only firmware shipped POWER VM Supports standard hypervisor features live VM migration, shared SAN storage pools, dynamic CPU with OS unlike x86 hypervisors that run as separately installed, changeable software OS OS OS allocation HYPERVISOR Security features make PowerLinux with PowérVM much more immune than x86-based Linux with VMware HARDWARE REPORTED VULNERABILITIES 100 Power VM + VIOS x86 VMWare MICRO- can allocate. Ohe as itie as twentieth toa VM PARTIONING to provide greater workload management flexibility • Cap CPU usage for 1 or more VMs SHARED PROCESSOR POOLS (SPPS) • Automatically move CPU capacity between VMs VM #1 VM #2 VM #3 ACTIVE MEMORY DEDUPLICATION can reduce MEMORY CONSUMPTICN by up to 50% Lets all VMs share a single copy of duplicate memory pages, automatically splitting a common copy if one or more VMs writes changes to it. Sources: "PowerLinux pumps up Linux apps"-Mel Beckman for Power IT Pro "IBMPowerVM Virtualization Technology on IBM POWER7 Systems: A Comparison of PowerVM and VMware vSphere (41 & 5.0) Virtualization Performance."- Edison Croup, 201 1 "IBM Powerlinux - How and why are custom ers uşing Linux on Power Systems" - Chuck Bryan, 2012 poweritpro.com Penguin illustration by Matt Wiebe Infographic design by Jen Cintora, Penton Marketing Services @PowerlTPro