The document discusses application deployment on IBM i environments. It covers the architecture of IBM i environments including using separate logical partitions (LPARs) for development, testing, and production. It also discusses change management options and how to package up applications for deployment. The presentation encourages separating environments for security and stability. It also promotes working with resellers, consultants, or IBM to properly configure environments rather than trying to do it alone.

1. Application Deployment on IBM i
Mike Pavlak
Solution Consultant
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2. Agenda
• Discuss architecture of and IBM i environment
• Explore what we use at Zend
• Change Management options
• Q&A
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3. Disclaimer!
Eric Ritchie has already done this
Covered many aspects of app deployment
Did a darn good job, too!
Available in recorded webinar (Jan 31, 2012)
Nearly all of this is applicable to IBM i
Clustering not applicable.
We will cover IBM i specific aspects.
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4. Application Deployment
www.zend.com
Architecture of environments
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5. What is supported vs. what can I do
• It’s your IBM i, do with it what you will…
• Zend supports certain things FOR A REASON!!!
• So what does Zend support:
One single instance of Zend Server per LPAR
• On newer hardware, LPAR’s are CHEAP and relatively easy!
• On older hardware, not so much (Hint: consider upgrading)
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6. Standard Environment
• Development
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• Production s
Production Solution
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7. What do we have at Zend?
• Still cooking, but we have
Separate LPAR’s for support vs. sales team
Separate LPAR’s for each Zend Server version under support
Separate LPAR’s for each version of PHP
• Currently 5.2 & 5.3
• PHP 5.4 somewhere down the road
Single 720 with VIOS as the base OS hosting
• Two i6.1 LPAR’s
• Six i7.1 LPAR’s
• R&D is getting new machine and similar approach.
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8. Excuses…
• I’m on old hardware and can’t afford two LPAR’s
• The IT budget has been cut AGAIN
• I’m on Power5 or V5R4
• We don’t have the skills
• We don’t have the time
• I need isolation between my applications!
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9. Reality
• We never seem to have time to do it right, but we always
have time to fix it…
• Linux shops struggle with this, too
• In fact, they tend to be the inverse of IBM shops
• Don’t think you have to do it on your own? Get help!
Reseller – Part of installation
Consulting – Third party to configure
IBM – pre-order configurations
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10. Application Deployment
www.zend.com
Change management options
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11. All the majors are there!
•Aldon
•MKS
•Arcad
•Softlanding
•Don’t reinvent the wheel, contact your CMS vendor
•You have probably invested heavily and they can do it!
I have seen the solutions from the top 3 and they work with PHP!
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12. CMS considerations
•Seriously consider your options
•Bad habits with CMS will bring about bad habits with PHP!
•Opportunity to start fresh and get organized
•Start with your current CMS solution
•Then grow out to SVN, etc.
•Application Deployment can help with both
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13. Application Deployment
www.zend.com
Application Deployment
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14. Package up applications
•Easily create application packages that consist of source
code, metadata and scripts
•Deploy applications on any number of servers using a
simple wizard or through a Web API
•Rapidly deploy application updates or remove
applications from servers
•Use with custom or 3rd party applications, such as
Magento and Drupal
•Please check in and see Eric’s webinar…
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15. Application Deployment
www.zend.com
Wrap it up
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16. Webcasts
• March 6 – Performance Tuning PHP and IBM i
• April 12 – Stored Procedures Part II (RPG, etc.)
• May 2 – Additional Functions of DB2 with PHP on IBM i
Your thoughts???
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17. Events where you’ll find Zend…
• User groups
Status (Ft Wayne, IN) Feb 14
• http://www.statususer.org/html/20120214.html
OCEAN (Orange County, CA) Feb 21
• http://www.ocean400.org/
WMCPA (Lake Geneva, WI) Mar 20-22
• http://wmcpa.org/
NEUGC (Boston, MA) April 2-4
• http://neugc.org/
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18. Events where you’ll find Zend…(cont.)
• Major venues
RPG & DB2 Summit (Ft. Worth, TX) Mar 25-28
• http://www.systemideveloper.com/Summit/conferences.html
COMMON Annual Meeting and Expo (Anaheim, CA) May 6-9
• http://www.common.org/index.php/annualmeeting.html
COMMON Fall Conference (Columbus, OH) Sep 24-26
• http://www.common.org/index.php/fall-conference-and-expo.html
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19. Q&A
mike.p@zend.com
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20. Webinar
To watch the recorded webinar, please go to:
http://www.zend.com/en/resources/webinars/i5-os#APPDEPi
or
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