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Cloud Design
Workshop
Overview
The Cloud Design Workshop for
Power Systems can help you
design a plan for private, public or
hybrid multi-cloud implementation.
It is designed to develop a robust
blueprint for implementing Power
cloud solution, either on-premises
or in a public cloud.
Power to Cloud Rewards
Target Audience
– Clients that are running Power
Systems and considering a
private, public or hybrid cloud.
Why Use This Service?
– Are you running AIX, IBM i or
Linux on Power and want to
implement a private cloud or
move to a public cloud?
– Are you interested in cloud-
native solutions and want to
deploy self-service provisioning
for DevOps?
– Are you considering using
PowerVC, Ansible or VMWare
vRealize for operations process
automation?
Benefits
– The cloud design service is
customized to a specific client’s
environment and goals for
multiple cloud scenarios.
– The service identifies key
stakeholders across compute,
storage and networking teams
and best practices for their
cooperating for cloud
provisioning.
Service Provided
– Advise on available Power
private cloud solutions, including
PowerVC, OpenShift and
Ansible.
public cloud solutions, including
IBM Cloud with Power Virtual
Servers for AIX and IBM i.
hybrid cloud solutions, including
with OpenShift and IBM Cloud
Pak for Multi-Cloud
Management.
– Analyze current virtualization
and provisioning processes.
– Analyze current server, storage
and network environment.
– Analyze current software stacks
and virtual machine images.
– Develop use cases for cloud
implementation.
– Plan possible cloud workloads
and user expectations.
– Plan hardware and software
environment for selected cloud
implementation.
Deliverables
– Workshop creates a blueprint
design document for later
deployment of a selected cloud
environment.
– Recommendations on how to
deploy the selected Cloud
solution, typically - if a private
cloud - using using PowerVC for
provisioning of servers, storage
and networking resources.
– Skills enablement and guidance
on best practices for successful
cloud deployments.
Contacts
– Contact us at ibmsls@us.ibm.com
or your local Lab Services team
IBM Power Systems
Quick Reference Guide

Power Virtual
Servers (AIX, IBM i)
Implementation
in IBM Cloud
Overview
This service is designed to help you
deploy AIX or IBM i workloads as a
virtual server in the IBM Cloud. It
will help you with the planning and
migration of an on-premises
workloads to the cloud, with focus
on preparing for networking,
security, backup and disaster
recovery decisions for your new
cloud environment.
Target Audience
– Clients running AIX and IBM i
considering public cloud for
some of their workloads.
– Are you considering Power in
the cloud or a pay-as-you-go
consumption model for Power?
– Are looking for the flexibility of a
hybrid cloud model for AIX or
IBM i?
– Are you struggling to find AIX or
IBM i skills for on-premise
workload management?
Benefits
– The Power Virtual Servers (VS)
service helps you migrate to the
cloud, leveraging best practices
for networking, security, backup
and disaster recovery.
– It enables you to move with
confidence to a public cloud
OpEx consumption model as
part of your infrastructure
strategy.
Service Provided
– Perform a technical readiness
assessment for moving
workloads to the IBM Cloud
including preparation for
networking, security, backup
and resiliency.
– Identify target workloads and
develop migration plan (via
PowerVC images or mksysb)
– Implement migration to IBM
Cloud for selected workloads.
– Advise on and, if requested,
implement networking, security,
backup and resiliency tools.
– Perform validation tests of
applications in IBM Cloud
– Implement a secure connection
to the cloud workloads from on-
premise environment
– Develop a custom AIX or IBM i
cloud image template
– Advise on deployment of new
Power workloads in the cloud
– Advise on accessing other cloud
services from Power cloud
workloads
Deliverables
– Implementation of selected
workloads to IBM Cloud
– Design document for IBM Cloud
virtual server details.
– Recommendations for optimal
operations procedures for
networking, security, backup and
disaster recovery.
on best practices for public cloud
management, troubleshooting and
security.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

IBM Power Private
Cloud with Shared
Utility Capacity
Overview
This multi-system infrastructure
offering will help you deploy a
private cloud with IBM Power
Systems enterprise servers. You
will learn how to implement a cloud
consumption model, exploiting
shared utility capacity and managed
through the IBM Cloud
Management Console.
.
Target Audience
– Clients that want rapid hybrid
cloud infrastructure expansion
with the flexibility of a public
cloud infrastructure but the
security and reliability of on-
premises data centers.
– Are you interested in a private
cloud, but want to gain the
advantage of OpEx cloud
consumption pricing?
– Would you like to combine or
pool hardware resources and
software licenses across
multiple systems?
Benefits
– This service helps you assess
how to move to a private cloud
with flexible, shared utility
capacity for a cloud
consumption OpEx model.
– The service will help you plan
and then implement a private
cloud, pooling resources across
your enterprise servers.
Service Provided
– Analyze workload utilization in
the Shared Utility Capacity pool
using the IBM Lab Services
Capacity Planning Tool –
Metered Capacity Modeling.
– Implement an IBM Power
Private Cloud with Shared Utility
Capacity.
– Implement IBM Cloud
Management Console for Power
Systems.
– Identify private cloud capacity
usage for advanced planning
and other events.
– Perform skills transfer and
review best practices for
ongoing management.
Deliverables
– Analysis of results from the IBM
Lab Services Capacity Planning
Tool – Metered Capacity
Modelling.
– Implementation of IBM Shared
Utility Capacity for a private cloud.
– Implementation of IBM Cloud
Management Console.
on best practices for private cloud
management.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Power Enterprise
Pools
Implementation
Overview
IBM Power Enterprise Pools
enables multisystem resource
sharing and by-the-minute
consumption of on-premises
compute resources in a private
cloud. All installed processors and
memory on your servers in a Power
Enterprise Pool are activated and
made available for immediate use
when a pool is started. Your
processor and memory usage on
each server is then tracked by the
minute and aggregated across the
pool.
Target Audience
– Clients with multiple servers that
want to pool resources and
move them to wherever they are
needed?
– Dou want to pool your processor
and memory resources across
multiple servers?
– Do you want to leverage
capacity on demand across
multiple servers?
– Do you want to make sure you
have all the components
configured correctly for IBM
Power Enterprise Pools?
Benefits
– This service will help you plan
your Power Enterprise Pools
implementation, enabling you to
leverage processor and memory
mobility and capacity on
demand across multiple servers.
– You’ll work with an experienced
IBM consultant who can help
you streamline the
implementation process.
Service Provided
– Perform a comprehensive
review of the required hardware,
firmware and software elements
required to run IBM Power
Enterprise Pools.
– Perform skills transfer to explain
how to implement and use IBM
Power Enterprise Pools.
– Advise on using IBM Power
Enterprise Pools for advanced
planning and tracking other
events.
– Perform demonstration of using
IBM Cloud Management
Console for Power Systems to
monitor your resource usage
across the pool.
– Plan for the utilization of On/Off
and Trial Capacity on Demand
Deliverables
– Plan for implementation of IBM
Power Enterprise Pools.
– Advice on on managing a
monitoring your Power Enterprise
Pool with the IBM Cloud
Management Console.
– Guidance on best practices and
skills transfer for sharing
enterprise resources in a private
cloud.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Red Hat OpenShift
and Cloud Pak
on Power
Implementation
Overview
The Red Hat OpenShift and Cloud
Pak on Power implementation
service is designed to help you
deploy an open, hybrid cloud
solution based on a jointly
developed plan and targeted use
cases.
Target Audience
– Power Systems clients that want
to get started with containers
and cloud-native applications.
– Are you investigating cloud-
native apps or containers?
– Are you looking to provide
microservices to your clients?
– Are you looking to get started
with Kubernetes, OpenShift or
Cloud Paks on Power?
Benefits
– The service will help you
leverage containers for app
modernization.
– It will enable you to provide new
value from enterprise data via
microservices.
– It is ideal to help get started
successfully with enterprise-
ready cloud solutions.
Service Provided
– Implement OpenShift and/or
Cloud Paks on Power
– Implement Kubernetes
management of pods and
services
– Implement container image
management
– Advise on use of intuitive UI for
deployment, management,
monitoring of containers
– Develop examples for simple
helm chart deployment
– Advise and/or implement full-
stack cloud solutions for
Applications, Data, Multicloud
Management
Deliverables
– Implementation of OpenShift on
Power with selected Cloud Pak
– Recommendations for
deployment, management and
monitoring of containers.
on best practices for managing
containers for cloud-native
solutions.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Ansible
Automation for
DevOps
Overview
The Ansible Automation for DevOps
service is designed to help you get
started with Ansible for DevOps or
automated operations, leveraging
customized playbooks.
Target Audience
– Clients using Power Systems
that are considering Ansible for
DevOps and/or AIX and IBM i
automated operations.
– Are you using or considering
Ansible as part of your DevOps
tools?
– Are you considering
modernizing or migrating
existing AIX or IBM i automated
operations scripts to include
Ansible?
Benefits
– The service will help you get
started successfully with Ansible
automation on Power Systems.
– It will help you gain experience
with Ansible for DevOps.
– It will help you quantify the
benefits of using Ansible for
modernizing the automation for
your IT environment.
Service Provided
– Implement and configure
Ansible core on Power Systems.
– Advise on using Ansible ad-hoc
commands & playbooks.
– Advise on building Ansible
modules and working with roles.
– Advise on use of Red Hat
Ansible collections for Power,
targeted at AIX and IBM i
operations.
– Advise on integrating Ansible
with PowerVC via REST APIs.
– Advise on using Ansible
playbooks for automation of
common tasks such as:
• Configuring systems
• Deploying software
• Implementing patches
• Updating security settings.
– Develop sample Ansible
playbooks for deploying VMs
with PowerVC and selected
DevOps or automation tasks.
Deliverables
– Implementation of Ansible and
provision of sample playbooks
customized for DevOps and
automated operations.
– Recommendations for potential
use cases of Ansible for
configuration, software and
security management.
– Recommendations on additional
for enterprise capabilities such as
Red Hat Ansible Tower.
automated operations and
DevOps with Ansible.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

PowerVC
Implementation
Overview
The PowerVC implementation
deploy a private cloud solution
based on a jointly developed plan
and targeted use cases like self-
service provisioning for dev-ops.
Target Audience
– Clients running AIX, IBM i and/or
Linux with PowerVM that want to
implement a private cloud based
on PowerVC.
– Are you interested implementing
a private cloud for your Power
Systems servers and associated
storage?
– Are your users requesting self-
service provisioning of compute
and storage resources for their
projects?
– Are you using advanced
virtualization with PowerVM, but
want to align your provisioning
policies with industry best
practices and latest techniques?
Benefits
– The service will help you get
started faster and more
successfully with a private cloud.
– You will be able to implement
self-service provisioning for your
dev-ops and other business
teams.
Service Provided
– Implement a PowerVC or Cloud
PowerVC Manager solution
– Design and implement rapid VM
provisioning and de-provisioning
– Design and implement storage
provisioning
– Perform capture/migrate/resize
of VMs
– Perform attach/detach SAN
volumes to VMs
– Develop common compute and
storage templates (for example,
simple small/medium/large
options or more complex based
on business unit specifications)
– Implement storage connectivity
groups and VM placement
policies
– Advise on best practices for a
private cloud, including the use
of Ansible for automated
operations.
Deliverables
– Implementation of a private cloud
solution based on PowerVC,
designed for compute and storage
provisioning.
– Implementation (optional) of self-
service provisioning.
– Recommendations for private
cloud provisioning and automation
processes, including sample
templates, connectivity groups and
VM placement policies.
on best practices for a successful
private cloud.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

PowerVM LPM
and SRR
Automation Tool
Overview
The PowerVM LPM and SRR
Automation Tool builds on the core
virtualization capabilities of
PowerVM and is ideal for scheduled
maintenance and migrations. It
provides an easy-to-use interface
that enables you to automate
moving some or all your partitions
live from a source system to a
target system/s, then – if required –
return them live back to the source
system, retaining their original
system settings.
Target Audience
– Clients using PowerVM that
want to automate their use of
Live Partition Mobility (LPM) for
scheduled maintenance or
migrations.
Why Use This Tool?
– Do you want to automate your
operations for scheduled
maintenance, migration and
unscheduled outages?
– Do you want to automate LPM
and system recovery?
– Do you need to be able to
rollback simply to predefined
state after using LPM?
Benefits
– With the tool, you can create a
plan to automate LPM and SRR
operations.
– It enables you to schedule
moving one or many partitions
to another server/s.
– It enables you to return VMs to
the source server with their
original configuration settings.
Service Provided
– Live Partition Mobility (LPM) for
maintenance and migration:
• Build LPM plan for a
maintenance window with
control over VIO, HBA
mappings.
• Automate and accelerate
mobility to target server/s
with striping or packing
options.
• Schedule and preview
automated LPM operations.
• Rollback simply to source
server, retain original HBA
and Virtual slot ID mappings.
– Simplified Remote Restart
(SRR) for unplanned outages:
• Build an SRR plan and
automate mobility action.
• SRR VMs to one or more
destination servers .
• When outage is resolved,
simply move partitions back
to the original server.
– Support for P7, P8, P9 server
generations.
Deliverables
– Implementation of the PowerVM
LPM and SRR Tool. This tool is
chargeable.
– Joint development of a range of
sample plans to automate LPM
and SRR capabilities.
– Testing of common away, import,
export commands and
procedures.
– Recommendations on other
automation and productivity tools,
including BigFix, Ansible,
PowerVM Provisioning Toolkit and
PowerDraw.
on best practices for security and
performance with LPM and SRR.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

PowerVM Health
Check
Overview
PowerVM technology provides the
secure and scalable virtualization
environment that is the foundation
for AIX, IBM i, and Linux
applications on Power Systems.
This health check ensures optimal
performance and resiliency for the
operation of your PowerVM
environment.
Target Audience
– All clients running PowerVM, but
typically those running on
enterprise servers with complex
PowerVM configurations
including multiple VIO servers
and client VMs.
– Do you want to ensure that you
are running PowerVM with
optimal performance and
resilience?
– Do you need to review firmware
and software levels to ensure
that you have an appropriate
scheduled maintenance plan?
– Is you PowerVM virtualization
environment tuned to exploit
IBM best practices?
Benefits
– The PowerVM Health Check
provides a comprehensive
review of your virtualization
environment, helping you avoid
outages and better plan for
scheduled maintenance.
Service Provided
– Perform remote Webex meeting
prior to on-site visit to validate
scope, schedule and materials.
– Perform hardware health checks
• Analyze HMC configuration
and check firmware levels.
• Analyze system and VIOS
performance
• Analyze adapter placement
across CEC frames and dual
VIO servers
• Analyze service agent
configuration
• Analyze pending/open
service events.
– Perform software health checks
• Analyze HMC and VIOS plus
client software currency
• Analyze system log error
messages
• Analyze VSCSI, NPIV and
fiber channel configuration
• Evaluate shared Ethernet
adapter and VLANs.
– Advise on tuning parameters
based on OS level.
Deliverables
– Provide health check report on
with detailed observations and
recommendations for optimal
performance and resiliency of your
PowerVM environment.
– Document the overall health of the
HMC, VIOS and client Virtual
Machines, identifying areas of
concern and/or risk.
on best practices for performance
and resiliency with PowerVM.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

PowerVM
Provisioning
Toolkit
Overview
The PowerVM Provisioning Toolkit
provides for rapid deployment and
configuration of your Virtual
Machines and Virtual I/O Servers
on Power Systems. With powerful
and flexible scripting capabilities,
you can customize and automate
frame and/or VM provisioning and
validation, cutting your deployment
times from days to hours.
Target Audience
– Clients – most typically with AIX
or Linux – that have hundreds of
VMs and require frequent
provisioning and building of new
Power frames and VMs.
– Do you have a large Power
infrastructure with many VMs?
– Do you need a way to rapidly
and consistently provision
Power frames or VMs for new or
migrated workloads?
– Do you need your SysAdmins to
be able to focus on strategic
projects, not repetitive manual
provisioning?
Benefits
– The PowerVM Provisioning
Toolkit is designed to rapidly
accelerate VM provisioning and
migrations.
– It enables you to build and
customize repeatable, trusted
provisioning scripts so your
SysAdmins can focus on
responding faster to the needs
of your business users.
Service Provided
– Perform a technical readiness
assessment for PowerVM
Provisioning Toolkit:
• VIO and VM profiles
• I/O assignment
• Shared Ethernet Adapters
• NPIV
• WWPN processing
• LPM.
– Develop scripted, consistent and
efficient processes for
provisioning Power frames and
VMs.
– Development and testing of
sample server provisioning
scripts and process.
Deliverables
– Implementation of the PowerVM
Provisioning Toolkit.
– Joint development of a range of
sample customizable provisioning
scripts.
– Recommendations on other
automation and productivity tools,
including BigFix, Ansible,
PowerVM LPM and SRR
Automation Tool and PowerDraw.
on best practices for provisioning
and automation.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Capacity Planning
Tool
Overview
Our Power Capacity Planning Tool
is designed to provide insights and
recommendations for planning your
Power Systems investments. Our
capacity planning tool and
methodology is based on statistical
analysis and IBM best practices
recommendations from the
experience of our top IBM Lab
Services performance consultants.
Target Audience
– Enterprise capacity or
application management
professionals that want to
accurately plan their IBM Power
Systems infrastructure
requirements.
– Are you planning to upgrade
your infrastructure to POWER9
and need to better understand
the capacity required?
– Are you trying to understand the
overall usage of a system frame
or multiple systems across the
data center?
Benefits
– Our Capacity Planning Tool and
methodology will provide you
comprehensive insights into the
projected capacity of a system
frame, with available detailed
shared processor pool utilization
and specific partition
breakdown.
– It’s especially valuable if you are
planning for server consolidation
as part of your P9 migration.
Service Provided
– Implement the IBM Lab Services
Capacity Planning Tool.
capacity planning exercise to
provide insights on multiple
system and application
performance scenarios.
– Analyze data from a variety of
sources including NMON,
LPAR2RRD / HMC LPARUTIL,
ITM, BMC Patrol/Perceiver, HP
OpenView or other custom
sources.
– Advise on optimal sizing and
capacity with recommendations
backed by experienced IBM
consultants.
– Advise on targeting specific
frame utilizations.
– Advise on incorporating specific
business rules and SLAs with
multiple rules based on service
tiering.
– Advise on high availability
implications, including failover
capacity and sizing for
Active/Active or Active/Standby.
Deliverables
– Capacity Planning Tool remains
installed for client use after this
service.
– Detailed report on IBM Power
Systems capacity planning with
recommendations and scenarios
for optimal capacity to meet
business objectives..
– Capacity baseline for future
growth and planning with virtual
machine and frame level views to
validate sizing projections.
– Output can be input directly into
other sizing tools to plan and
configure your POWER9 servers.
– Guidance and skills enablement
on best practices for capacity
planning on IBM Power Systems.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Enterprise Linux Services

SAP HANA
on Power
Implementation
Overview
If you are planning to deploy SAP
HANA on the industry’s most
flexible and resilient platform in the
industry, then use this service to
help you succeed faster. Use IBM
Systems Lab Services consultants
to ensure your SAP HANA on
Power systems implementation is
designed to leverage SAP, IBM and
industry best practices.
Target Audience
– Clients that are deploying SAP
HANA on IBM Power Systems,
especially on Power 950 and
980 servers that include Power
to Cloud Rewards.
– Are you deploying a production
SAP HANA landscape and
require a certified installation of
SAP HANA on Power?
– Do you have the optimal high
availability tools for your SAP
HANA database and
infrastructure?
– Are your provisioning policies
and practices aligned with
industry best practices?
Benefits
– The SAP HANA implementation
service results in a certified
install of SAP HANA on Power.
– IBM consultants advise on the
best practices for database and
infrastructure resilience and
performance.
Service Provided
– Advise the client on planning
and identification of data center,
infrastructure, storage,
networking and database
requirements.
– Implement PowerVM virtual I/O
servers, NPIV and SEA
adapters.
– Implement Linux on Power
(SUSE or Red Hat).
– Implement SAP HANA instance
using Tailored Datacenter
Integration (TDI) methodology.
– Perform verification test of
filesystem performance and
SAP HANA landscape for
required SAP environment
certification.
– Implement SAP HANA
replication or other selected
resiliency tools.
Deliverables
– Implementation of SAP HANA on
Power.
– Detailed documentation suitable
for ongoing management and
support of the system.
– Guidance on best practices for
performance and resilience.
– Skills enablement for managing
SAP HANA on Power.
Contacts
– Lab Services lead
consultant: Kurt Koehle
koehle@us.ibm.com
IBM Power Systems

SAP HANA on
Power Migration
Assessment
Overview
This assessment service will help
you understand the practical
aspects of planning and executing a
migration from any database or an
existing SAP HANA on x86
deployment to SAP HANA on
Power. A workshop with an IBM
consultant will help you plan the
migration, selecting the appropriate
SAP migration tools and
methodologies.
Target Audience
– Clients planning to migrate to
SAP HANA on Power.
– Are you running Oracle or other
database on x86 or UNIX
systems and planning to migrate
to SAP HANA on Power?
– Do want to understand the
different migration tools and
methodologies to ensure that
you are planning for the optimal
migration?
– Do you want to run a practice
migration with sample data to
build experience with migration
tools?
Benefits
for a successful migration from
Oracle or other databases to
SAP HANA on Power.
– You will review the migration
tool options, selecting the right
approach for your business.
– You can try out the selected
migration tool with sample data
to build skills and experience.
Service Provided
– Analyze the current database
environment.
– Advise on programming
considerations including the
need to update application code
for UNICODE and to ‘HANAtize’
transactions.
– Advise on technical
considerations including
backup/restore and HA/DR and
required testing to certify a
production environment.
– Identify needed SAP Certified
resources as well as testing and
BASIS skills.
– Identify potential risks and
review suitable available outage
windows.
– Develop a draft migration plan
including go-live weekend
considerations.
Deliverables
– Provide a migration workshop
summary report.
– Document a high-level plan for
SAP HANA migration.
– Provide a risk assessment for SAP
HANA Migration.
– Skills enablement for common
migration tools and processes.
SAP HANA migration and skills
enablement.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

SAP HANA on
Power 2.0 Migration
Assessment
Overview
This assessment service will help
you understand the practical
aspects of planning a migration
from SAP HANA 1.0 on Power to
SAP HANA 2.0 on POWER9. A
workshop with an IBM consultant
will help you plan the migration,
selecting the appropriate SAP
migration tools and methodologies.
Target Audience
– Clients planning to migrate to
SAP HANA 2.0 on Power.
– Are you SAP HANA 1.0 BE on a
POWER8 system and planning
to migrate to SAP HANA 2.0 LE
on POWER9?
– Do want to understand the
different migration tools and
methodologies to ensure that
you are planning for the optimal
migration?
– Do you want to run a practice
migration with sample data to
build experience with migration
tools?
Benefits
for a successful migration to the
latest version of SAP HANA on
POWER9.
– You will review the migration
tool options, selecting the right
approach for your business.
– You can try out the selected
migration tool with sample data
to build skills and experience.
Service Provided
– Perform a workshop to evaluate
a client’s Power System servers,
storage and software for running
SAP HANA 2.0 on POWER9.
– Advise on running the LE
version of either SUSE Linux or
RedHat Enterprise Linux and
SAP HANA 2.0.
– Advise and consult on technical
migration considerations
including selection of SAP tools
and methodology:
• Built in SAP HANA Migration
Tool converts data stored in
the source from BE to LE.
• Combined Software
Provisioning Manager and
SAP HANA Migration Tool
option is recommended if
possible, to accelerate
migration & reduce downtime.
– Identify potential migration risks
and review suitable available
outage windows.
– Develop a draft migration plan
including go-live weekend
considerations.
Deliverables
– Provide a migration planning
workshop summary report.
– Document a high-level plan for
SAP HANA migration.
– Provide a risk assessment for SAP
HANA 1.0 to 2.0 migration.
– Skills enablement for selected
migration tools and processes.
SAP HANA 2.0 migration and
skills enablement.
– Lab Services also can provide
services at an additional charge
for sample / test migration of data
between HANA 1.0 and 2.0.
Contacts
– Principle Lab Services
Consultant: Mark Short
mark.short@us.ibm.com
– NA Lab Services Delivery
Manager: Michael Barenys
barenys@us.ibm.com
IBM Power Systems

SAP HANA
on Power
Performance
Assessment
Overview
This assessment is designed to
analyze and tune SAP HANA on
Power systems, storage and
software for optimal performance.
It’s ideal either as you prepare to go
live with a new system, or when you
need performance optimization to
address challenges with your
production workloads.
Target Audience
– Clients running SAP HANA in
production that want to ensure
optimal application performance.
– Do you want to perform a health
check to ensure optimal
performance for your SAP
HANA users?
– Are you experiencing a
performance issue with your
SAP HANA systems?
– Are your SAP HANA operations
and policies aligned with
Benefits
– The assessment service helps
ensure your system is running
SAP HANA with optimal
performance and aligned with
SAP and IBM best practices,
– The service helps identify and
resolve performance issues
across, systems, storage,
software networking.
Service Provided
– Identify areas to be reviewed:
• Performance expectations
• Current workload
• Areas of concern.
– Perform evaluation of Power
System servers, storage and
software for SAP HANA
including:
• HMC configuration
• VM sizes and resources
• Firmware currency
• VIO potential bottlenecks
• Memory utilization, disk,
and paging space
• CPU utilization/load.
– Analyze system logs for suspect
error messages.
– Analyze network settings and
network performance.
– Analyze filesystem performance
with the SAP HWCCT tool.
Deliverables
– Observations and
recommendations are delivered in
a comprehensive SAP HANA
Performance Assessment Report.
– Detailed information may include
additional output from SAP and
IBM tools covering systems,
storage, software and networking.
– Advice provided to address and
resolve identified performance
issues.
– Guidance on SAP and IBM best
practices for SAP HANA
performance on Power Systems.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

SAP HANA
on Power
Health Check
Overview
This health check assessment is
designed to anticipate issues
with your SAP HANA systems
before they impact your critical
operations. It will make you
confident that your systems
leveraging best practices to
support your business.
Target Audience
– Clients that have deployed SAP
HANA on Power and want an
annual system health check.
– Are you confident that your SAP
HANA systems are updated with
the latest firmware and software
according to SAP and IBM
guidelines?
– Do you want to anticipate and
address issues before they
affect your business operations?
– Are your SAP HANA systems
aligned with industry best
practices?
Benefits
– The health check assessment
will give you the confidence that
your system is running
according to latest IBM and SAP
guidelines and best practices.
– It will help you anticipate and
resolve issues before they affect
your business operations.
Service Provided
prior to on-site visit identifying
requirements.
– Perform comprehensive on-site
health check of SAP HANA
solution environment.
– Perform verification and updates
of Linux and SAP HANA
software based on SAP
recommendations.
– Identify any interoperability
issues with firmware, device
drivers, OS patches and SAP
software. Update as necessary.
– Analyze service agent
configuration.
– Run error log check and identify
pending or open service events.
– Perform in-depth VIO review,
identifying potential bottlenecks.
– Run SAP assessment tool to
verify filesystem performance
and environment consistency.
– Run network performance
assessment.
Deliverables
– Analysis of SAP HANA
environment for optimal system
health.
– Detailed report on observations
and recommendations for SAP
HANA system health.
– Summary report on actions taken,
including software updates and
issues resolved.
– Advice and recommendations on
actions to consider to improve
resilience of your SAP HANA
systems.
– Guidance on SAP and IBM best
practices for running SAP HANA
on Power Systems.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

SAP HANA on
Power Linux
Security
Assessment
Overview
Your SAP HANA environment is
critical to your business it’s vital to
ensure that you protect your
business and user data. We can
help you protect that data with a
holistic review of security across
both the SAP HANA database and
the underlying Linux operating
system. It’s important to review
them both, since hackers may
target the operating system in order
to attack your database and
applications.
Target Audience
– Clients looking for a
comprehensive security analysis
focused on SAP HANA and
Linux on Power.
– Are you running SAP HANA and
Linux and want proactively to
identify security vulnerabilities?
– Do you need to benchmark your
security and compliance
processes against latest industry
best practices?
– Do you want a security baseline
for defining standard builds for
Linux on Power virtual machines
running SAP HANA.
Benefits
– This assessment provides a
comprehensive analysis of your
Linux security settings to protect
your SAP HANA environment.
– Get advice on best practices
from an IBM security consultant
with experience on both SAP
HANA and Linux on Power.
Service Provided
– Perform comprehensive analysis
of current SAP HANA on Power
Systems and Linux operating
system environment.
• IBM team details security
data collection process
• IBM team provides customer
security questionnaire
• Identify required materials
and stakeholders.
– Analyze provided security data
identifying potential risks and
vulnerabilities.
– Document and advise client in a
presentation of the assessment
observations, recommendations
based on SAP HANA and Linux
vulnerabilities and risks
identified.
Deliverables
– Comprehensive report detailing
specific security and compliance
vulnerabilities and risks identified.
– Guidance on prioritized
remediation of vulnerabilities and
risks.
security and compliance for SAP
HANA on Power Systems.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

SAP HANA on
Power Advanced
Features
Implementation
Overview
If you have deployed SAP HANA on
IBM Power Systems, then this
service will help you take the next
steps to deploy advanced features
for software management, data
tiering and resiliency. Our IBM
twill help ensure your SAP HANA
on Power systems implementation
is designed to leverage SAP, IBM
and industry best practices.
Target Audience
– Clients deploying SAP HANA
that want to leverage advanced
features for high availability and
scale-out.
– Do you want to deploy a robust
high availability solution for your
SAP HANA environment?
– Do you want to optimize the
management of SUSE software
updates and subscription
entitlements?
– Do you want to manage less
frequently accessed warm data
on disk instead of memory?
Benefits
– These services will help you
deploy a range of advanced
capabilities and software
features from SAP, SUSE and
Red Hat for optimizing your SAP
HANA on Power deployment.
Service Provided
preliminary planning exercise
covering data center
preparation, networking and
solution environment.
– Implementation of one or more
of the following advanced
features for SAP HANA:
• Perform setup of SAP HANA
Replication.
• Perform setup of SLES
Subscription Management
Tool (SMT).
• Perform setup of SLES-HA
with SAP HANA Replication.
Host Auto Failover.
scale-out landscape.
Dynamic Tiering.
in a RedHat Pacemaker
Cluster for high availability.
Deliverables
advanced features to support your
SAP HANA environment.
– Guidance and skills transfer on
best practices running SAP HANA
on Power.
Contacts
– Lab Services principle
consultant: Kurt Koehle
koehle@us.ibm.com
IBM Power Systems

SAS Viya
on Power
Implementation
Overview
If you are you planning to deploy
SAS Viya on the industry’s most
flexible and resilient platform in the
industry, then use this service to
help you succeed faster. Use IBM
to ensure your SAS Viya on Power
systems implementation is
designed to leverage SAS, IBM
and industry best practices.
Target Audience
– Clients that deploying SAS Viya
on Power, especially those
clients that run SAS analytics
today on AIX.
– Do you run SAS Analytics today
on AIX and planning to deploy
SAS Viya on Linux?
– Do you want an optimal
infrastructure and high
availability plan for your SAS
Viya infrastructure?
– Are your provisioning policies
and practices aligned with
Benefits
– The SAS Viya implementation
service results in an optimal
deployment of your Power
Systems infrastructure.
– IBM consultants advise on the
best practices for SAS Viya
infrastructure resilience and
performance.
Service Provided
prior to on-site visit identifying
client requirements.
– Advise the client on planning
and identification of data center,
infrastructure, storage,
networking and database
requirements.
– Implement VIO Servers and
setup NPIV and SEA adapters
– Implement Linux (red Hat or
SUSE) on Power server
– Implement SAS Viya instance
according to SAS and IBM
guidelines
– Verification of system
performance
Deliverables
– Implementation of SAS Viya
on Power.
– Detailed documentation suitable
for ongoing management and
support of the system.
performance and resilience.
– Skills enablement for managing
SAS Viya on Power.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

AI Design
Workshop and
Implementation
Services
Overview
The AI Design Workshop helps you
target a sample AI use case,
creating a design blueprint with the
hardware and software components
and services required for a
successful solution. Typically, we
will then use this document to help
you implement the solution
components, working closely with
your data scientists and
infrastructure team to ensure
project success.
Target Audience
– Clients that are considering AI
adoption and need advice on
identifying use cases, and
assistance with data
engineering, model
development, deployment and
other related services.
– Are you considering an AI use
case for detecting manufacturing
defects?
– Are you considering an AI use
case to get deeper business
insights from your data
warehouse?
– Do you want to simplify running
your AI workloads and stopping
GPU sprawl?
Benefits
– The AI Design Workshop will
help you target and prioritize AI
use cases, ensuring you have a
clear plan for successful
implementation.
– Our services accelerate
implementation of successful AI
projects and promote optimal
management alongside your
other AI initiatives.
Service Provided
– Perform an AI Design Workshop
to identify and explore AI use
cases. The design workshop
typically establishes a use case
and identify the product line
including open source
technologies.
– Implement the hardware and
software technologies identified
in the design phase such as
Watson Machine Learning
Accelerator, Watson Studio,
OpenScale and AutoAI
including integration with IBM
Cloud Pak for Data.
– Implement Maximo Visual
Inspection, typically for training
and optimizing manufacturing
and other inspection models.
– Implement H2O Driverless AI,
typically used for training and
optimizing models on business
information from an existing data
warehouse.
– Analyze and optimize training
models of AI applications
running on AC922 and IC922
Power servers.
Deliverables
– The deliverables from an AI
Design Workshop and
implementation vary according to
the solution selected, but typically
include the following:
• Deliver a planning and design
document for an AI application.
• Verification of the physical
implementation of the Power
servers, firmware, OS,
switches, storage and AI
related software.
• Install and setup Linux on
Power Systems including
RHEL OS installation.
• Installation and verification of
selected AI software
components.
• Skills enablement and advice
on training AI models for
optimal performance.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Bayesian
Optimization
Accelerator (BOA)
Implementation
Services
Overview
Bayesian Optimization Accelerator
is a tool designed to reduce the
number of simulations required to
reach a product design. The
fastest simulation is one that you
don’t have to do. This service will
help you identify workloads that can
benefit from Bayesian Optimization
methods and provides
implementation services.
Target Audience
– Clients who currently utilize HPC
infrastructure to perform design
and simulation. Typical
industries are pharmaceutical,
oil and gas, molecular dynamics,
semi conductor manufacturing.
– Are you looking to reduce the
time to solution by reducing the
number of simulations to arrive
at optimal design
– Are you experiencing
challenging design space
exploration issues?
Benefits
– Bayesian Optimization
Accelerator Implementation
Services will identify the
simulation workloads that can
benefit from this method.
– We can assist your researchers
and data scientists to leverage
BOA to address your design
challenges.
Service Provided
– Identify the high impact business
use cases that can benefit from
BOA.
– Implement BOA on IBM Power
Systems in client’s compute
environment.
– Develop software to interface
between BOA and the client’s
HPC workloads to enable design
space exploration.
– Perform design optimization by
collaborating with customers
engineers and scientists.
– Advise on best practices in
utilizing Bayesian Optimization.
Deliverables
– Analysis of relevant simulations
and recommended high business
impact use cases.
– Implementation of BOA hardware
and software integrated into
customers IT environment.
on best practices for BOA to
facilitate design space exploration.
– Implementation of interface
between BOA and the identified
HPC workload.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Linux on Power
Implementation
and Optimization
Overview
The Linux on Power Implementation
and Optimization service is
designed to help you provision your
first Linux deployments on Power
Systems servers. It will help you
ensure that you have a strong
foundation of the Linux and
PowerVM skills required to build out
and optimize your new
infrastructure.
Target Audience
– Clients that are implementing
Linux on Power for the first time
and want to build skills in
infrastructure provisioning.
– Are you familiar with RHEL or
SUSE on x86, but need to build
out servers with Linux on
Power?
– Do you need to understand how
to configure Linux with
PowerVM for a virtualized
environment that is optimized for
performance and scalability?
– Do you need to build skills in
deploying a highly available
Linux infrastructure.
Benefits
– This service will help you build
your first Linux on Power
servers and prepare you to
provision and optimize your new
your infrastructure.
– You’ll be able to leverage the
deep skills of IBM consultants.
Service Provided
review of the project scope,
including all aspects of the Linux
environment, including the
Power server, storage and
network resources .
– Perform a range of
implementation and optimization
activities that may include:
• Implementation of Linux,
infrastructure services and
solutions.
• Implement Red Hat
Enterprise Linux or SUSE
software.
• Perform setup of a Linux
install server with software
repositories.
• Advise on the optimal
PowerVM virtualization
configuration including
memory, processor, adapter
definitions, and processor
pools.
• Implement HA nodes and
clustering/failover
components for evaluation
Deliverables
– Implementation of RHEL or SUSE
on Power Systems.
– Implementation and optimization
of PowerVM for your Linux virtual
machines.
skills transfer for provisioning and
managing Linux on Power
solutions.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

VM Recovery
Manager
Implementation
Overview
This service helps you design,
architect and implement a
manageable solution for high
availability and disaster recovery
with VM Recovery Manager. It
also provides advise of processes
and procedures to improve the
backup, recovery and automation of
your HA/DR solution.
Target Audience
– Clients deploying a HA/DR
solution VM Recovery Manager
for a more economical and
automated resiliency solution.
– Are you looking to streamline
site switches with a more
automated HA/DR solution for
AIX, IBM i and/or Linux?
– Do you want to avoid the cost of
duplicate software licenses, and
the added complexity of
implementing and managing a
traditional PowerHA cluster?
Benefits
– This service can help you
streamline the process of
recovery testing and maintaining
a state-of-the-art high availability
and disaster recovery solution.
– Combined with built-in
functionality, this service can
decrease the need for ongoing
expert-level skills, shorten your
RTO, improve your RPO,
optimize backups and better
manage growing data volumes.
Service Provided
– Perform design workshop to
architect an HA/DR solution
using VM Recovery Manager.
– Advise on how VM Recovery
Manage may help avoid the cost
of duplicate software licenses,
and the added complexity of
implementing and managing
traditional clusters.
– Design VM Recovery Manager
solution for HA/DR and assist
with development of deployment
and implementation plans.
– Implement VM Recovery
Manager to automate restarting
of virtual machines (AIX, IBM i
or Linux) on a local or remote
backup environment for high
operations.
– Advise on best practices to meet
compliance requirements for VM
Recovery Manager testing,
without disruption to production
operations.
Deliverables
– Analysis of network, infrastructure
and operating environment for
optimal implementation of VM
Recovery Manager.
– Implementation of selected VM
Recovery Manager solution for HA
and/or DR.
– Design document for selected VM
Recovery Manager solution.
on best practices for operational
procedures to facilitate
management of your HA/DR
environment.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Technical Training
Courses for Linux
Overview
Our training services bring IBM
experts to your site to build hands-
on skills in new technologies. We
believe that increasing team skills
directly and significantly increases
the likelihood of you meeting your
project deadlines and objectives.
We have a range of IBM developed
courses, plus other training that can
be customized to your team’s
needs.
Target Audience
– Clients that are running Linux on
Power Systems that want to
ensure their infrastructure team
has the skills needed to
implement successful projects
faster.
– Are you moving to Linux on
Power from another platform
and need to train new
administrators?
– Are you implementing advanced
features of PowerVM, PowerHA
or PowerVC and want to ensure
your team is prepared?
Benefits
– A well-trained workforce has
22% faster product rollouts.
– You can realize a 10%
productivity increase when your
team are well trained.
– 70% of managers believe that
effective training reduces project
cost.
Deliverables
– Skills enablement for Linux on
Power Systems with on site,
hands-on technical training
developed and taught by IBM
experts.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems
Training Provided (Days)
Linux
– AP44G Linux on Power
Administration / Performance (5)
– AP45G Linux on Power
Administration / Storage (5)
PowerVM, PowerHA, PowerVC
– AN30G Power Systems for AIX
PowerVM I: Implementing
Virtualization (5)
– Power Systems for AIX
Virtualization II: Advanced
PowerVM and Performance (5)
– AN61G PowerHA SystemMirror
Plan, Implement, Customize,
Basic Administration (5)
– QZC30G IBM Cloud PowerVC
Manager (4)

AIX Services

POWER9 Server
Migration Planning
OR Automation OR
Validation
Overview
Our IBM Lab Services experts will
work closely with your architects
and UNIX SysAdmins to plan for a
successful migration to POWER9.
Our pre-deployment infrastructure
planning workshop is ideal for first
in generation installations of
enterprise POWER9 processor-
based servers. It’s an essential first
step in transitioning to POWER9.
We also provide tools to automate
critical migration steps and services
for testing and validation of your
migration plans.
Target Audience
– Architects and UNIX SysAdmins
in clients that are implementing
POWER9 servers for the first
time.
– Is this your first deployment of
POWER9 in your environment?
– Do you want a detailed
discussion of best practices and
migration scenarios?
– Do you want to consider using
tools to automate a live
migration or for building new
system frames?
Benefits
– This service will help you
accelerate a successful
migration, reducing risk by
including business-wide input
into your planning.
– It will give you the confidence
that you are leveraging best
practices for provisioning, build
and test as you make your
POWER9 migration.
Service Provided
review of current and target P9
environment with a workshop to
design and plan your migration.
• Advise on hardware
placement, adapter
placement and PowerVM
configuration details.
• Advise on performance
optimization methodology.
• Advise on best practices and
options for your migration
plan.
– Advise on automation tools to
accelerate your migration:
• PowerVM Provisioning
Toolkit automates building
virtualized systems frames.
• PowerVM LPM SRR
Automation Tool simplifies
live server migrations.
• VSCSI to NPIV Migration
Tool simplifies I/O migrations
with no downtime.
– Perform validation review of
migration readiness, which may
include migrating testing.
Deliverables
– Design document for your
POWER9 migration.
– Recommendations for optimizing
your POWER9 virtualization with
PowerVM.
– Recommendations for optimizing
performance with your POWER9
servers.
– Advice on tools to accelerate and
automate migrations.
– Advice on migration validation and
testing procedures.
skills enablement for POWER9
migration.
– Risk assessment for your
POWER9 migration.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Power Systems
Health Check
Overview
A systems health check provides a
rapid review of your current
infrastructure environment focused
on identifying hardware, firmware
systems software and storage
issues. It’s one of our most popular
services because it helps you to
proactively identify potential single
points of hardware failure and
identify operating system and other
system software exposures.
Target Audience
– Clients running Power Systems,
particularly older systems that
may not have been upgraded
recently.
– Do you want to ensure that your
Power Systems servers are
running according to best
practices?
– Do you want to better protect
business-critical processes
against potential issues.
– Are you running an older release
of AIX, IBM i or Linux and want
to understand the potential
implications for your business?
Benefits
– Our Power Systems Health
Check services will give you the
confidence that you are
leveraging best practices for
your Power Systems
infrastructure.
– A Health Check will help you
identify any potential issues that
may affect your infrastructure
operations.
Service Provided
review of the health of a Power
System server.
– Analyze details of hardware and
virtualization configuration,
VIOS, HMC, FSP, firmware,
identifying issues and potential
single points of failure.
– Analyze details of operating
system levels (IBM AIX, IBM i,
Linux) and Virtual I/O Server
(VIOS) and patch/fix
maintenance practices and
procedures.
– Analyze system networking
security settings.
– Document and advise client with
a summary of findings and
observations, providing in-depth
recommendations for potential
adjustments and remediation, if
necessary, to improve overall
system health.
Deliverables
– Detailed report on health of your
Power Systems.
– Summary report on…
– Risk assessment for potential
issues with your Power Systems
servers and system software.
– Recommendations for addressing
any identified issues,
maintaining your Power Systems
infrastructure.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

System
Performance
Assessment
Overview
analyze and tune systems for high-
volume, virtualized workloads. It’s
ideal either as you prepare to go
live with a new system, or when you
need performance optimization to
address challenges with your
production workloads.
Target Audience
– SysAdmins, performance
analysts, and architects that
want to deliver optimal
performance and meet SLAs
for their business users.
performance issue with a
specific workload?
– Are you implementing a new
system and want to ensure your
system is tuned for optimal
performance?
– Do you need assistance
identifying workloads that may
benefit from tuning?
Benefits
– The service helps you address
and resolve active performance
issues faster.
– The service helps you prepare
to go-live on a new system with
high confidence that your
virtualization and operating
systems are tuned for optimal
performance.
Service Provided
– Perform review of environment
and business KPIs, with
inspection of system firmware
and operating system fixes level.
– Advise on data collection
needed for the assessment.
– Identify specific PowerVM VIOS
servers and/or operating system
virtual machines for in-depth
review.
– Analyze CPU, memory, disk I/O
and network performance with a
non-intrusive operating system
performance review for AIX,
IBM i, or Linux.
– Analyze performance
characteristics of system
virtualization environment,
reviewing PowerVM VIOS
configuration and settings.
– Advise on performance
benchmark projects.
– Analyze either virtualized or
bare metal systems.
– Develop and/or test mitigation
options to address performance
issues.
Deliverables
a comprehensive Performance
Assessment Report.
– Detailed report provides output
from performance tools covering
both virtualization and operating
systems.
resolve identified performance
issues.
PowerVM, AIX, IBM i and/or Linux
performance.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Oracle License
Optimization
Assessment
Overview
If you are running Oracle database,
then you are likely to be concerned
about license costs. Through a
proven multi-step assessment
process we will review your
hardware, license usage, and
Oracle database features, then
analyze performance and utilization
data. We’ll make sure that you
have all the facts to optimize the
costs of running Oracle on Power
Systems.
Target Audience
– Clients that want to reduce
Oracle database license costs.
– Are you concerned about the
costs of running Oracle
database?
– Are you running Oracle on
POWER8 or older IBM hardware
and would like to understand
whether an upgrade to would
reduce Oracle costs?
– Are you running Oracle on old
HP, SUN or x86 hardware and
want to review how using Power
Systems would reduce Oracle
costs.
Benefits
– This assessment service will
help you understand how to
reduce the costs of Oracle
database licensing and
maintenance.
– We can help advise you with
actionable recommendations
that may significantly reduce
your Oracle licensing costs with
IBM Power Systems.
Service Provided
– Perform an assessment of how
an upgrade to the newest Power
servers would affect Oracle
licensing costs.
– Analyze current Oracle workload
to advise how optimizations
could be achieved through
consolidation.
– Advise on best practices on how
to migrate to POWER9
hardware with optimal
configuration for reducing Oracle
license costs.
– Analyze and assess savings that
may be achieved by deploying
Oracle Standard Edition and by
avoiding the unnecessary or
unused licensed database
options.
Deliverables
– Summary report on current use of
Oracle and actionable
recommendations on how to
reduce costs.
– Recommendations for adjusting
your infrastructure configuration to
optimize Oracle costs.
– Recommendations on adjusting
your Oracle edition or features to
reduce costs.
– Recommendations on how moving
to POWER9 with PowerVM may
contribute to reducing Oracle
licensing costs compared to older
HP, SUN and x86 systems.
– Guidance and skills transfer on
best practices for Oracle license
optimization.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Oracle
Performance
Optimization
Assessment
Overview
help you analyze and tune systems
running Oracle database on AIX.
It’s ideal either as you prepare to go
live with a new system, or if you
need problem determination and
tuning to address any performance
challenges with your current Oracle
database workloads. It specifically
can help your DBAs tune Oracle on
AIX, making sure database and
system settings are configured for
optimal performance.
Target Audience
– Oracle DBAs, performance
analysts, and architects that
want to deliver optimal database
performance and meet SLAs
for their business users.
performance issue with a
specific Oracle database?
– Are you implementing a new
system and want to ensure your
Oracle database is tuned for
optimal performance?
– Do you need assistance
identifying Oracle workloads that
may benefit from tuning?
Benefits
– The service helps you address
and resolve active Oracle
performance issues faster.
– The service helps you prepare
to go-live on a new system with
high confidence that your
system are tuned for optimal
Oracle database performance.
Service Provided
– Perform review of Oracle
environment and business KPIs,
with inspection of all system and
database fix levels.
– Identify specific Oracle database
for in-depth review.
– Perform data collection needed
for the performance assessment
via Oracle reports and IBM
developed scripts.
– Analyze CPU, memory, disk I/O
and network performance with a
non-intrusive Oracle database
performance review.
– Analyze performance
characteristics of Oracle
environment, reviewing
database, OS and other system
configuration settings.
– Advise on top resource
consuming Oracle workloads
based on application SQL
statistics.
– Develop and/or test mitigation
options with Oracle and/or AIX
configuration, path levels or
other updates
Deliverables
– Comprehensive Oracle database
performance assessment report
with executive summary and
detailed recommendations.
– Oracle database instance
efficiency Key Performance
Indicators (KPIs).
– Recommendations following best
practices for database and AIX
settings.
– Advise on Oracle database
configuration and parameter setup
and verification to address
performance issues.
skills transfer for optimal
performance running Oracle on
AIX and IBM Power Systems.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

System
Availability
Assessment
Overview
This assessment provides you a
comprehensive resiliency review of
your Power Systems infrastructure
to improve high availability and
disaster recovery. The assessment
helps you proactively identify single
points of failure, and potential risks
and exposures in processes and
procedures that may affect your
infrastructure availability.
Target Audience
– SysAdmins and architects that
want to review their
infrastructure to ensure it meets
the resilience objectives of their
business users.
– Have you experienced
availability issues or outages
with your infrastructure?
– Have you assessed your
infrastructure for risks of single
points of failure that may cause
an unplanned outage?
– Do you have a disaster recovery
plan that is documented and
regularly tested?
Benefits
– The service helps you identify
and resolve issues that may
affect your infrastructure
availability.
– The service helps ensure you
have proactively reviewed your
systems and storage to avoid
availability challenges and
unplanned outages.
Service Provided
– Perform overall system review of
high availability and disaster
recovery strategy and
processes.
– Identify single points of failure
for all hardware and software
components.
– Perform review of hardware,
firmware and virtualization
configuration including VIOS,
HMC, FSP and LPAR.
– Perform review of operating
system patch/fix procedures for
maintenance.
– Perform review of backup and
recovery processes and
procedures.
– Perform review of IBM software
used for high availability and
disaster recovery, including
PowerHA, VM Recovery
Manager, Metro/Global Mirror
and Flashcopy.
– Analyze HA/DR strategy,
documentation of processes and
procedures, including planned
testing of HR/DR plans.
Deliverables
a comprehensive Availability
Assessment Report.
– Report provides details of findings
across, Power Systems, IBM
Storage and IBM system software,
plus recommendations for
enhancements.
resolve identified availability and
disaster recovery issues.
PowerHA, VM Recovery Manager,
AIX, IBM i and/or Linux resiliency.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

PowerHA
SystemMirror
for AIX
Implementation
Overview
with PowerHA SystemMirror for
AIX. It also provides tools to
improve the backup, recovery and
automation of your HA/DR solution
for AIX.
Target Audience
– Clients deploying a HA/DR
solution based on PowerHA and
typically with IBM Metro or
Global Mirror and Flashcopy.
– Do you want to implement the
industries most popular HA/DR
solution for your UNIX
applications?
– Are you concerned with the
effort and cost recovering from
unscheduled outages?
– Are you considering how to
leverage flash-copy or on-line
backups?
Benefits
– This service will help transform
your confidence to role swap on
a regular basis with a storage-
based HA/DR cluster solution.
– Combining with IBM Flashcopy,
it will enable regular disk ‘snap-
shots’ of your systems.
Service Provided
– Perform HA design workshop to
architect an HA/DR solutions
using PowerHA for AIX
– Design PowerHA SystemMirror
cluster and assist with
development of a deployment
and implementation plans.
– Advise on range of additional
capabilities including PowerVM
Live Partition Mobility, Smart
Assist, Cluster Aware AIX.
– Implement PowerHA cluster with
IBM Storage on a local or
remote backup environment for
high availability and disaster
recovery operations.
– Implement PowerHA integration
with IBM Metro or Global Mirror
and IBM Flashcopy.
– Advise on best practices to meet
compliance requirements for
PowerHA testing, without
disruption to production
operations.
Deliverables
optimal implementation of
PowerHA.
PowerHA for AIX solution.
– Design document for selected
PowerHA solution.
environment.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

IBM Tivoli
Monitoring
Implementation
Overview
We will help you implement IBM
Tivoli Monitoring, installing on an
AIX server with agents on a subset
of managed endpoints. We’ll help
you get started with real time
monitoring and dashboards, plus
introduce you to valuable data
analytics for historical analysis,
capacity planning.
Target Audience
– Clients using AIX or Linux on
Power who need enterprise-
level monitoring and reporting
across for their Power Systems
servers.
– Are you looking for a mature
cross-platform monitoring tool
that can monitor key AIX, VIOS,
and HMC attributes?
– Would you benefit from using
interactive, customizable
dashboards to view critical
metrics on your servers?
Benefits
– This service will help you get the
best from ITM for both real-time
monitoring and and historical
data analysis.
– It will help you be more
proactive, recognizing problems
before they become a critical
situation and helping you take
corrective action before you
experience an unplanned
outage.
Service Provided
– Perform comprehensive review
of client requirements and use
cases and provide advise on
implementation and optimization
of IBM Tivoli Monitoring
software.
– Advise on creating and
customizing situations to monitor
events, send notifications, and
take corrective action.
– Advise on how to leverage
ready-to-run monitors.
– Advise on available agents for
AIX, Linux, VIOS and HMC and
how to use their default
workspaces.
– Advise on use of log file agent
monitors, errpt, syslog, and
application log files.
– Advise on monitoring for HMC-
serviceable hardware events
– Advise on how metric data can
be used for historical reporting,
trending, and capacity planning
– Advise on setting up role-based
authentication and on managing
agents from a central console.
Deliverables
– Implementation and customization
of ITM.
– Detailed custom runbook,
containing details of the IBM Tivoli
Monitoring installation and
configuration.
and monitoring your Power
Systems infrastructure with ITM.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Security
Assessment
Overview
The Ponemon Institute’s 2019
survey “Cost of a Data Breach
Report” indicates that organizations
are now one-third more likely to
experience a security breach in the
next two years than they were in
2014. The Security Assessment is
designed to identify security
vulnerabilities that may be exposing
your organization to avoidable risk.
Target Audience
– Clients looking for a
comprehensive security analysis
focused on Power Systems
virtualization and operating
systems.
– Are you running PowerVM, AIX,
IBM i, or Linux virtual machines
and want to identify security
vulnerabilities?
– Do you need to benchmark your
security and compliance
processes against latest industry
best practices?
– Do you need advice on a
standard, secure operating
system images on Power?
Benefits
– Get a comprehensive,
independent report to help you
identify potential security
vulnerabilities and risks.
– Get advice on best practices
from an experienced IBM
security consultant focused on
operating system and hypervisor
security.
Service Provided
– Analyze security on specified
virtual machine/s running
PowerVM VIOS, AIX, IBM i or
Linux.
– Perform assessment benefits a
wide range of organizations
using all compliance
methodologies, but this service
has limited support for CIS 7.1,
PCI and ISO/IEC 27002.
– Analyze cryptographic controls,
physical security, logging and
monitoring, vulnerability
management, network security,
etc.
Deliverables
– Presentation of assessment
observations, recommendations
and advice on vulnerabilities and
risks identified.
– Comprehensive report detailing
specific security and compliance
vulnerabilities and risks identified.
– Guidance on prioritized
remediation of vulnerabilities and
risks.
security and compliance on Power
Systems, including with PowerSC.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

PowerSC
Enablement
Overview
PowerSC provides a portfolio of
security tooling for network, server
and endpoint layers, as defined by
the Trusted Computing Group, to
help protect your systems. This
service provides you guidance to
more fully and simply integrate
PowerSC components into your
security and compliance policies
and practices.
Target Audience
– Who’s interested? What’s their
role? What industry are they in?
– Are you looking for ways to
reduce security vulnerabilities
and risks
– Are you evaluating ways to
reduce the cost of your security
and compliance operations?
– Are you concerned about your
ability to patch AIX-based
systems with latest security
fixes?
Benefits
– Get a comprehensive guide to
reducing your security
vulnerabilities.
– Find how to leverage tools
reduce costs and improve
accuracy of security and
compliance.
– Understand how to ensure you
stay up to date with latest AIX
security fixes.
Service Provided
– Advise on how to quickly
understand the common use
cases for using PowerSC.
– Implement and configure
PowerSC on a proof of concept
system
– Advise how PowerSC Trusted
Network Connect and Patch
Management can be used to
patch your AIX systems with
service packs and interim fixes.
– Identify opportunities to leverage
the advanced compliance and
monitoring options of PowerSC.
– Perform skills transfer for key
features PowerSC.
Deliverables
– Provide detailed PowerSC
presentation with detailed
configuration instructions
– Provide documented step-by-step
procedures with guidance for
integrating PowerSC into your
Power Systems environment
security and compliance on Power
Systems with PowerSC.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

AIX Role Based
Access Control
Workshop
Overview
Implementing AIX role-based
access control (RBAC) helps you
prevent security exposures from
external cyber attack or internal
users that may maliciously or
inadvertently use high privilege
administrative access on a server to
damage your own systems and
data.
Target Audience
– Clients running AIX that want to
reduce their security exposure
from hackers.
– Are you concerned that your
servers may be vulnerable to
external cyber attack?
– Have you concerned that
providing AIX root access may
be an exposure internally?
– Are your security policies and
practices aligned with industry
best practices?
Benefits
– The RBAC service helps you
reduce high exposure
vulnerabilities from external
cyber attackers using AIX root
authority.
– It helps you reduce and monitor
your internal users of root
authority, consistent with
industry best practices.
Service Provided
– Implement and configure RBAC
for skills transfer on a test AIX
system.
– Advise on the principles and
advantages of AIX RBAC
provides over the use of AIX
Sudo (superuser do) command.
– Advise how to us advanced
access control options provided
with Domain RBAC.
– Advise how to provide root type
access to a third-party script
using RBAC in order to remove
the need to provide high risk
root access, typically requested
by application administrators
– Advise how AIX Trusted
Execution can be used to
protect the integrity of your
RBAC configuration
– Advise how RBAC can be
integrated with LDAP
Deliverables
– Risk assessment for external
cyber attack and internal misuse
of AIX root authority.
– Design of procedures with
guidance for deploying RBAC on
your AIX production systems.
– Advice on implementation of
RBAC with detailed configuration
instructions
security of your AIX systems.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

BigFix Patch
Management
Overview
IBM BigFix is a single-console
management application that can
be used to improve software
lifecycle management, including for
deploying your fixes and patches to
operating system software. This
identify, patch, and report on patch
levels and missing security fixes .
Target Audience
– Clients using AIX or Linux who
want a policy-based enterprise
solution to manage and install
system updates and patches
– Do you want to be notified of
new system patches, interim
fixes, Fix Packs and Technology
Level (TL) updates
– Do you want to create
customized compliance reports
to help address vulnerabilities
– Do you want to automate
applying patches to groups of
systems?
Benefits
– Stay informed with new software
patches and fixes for your
business-critical systems.
– Ensure your systems are always
up to date with critical security
updates.
– Get automated reports detailing
which systems are missing
software updates?
Service Provided
– Implement and test BigFix with
cloud-based content delivery
and thousands of out-of-the-box
sample policies.
– Implement wizards for alt-disk
clone and multibos updates.
– Implement processes to install
interim fixes, service packs and
TL updates.
– Identify processes of continuous
self-assessment and policy
enforcement.
– Identify use cases for simple
custom policy authoring and
alerts for non-compliance.
– Create custom compliance and
inventory reports.
– Create dashboard views of fix
compliance.
– Advise of using automation
support and using BigFix as
your scripting repository.
Deliverables
– Practice BigFix Patch
Management on your test
systems, showing you how to use
the tool to apply security patches
and service packs
– Receive a customized runbook
documenting details of the IBM
BigFix installation and
configuration
Contacts
– Lab Services Principle Consultant:
Devaughn Rackham
rackham@us.ibm.com
IBM Power Systems

PowerDraw
Overview
PowerDraw is a tool that draws a
very detailed graphic representation
of your system and virtualization
design. It generates browser-
based, customizable views of your
infrastructure, including drill down
views of your system, virtual
network and storage.
Target Audience
– Clients running PowerVM that
want a clear, machine generated
graphical view to document their
infrastructure design?
Why Use This Tool?
– Do you need to visualize
configuration of all your
managed Power servers?
– Do you need to document key
components of your PowerVM
virtualization design?
– Do you need to explore design
to check attributes, troubleshoot
and resolve issues?
Benefits
– PowerDraw creates multiple
graphic views of your system
design.
– It can be used for system
documentation or as a tool for
problem determination and
resolution.
Service Provided
– Perform automated data capture
from Power Systems Hardware
Management Console (HMC) to
draw a detailed managed
system and virtual machine
design.
– Advise on how to generate
browser-based, customizable
graphical views.
– Advise on view options including
for all infrastructure, network,
storage, SR-IOV / vNIC.
– Advise on how to dynamically
add user defined data and
graphics.
– Advise on how to mouse-over
and click to drill down for
additional details and system
parameters and device
attributes.
– Advise on how to integrate
PowerDraw output as an
element in your problem
determination procedures and
for your operations dashboards.
Deliverables
– Advise on the implementation and
customization of PowerDraw.
on best practices for using
PowerDraw as one element of
your infrastructure operational
procedures.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Technical Training
Courses for AIX
Overview
Our training services bring IBM
experts to your site to build hands-
on skills in new technologies. We
believe that increasing team skills
directly and significantly increases
the likelihood of you meeting your
project deadlines and objectives.
We have a range of IBM developed
courses, plus other training that can
be customized to your team’s
needs.
Target Audience
– Clients that are running AIX that
want to ensure their
infrastructure team has the skills
needed to implement successful
projects faster.
– Are you moving to AIX from
another platform and need to
train new administrators?
– Are you implementing advanced
features of PowerVM, PowerHA
or PowerVC and want to ensure
your team is prepared?
Benefits
– A well-trained workforce has
22% faster product rollouts.
– You can realize a 10%
productivity increase when your
team are well trained.
– 70% of managers believe that
effective training reduces project
cost.
Deliverables
– Skills enablement for AIX with on
site, hands-on technical training
developed and taught by IBM
experts.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems
Training Provided (Days)
AIX
– AN10G AIX Basics (4)
– AN14G AIX Jumpstart for UNIX
Professionals (5)
– AN12G AIX Implementation and
Administration (5)
– AN15G AIX Advanced Admin
Problem Determination (5)
– AN51G AIX Performance
Management (5)
– AN58G AIX Security (3)
PowerVM, PowerHA, PowerVC
– AN30G Power Systems for AIX
PowerVM I: Implementing
Virtualization (5)
– Power Systems for AIX
Virtualization II: Advanced
PowerVM and Performance (5)
– AN61G PowerHA SystemMirror
Plan, Implement, Customize,
Basic Administration (5)
– QZC30G IBM Cloud PowerVC
Manager (4)

IBM i Services

Db2 Mirror for i
Readiness
Assessment
Overview
This readiness assessment will help
you develop the skills required to
implement a Db2 Mirror solution
and provide a test environment for
evaluating key applications and
databases. The assessment is
customized to your requirements,
but generally takes between two
and three weeks.
Target Audience
– ISVs and clients that are
planning to enable their
applications and infrastructure
for Db2 Mirror for IBM i.
– Are you looking for an
alternative to your current IBM i
software replication solutions for
high availability?
– Do you need a zero-time failover
environment to an active high
availability system?
– Are your business users asking
for an active/active solution for
their critical applications?
Benefits
– This service will help you
prepare for a continuous
availability solution for your
applications.
– It will help you address the
active/active application
requirements of your business
users.
Service Provided
– Develop a customized plan for
infrastructure and database to
support Db2 Mirror including the
following options:
• Planning
• Implementation
• Application compatibility
• Performance optimization
• Fail over testing
– Create an IBM i test
infrastructure environment
based on Power Systems
servers with DS8000 and
SVC/Flash storage options.
– Create a test database
environment with sample
application and data, cloned to
create a Db2 Mirror solution.
(Note that no HIPAA or PHI
client data can be loaded on
IBM systems.)
– Analyze and optimize
application performance.
– Perform fail over testing.
Deliverables
– Analysis of infrastructure,
database and applications
implications for a successful
implementation of Db2 Mirror.
– Design for infrastructure (compute
and storage), including PowerHA,
Metro and Global Mirror
integration where applicable.
– Design for database and
applications to best exploit
Db2 Mirror.
– Recommendations for application
and database modernization to for
optimal performance in a mirrored
database environment.
on best practices for Db2 Mirror.
Contacts
– Principle Lab Services
consultants:
Selwyn Dickey
sdickey@us.ibm.com
Eric Barsness
ericbar@us.ibm.com
IBM Power Systems

PowerHA
SystemMirror
for IBM i
Implementation
Overview
availability and disaster recovery.
It also provides tools to improve the
your HA/DR solution for IBM i.
Target Audience
– Clients considering switch from
software replication solutions to
PowerHA and typically to SAN
storage.
– Are you confident in ability to
successfully role swap to your
backup system with your
existing software-based
replication tool?
effort and cost of ensuring your
software replication has
consistent data at both sites?
– Are you considering a SAN and
would like to leverage flash-copy
or on-line backups?
Benefits
based HA/DR solution.
– It will enable you to leverage
new solutions for on-line
backups and regular disk ‘snap-
Service Provided
– Perform study to estimate
required network bandwidth.
architect one of the following
HA/DR solutions.
– Perform independent ASP
workshop to facilitate application
readiness.
– Implement PowerHA with SAN
or internal disk.
– Implement PowerHA Flashcopy
toolkit for offloading tape
backups to a separate VM.
– Implement PowerHA Remote
Copy toolkit for DR solution
(full-system replication).
– Migration assistance from
internal disk to IBM SAN
– Implement IBM SAN with IBM i
and PowerVM virtualization.
– Implement LivePartition Mobility
and/or Hyperswap with
virtualized IBM SAN.
Deliverables
PowerHA for IBM i.
PowerHA for IBM i solution.
– Implementation of selected Lab
Services tools to facilitate
operational excellence.
environment.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

PowerHA for IBM i
Implementation
Overview
availability and disaster recovery.
It also provides tools to improve the
your HA/DR solution for IBM i.
Target Audience
– Clients considering switch from
software replication solutions to
PowerHA and typically to SAN
storage.
– Are you confident in ability to
successfully role swap to your
backup system with your
existing software-based
replication tool?
effort and cost of ensuring your
software replication has
consistent data at both sites?
– Are you considering a SAN and
would like to leverage flash-copy
or on-line backups?
Benefits
based HA/DR solution.
– It will enable you to leverage
new solutions for on-line
backups and regular disk ‘snap-
Service Provided
– Perform study to estimate
required network bandwidth.
architect one of the following
HA/DR solutions.
– Perform independent ASP
workshop to facilitate application
readiness.
– Implement PowerHA with SAN
or internal disk.
– Implement PowerHA Flashcopy
toolkit for offloading tape
backups to a separate VM.
– Implement PowerHA Remote
Copy toolkit for DR solution
(full-system replication).
– Migration assistance from
internal disk to IBM SAN
– Implement IBM SAN with IBM i
and PowerVM virtualization.
– Implement LivePartition Mobility
and/or Hyperswap with
virtualized IBM SAN.
Deliverables
PowerHA for IBM i.
– Implementation of selected Lab
Services tools to facilitate
operational excellence.
environment.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

Safeguarded Copy
with IBM i
Implementation
Overview
With DS8000 SafeGuarded Copy
you can protect your data from
logical corruption and malicious
activity by taking protected,
immutable copies of the data. The
Safeguarded Copy cannot be
accessed or changed unless two
people provide authorization
through a dual control interface.
Target Audience
– Ideal for banking clients that
require highly secure protection
for their client data.
– Do you have a business
requirement for securing
multiple copies of your data?
– Have you experienced or are
concerned about a malware,
ransomware attack or other
cyber attack on your client data?
– Are your senior company
executives asking to you to
provide the highest levels of
data security and protection?
Benefits
– Implementing Safeguarded
Copy secures data to prevent it
from being compromised, either
accidentally or deliberately.
– It provides backup copies to
recover data in case of logical
corruption or destruction of
primary data.
Service Provided
– Implement Safeguarded Copy
on IBM i with the DS8000 via
Copy Services Manager (CSM).
– Advise on how to manage
SafeGuarded copies.
– Advise on use with either
standard or dual control CSM.
– Advise on use of logical and
physical isolation for
SafeGuarded copies.
– Advise on physical isolation,
managing the Global Mirror as
well as an optional FlashCopy at
the target.
– Advise on integration with
PowerHA tools Full System
Flashcopy if backups are also
required at the target of a logical
or physical SafeGuarded
environment.
Deliverables
– Design document for use of
Safeguarded Copy capability with
IBM i.
management of your Safeguarded
Copy environment.
Contacts
IBM Power Systems

IBM i Application
and Db2 Design &
Transformation
Services
Overview
Select from a range of
IBM i design and transformation
services that will help you
modernize your application and
database design. We can deliver
skills enablement workshops to
train your team in new technologies.
And, we can provide hands-on
practical coding assistance and
mentoring to help your developers
get started more easily and
progress faster with common
design use cases including for web
services, open source, encrypting
data, and adopting SQL.
Target Audience
– IBM i clients with traditional
application and database
designs and tools. Also, clients
adopting new tools and
methodologies that require
mentoring and training on best
practices.
– Do you need assistance with
modernizing your applications
and database?
– Are your developers struggling
to adopt the latest development
and database tools for IBM i?
– Do you want to take advantage
of data encryption or web
services on IBM i?
Benefits
– This broad range of services will
be customized to help you
address your top priority projects
for application and database
transformation.
– The services ensure that your
teams can rapidly leverage new
technologies, with skills transfer
through practical coding
assistance and mentoring.
Service Provided
– Advise on design for
modularizing IBM i applications
– Advise on database
modernization, for example,
moving from data defined
source (DDS) to SQL.
– Advise on application design for
encrypting sensitive data.
– Advise on and develop
prototype code for using
WebSphere MQ.
prototype code for implementing
web services.
prototype code utilizing open
source development tools.
– Perform training on and facilitate
adoption of Rational Developer
for IBM i.
– Perform training and facilitate
POCs on database
transformation.
Deliverables
– Design document for IBM i
modernization strategy.
– Recommendations and protype
code for modernizing sample
components targeting key
business use cases.
– Skills enablement on a range of
IBM i development tools, including
Rational Developer for IBM i.
IBM i application and database
modernization.
Contacts
– Principle Lab Services Consultant:
Jim Diephuis
diephuis@us.ibm.com
IBM Power Systems

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