For many years, IBM® Cluster Systems Management (CSM) provided a single point of management for IBM Power Systems™ servers running the AIX® operating system. Now you can transform your environment to IBM Systems Director®, which provides CSM clients with the next generation of Cluster Systems Management for their Power Systems servers.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides an update of the latest AIX Workload Partition (WPAR) capabilities. It provides a how-to guide and well-defined and documented deployment model for system administrators and architects using WPARs in AIX® Version 7.1 within an IBM POWER® System virtualized environment. This book helps clients create a planned foundation for their future deployments. This book is targeted toward technical professionals, such as business intelligence (BI) consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists, who are responsible for providing solutions and support for IBM POWER Systems and IBM AIX Version 7.1.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides a documented deployment model for IBM GPFS™ in a cross-platform environment with IBM Power Systems™, Linux, and Windows servers. With IBM GPFS, customers can have a planned foundation for file systems management for cross-platform access solutions. This book examines the functional, integration, simplification, and usability changes with GPFS v3.4. It can help the technical teams provide file system management solutions and technical support with GPFS, based on Power Systems virtualized environments for cross-platform file systems management. The book provides answers to your complex file systems management requirements, helps you maximize file system availability, and provides expert-level documentation to transfer the how-to skills to the worldwide support teams. The audience for this book is the technical professional (IT consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists) who is responsible for providing file system management solutions and support for cross-platform environments that are based primarily on Power Systems.

This IBM Redbooks publication will illustrate the installation procedures of InfiniBand on the IBM System p5 with Linux and AIX 5L. InfiniBand adapters, switches, and network management software will be described in this publication. The IBM HPC stack will be tested with InfiniBand (Parallel Environment, LoadLeveler, GPFS, ESSL, and Parallel ESSL). Communication protocols such as MPI and LAPI will be tested and observations will be illustrated in this book. This book is the complete guide on how to implement InfiniBand on the IBM System p5. It is targeted at all IT professionals looking to understand what is behind the InfiniBand technologies, how to deploy it, and what is the IBM solution incorporating this technology.

This IBM Redbooks publication is a practical cookbook that provides up-to-date information about Cluster Systems Management (CSM) for AIX 5L for a pSeries environment. The book provides information about the latest CSM for AIX 5L enhancements, including implementation techniques, installation changes, installation tools, system management tools, monitoring tools, hardware control, file distribution, problem determination, and management server high availability. This book summarizes the latest news in CSM 1.4.0. It contains a Q&A chapter, a CSM installation scenario, a CSM advanced chapter, CSM migration scenarios, and a CSM cluster administration chapter. We include information about how to manage Linux nodes on pSeries hardware including operating system installation and node management in a mixed cluster environment. This book is targeted to technical professionals (consultants, IT architects, and IT specialists) who are responsible for providing pSeries clustering solutions.

This IBM Redbooks publication covers the process of converting a PSSP cluster to a CSM cluster. It examines the different tools, utilities, documentation and other resources available to help the system administrator move a system from PSSP to CSM. This book also makes recommendations about which procedures are most suitable for different types of customer environments (high performance technical computing, server consolidation, business intelligence, etc.) and points out the relative advantages and disadvantages of the different procedures, tools, and methods. Customers will use the working knowledge presented in this book to plan and accomplish the transition of their own clustered systems from PSSP to CSM. Are you using GPFS? This transition book covers a number of GPFS transition methods, each with its own recommendations, GPFS cluster types, advantages versus disadvantages, and step-by-step scenarios. It also shows a method of moving GPFS storage between two clusters, which could be used during hardware transition or upgrades.

This IBM Redbooks publication is designed as a study guide for professionals wishing to prepare for the certification exam to achieve IBM Certified Specialist - Cluster 1600 managed by PSSP. The Cluster 1600 managed by PSSP certification validates the skills required to install and configure PSSP system software and to perform the administrative and diagnostic activities needed to support multiple users in an SP environment. The certification is applicable to specialists who implement and/or support Cluster 1600 managed by PSSP systems. This book helps Cluster 1600 specialists seeking a comprehensive and task-oriented guide for developing the knowledge and skills required for certification. It is designed to provide a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a general understanding of the subject matter. It also gives sample questions that will help in the evaluation of personal progress and provides familiarity with the types of questions that will be encountered in the exam.

System installation and administration Application case studies Cluster management For customers interested in Linux who need powerful and reliable servers to support their applications, IBM eServer pSeries offers 64-bit POWER servers to match their requirements at lower costs. Unlike other servers supporting solely high performance Linux needs, IBM eServer pSeries provides leadership price/performance with high reliability and a roadmap to provide the customer with investment protection. This IBM Redbook provides information and guidelines for how to deploy Linux on IBM eServer pSeries clusters. Topics covered include: System installation System administration Linux for pSeries RAS and problem determination Getting started with GPFS Cluster Systems Management (CSM) High Performance Computing case studies Commercial application case studies This redbook also includes hints and tips that illustrate particular observations discovered during the residency. Additional reference materials and Web sites have been included as well, to provide the reader with other sources of information necessary to implement Linux on pSeries clusters.

The IBM eServer Cluster 1600 server, which was introduced to meet the rigorous demands of mission-critical enterprise applications, continues to offer outstanding performance, scalability, reliability, availability, serviceability, and management capabilities. In this IBM Redbooks publication, we highlight the benefits of using a Cluster 1600, and describe which hardware components can be managed by either Parallel System Support Programs (PSSP) Version 3, Release 5, or Cluster Systems Management (CSM) Version 1, Release 3, Modification 2.