Abstract This IBM Redbooks publication describes how to implement an Open Platform for Database as a Service (DBaaS) on IBM Power Systems environment for Linux, and demonstrate the open source tools, optimization and best practices guidelines for it. Open Platform for DBaaS on Power Systems is an on-demand, secure, and scalable self-service database platform that automates provisioning and administration of databases to support new business applications and information insights. This publication addresses topics to help sellers, architects, brand specialists, distributors, resellers and anyone offering secure and scalable Open Platform for DBaaS on Power Systems solution with APIs that are consistent across heterogeneous open database types. An Open Platform for DBaaS on Power Systems solution has the capability to accelerate business success by providing an infrastructure, and tools leveraging Open Source and OpenStack software engineered to optimize hardware and software between workloads and resources so you have a responsive, and an adaptive environment. Moreover, this publication provides documentation to transfer the how-to-skills for cloud oriented operational management of Open Platform for DBaaS on Power Systems service and underlying infrastructure to the technical teams. Open Platform for DBaaS on Power Systems mission is to provide scalable and reliable cloud database as a service provisioning functionality for both relational and non-relational database engines, and to continue to improve its fully-featured and extensible open source framework. For example, Trove is a database as a service for OpenStack. It is designed to run entirely on OpenStack, with the goal of allowing users to quickly and easily utilize the features of a relational or non-relational database without the burden of handling complex administrative tasks. Cloud users and database administrators can provision and manage multiple database instances as needed. Initially, the service focuses on providing resource isolation at high performance while automating complex administrative tasks including deployment, configuration, patching, backups, restores, and monitoring. In the context of this publication, the monitoring tool implemented is Nagios Core which is an open source monitoring tool. Hence, when you see a reference of Nagios in this book, Nagios Core is the open source monitoring solution implemented. Also note that the implementation of Open Platform for DBaaS on IBM Power Systems is based on open source solutions. This book is targeted toward sellers, architects, brand specialists, distributors, resellers and anyone developing and implementing Open Platform for DBaaS on Power Systems solutions.

Abstract This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps strengthen the position of the IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® solution with a well-defined and documented deployment models within an IBM Power Systems™ virtualized environment, which provides customers with a planned foundation for business resilience and disaster recovery for their IBM Power Systems infrastructure solutions. This publication addresses topics to help meet customers' complex high availability and disaster recovery requirements on IBM Power Systems servers to help maximize their systems' availability and resources, and provide technical documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to users and support teams. This book is targeted at technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) who are responsible for providing high availability and disaster recovery solutions and support with IBM PowerHA SystemMirror Standard and Enterprise Editions on IBM Power Systems servers.

Abstract This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces and provides a broad understanding of the new IBM Geographically Dispersed Resiliency for IBM Power Systems™ solution. The IBM Geographically Dispersed Resiliency for Power Systems solution is a set of software components that together provide a disaster recovery (DR) mechanism for virtual machines (VMs) running on an IBM POWER7® processor-based server or later. This document describes various components, subsystems, and tasks that are associated with the IBM Geographically Dispersed Resiliency for Power Systems solution. This book is targeted at technical professionals (consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) that are responsible for providing high availability (HA) and DR solutions and support on IBM Power Systems servers.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM Software Defined Environment (SDE) solution, which helps to optimize the entire computing infrastructure--compute, storage, and network resources--so that it can adapt to the type of work required. In today's environment, resources are assigned manually to workloads, but that happens automatically in a SDE. In an SDE, workloads are dynamically assigned to IT resources based on application characteristics, best-available resources, and service level policies so that they deliver continuous, dynamic optimization and reconfiguration to address infrastructure issues. Underlying all of this are policy-based compliance checks and updates in a centrally managed environment. Readers get a broad introduction to the new architecture. Think integration, automation, and optimization. Those are enablers of cloud delivery and analytics. SDE can accelerate business success by matching workloads and resources so that you have a responsive, adaptive environment. With the IBM Software Defined Environment, infrastructure is fully programmable to rapidly deploy workloads on optimal resources and to instantly respond to changing business demands. This information is intended for IBM sales representatives, IBM software architects, IBM Systems Technology Group brand specialists, distributors, resellers, and anyone who is developing or implementing SDE.