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The following sections provide the details you will need to get logged into the systems and
add applications or change the configuration. There are also optional exercises that one can
use to experiment further after running through the demo.
Overview
This section gives a definition of how the Power on Wheels Evaluation environment has been
setup. We also describe key features of the solution and provide a detailed logical layout of
the system.
What is Power on Wheels?
- IBM Power on Wheels is a self service server consolidation demo, in a plug and play
shipping box with a muti-tiered pre-packaged software solution that demonstrates how
such an environment might be configured. It provides the framework where a customer
can add their own applications to see how they react on this environment.
- A single foot-print that contains multiple Operating Systems, network switch, graphical
monitoring and workload driving tools
- Provides the customer with a short term test/demo environment using our Web based
Graphical User Interface to ease the operation and startup.
- Demonstrates the following IBM Key Technologies
o Virtualization
o CPU Sharing
o Server Consolidation
o Power Saving
o Hardware Redundancy
o Green Implementation
o Multiple Operating Systems
o Partition Mobility
o Workload Partitions
POWER on Wheels Features:
Virtualization: The sharing of machine resources to extend the capabilities of the
hardware in order to maximize the amount of processing power provided to
different applications. We provide this with the following:
o CPU Sharing: Assigning fractional CPU shares to each LPAR. Allowing
pools of CPU for each LPAR to share in order to handle peak load when
needed. We have 7 LPARs all using a shared pool of the available CPUs.
o VIO Server: VIO Server or Virtual Input Output Server. Virtual I/O Server
allows sharing of physical resources between LPARs including virtual SCSI
and virtual networking.
o LHEA: Logical Host Ethernet Adapter. It is a logical representation of Host
Ethernet Adapter (HEA) for an LPAR.
Server Consolidation on Power7 platform:
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