Implementation Services for System p – Advanced POWER Virtualization

IBM Implementation Services for System p™ – Advanced POWER™ Virtualization is designed for organizations that want to take advantage of the virtualization capabilities available on most IBM System p servers so they can reduce network complexity, improve utilization and performance and decrease costs—along a faster implementation timeline and with a reduced risk of business disruption.

Leverages leading virtualization technology

Helps improve server utilization and performance

Simplifies IT management and optimizes existing IT investments

Enables you to redirect IT resources toward business-critical applications

Server sprawl - it’s a growing problem in many organizations. Whether you’re big or small, upgrading your infrastructure or merging with another company, it’s likely that you’re deploying new applications and facing data proliferation challenges. All of which leads to one thing: too many servers. Redundant servers can clutter your network, compromising performance levels and costing you more to manage and maintain it.

Wouldn’t you like to get more performance and efficiency out of the hardware assets you already own? You can, if you own or are considering purchasing IBM System p servers, for which leading virtualization technology is usually available. Designed to help you avoid using your valuable in-house resources on time-consuming virtualization implementation projects, IBM Implementation Services for System p – Advanced POWER Virtualization provides fixed-cost planning, installation, configuration, training and project management services.

Advanced POWER Virtualization capabilities can help your organization simplify server management, reduce costs, and improve server utilization and performance. These capabilities include:

Virtual I/O server

• Facilitates the sharing of physical input/output (I/O) resources among logical partitions
• Enables sharing of Ethernet adapters, small computer system interface (SCSI) devices and Fibre Channel storage

Partition load manager

• Balances processor and memory requests automatically
• Shifts resources dynamically based on demand

IBM Micro-Partitioning™ technology

• Supports up to ten logical partitions on one processor 
• Automates CPU and memory reconfiguration
• Provides real-time partition configuration and load statistics 
• Supports dedicated and shared-processor logical partition groups 
• Allows for manual resource provisioning

Leveraging IBM’s world-class System p and virtualization expertise can help you speed implementation time and reduce the risk of business disruption during your transition to a consolidated and virtualized server platform.  This service is available for System p servers that are based on IBM POWER5^TM and POWER6^TM technology.