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What is IBM Power servers?
The IBM Power product line is a family of servers.
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What is IBM Power servers?
IBM Power
servers are designed for the most demanding, data-intensive computing imaginable, while keeping the business protected.
IBM offers Power10 processor-based servers, available in scale-out or scale-up variants.
The vendor promises the following benefits and differentiators:
Delivered with security
Power servers have security built in at all layers, from the processor to the OS to deliver an integrated end-to-end security solution
Enterprise cloud-ready
Power servers integrate into organizations' private or hybrid cloud strategy to handle flexible consumption models and changing customer needs.
Reliability
Boasts strong rankings in every major reliability category by ITIC*, IBM Power
servers aim to deliver the reliable on-premises infrastructure to meet
around-the-clock customer demands.
Value and performance
Power servers boast superior core
performance and memory bandwidth to deliver both performance and
price-performance advantages.
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IBM Power servers Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Linux, AIX, IBM i |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Frequently Asked Questions
The IBM Power product line is a family of servers.
Dell PowerEdge R, HPE ProLiant DL, and Supermicro Twin are common alternatives for IBM Power servers.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.6.
The most common users of IBM Power servers are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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September 25, 2023
Unleash the IBM Power servers
- Host up to 32TB Virtual Machine
- Redundancy out of the box
- Works seamless with existing datacenter network and storage
- Lower the costs
- Lack of Support for all Linux and older versions too
- Met target delivery architecture
- Binds easily with other equipment in the data center already, no need for new network and storage infra
- Unable to run for long due to costs, ROI is slow
We did not try any other similar offering.
100
Datacenter management, Tools Development & Integration, Hosting, Operations and Application / Database Users.
15
- Large Memory Virtual Machines
- High Availability
- Ease of Integration with existing DC Infra
No
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
"Scalability" was the single most important factor to us. We wanted to scale up the virtual machines to large/er/est memory possible and IBM Power servers made this possible.
We wouldn't change the evaluation process if we were to do it again.
- Implemented in-house
Yes
Trial Phase
DC Infra Integration
Tool Integration
Operations
Scale Geographically
DC Infra Integration
Tool Integration
Operations
Scale Geographically
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
I was not involved in the discussion regarding support categories.
No
- Hardware Management Console
- High Availability
- Memory Upgrades on the fly
- Integration with internal tools was difficult and took some time
September 08, 2023
Unbeatable performance, no surprise downtimes, stability, scalability, security and robustness that your critical business applications need
- Stability
- Performance
- Scalability
- Reliability
- Robustness
- Manageability
- LPM
- WPAR
- Python Compatibility
- unbeatable system uptime
- high efficiency
- scalability
We always buy IBM Power/Aix systems for our business-critical applications, because we like to sleep sound at night. There's always Dell & HP for our VMware setup which runs a bunch of RHEL servers.
2000
We run our two major business-critical applications (ERP & Warehouse control system) round the clock and we have 24*7 operations carried out from 22 countries across the world. At a time there are approximately 2000 users logged into out Aix systems.
4
This is the most critical part. Since Power/Aix are not open to public it's really hard to get knowledge and experience on these systems. You have to work in IBM as a support engineer or join a big company who has IBM systems to learn this stuff.
- Performance
- Stability
- Uptime
- Manageability
- Scalability
- Build home grown applications to run on Power Servers
- Run more home grown Applications
- Adopt Linux on Power to run RHEL on Power systems
No
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
- Other
Performance & Uptime
Nothing will change. It's always IBM Power systems for business-critical applications.
- Implemented in-house
- Third-party professional services
Clear Technologies.
Yes
Delivery, Rack Mount/Cabling, Power up/connect to HMC/Firmware Update, VIOS/Network/SAN setup, LPM over the LPARs from old system/Create New LPARs.
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
Since you are dealing with business-critical applications, key take is to well-plan the migration, attention to detail, document the process before hand, involve all the stakeholders upfront and do through testing with dev systems before going on with Prod systems.
- Setting up the Network (Not a big issue though)
Yes. We need prompt support if we need it. Because if the business is down, downtime is measured by thousands of dollars not by the minutes.
No
IBM always provides exceptional support. If any issue with support, we can always escalate to the next level.
- LPM
- DLPAR Operations
- System Migrations from one system to another
- Firmware Updates (sometimes)
August 16, 2022
It’s name says it all: processing POWER!!
Support of ibm I workloads in a single server. It’s processing power and virtualization features allow dynamic resource sharing between lpars and there are less hw to maintain. We currently have 4 production lpars sharing processing power.
- Performance
- Processing power
- Cost
- Workload consolidation
- Processing power
- Application performance
Basically, it’s a midrange server that consolidates mixed workloads from different OS platforms. It has great processing power and has great reliability.
All of our employees use power server directly or indirectly as our banking core runs on ibm i on power
3
System administration, virtualization, hardware, hmc management, networking, ibm i configuration, security, integrity, database engineering.
- Banking core
- Development
- Api workloads
- Api workloads
- Power virtual server
- Cloud object storage on ibm cloud
- Data migration to cloud
No
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
We have inherited a banking core application running in ibm i, so previous experience tell us the reliability and power tha these servers have.
I wouldn’t change a bit. Maybe analyze running power on cloud
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
Don’t migrate anything if you don’t have a good backup
- Backup and restore
No.
No
I lost a disk while upgrading the licensed internal code. They assisted me to slip install the lic without losing any data
- Lpar provisioning
- Data migration
- Na
Yes, but I don't use it
August 05, 2021
Good to have IBM POWER9 Servers
It is handling the main core application in my organization, the entire business is dependent on IBM i , it helps to resolve the critical issue. It is housing the core enterprise application like JDE.
Currently, with IBM POWER9 Servers, we can have more retention with a more optimized SMT8 thread.
Currently, with IBM POWER9 Servers, we can have more retention with a more optimized SMT8 thread.
- IBM POWER9 Servers are much faster than the POWER6.
- Backups take less time to be completed.
- Highly secure and automated server
- Uptime
- It could be faster
- More CPU cores could be added.
- Looking for some new features.
- Allow access to certain configuration items (ie. DHCP/DNS configuration) without using a GUI
- Speed
- Secure
- Automated
- UPTIME
- It is very secure.
- Backups are running fast and completing in few hours.
- More Linux libraries for AIX
With these latest IBM POWER9 Servers-based systems based on the latest technologies, IBM Cognitive Systems continues its tradition of delivering value to clients in the form of performance, RAS, and solution value.
IBM POWER9 Servers scaled up nicely from our POWER7 and POWER8 servers to provide better performance per core and more memory capacity for the cost.
It's easy to use and very secure with virtualization technology with PowerVM
IBM POWER9 Servers scaled up nicely from our POWER7 and POWER8 servers to provide better performance per core and more memory capacity for the cost.
It's easy to use and very secure with virtualization technology with PowerVM
7
It is handling the main core application in my organization, entire business dependent on ibmi , it helps to resolve the critical issue. It is housing the core enterprise application like jde Edward.
Currently on IBM Power9 servers, we can have more retention by more a optimized SMT8 thread.
Currently on IBM Power9 servers, we can have more retention by more a optimized SMT8 thread.
3
AS400 administrator.
IT analyst
AS400 developer
IT analyst
AS400 developer
- Power VM has no vulnerability since 2003
- Backup strategy
- JDE applications
- With Power Systems, clients can take advantage of superior core performance
- memory bandwidth
- price-performance advantages
- the new enhanced core
- more complexity
- more data to manage and greater pressure to
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
We typically purchase enterprise-class servers, and the POWER9's are fully redundant, which helps reduce any unplanned downtime
I will not change the selection process.
- Third-party professional services
Chilli services
- Time taking
- Co-location support
Yes we have purchased premium support as whenever any issue related to iseries we get the quick support from IBM.
No
Quick resolution.
Immediate assistance even with the low priority case.
well explained.
Reply to my question many times.
Provided links to troubleshoot the issue.
Immediate assistance even with the low priority case.
well explained.
Reply to my question many times.
Provided links to troubleshoot the issue.
- highly scalable
- easily clustered
- powerful and efficient
- license/manage for the MSP model
- Need more support from big Cloud providers
- initial Pricing (offset by TCO).
Yes, but I don't use it