Power is virtualization without limits. Businesses are turning to PowerVM virtualization to consolidate multiple workloads onto fewer systems, increasing server utilization and reducing cost. PowerVM provides a secure and scalable virtualization environment for AIX, i and Linux applications built upon the advanced RAS features and leading performance of the Power Systems platform.

Learn more:

• IBM PowerVM Virtualization (184KB)
• PowerVM case studies
• Compare PowerVM to Sun and HP

Highlights

• Reduce IT costs by consolidating diverse workloads onto Power Systems™ platforms
• Optimize utilization of enterprise IT resources to improve service levels and boost ROI
• Minimize the complexity of systems administration and automate standard processes
• Rapidly scale to deliver maximum system resources to the most demanding mission-critical workloads
• Maximize availability by moving live workloads between servers to eliminate planned downtime

Complexity can work its way into any IT infrastructure, driven by the rollout of new applications and unanticipated change. However, adding servers in response to each demand for new workloads drives the need for more datacenter space, power, cooling, network cabling, data storage and administrative resources. Such complexity leads to inefficiency. The answer is virtualization, which allows organizations to consolidate multiple operating systems and software stacks on a single platform.

PowerVM™ provides the industrial-strength virtualization solution for IBM Power Systems servers and blades. Based on more than a decade of evolution and innovation, PowerVM represents the state of the art in enterprise virtualization and is broadly deployed in production environments worldwide by most Power Systems owners.

The IBM Power Systems family of servers includes proven1 workload consolidation platforms that help clients control costs while improving overall performance, availability and energy efficiency. With these servers and IBM PowerVM virtualization solutions, an organization can consolidate large numbers of applications and servers, fully virtualize its system resources, and provide a more flexible, dynamic IT infrastructure.

Operating system versions supported

• AIX 5.3, AIX 6.1 and AIX 7
• IBM i 6.1 and IBM i 7.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (when announced by Red Hat)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

Hardware platforms supported

• IBM Power Systems with POWER5™, POWER6® and POWER7® processors

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1PowerVM Case Studies: ibm.com/systems/power/success/index.html
2Power Systems benchmark results: ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/benchmarks/index.html

Click HERE to watch video demonstrating IBM's PowerVM Live Partition Mobility feature.

 

The IBM Systems Director for Power Servers each provide an integrated set of tools to help IT organizations address major concerns associated with managing both physical and virtual server infrastructures:

• Automatically discover AIX®, IBM i, or Linux® physical and virtual server systems and dependencies
• Administer servers and associated storage, networks, and energy to maintain service availability by quickly identifying and resolving issues
• Manage heterogeneous virtualization environments across Power Systems™ (including multiple HMCs), System x®, System z® and third-party x86 servers with a common interface
• Optimize the use of virtual servers for higher levels of server consolidation
• Deploy new workloads faster and more reliably with virtual image management and system pools
• Generate current and historical reports of system status for troubleshooting and system planning
• Analyze trends of server resource usage to plan for future capacity needs