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For the New Enterprise Data Center

Arsi Kortesniemi

Consultant IT-specialistIBM Systems and Technology GroupPOWER systems – F I N L A N [email protected]

POWER Virtualization

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Latest news from IBM POWER systems


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Express

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IBM BladeCenter IBM Power Servers

Power Systems Server Unification

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Enterprise leadershipThe first of a New generation of Enterprise Power servers

Power 595Power 575Power 570

For the New Enterprise Data Center

Designed for the world’s most complex computing challenges

The most popular mid-range and high end servers take on more…


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IBM Power 595: New Breakthrough 5.0 GHz POWER6 Technology World’s most powerful UNIX system for SAP

IBM has more than twice the performance per core vs. HP!

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SAP SD 2-tier Standard Application Benchmark

553

Source www.sap/com/benchmark/Results as of 4/8/08

32 processor64-core

128-thread

35,400

*The SAP certification number was not available at press time and can be found at www.sap.com/benchmark . For full IBM Power 595 and competitor detail see the following chart.

64 processor128-core

256-thread#2006089

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72-way#2004039


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1.95 sec

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HP-UX 11iV3,

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Available at :

sap.com/benchmark

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AIX 6.1,

DB2 9.5

IBM Power 595

Cert #SoftwareConfiguration

SAP SD 2-tier Standard Application Benchmark Detailed Results

Results current as of 4/8/08; The 64-core IBM Power 595 (5.0 GHz) achieved the highest number for users on the two-tier SAP SD standard ERP 6.0 (2005) application Benchmark result(35,400 benchmark users, 1.94 second average response time, 3,559,000 fully processed line items per hour, 10.677,000 dialog steps/hour, 177.950 SAPS, 0.013 sec / 0.017 sec Average DB request time (dia/upd), 99% CPU utilization of central server) running IBM DB2 Enterprise 9.5 database software, AIX 6.1, SAP ECC Release 6.0. (32 processors/64 cores/128 threads) The SAP certification number was not available at press time and can be found at www.sap.com/benchmark . The HP Intigrity SD64B ran 30,000 users on the two-tier SAP SD standard mySAP ERP 2005 application benchmark using HP/UX 11/V3 on 64 processor/128-core/256 thread 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 and Oracle 10gR2. SAP Certification number: 2006089.


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* - SPECint, SPECfp, SPECjbb, SPECweb, SPECjAppServer, SPEC OMP, SPECviewperf, SPECapc, SPEChpc, SPECjvm, SPECmail, SPECimap and SPECsfs are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp (SPEC). For a definition/explanation of each benchmark and the full list of detailed results, visit SPEC at http://www.spec.org.

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Install and Run

� No Porting

� No Recompile

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Run x86 Linux applications on Power Systems with PowerVM Lx86

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iApplication

Server consolidation just got a whole lot easier

� Power 575 enables capture of explosive Linux growth in HPC

� Power 595 enables energy efficient x86 workload consolidation

� Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

� x86 Server Consolidation Factory on Power Systems

SPEC OMPM2001

IBM Power 570 with Linux beats Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 by 42%

with ½ the cores!1

SPECfp_rate2006

IBM Power 570 with Linux beats HP Integrity rx8640 by 15%

with ½ the cores!2

2 - Source: www.SPEC.org , current as of 3/28/08; IBM SPECfp_rate2006 result of 430 on a 16-core (8 processor chips, 32 threads) 4.7 GHz POWER6 IBM Power 570 running RHEL 5.1 vs. HP SPECfp_rate2006 result of 371 on a 32-core (16 processor chips, 32 threads) 1.6 GHz/24MB Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 HP Integrity rx8640 server running HPUX 11i

1 - Source: www.SPEC.org , current as of 3/28/08; IBM SPECOMPM2001 result of 94,350 on a 16-core (8 processor chips, 32 threads) 4.7 GHz POWER6 IBM Power 570 running RHEL 5.1 vs. Sun SPECOMPM2001 result of 66,283 on a 32-core (16 processor chips, 32 threads) 2.28GHz SPARC64 VI Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server running Solaris 10


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IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 08/06

Innovation drives demand for PowerUNIX server rolling four quarter average revenue sh are

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ManagerAdvanced POWER™

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HARDWARE level Virtualization with POWER systems


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IBM’s History of Virtualization Leadership

IBM develops Hypervisorthat would

become VM on the

mainframe

IBM announces

first machines to do Physical Partitioning

IBM announces

LPAR on the mainframe

POWER LPAR design

begins

1967 1973 1987

IBM introduces LPAR in POWER4

based systems with AIX / Linux

Advanced POWER

Virtualizationships

200420011997

Timeline reference http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#01Client quote source: rku.it case study published at http://www.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/JSTS-6KXPPG?OpenDocument&Site=eserverpseries

“In our opinion, they [IBM POWER servers] bring mainframe-quality virtualization capabilities to the world of AIX.”

- Ulrich Klenke, CIO, rku.it

January 2006

PowerVM on IBM Power Systems servers

IBMannouncesPowerVM™

2008


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Why virtualization ?

� Traditional Server Capacity– Workloads fluctuate

significantly over time

– Servers are often purchased to handle individual unknown peaks

– Unused resources cannot be used by other servers

– Non-production servers often have very low utilization rates

– The total unused capacity can exceed the used capacity 0

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2 things you need to do POWERvirtualization !


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Power Systems Family

Power 575

Specialty Power Servers

BladeCenter JS12/JS22

Power 595

Power 550Express

Power 570

Power 520Express

Blue Gene™

Cell Solutions / Cell Blades QS21


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PowerVM

Industrial strength virtualization for UNIX, i and Linux clients

� Unify virtualization branding & technology for AIX, i and Linux

� Exploit over 40 years of IBM virtualization leadership

� Position as scalable (1 to 64 cores), mission-critical alternative to VMWare

� Available in Express, Standard & Enterprise Editions

� Features include Live Partition Mobility, micro-partitioning etc

Hardware feature code8002 PowerVM (Enterprise Edition)


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� One approach for ordering and deployment across all Power servers

Selected PowerVM technologies are not available on all models

Industrial strength virtualization for UNIX, i and Linux clients

Designed to decrease license costs (Oracle etc.)


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WorkloadPartitionsManager

AIX # 1 AIX # 2

WorkloadPartition

QA

WorkloadPartition

ApplicationServer

WorkloadPartition

Web

NFS and virtualized network infrastructureNFS and virtualized network infrastructure

Live Application Mobility

Positioning Mobility Solutions on Power Systems

Movement of the OS and

applications to a different server with no loss of

service

Virtualized SAN and Network InfrastructureVirtualized SAN and Network Infrastructure

Workload Partition

eMail

WorkloadPartition

Billing

PowerVM Live Partition Mobility• Move an entire Logical Partition from one system to another while

it is running with almost no impact to end users• Requires POWER6, PowerVM Enterprise Edition, and all I/O must

be through the Virtual I/O Server• Works with partitions running AIX V5.3, AIX 6 and Linux

Live Partition Mobility

AIX Live Application Mobility• Move a running Workload Partition (not the full operating system

image) from one AIX system to another with almost no impact to end users

• Requires AIX 6 with Workload Partitions Manager, and all WPAR filesystems must be NFS

• Works on POWER4, POWER5, POWER6

Virtualization + Mobility: MOVE lpars and applications from one server to another with NO user interruption or software downtime !


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Resources of the virtualization


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How to manage an virtualized environment ?


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Hardware Management Console (HMC)


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AIX 5LV5.3

LinuxSLES9

LinuxRHEL4

Virtual LAN & Storage

VIOSIVM

• Provides LPAR/virtualization support without a physical HMC

• Lower $$ entry point

• Web-based , intuitive/user-friendlyinterface

• Shipped with the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS)

• Supports Creating/Management of I/O and LPARs within a single physical server

• Available on these IBM systems:• System p5 505, 520, and 550 / 550Q• eServer p5 510, 520, and 550• OpenPower 710 and 720• POWER JS12/22, 520, 550

“HMC within a partition”

POWER Hypervisor

Integrated Virtualization Manager

Integrated Virtualization Mgr

Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)


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Primary console viewIntegrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)


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How to virtualize a processor ?

( …without installing any software )


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Distributed Switch

Shared L2

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AdvancedCore Design

AdvancedSystem Features

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Distributed Switch

Shared L2

1.5+ GHzCore

2.3 GHz POWER5+Enhanced ScalingSimultaneous Multithreading (SMT)Enhanced Distributed SwitchEnhanced Core ParallelismImproved FP PerformanceIncreased memory BandwidthReduced Memory LatenciesVirtualization

� Very High Frequencies 4-5 GHz� Enhanced Virtualization� Advanced Memory Subsystem� AltiVec™ Vector SIMD Instructions� Instruction Retry� Decimal Floating-Point� Dynamic Energy Management� Partition Mobility� Storage Protection Keys� Alternate processor recovery

Chip Multi Processing- Distributed Switch- Shared L2

Dynamic LPARs (32)

Workload AcceleratorsHighly Threaded Cores

L2 CacheAdvanced

System Features

4-5 GHz2 Cores

AltiVec

BINARY COMPATIBILITY

POWER Technology

*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.


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Multi-chip Modules: POWER5 and POWER6

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CPU virtualization is build on processor level !


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Boring processor terminology, but …

- Shared pool prosessing- Virtual processor- Processor entitlement- Capped processing- Uncapped processing- Capacity weight


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A partition can have 36.73 cpu,

is it a MICRO partition ??


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LPAR – AIX_2

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Processing units / Capacity Entitlement

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Operating system sees a processor, but it does “not know” how much power (=entitled capasity/processing units) it has !


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1 Virtual Prosessor ~ the Power of 1 Physical cpu2 Virtual Prosessor ~ the Power of 2 Physical cpu

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Automatic “cpu load balancing” mecanism build into the HARDWARE ! (POWER5/5+/6 processor and POWER hypervisor)


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CPU 2

CPU

LPAR – AIX_2

LPAR – MY_OWN CPU

DEDICATED cpu partition

LPAR – AIX_3

LPAR – IVM

Example


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Virtual cpu’s are dispatched by the HYPERVISOR automatically 100 times/second. If there is NO work on operating system cpu cycles are returned (ceded) back to shared pool.


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Virtualize networking

( …without installing any software )


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Integrated Virtual EthernetIntegrated Virtual Ethernet

� Installed by Manufacturing

Plugs directly into the GX+ I/O planar

• One card per CEC drawer

Up to 4 per 16-way System


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5636 Dual 1Gb 5637 Dual 10Gb5639 Quad 1 Gb

Integrated Virtual EthernetIntegrated Virtual Ethernet Feature Code OptionsFeature Code Options

Each Logical Port can be assigned to a different LP AR – without requiring VIO Server Each LPAR can have ONE Logical Port per Physical Po rt in the adapterVLAN is NOT required – but each Logical Port can hav e multiple VLAN IDs assignedPorts cannot be used in LPARS which require Partiti on MobilityState-of-the-art interface controllers with Checksu m offload, TCP Large Send, Jumbo frames etc.

RJ45 ( Copper ) portsRuns at 10, 100, or 1000 Mbps2 Ethernet Port Groups32 Logical Ports32 MAC Addresses

RJ45 ( Copper ) portsRuns at 10, 100, or 1000 Mbps1 Ethernet Port Group16 Logical Ports 16 MAC Addresses

Optical ( Fiber ) portsRuns at 10Gb only2 Ethernet Port Groups32 Logical Ports32 MAC Addresses


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Virtualization Virtualization –– SEA SEA vsvs HEAHEA

I/O HostingPartition

PHYP

Linux iOS AIX

Virtual Ethernet Switch

Packet Forwarder

Virtual Ethernet

Driver

Virtual Ethernet

Driver

Virtual Ethernet

Driver

2006

1. Adapter sharing with Native Performance: i.e. same performance as with "DEDICATED" adapters

2. SW transparency: Same features (HW assist) regardless partitions location

10 Gbps - likely to be shared by multiple partitions ....

PHYP

Linux iOS AIX

EthernetDriver

EthernetDriver

EthernetDriver

HEA

2007

Ethernet adapter

Remove potential SW Forwarder bottleneck

Network


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Virtualize I/O


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IBM Power Systems

Virtualize Disk / Adapter / Tape

( … install IBM Virtual I/O server )


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IBM Power Systems

2008


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Automatic “cpu load balancing” mecanism build into the Hardware ! (IBM POWER5/6 processor and POWER hypervisor)


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The IBM benchmarks results shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level and generally-available computer systems. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems they are considering buying and should consider conducting application oriented testing. For additional information about the benchmarks, values and systems tested, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller or access the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.

IBM benchmark results can be found in the IBM Power Systems Performance Report at http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html.

All performance measurements were made with AIX or AIX 5L operating systems unless otherwise indicated to have used Linux. For new and upgraded systems, AIX Version 4.3, AIX 5L or AIX 6 were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2006, SPEC2000, LINPACK, and Technical Computing benchmarks were compiled using IBM's high performance C, C++, and FORTRAN compilers for AIX 5L and Linux. For new and upgraded systems, the latest versions of these compilers were used: XL C Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL FORTRAN Enterprise Edition V9.1 for AIX, XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V7.0 for Linux, and XL FORTRAN Advanced Edition V9.1 for Linux. The SPEC CPU95 (retired in 2000) tests used preprocessors, KAP 3.2 for FORTRAN and KAP/C 1.4.2 from Kuck & Associates and VAST-2 v4.01X8 from Pacific-Sierra Research. The preprocessors were purchased separately from these vendors. Other software packages like IBM ESSL for AIX, MASS for AIX and Kazushige Goto’s BLAS Library for Linux were also used in some benchmarks.

For a definition/explanation of each benchmark and the full list of detailed results, visit the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.

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Revised January 15, 2008

Notes on benchmarks and values


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Revised January 15, 2008

Notes on HPC benchmarks and valuesThe IBM benchmarks results shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level and generally-available computer systems. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems they are considering buying and should consider conducting application oriented testing. For additional information about the benchmarks, values and systems tested, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller or access the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.

IBM benchmark results can be found in the IBM Power Systems Performance Report at http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html.

All performance measurements were made with AIX or AIX 5L operating systems unless otherwise indicated to have used Linux. For new and upgraded systems, AIX Version 4.3 or AIX 5L were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2000, LINPACK, and Technical Computing benchmarks were compiled using IBM's high performance C, C++, and FORTRAN compilers for AIX 5L and Linux. For new and upgraded systems, the latest versions of these compilers were used: XL C Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL FORTRAN Enterprise Edition V9.1 for AIX, XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V7.0 for Linux, and XL FORTRAN Advanced Edition V9.1 for Linux. The SPEC CPU95 (retired in 2000) tests used preprocessors, KAP 3.2 for FORTRAN and KAP/C 1.4.2 from Kuck & Associates and VAST-2 v4.01X8 from Pacific-Sierra Research. The preprocessors were purchased separately from these vendors. Other software packages like IBM ESSL for AIX, MASS for AIX and Kazushige Goto’s BLAS Library for Linux were also used in some benchmarks.

For a definition/explanation of each benchmark and the full list of detailed results, visit the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.SPEC http://www.spec.orgLINPACK http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdfPro/E http://www.proe.comGPC http://www.spec.org/gpcSTREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ Veritest http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports Fluent http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htmTOP500 Supercomputers http://www.top500.org/AMBER http://amber.scripps.edu/FLUENT http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/fl5bench/index.htmGAMESS http://www.msg.chem.iastate.edu/gamessGAUSSIAN http://www.gaussian.comABAQUS http://www.abaqus.com/support/sup_tech_notes64.html

select Abaqus v6.4 Performance DataANSYS http://www.ansys.com/services/hardware_support/index.htm

select “Hardware Support Database”, then benchmarks.ECLIPSE http://www.sis.slb.com/content/software/simulation/index.asp?seg=geoquest&MM5 http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/MSC.NASTRAN http://www.mscsoftware.com/support/prod%5Fsupport/nastran/performance/v04_sngl.cfmSTAR-CD www.cd-adapco.com/products/STAR-CD/performance/320/index/htmlNAMD http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namdHMMER http://hmmer.janelia.org/

http://powerdev.osuosl.org/project/hmmerAltivecGen2mod


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Notes on performance estimates

rPerf for AIX

rPerf (Relative Performance) is an estimate of commercial processing performance relative to other IBM UNIX systems. It is derived from an IBM analytical model which uses characteristics from IBM internal workloads, TPC and SPEC benchmarks. The rPerf model is not intended to represent any specific public benchmark results and should not be reasonably used in that way. The model simulates some of the system operations such as CPU, cache and memory. However, the model does not simulate disk or network I/O operations.

� rPerf estimates are calculated based on systems with the latest levels of AIX and other pertinent software at the time of system announcement. Actual performance will vary based on application and configuration specifics. The IBM eServer pSeries 640 is the baseline reference system and has a value of 1.0. Although rPerf may be used to approximate relative IBM UNIX commercial processing performance, actual system performance may vary and is dependent upon many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration. Note that the rPerf methodology used for the POWER6 systems is identical to that used for the POWER5 systems. Variations in incremental system performance may be observed in commercial workloads due to changes in the underlying system architecture.

All performance estimates are provided "AS IS" and no warranties or guarantees are expressed or implied by IBM. Buyers should consult other sources of information, including system benchmarks, and application sizing guides to evaluate the performance of a system they are considering buying. For additional information about rPerf, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller.

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