systemsdirector planning & implementation v4

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IBM Systems Director --Planning & Implementation

Glen Corneau, Bob Padzieski & Mehboob Mithaiwala

November 2010

© 2010 IBM Corporation2

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Agenda

Planning for IBM Systems Director

– Server, Client, disk, firewall

Implementing IBM Systems Director

Installation of Advanced Managers

Discovery of an HMC and an AIX Partition

Hints and Tips


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Planning the Server

Resources

– CPU

– Memory

– Disk

– Network

– Database

Pre-requisites


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Power Systems ISD Pre-requisites

Minimum requirements for ISD 6.2

• Requires a 64-bit kernel for AIX, Linux Management Servers

• HMC Version 7.3.3 SP2, MH00146 or later– Latest Service Packs recommended

– Firmware requirements based on MTM and HMC Version, not Systems Director

• IVM Version 1.5.2.1+ or 2.1.0.10+– Latest Service Packs recommended

VIOS– Version 1.5.2.1 for Agentless

– Version 2.1.0.10 supports the Common Agent

– Version 2.1.1+ includes the Common Agent (manual first time start)


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Server Resource Requirements - AIX• Small:

• Less than 500 Common-Agent managed systems.

• DB is Apache Derby

• Medium:

• Between 500 and 1000 Common-Agent managed systems

• DB is IBM DB2

• Large:

• Between 1000 and 5000 Common-Agent managed systems

• DB is IBM DB2

• Sizing is general and minimum, presumes DB server runs on Director Server. CPU sizing based on POWER6 CPU, may need more for older POWER5. Uncapped LPAR recommended.

• May be other device factors (AEM), read Performance Tuning and Scaling Guide

Recommended hardware

Config CPU vCPU Ent Cap Memory Disk

Small 2 4 1 3 GB 4 GB

Medium 2 4 2 4 GB 8 GB

Large 4 8 4 12 GB 16 GB

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas7cd6a96f49d05f608862577420075ca9a&aid=1


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Operating System Support for Power Systems

Operating SystemDirectorServer

CommonAgent

PlatformAgent

AIX V5.3 1

- TL6 SP9 or later- TL7 SP6 or later- TL8 SP4 or later (including TL9+)

X X

AIX V6.1 1

- TL0 SP7 or later- TL1 SP3 or later- TL2 or later

X X

AIX 7.1 X X

IBM i 5.4 (formerly i5/OS V5.4) 1, 2, 4 X 4 X 2

IBM i 6.1 (formerly i5/OS® V6.1) 1, 2 X 4 X 2

IBM i 7.1 1, 2 X 4 X 2


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Operating System Support for Power Systems

Operating System Director Server

Common Agent

Platform Agent

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.6 – 4.8 X X X

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 5.1 – 5.4 X X X

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 – SP3

X X X

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 X X X

See notes on the next page


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Operating System Support notes1 Agentless support includes only Discovery, limited remote access, limited subset of the Agent installation Wizard and ability to launch AIX Management Console or IBM Systems Director Navigator for i. For IBM i it also includes software inventory and IBM Systems Director support for IBM i Group and Cumulative PTFs.

Unless stated otherwise, IBM Systems Director provides Agentless support for all operating systems listed.

Common Agent is installed with AIX; it is not started by default.

2 Platform-agent managed system support is provided by the 5722-UME product.

4 For IBM i 5.4, the richer set of features and subagent tasks provided by the Common Agent is supported with the Director 5.20 Agent for IBM i that is currently available as 5722-DA1. The legacy agent can also be used with IBM i 6.1.

The IBM Systems Director 6.2 Common Agent for IBM i can only be installed on IBM i 6.1 and later releases.

Platform Agent V6.1 and IBM Director Core Services V5.20.3 are the same agent.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r2x/topic/com.ibm.director.plan.helps.doc/fqm0_r_os_supported_by_ibm_director_620.html

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r2x/topic/com.ibm.director.plan.helps.doc/fqm0_r_os_supported_by_ibm_director_620.html


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AIX Requirements

• Software pre-requisites for the Common Agent V6.2.0.1

• openssl.base 0.9.8.4 or higher (comes with Server package)

• openssh.server 4.5.0.5301 or higher● Other requisites (come with Common Agent package)

● sysmgt.cim.providers 1.2.8.10● sysmgt.cim.smisproviders 1.2.1.10● sysmgt.cimserver.pegasus 2.9.0.10● For AIX 5.3 systems:

● ICU4C.rte 5.3.9.0● xlC.aix50 10.1.0.2● xlC.rte 10.1.0.2

● For remote virtual console, dsm.core fileset needs to be installed


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AIX Requirements continued

• Common Agent requirements:

• Name resolution requires localhost lookup (/etc/hosts, /etc/netsvc.conf)

• Default ports (9510, 9514, 9515) are available

• Umask value set to 022

• Server requirements (come with Server package):

• expect.base 5.42.1.0

• tcl.base 8.4.7.0

• tk.base 8.4.7.0

• If doing direct FSP connectivity (non-HMC or IVM-only):

• Director.Server.ext.FSPProxy.rte

• Pre-reqs csm.hc_utils 1.7.0.0 or higher


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IBM i Requirements• No Systems Director Server on IBM i

• IBM i products and options required for Common Agent on IBM i

Ensure all the latest cumulative PTF packages or Group PTFs are installed

Products, options, or fix IDsIBM i 7.1 product

numberIBM i 6.1 product

number

Latest group PTF for IBM HTTP Server for IBM i group PTF SF99368 group PTF SF99115

IBM Universal Manageability Enablement for IBM i

5770UME V1R3M0 5770UME V1R3M0

IBM HTTP Server for IBM i 5770DG1 5761DG1

OS/400® - Extended Base Support 5770SS1 option 1 5761SS1 option 1

Extended Base Directory Suppor 5770SS1 option 3 5761SS1 option 3

TCP/IP Connectivity Utilities for Power Systems™ 5770TC1 5761TC1

Java™ SE 6 32-bit 5761JV1 option 11 5761JV1 option 11

Qshell 5770SS1 option 30 5761SS1 option 30

Digital Certificate Manager 5770SS1 option 34 5761SS1 option 34

OpenSSH 5733SC1 V7R1M0 *BASE and option 1

5733SC1 V6R1M0 *BASE and Option 1

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r2x/topic/com.ibm.director.install.helps.doc/fqm0_t_preparing_to_install_agent_on_iseries.html

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r2x/topic/com.ibm.director.install.helps.doc/fqm0_t_preparing_to_install_agent_on_iseries.html


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Linux on Power Requirements

• Specific versions of the following RPMs are required, based on specific Linux OS and level – see RedWiki for details

• compat-libstdc++-<version>.ppc.rpm• diagela-<version>.ppc64.rpm• expect-<version>.rpm• librtas-<version>.ppc64.rpm• libservicelog-<version>.ppc.rpm• libvpd-<version>.ppc.rpm• lsvpd-<version>.ppc.rpm• pam-32bit-<version>.ppc64.rpm• powerpc-utils-<version>.ppc64.rpm• powerpc-utils-papr-<version>.ppc64.rpm• ppc64-diag-<version>.ppc.rpm• servicelog-<version>.ppc64.rpm

• Additional server RPMs are needed to use the FSP Proxy extension, which is necessary for Power Management tasks for standalone and IVM-managed hosts

http://www-01.ibm.com/redbooks/community/display/director/Software+requirements+for+Director+on+Linux+on+Power

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r2x/topic/com.ibm.director.install.helps.doc/fqm0_t_preparing_to_install_ibm_director_on_pseries.html

http://www-01.ibm.com/redbooks/community/display/director/Software+requirements+for+Director+on+Linux+on+Power

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/director/v6r2x/topic/com.ibm.director.install.helps.doc/fqm0_t_preparing_to_install_ibm_director_on_pseries.html


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IBM Systems Director Installation Lab

Use telnet/ssh/putty to login to Director Server LPAR

DO NOT log into another team's LPAR and start the lab. Double check!

Team X (where X is 1 -- 12)

sdsX.dfw.ibm.com (Director Server)Userid: rootPassword: sdclinic2

sdcX.dfw.ibm.com (AIX LPAR)Userid: rootPassword: sdclinic2

HMC is tbhmc1.dfw.ibm.comUserid: isdteamXPassword: isdteamX


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CLI Installation steps

Examine pre-requisites from InfoCenter

Change to the source directory (/opt/tmp)

– cd /opt/tmp

Examine the dirserv.rsp response file, this determines the initial parameters of the server installation (no changes required here)

– more dirserv.rsp

Run the install script. Please note, it is NOT supported to just do the installp/geninstall commands by hand.

– ./dirinstall.server

This will log output to /var/log/dirinst.log


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CLI – Base Systems Director installation

After successful (right?) completion, you must configure the Agent Manager.

– configAgtMgr.sh

Utilize “director” for the ID and password for all entries. It's easiest.All Systems Director commands can be found in /opt/ibm/director/bin (should be in PATH)

Start up the server for the first time. Please note, this will take longer (typically) than later starts because of initial setup. This command will immediately return to the prompt even though Systems Director has not finished starting.

– smstart

Wait for the server to successfully start by running the following command. This command will cycle through “Inactive”, “Starting” and finally, when done, “Active”. At this point you can hit Ctrl-C

– smstatus -r


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CLI – Update to Latest Patches

Verify that the Server installed at 6.2.0:

– smcli lsver

The first thing you want to do is update Systems Director to the latest patches. This can be accomplished two ways: through the GUI or the CLI. The CLI steps are listed here, but the same tasks (via multiple steps) can be done via the GUI.

Please replace the X in sdsX with your lab team number.

– smcli installneeded -n sdsX.dfw.ibm.com -F -v

This process will:

– Collect inventory on the Management Server

– Download and import the fixes from the IBM Fix Repository

– Install the updates and re-collect inventory when complete


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CLI – Update to Latest Patches

The Systems Director server processes must be restarted after patch installation. This is not the same thing as an operating system reset.

– smstop

– smstart

– smstatus -r

Verify that the Server installed at 6.2.0.1 (or whatever the latest patches are).

– smcli lsver

NOTE: Systems Director patches will NOT update the OS software information (lslpp) until a major release (where they re-package the OS-specific installation filesets).


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Some tips for the vi editor

The vi editor has two modes: command mode and edit mode. Initial mode is command after bringing a file into the editor:

vi /some/file/name

Use the h (left), j (down), k (up) and l (right) keys to maneuver (the arrow keys appear to work in putty)

To enter edit mode, move the cursor to where you need to be and use:

i – insert mode, r – replace mode

To finish editing (and return to command mode), hit the ESC key

To delete a character, use the x key in command mode.

To save and quit the editor: Type : (colon) then “wq”

To quit without saving: Type : (colon) then “q!”


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Plugin Installation – Active Energy Manager V4.3

Installation of IBM Systems Director plug-ins requires the Server process be stopped (I know you just started it after application of the patches).

– smstop

You will now install the following plug-ins:Active Energy Manager, VMControl, WPAR Manager

– These plug-ins were downloaded and placed in /opt/tmp/<PLUGIN> directories where <PLUGIN> is AEM, VMC and WPAR

Change to the plug-in directory

– cd /opt/tmp/AEM

Extract the plug-in download file contents

– gunzip -cd SysDir_AEM4_3_Linux_AIX.tar.gz | tar -xvf-


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Plugin Installation – Active Energy Manager V4.3

You'll now use “vi” (or your favorite AIX editor) to edit the installer.properties file so that the un-commented lines look like:

INSTALLER_UI=silentLICENSE_ACCEPTED=trueSTART_SERVER=false

After modification and saving of the file, run the installer shell script:

– ./IBMSystemsDirector-AEM-Setup.sh

This should automatically read the modified installer.properties and go with silent install (which isn't really silent, but at least it doesn't require the GUI pop-up)


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Plugin Installation – VMControl V2.3

With the Director Server still stopped, we'll install the VMControl plug-in.

Change to the VMControl directory

– cd /opt/tmp/VMC

Again, extract the contents of the file.

– gunzip -cd SysDir_VMControl_2_3_AIX | tar -xvf-

Again, using your favorite editor, modify the installer.properties file: INSTALLER_UI=silentLICENSE_ACCEPTED=trueSTART_SERVER=false

Run the installer shell script

– ./Systems_Director_VMControl_Express_Edition_AIX.sh


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Plugin Installation – WPAR Manager V2.2.1

Change to the WPAR Manager directory:

– cd /opt/tmp/WPAR

Again, extract the contents of the file:

– gunzip -cd SysDir_WPARManager_2_2_1_AIX.tar.gz | tar -xvf-

This creates a AIX subdirectory under /opt/tmp/WPAR. Go ahead and change to that directory:

– cd AIX

Again, using your favorite editor, modify the installer.properties file: INSTALLER_UI=silentLICENSE_ACCEPTED=trueRESTART_DIRECTOR=true


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Plugin Installation – WPAR Manager V2.2.1

Since this is the last plug-in we'll install, you can go ahead use use “true” on this last attribute. This will automatically start the server after the plug-in install.

Run the installer script:

– ./WparMgrSetup.bin

This will not return to the command prompt until the server has started.

You can again verify the server status via

– smstatus


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Connecting to the IBM Systems Director web interface

You can now connect via your web browser:

– https://sdsX.dfw.ibm.com:8422/ibm/console

Be sure and accept the certificate/security because this is a SSL connection.


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First Steps From the main Getting Started screen, you can click on the “Update IBM

Systems Director” link in the top-right corner

This step does the same thing we did on the command-line. So clicking here should not show any updates that need to be installed.

Click on “System Discovery” in the Optional Tasks dialog

Under the “Select a discovery option” drop-down, choose Single host name

Enter the HMC hostname tbhmc1.dfw.ibm.com in the “Host name” field.

Click on “Discover Nows” and wait for the discovery process to complete.

• Two entries will appear, an HMC entry and an OS entry

Click on “No Access” to authenticate to the HMC

• Use the “Hardware Management Console” [Type column], NOT the “Operating System”the HMC representation (not the OS)

Go back to Discovery tab, enter the client AIX LPAR (sdcX.dfw.ibm.com)

Click on “No Access” to authenticate


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Next Steps

You can now click on the “Navigate Resources” link on the left-hand navigation bar.

– Click on the “All Systems” group.

– You should see 8 objects (be patient, may take a few minutes for all to show up).

Congratulations! You've installed IBM Systems Director !!!!!!!!

– Go have an adult beverage

More hands-on tasks in the Basic Management Tasks session!


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Hints & Tips

For Agent push, make sure you have enough space in /tmp on the target system (Basic Management Tasks lab)

For Server, file system (/opt) will automatically be expanded


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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.

TPC http://www.tpc.org SPEC http://www.spec.org LINPACK http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf Pro/E http://www.proe.com GPC http://www.spec.org/gpc VolanoMark http://www.volano.com STREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ SAP http://www.sap.com/benchmark/ Oracle Applications http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/ PeopleSoft - To get information on PeopleSoft benchmarks, contact PeopleSoft directly Siebel http://www.siebel.com/crm/performance_benchmark/index.shtm Baan http://www.ssaglobal.com Fluent http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htm TOP500 Supercomputers http://www.top500.org/ Ideas International http://www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/bench.html Storage Performance Council http://www.storageperformance.org/results

Revised March 12, 2009

Notes on benchmarks and values

http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html


http://www.tpc.org/

http://www.tpc.org/

http://www.spec.org/


http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf


http://www.proe.com/


http://www.spec.org/gpc


http://www.volano.com/

http://www.volano.com/

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/



http://www.sap.com/benchmark/



http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/



http://www.siebel.com/crm/performance_benchmark/index.shtm

http://www.siebel.com/crm/performance_benchmark/index.shtm

http://www.ssaglobal.com/

http://www.ssaglobal.com/

http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htm


http://www.top500.org/

http://www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/bench.html

http://www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/bench.html

http://www.storageperformance.org/results




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Revised March 12, 2009

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.org LINPACK http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf Pro/E http://www.proe.com GPC http://www.spec.org/gpc STREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ Fluent http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htm TOP500 Supercomputers http://www.top500.org/ AMBER http://amber.scripps.edu/ FLUENT http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/fl5bench/index.htm GAMESS http://www.msg.chem.iastate.edu/gamess GAUSSIAN http://www.gaussian.com ANSYS http://www.ansys.com/services/hardware-support-db.htm

Click on the "Benchmarks" icon on the left hand side frame to expand. Click on "Benchmark Results in a Table" icon for benchmark results.ABAQUS http://www.simulia.com/support/v68/v68_performance.php 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.cfm STAR-CD www.cd-adapco.com/products/STAR-CD/performance/320/index/html NAMD http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd HMMER http://hmmer.janelia.org/

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
















http://www.top500.org/

http://amber.scripps.edu/



http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/fl5bench/index.htm

http://www.msg.chem.iastate.edu/gamess

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Notes on performance estimatesrPerf 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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CPW for IBM i

Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) is a relative measure of performance of processors running the IBM i operating system. Performance in customer environments may vary. The value is based on maximum configurations. More performance information is available in the Performance Capabilities Reference at: www.ibm.com/systems/i/solutions/perfmgmt/resource.html

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