1. IBM PowerVC 1.4.0 Update Drew Thorstensen – PowerVC Architect
@drewthorst
December 2017

2. Power “Virtualization Center”
What is PowerVC?
Power “Virtualization Center”
Easy to use / install / upgrade
Scalable up to 200 hosts
Rapid deployment
Interoperable (OpenStack APIs)
Streamlines deployment of VMs and Applications
Simplifies Operations
Mature solution used by over 2,500 Power Customers

3. Cloud Management for Enterprise Power Systems
NEW!
Solution Overview
Solution Overview
Solution Overview
IBM Cloud
Manager
built on
IBM Cloud
Manager for SDI
built on
IBM
Spectrum Scale
Standard Edition
built on
Key Personas:
Ralph, a cloud admin that needs to ”do more with less” and manage his cloud more efficiently. Sally, a CTO that is looking for technology options to optimize her organization’s IT budget. Xing, an application developer, that wants to use the latest technologies and quickly spin up/down workloads in a self-service fashion.
Key Personas:
Ralph, a cloud admin that needs to ”do more with less” and manage his cloud more efficiently. Sally, a CTO that is looking for technology options to optimize her organization’s IT budget. Xing, an application developer, that wants to use the latest technologies and quickly spin up/down workloads in a self-service fashion.
Key Personas:
Ralph, a cloud admin that needs to ”do more with less” and manage his cloud more efficiently. Sally, a CTO that is looking for technology options to optimize her organization’s IT budget.
Key Features:
Simple, simple, simple!
Deploy VMs in minutes instead of days or weeks
Full lifecycle management of VMs
Automated VM recovery
Simplified maintenance with one-click host evacuation
Automated cloud optimization via DRO
Multi-tenancy and resource isolation
Software defined networking capabilities
OpenStack API enablement
Key Features:
EVERYTHING in PowerVC Standard Edition!
Self-service capabilities for cloud users that enable one-click deploy operations for all genres of app. developers, data scientists, QA engineers, and so on
Provides cloud administrators with various policies and quota management to govern how the cloud operates.
Key Features:
EVERYTHING in Cloud PowerVC Manager (1.4.0)
IBM Spectrum Scale (Data Management Edition 5.0)

4. Alternate OpenStack solutions
Power Systems Cloud Management Stack
NEW!
vRealize
IBM Cloud Private
Cloud Orchestration Solutions
LaMa
Alternate OpenStack solutions
Cloud and Virtualization Management
IBM
Build Power Systems private clouds
Quickly capture and deploy VMs
Virtual machine resiliency and more…
Enterprise Power
NEW!

5. What’s New for PowerVC 1.4.0

6. Enhanced User Experience
New Icon Set
More information on “Home Screen”
Enabled multiple subnet ranges in networks
Added links to social media
Enhanced
Quota Management
Project Manager View (Cloud Edition)
Self Service User Screen (Cloud Edition)
Lots of tweaks throughout

7. SAP Hana Centric Enhancements

8. SAP Hana Centric Enhancements
PPT Ratios
PPT Ratio – Phyisical Page Table Ratio
Ability to set the PPT Ratio as part of the compute flavor
Enables higher performance for large memory workloads
PowerVC 1.4
Able to set PPT Ratio via CLI
PowerVC 1.4.x
Will be added as an attribute to the UI
Live Image Caputre
Capture a “consistency group” of volumes on a live running server
Enables SAP Hana workloads to capture/backup without long outages
Consistency Group
Volume
Volume
Volume
Volume
Volume
Atomic Copy
Backup
Volume`
Volume`
Volume`
Volume`
Volume`

9. Image Import / Export

10. Image Import / Export
Move any workload image between clouds or data centers as needed
Enables seamless hybrid cloud and private cloud agility

11. Software Defined Infrastructure
Available in PowerVC (Dec 15)

12. Enterprise Power Infrastructure
Storage
Compute
Network
Storage (e.g., V7000)
SAN Switch (e.g., Brocade)
HMC
Power Systems (NovaLink / HMC)
Ethernet Switch
Enterprise
Strong performance and reliability characteristics
Well-known deployment patterns
Redundant Virtual I/O Servers for high availability

13. Software Defined Infrastructure
Software Defined Systems
Storage
Compute
Network
Software Defined Configurations
Utilizing software defined network and storage capabilities enable:
IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) integration enables building a cluster across local disks or iSCSI attached LUNs
Virtual networks built across the servers via Open vSwitch and OpenStack’s SDN
Enables Ethernet-Only environments
Storage (e.g., V7000)
SAN Switch (e.g., Brocade)
HMC
Power Systems (NovaLink / HMC)
Ethernet Switch
Enterprise
Strong performance and reliability characteristics
Well-known deployment patterns
Redundant Virtual I/O Servers for high availability

14. Three focus areas for SDI
Software Defined Networking
Enables virtual networks (overlays)
Wide array of network cards
Takes advantage of I/O Acceleration (ex. vxlan) with Linux Drivers
Software Defined Storage
Use a wide range of storage - Local Disks, Fibre Channel or iSCSI
Software Defined Compute
Pick your hypervisor for your needs
PowerVM or KVM (LC Model support)
IBM
Spectrum Scale
NovaLink
iSCSI
Disk FC
Disk
Local
Disk

15. Key Enabling Technology – PowerVM Open I/O
Cloud Management
Customers can manage PowerVM in the cloud through NovaLink
OpenStack for heterogeneous data centers
PowerVC for Power-specific deployments
Enhancement to NovaLink to support VIOS or Open I/O
Extends PowerVM/VC use cases
NovaLink
Linux-IO
vSCSI
Open vSwitch
Nova
vETH
Client LPAR
Neutron SDN
Spectrum Scale
Virt
Management
FSP
Virtualization Framework
Enable virtualization through Linux-based framework
SDN integration built on Open vSwitch
SDS integration built on Linux I/O system
Ecosystem
Enables a broad range of adapters
Enables a broad range of storage backends
Considerations
PowerVM Open I/O does not yet support LPAR level redundancy

16. Visualizing the Storage Layer
OLTP
AIX LPAR
Linux LPAR
IBM i LPAR
DevOps
3. vSCSI from file to LPAR
2. File Storage (Spectrum Scale on NovaLink)
1. Block Storage (Local or External)

17. Comparison of the I/O options
Software Defined Infra
Virtual I/O Servers
Storage
Cloud I/O Choices
Local Disks, iSCSI, FC
FC (expanding)
Connection Options
vSCSI from Spectrum Scale
vSCSI from SSP
vSCSI to Storage Array
NPIV to Storage Array
Network
Bridge
Open vSwitch
Shared Ethernet
Protocols
Flat (untagged), VLAN, VXLAN
VLAN
Link Aggregation
Yes
Other
Virtual Routers
NAT
Hypervisor Based Access Control (tech preview)
QoS (tech preview)
VIOS level load balancing
SR-IOV w/ vNIC
Overall
I/O LPAR Redundancy No

18. SDI Use Cases

19. SDS Use Case: Build a SAN-Less Cloud
Inventory
SAN-Less Cloud
Virtual SAN is built on top of the Ethernet connection and the Local Disks
Spectrum Scale “FPO” mode is used
Three copies of data are kept in case of a server or disk failure
Set up in hours, no storage “silo” involved
You have S822’s with Local Disks You have 10/40 GigE Network (between servers) You do not have a SAN

20. SDS Use Case: Build an iSCSI backed Cloud
Inventory
iSCSI backed Cloud
Cluster is built on top of disks provided by iSCSI SAN
Replication is regulated to the iSCSI provider
Identical story available for multi pathing
Storage Silo only needs to provide iSCSI targets
You have S822’s with Boot Disks You have 10/40 GigE Network (between servers) You do have an iSCSI SAN

21. Benefits PowerVC manages the cluster on your behalf
Auto detects as part of host registration that the server is meant for Software Defined
Builds an optimized cluster, removing all the guess work
Will orchestrate the update of Spectrum Scale across your environment for you
Limited Interaction with Silos
SAN-less requires no storage team involvement
SAN Backed requires that the LUNs are set up once and are done
No need to convince storage team to let PowerVC access backing device
Requirements
SAN-Less
At least 4 local disks for the cluster (does not include boot disks)
At least one SSD for the cluster
Fast ethernet, at least 10 gig dedicated for storage
External Storage Based Cluster
iSCSI – at least 10 gig between server and storage
FC – recommend multi pathing (not required)

22. New Offering: IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager for SDI
Price: $2,000 / socket
US pricing, approximate, call your seller for exact pricing, etc
Includes:
IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager
PowerVM or KVM on Power Virtual Machine Management
Software Defined Infrastructure
Self-Service Portal
All of your standard PowerVC benefits
Spectrum Scale
Entitled to 2 TB per socket
Additional storage can be added as needed
Mix and match traditional PowerVM with SDI

23. One Virtualization Management Console

24. Manage all of your Power
Single point of virtualization management across your infrastructure
Software Defined
Traditional PowerVM
E880
S824’s
HMC
Storage
SAN

25. Database as a Service
Technical Preview

26. DBaaS: Overview Integrated DBaaS solution for PowerVC
One-click database deployment
Drive via GUI or REST APIs
Leverage OpenStack Trove as the DBaaS engine
Key features include:
Self-service database provisioning
Database lifecycle management
Enablement for relational and NoSQL databases
Initially focus on the following databases:
MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL and MariaDB
…solution is flexible and extends to several others

27. DBaaS: Configuration – Associate a DB with an Image

28. DBaaS: Database Deployment as a Self-Service User

29. DBaaS: List Deployed Databases

30. Conclusion

31. Wrap Up
PowerVC uses Software Defined Infrastructure to enable flexible system configurations
This relies on Linux to do so (currently Ubuntu 16.04)
Allows creation of clouds with local disks, fibre channel and iSCSI
Virtual I/O Servers provide a level of redundancy that SDI does not yet provide
SDI is useful for dev/test clouds or ‘cloud native’ applications
PowerVC can co-manage SDI and Traditional all from one environment
SDI systems can exist right alongside hosts with Virtual I/O Servers
A host is either SDI or VIOS based, not both

32. THANK YOU!

33. BACKUP

34. Key Features Simple User Interface Image Management
Intuitive and appealing
Tuned for Power Systems
Fast install
Image Management
Easily capture images and deploy VMs
Image Repo
Easy and Reliable Live Migration
Seamless live migration capabilities
One-click user experience
Storage Isolation
Specify which ports / VIOSes talk to storage devices
VIOS1
VIOS2

35. Key Features (Cont’d) Optimized Scheduling
Places the workloads on the “best” host
One-Click System Evacuation
Auto-relocate VMs to other hosts
Planned maintenance made easy!
Host Groups
Group hosts however you want
Attach policies to groups:
Automated VM restart
VM placement
DRO
Automated Virtual Machine Restart
Auto-detect failed hosts and restart VMs
Works for AIX, Linux and IBM i VMs

36. Key Features (Cont’d) Integrated VM Console (NovaLink)
Open a VM console from UI
Dynamic Resource Optimizer (DRO)
Automatically balance cloud workloads
Can run in “active” or “advise” mode
Software-Defined Networking
Leverages NovaLink and Open vSwitch (OVS)
VXLANs, routers, QoS and security groups (future)
Collocation Rules (Affinity and Anti-Affinity)
Constraints on where VMs can be placed
Great for ensuring availability and performance

37. SDN

38. SDN: Overlay Networks VXLAN overlay networks can be created in seconds
Overlay networks are virtual networks that run within your NovaLink’s IP Network
Virtual Machine packets are 1450 bytes
Are encapsulated within your NovaLink’s 1500 byte packet
NovaLink’s OVS have all the routing rules to ensure packets get delivered to right place
This enables you to give everyone their own set of IP addresses, perhaps per user or per project
Private overlay networks can not talk to each other
Network ‘silo’ is none the wiser when a new overlay network is created

39. SDN: Network Address Translation and Routers
Virtual Networks need a path to communicating with your wider network
A ‘Network Node’ is a physical server that has IP connectivity to your NovaLink and then a port(s) on the Wide Area Network
Network Nodes run ‘Routers’ which enable a private network to use NAT and allow dynamic association of Public IP addresses to VMs
Multiple Network Nodes can be added for redundancy and failover
Router
Network Node
Router
Router

40. SDN: Tech Preview Use Cases
Hypervisor Based Access Control
Create policies that define what a VM can communicate with
Ex. “HTTP Policy only allows IPv4 and IPv6 communication over port 443”
Policies are dynamically attached to ports on a VM
VM can only communicate with entities allowed within these policies
Rate Limiting (QoS)
Create policies that define how fast a VM can talk
Ex. “Port can not exceed 500 Mb/s”
Ensures that neighbors can’t be noisy and take all the bandwidth within the system
Tech Preview Notes
CLI only from PowerVC
Not guaranteed on an upgrade to be preserved (though it should be)

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