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Luis [email protected]
Ehningen, Germany
Leveraging IBM PowerVC and SAP Landscape Management
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IBM PowerVC
Attach Independent Disk Pool
Agenda
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Cloud and virtualization for SAP on IBM i
• IBM PowerVC is the base for Cloud on Power
• SAP LVM provides an end-to-end Cloud and Virtualization
solution for SAP environments
Last summit...
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SAP LaMa 3.0 released November 2016
New name replaces SAP LVM
Do not get stuck on „Virtualization“, there is more...
SAP Landscape ManagementSAP Landscape ManagementSAP Landscape Management
„SAP LaMa enables the SAP basis administrator to automate SAP system operations including end-to-end SAP system copy/refresh operations.“
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SAP NetWeaver Java
SAP LaMa ships as an add-on to SAP NetWeaver
SAP Host Agent
Allows for SAP LaMa to access and execute workloads on SAP System hosts
SAP Start Services
Allows for SAP LaMa to access and control on SAP Systems
IBM PowerVC
Allows for SAP LaMa to access and control LPARs, hosts and storage controllers
Requirements to run SAP LaMa
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SAP Landscape Management
SAP Landscape Management is an automation and orchestration solution to…
Simplify and standardize landscape management and operations
Automate repetitive, time-consuming tasks
Centralize landscape operations
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SAP Landscape Management in combination with PowerVC can also…
create snapshots of your SAP hosts
deploy additional hosts
host management and migration
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Enterprise edition Automatic Capacity Management
Advanced Dashboards
Landscape Visualization
Landscape Reporting
Performance Monitoring
Custom Notifications/Validations
Custom Tabs
Standalone PCA
Custom Provisioning
VM-based clone
Storage-based clone/copy/refresh
Integration with SAP Solution Manager
Standard edition Custom Operations/Hooks/Services
Custom Links
Fine-Granular Access Control
Inter-System Dependencies
Application Server Provisioning
Start/Stop/Relocate
Mass Operations on Systems/Hosts
Validations
Task Scheduler
Service/Host Detection
Basic Dashboards
Virtualization Integration
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IBM Power Virtualization Center (PowerVC)
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IBM Power Virtualization Center
Supports multiple volumes
Supports HMC and Novalink
Recently introduced Cloud-init support for IBM i
New version IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager with cloud self-services
Remote restart
IBM PowerVC 1.3.1
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IBM Power Virtualization Center
IBM PowerVC allows you to…
IPL of virtual hosts
Remove disks
Create snapshots for all or certain disks
Relocate virtual machines
Delete virtual machines
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IBM Power Virtualization Center
IBM PowerVC allows you to…
Deploy new virtual machines based on existing images
Images are created when a virtual machine is captured
Additional volumes can be added at deploying time
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IBM Power Virtualization Center
Combines the virtualization manager and cloud enablement in one
Allows creating of users and projects for specific needs
Admin creates templates and can approve or deny requests
Metering allowed using REST interface
IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager
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Did you know…?
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Attach Independent Disk Pool
Prepare target IBM i host and flash copy iASP
Target host without any iASP
CFGDEVASP ASPDEV(*ALL) ACTION(*PREPARE)
IPL to finish setup
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Attach Independent Disk Pool
Copy independent ASP and attach to new host
Flash copy all volumes in the source iASP
Attach cloned iASP volumes to target host
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Attach Independent Disk Pool
Run the attach independent disk pool operation
Go to STRSST and execute Detect attached IASP disk units
Vary on IASP33
Run additional SAP create commands
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Questions? – Thank You!Contact: Luis B. Gonzalez-Suarez
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