Chris Milsted from Red Hat's slides from the IBM Linux On Power Revolution event in IBM Southbank #LOPNow

1. IBM®
Power SystemsTM
Chris Milsted
Solution Architect
10th
June 2015
RED HAT ON POWER

2. Who am I?
Senior Solutions Architect for Red Hat.
Knows a thing or two about POWER systems.

3. OPEN
SOURCE
LEADER
#
1
90%
MORE THAN
FORTUNE
500
of the
use
PRODUCTS &
SOLUTIONS. *
REDHAT
* Red Hat client data, 2014
RED HAT ADDED TO S&P 500 INDEX
1993 19992002 2006 2011
JBOSS ACQUIRED
20122009 2013 2014
INKTANK (CEPH),
ENOVANCE (OPENSTACK
& FEEDHENRY ACQU
75+
WORLDWIDE
OFFICES
35
COUNTRIES
SOLUTIONS
AWARD-WINNING
500
S&P
COMPANY
RHT
NYSE:

4. Red Hat and IBM Power Systems ?
New architecture support RHEL 7.1
PPC64le

5. Source:Worldwide Linux Client and Server Operating Environments Market Analysis and 2013-2017 Forecast and 2012 Vendor
Shares: 3rd Platform Transitions Take Hold (IDC #242635, August 2013)
WORLDWIDE LINUX SERVER OPERATING ENVIRONMENT NEW LICENSE PAID
SHIPMENTS/SUBSCRIPTIONS AND NONPAID DEPLOYMENTS BY VENDOR, 2008–2012
(000)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Market Share

6. Red Hat Connect for Technology
Partners

7. 10 year stable platform
https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-abi-compatibility
Transparency for ISVs

8. Consulting and Training

9. The power of the Open Community
http://community.redhat.com/software/
Red Hat's mission: To be the catalyst in
communities of customers, contributors, and
partners creating better technology the open
source way.

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX
7

11. STREAMLINED
DEPLOYMENT
OPTIMAL
PERFORMANCE
VIA PROFILES
MANAGEMENT VIA
OPENLMI
SCALABLE
FILE SYSTEMS
WINDOWS
INTEROPERABILITY
SYSTEMD
SERVICES INIT
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Highlights
STABLEAND
EFFICIENTFLEXIBLE
MISSION-CRITICAL RELIABILITY AND MILITARY-GRADE SECURITY

12. Endianess?
Supported Platforms:
●
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7+ BE
●
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1+ LE
●
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5+ BE
Little or Big Endian, you choose, it's supported

13. Supporting IBM’s Power Systems
Little Endian Mode
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian provides:
● Enterprise-class operating system for little endian servers
● Infrastructure to support IBM Power Systems in scale-out,
server farm deployments
PowerVM
IBM POWER8 Hardware
RHEL for
IBM Power
BE 6.5 +
RHEL for
IBM Power
BE 7 +
RHEL for
IBM Power
LE 7.1 +

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RED HAT SATELLITE 6

15. The Evolution of Satellite
• Provision to bare metal, private &
public clouds
• Declarative Configuration
Management
• Automated Software Distribution
• Lifecycle Management
• Drift Remediation
• Simplified Content Management
• Federated Services & Management
• Localization
● Provision systems
● Configuration
Management
● Automated Software
Distribution
● Basic Lifecycle
Management
● Drift Reporting

16. What makes up Satellite 6?

17. 17
Content view
e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
e.g. Web server
e.g. Red Hat JBoss Middleware
Composite content view
e.g. SOE for web
Environment
e.g. Production
e.g. Development
Granular Content Management

18. 18
Configuration Topology
Red Hat Satellite Capsule
Mirrored content
Puppet master
Provisioning orchestration
DNS, DHCP, TFTP
Customer infrastructure
Managed host
Puppet agent

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RED HAT JBOSS

20. ACCELERATE AUTOMATEINTEGRATE
Develop 51% more
applications per year1
at significantly lower
cost.
Deliver applications faster
across on-premises, cloud
and mobile environments
Connect systems, applications,
and data across your entire
enterprise.
Automate business processes
to react quickly to IT changes.
●
Three year ROI of 488%
with 63% less
application downtime
related to integration2
●
Complex event processing
for faster decision making
●
Better collaboration between
business and IT teams
1. Source: IDC – How Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 Is Extending Business Value
2. Source: The Business Value of Red Hat JBoss Fuse Middleware. IDC, October, 2014
Innovate faster, in a smarter way

21. FASTER INNOVATION – improve productivity for greater differentiation
LIGHTER WEIGHT – unlock the value of existing IT assets
LOWER COST & RISK – increase value and reduce risk from lock-in
INTEGRATE
Applications, Data
& Devices
Red Hat JBoss Fuse
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization
ACCELERATE
Application delivery
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid
Red Hat JBoss Web Server
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform
AUTOMATE
Business rules &
processes
Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite
Red Hat JBoss BRMS
DEVELOPMENTTOOLS
RedHatJBossDeveloperStudio
MANAGEMENTTOOLS
RedHatJBossOperationsNetwork
PHYSICAL VIRTUAL PUBLIC CLOUD PRIVATE CLOUD
Red Hat JBoss Portfolio

22. Simple JVM based certification
● https://access.redhat.com/articles/111663
● JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6 Supported
Configurations

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RED HAT ENTERPRISE
VIRTUALIZATION

24. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
on IBM Power Systems
● Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for IBM Power Systems:
the Red Hat-certified virtualization solution for the IBM
POWER8 platform
● Built on the KVM hypervisor
● Guest support:
● Unlimited Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests
● Little Endian and Big Endian guests on same host
● SLES guests

25. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
for IBM Power 8
IBM POWER8 Hardware
RHEL 6.5 +
Guests
RHEL 7 +
Guests
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
for Power
Managed
by
RHEV-M on x86
x86
SLES

26. RHEL on RHEV for Power
Little or Big Endian?
IBM POWER8 Hardware
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
for Power
RHEL for
IBM Power
BE 6.5 +
RHEL for
IBM Power
BE 7 +
RHEL for
IBM Power
LE 7.1 +
SLES

27. Red Hat and IBM Power Systems
Red Hat on POWER!Red Hat on POWER!

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