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Shifting from Dell rack to HP BladeSystem a Migration Guide

Some of the best-run companies in the world are putting HP BladeSystem innovation to work for their business – more than any other vendor. In the first quarter of 2007, HP shipped four server blades for each one shipped from Dell. When it comes to blades, Dell’s traditional rack-mount customers are in a tough spot. Stick with the growing challenges of rack servers or upgrade to the limited blade portfolio available from Dell. Building your rack infrastructure was probably not very easy.

While it might be tempting to buy more of the same, when it comes time for your next server upgrade, HP makes it easy to choose – and even easier to integrate – a BladeSystem into your environment. Imagine the savings in administrative overhead when it is possible to configure your infrastructure in 15 minutes or less 3 and to reduce the time to perform upgrades and patches from 10 minutes to 20 seconds per server.

In typical rack environments, the bigger the system, the more unproductive time is spent managing your expanding environment. More wasted power is expended, leading to needless demands on your air conditioning system. Different departments require different applications, different programmes and different criteria. These demands lead to unmanaged growth or ‘server sprawl’. If you want more reliability, you have to buy twice as many parts. With this ‘racked, stacked and wired’ approach, you are left with problems such as:
•Inflexibility
•Low productivity
•High electric bills
•Over-provisioning

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Deploying Oracle Application Server 10g on Dell PowerEdge Servers with Linux

Over the past ten years, one of the most significant trends in corporate IT has been the emergence of the Application Platform Suite (APS). An Application Platform Suite provides the infrastructure for corporations to develop and deploy their own applications, as well as deploying third-party applications. The main enabling technology for Application Platform Suites is Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition software. J2EE provides not only powerful software tools for Enterprise development, but also provides comprehensive standards to help ensure inter-operability of all deployed applications.

While object-oriented data models are at the heart of J2EE implementations, it is possible to map an object-oriented model to a traditional relational model. This is more than an academic exercise, since the bulk of corporate data is currently stored in relational databases. This is not likely to change soon, since relational databases provide the performance, security, and high availability characteristics that corporations demand for storing persistent data. Fortunately, the combination of J2EE-enabled Application Platform Suites and persistent relational database stores has proven to be remarkably flexible and robust, and is now considered the standard platform for application development and deployment.

Therefore, it should be no surprise that one of the leading APS is offered by the leading database vendor, Oracle ® Corporation. Oracle Application Server (OracleAS) 10g Enterprise Edition offers the advantage of tight integration with Oracle Database 10g. Moreover, Oracle Application Server 10g Enterprise Edition provides a comprehensive solution for developing, integrating, and deploying a corporation’s applications, portals, and Web sites. The robust architecture of Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition is designed to provide outstanding J2EE performance and to support a broad spectrum of applications. Major categories of Oracle Application Server applications include Business Intelligence, portal applications, wireless applications, identity management, and business integration tools. Not only does Oracle Application Server provide a platform for developing new categories of applications, it also offers a consolidated framework for deploying legacy Oracle applications, such as Forms and Reports. In addition, Oracle Application Server middleware forms the core of Oracle’s Fusion strategy for integrating diverse Enterprise applications.

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HP MediaSmart Server User’s Guide

HP MediaSmart Server User’s Guides

The HP MediaSmart Server is a home server for families with multiple computers on a home network who want to enjoy their digital experiences when and where they want. The HP MediaSmart Server includes remote access to files, automatic computer backups, virtually unlimited storage expendability, media streaming to the entertainment center, and HP’s new Photo Webshare. Help is available from most windows on the HP MediaSmart Server.

HP Help
HP Help includes the types of help shown in the following table. Additionally, the online User’s Guide provides links to topics in the Windows Home Server Help.

Windows Home Server Console Help
Some tasks, such as creating users and using shared folders, are done through the Windows Home Server Console.
1 At the computer, double-click the Windows Home Server icon in the system tray.
2 Log on to the Windows Home Server Console.

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SANbox 8200 Series Storage Services Platform Installation Guide

This installation and configuration guide explains the initial hardware installation and basic configuration procedures for the SANbox ® 8200 Series Storage Services Platform (SSP). It contains procedures for installing the system, configuring the different components of the system, and completing basic storage operations. After completingthe installation and basic configuration procedures coveredin this guide, an administrator can use the SANbox SSP to provision and manage storage and related services, such as virtualization, migration, mirroring, and replication.

The major sections of this guide are as follows:
Section 1 includes intended audience, related documentation, regulatory and safety notices, and warranty and technical support.
Section 2 provides step-by-step instructions for getting started with the SANbox SSP.
Section 3 references each screen and panel in the SANbox SSP Management GUI. Use the SANbox SSP Management GUI to manage the SANbox SSP chassis. The SANbox SSP Management GUI provides the same functions as the command line interface.
Section 4 describes the procedures for using various aspects of the SANbox SSP and the SVM appliance, including SAN zoning, configuring storage, creating virtual volumes, interpreting LEDs, and shutting down.
Section 5 describes the procedures for maintaining the SANbox SSP. Maintenance tasks include updating the SANbox SSP system software, applying software patches, interpreting LED patterns, and replacing hardware.
Section 6 providestroubleshooting procedures for issues thatyoumay experience during system start-up or configuration of the SANbox SSP

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DocAve™ 4.1 Server and Client Installation Guide

This install guide explains the product features of AvePoint’s latest extension in the SharePoint backup solution space. DocAve 4.1 is an enterprise strength item-level backup, recovery, and content management solution for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, and Microsoft Project Server (including the x64 Editions).

DocAve 4.1 consists of two modules, DocAve 4.1 Server and DocAve 4.1 Client. Both modules must be installed in order to run DocAve 4.1. Operating on AvePoint’s latest distributed software platform, DocAve 4.1 run on any environment, accessible from anywhere in your network via Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), and monitors multiple SharePoint environments across the network. Specifically,

DocAve 4.1’s main features include:
• Provide scheduled full, incremental, or differential backup at the site-level, subsite-level, and item-level.
• Real-time time restore of items, subsites, and sites directly onto your production server, or cross restore to any server on the network.
• Offer “point & click” simplicity to content management at the item-level, subsite level, and site level.
• Automated data-pruning and coalescing lets users manage backup data. Allow users to specify backup data size, storage medium, and location.
• Central administration of all SharePoint backup/recovery/management jobs scheduling/monitoring/reporting, user account management, and software agent management across multiple SharePoint farms from a SINGLE “accessible-from- ANYWHERE” web interface.

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IBM xSeries 335 Type 8676: User’s Guide

The IBM® Eserver xSeries™ 335 Type 8676 server is a 1-U-high 1 rack model server for high-volume network transaction processing. This high-performance, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) server is ideally suited for networking environments that require superior microprocessor performance, input/output (I/O) flexibility, and high manageability.

Performance, ease of use, reliability, and expansion capabilities were key considerations in the design of your server. These design features make it possible for you to customize the system hardware to meet your needs today and provide flexible expansion capabilities for the future.

If you have access to the Internet, you can obtain up-to-date information about your server and other IBM server products at http://www.ibm.com/eserver/xseries/ on the World Wide Web.

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IBM DB2 & Sun Enterprise Server Solution Configuration Guide

The IBM DB2 and Sun Enterprise™ Server Solution Configuration Guide provides you with the information and procedures you need to install, configure and test the following software on a Sun Enterprise™ 250 or Enterprise™ 450 server:
• IBM DB2 Universal Database 5.0 — Enterprise Edition
• InfoSpace SpaceSQL 3.0

Note: This guide contains configuration and installation information only. If you require in-depth information on IBM DB2 or InfoSpace software or the Sun Enterprise 250 or 450 workgroup servers, please refer to the product documentation that is available from IBM, InfoSpace, or Sun.

This configuration guide is intended for:
• Sun resellers who are setting up a new data management and decision support system using IBM DB2 and InfoSpace SpaceSQL software
• IBM administrators who are installing on Solaris™ for the first time

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SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server on IBM Hardware

The SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) distribution is designed to provide a secure and reliable operating system for a variety of purposes. Because security requirements obviously depend on the applications and environment, it is not possible to simply certify that the system is ”secure”, a more precise definition is needed. The Common Criteria (CC) provides a widely recognized methodology for security certifications. A CC evaluation is fundamentally a two-step process, consisting of defining the ”security target” which describes the features that are to be evaluated, and then testing and verifying that the system actually implements these features with a sufficient level of assurance.

This document is a security guide that explains how to set up the evaluated configuration, and provides information to administrators and ordinary users to ensure secure operation of the system. It is intended to be self-contained in addressing the most important issues at a high level, and refers to other existing documentation where more details are needed. The document primarily addresses administrators, but the section ”Security guidelines for users” is intended for ordinary users of the system as well as administrators. Knowledge of the Common Criteria is not required for readers of this document.

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IBM System x3550 Type 7978: Installation Guide

This Installation Guide contains instructions for setting up your IBM® System x3550 Type 7978 server and basic instructions for installing some options. More detailed instructions for installing options are in the IBM User’s Guide on the IBM System x ™ Documentation CD, which comes with the server. This document contains information about:
- Setting up and cabling the server
- Installing some options
- Identifying server controls, LEDs, and power
- Starting and configuring the server
- Solving problems

The System x3550 server supports one of the following hard disk drive configurations:
- Servers with four hot-swap bays support 2.5-inch hot-swap Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives. You can install only 2.5-inch hot-swap SAS drives in these servers. The following illustration shows a System x3550 server with a 2.5-inch hard disk drive configuration.

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Altiris Deployment Solution™ for IBM Servers 1.3

This section provides steps for identifying prerequisite requirements and a checklist for installing components of Deployment Solution for Servers 6.5 and the IBM SSTK 1.3. Altiris products can be installed by running the respectively named individual core files after downloading the products individually.

Altiris always recommends that you download the latest service packs and hotfixes from http://www.altiris.com/support/updates if applicable. At the time of this writing, Deployment Solution 6.5 Hotfix 2 is available and needs to be installed separately after Deployment Solution for Servers 6.5 has been installed. Consult Deployment Solution product documentation for a detailed discussion of prerequisites, installation, and product architecture at http://www.altiris.com/Support/Documentation.aspx.

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IBM xSeries 346 Type 8840: Installation Guide

This Installation Guide contains instructions for setting up your IBM® Eserver™ xSeries® 346 Type 8840 server and basic instructions for installing some options. More detailed instructions for installing options are in the Option Installation Guide on the IBM xSeries Documentation CD, which comes with your server. This document contains information about:
- Setting up and cabling your server
- Starting and configuring your server
- Installing some options
- Solving problems

If firmware and documentation updates are available, you can download them from http://www.ibm.com/support/. The server might have features that are not described in the documentation that comes with the server, and the documentation might be updated occasionally to include information about those features, or technical updates might be available to provide additional information that is not included in the server documentation. To check for updates, go to http://www.ibm.com/support/. For firmware updates, click Downloads and drivers. For documentation updates, under Search technical support, type xSeries 346 and click Search.

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IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool Installation and User’s Guide

IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool 5.20 provides a number of new features and enhancements. IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool console installation IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool includes a console component which adds options to the BladeCenter® Configuration Manager task that you can use to save a SAN configuration profile that can be applied to new blade servers when they are added.

Use the IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool to allocate or deallocate volumes on a supported remote storage network and to save and restore network-storage configurations. IBM Server Storage Provisioning Tool adds a set of dircli commands that you can use to allocate or deallocate volumes on a supported remote storage network. It also adds options to the BladeCenter Configuration Manager task that you can use to save a SAN configuration profile that can be applied to new blade servers when they are added or replaced, effectively remapping the remote storage to the new blade.

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Manage SAS Metadata Server Availability with IBM Technology

SAS Metadata Server, one of the key technology applications in SAS®9, manages and protects information that is shared across the SAS®9 framework, and can be used with various third-party monitoring tools. The ability to surface metadata from one or more repositories and serve it to applications via SAS Open Metadata Architecture allows companies to gather and store data in multiple formats and locations without losing the ability to derive consistent business intelligence from the data. The benefits of metadata are numerous, and the ability of the SAS Metadata Server to provide a centralized and easily managed system for consistent data repositories means that customers know where their data is located, what it’s made up of, and how it’s been modified. The SAS Metadata Server enables companies to, quickly and efficiently, get the right answers for all their strategic business intelligence needs.

This paper offers guidelines that enable you to build a resilient environment to support and manage the SAS Metadata Server by using IBM technology.

Fault Tolerance of the SAS Metadata Server
The SAS Metadata Server is a vital element of the SAS®9 architecture that benefits from being deployed in a resilient environment. Data protection such as that provided by Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks (RAID) file systems, and system monitoring such as that provided by the IBM Virtualization Suite support a fault-tolerant strategy.

The SAS Metadata Server uses “in-memory” architecture to process queries and updates, which means that all queried and updated metadata is held in memory by the server. To avoid paging, the server should have sufficient RAM to hold all active metadata entries.

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Deploying Citrix MetaFrame on IBM E server BladeCenter with IBM Fast Storage

Blade servers are a relatively new technology, one that has captured industry focus because of its modular design, which can reduce cost through a more efficient use of valuable floor space, and its simplified management, which can help to speed up such tasks as deploying, reprovisioning, updating and troubleshooting hundreds of blade servers. All this can be done remotely with one graphical console using IBM Director systems management tools. In addition, blade servers provide improved performance by doubling current rack density. By integrating your resources and sharing key components, not only will you reduce cost but you will also increase availability.

In this section, we list the key features of the IBM Eserver BladeCenter and the BladeCenter
HS20 and HS40 servers. First, the IBM Eserver BladeCenter features:
Rack-optimized, 7U modular design enclosure:
– Holds up to 14 hot-swap IBM Eserver BladeCenter HS20 blades with up to six enclosures in a 42U rack
– Holds up to seven hot-swap IBM Eserver BladeCenter HS40 blades
A high availability midplane supporting the hot-swap of individual blades. Two 1800-watt, hot-swap power modules and support for two redundant 1800-watt power modules with load balancing and failover capabilities. See guidelines in 1.2.5, “IBM eServer BladeCenter Power Supply Module” on page 11. Two hot-swap and redundant 325 CFM blowers and thermal sensors throughout to monitor and alert of over-temperature conditions. One management module (standard) lets you manage and control components in the enclosure. Add a second module for redundancy. Optional hot-swap redundant Ethernet and Fibre Channel switch modules (supports up to four network switch modules). Control panel - contains USB port and status LEDs.

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IBM eServer Cryptographic Coprocessor Security Module Model 4764–001 Security Policy

This document describes services that the IBM eServer Cryptographic Coprocessor 4764–001 (Hardware P/N 16R0911, 12R6536, 12R8241, 12R8561, 41U0438) (“the module”) with Miniboot software resident in ROM and flash, provides to a population of security officers, users, and the security policy governing access to those services. This policy applies to multiple members of the 47xx product family. We describe multiple firmware revisions running on different hardware releases, highlighting differences where appropriate. Firmware identifiers refer to unambiguously identifiable lead digits of Segment 1 (firmware) hash, a unique value describing card firmware status, returned by card configuration queries. This policy applies to the following firmware identifiers: 2a4e5289, 2096a16d, and c16f4102.

Please see Section 10 (p. 28) for validated combinations of hardware and firmware.
The document is built on the foundations of the previously validated IBM 4758 Model 002 (validation certificate 116, validated under FIPS 140-2), reflecting the implementation differences between the 4758 and variants of the 4764–001. Differences between members of the 4764 family are also described in the following pages.

Background of Family The module is a programmable secure coprocessor. It consists of:
• base hardware;
• embedded firmware that is not visible to the outside;
• Miniboot software, which controls the security and configuration of the device (the externally visible part of card firmware);
• higher system software and application layers
Note that higher layers of software and application (Layers 2 and 3) are not included in the current validation.

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System Authentication for AIX and Linux using the IBM Directory Server

System- and User- Authentication is common task in every IT-environment. Various requirements such as security, scalability, availability, multi-platform support and shortcomings of other solutions like NIS lead to the fact that LDAP is becoming more and more popular for that task. Althoug LDAP can be used for much more, we’ll focus on how LDAP can be used for system authentication in an AIX (Version 5.2 and above) and Linux environment using the IBM Directory Server 4.1 in this paper.

For a better illustration of the required design and implementation steps we’ll use a real world scenario derived from a customer project. We’ll first describe the server- and user scenario and the customer administration- and security reqierements in Chapter 2. Based on these requirements we’ll explain the design decisions (e.g. schema, namespace) for the directoy in Chapter 3. In Chapter 4 and 5 we document the implementation steps for the LDAP-Server on AIX and the Client implementation steps for AIX and Linux respectively.

We do not cover general LDAP basics here. Good material for understanding LDAP can be found in [1] and [2]. General product documentation for the IBM Directory Server can be found in [5] and [6], whereas an excelent LDAP lecture can be enjoyed online in [9].

Availability and Scalability considerations will be added to a future version of this paper (a highly available and scaleable LDAP-Server-Infrastructure can be achieved with the replication features of the IBM Directory Server in combination with server load balaning using for example the IBM Network Dispatcher) as well as other topics (see Chapter 6).

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Using IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server FlashCopy with VMware ESX 2.5 Server

The IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) is targeted at both mainframe and open system environments and is designed to provide improved reliability, ease of management and exceptional performance. Further, the ESS provides a rich set of Advanced Copy Services to providing point-in-time copies, synchronous copies, and remote mirroring.

VMware, an EMC company, was founded in 1998 to bring mainframe-class virtual machine technology to industry-standard computers. VMware delivered its first product, VMware® Workstation in 1999 and in 2001 introduced VMware GSX Server and VMware ESX Server. With the launch of VMware VirtualCenter in 2003, and the groundbreaking VMotion™ technology, the company established itself as the thought leader in the newly emerging virtual infrastructure marketplace. Virtual infrastructure introduces a new category of capabilities to the data center enabling business to reduce their IT costs through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. In 2004, the company extended the capabilities of virtual infrastructure to the enterprise desktop with the introduction of VMware ACE. VMware is based in the heart of Silicon Valley–Palo Alto, California.

IBM and VMware are working together to provide greater benefits to end-users by promoting greater interoperability in the solutions that each bring to the marketplace. This paper offers an overview of the use of the ESS’s FlashCopy function to assist customers in meeting their data backup needs for applications running on the ESX Server.

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Siebel CRM Release 7 on IBM eServer p650 and IBM DB2 UDB Performance and Scalability

The Siebel CRM Release 7 Smart Web Architecture introduces a revolutionary approach for deploying Web applications. It includes a Web-only solution with the interactivity customers have become accustomed to with client/server implementations. It does so by being highly scalable and very light on the network and Web servers, thereby allowing customers to leverage their existing network and Web-farm infrastructure. The tests conducted in Oracle’s Siebel Platform Sizing and Performance Program are designed to stress the Siebel CRM Release 7 architecture and to demonstrate that large customers can successfully deploy many thousands of concurrent users.

The Siebel CRM Release 7 architecture features tested in this benchmark include
• Siebel Smart Web Architecture—Takes advantage of the latest Web browser technology to deliver a highly interactive experience. The interactive model which is similar to Windows-based applications also improves productivity. Utilization rates on the Web server are low, allowing customers to retain existing Web server infrastructure.
• Siebel Smart Network Architecture—Allows Siebel CRM Release 7 customers to leverage their existing network infrastructure by compressing and caching user interface components, so that browser/Web server interaction occurs only when the application requests data. This allows customers to avoid expensive network upgrades that can be necessary with competing products.
• Siebel Smart Database Connection Pooling and Multiplexing—Allows customers to scale their databases without introducing expensive and complex transaction processing monitors.
• Siebel Request Broker—Provides for component-level load balancing of work across multiple Siebel servers without the expensive and complex administration of transaction-processing monitors.
• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)—Allows customers to integrate their existing systems with Siebel CRM applications. With a relatively modest investment in equipment, customers can execute more than 2,100,000 integrated transactions during an eight-hour business day.

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IBM eServer xSeries 455

In today’s on demand world, companies must react instantly to dynamic market conditions adding capacity, improving service availability and rebalancing server infrastructures to seize opportunities and counter competitive threats. The IBM eServer xSeries® 455 expands the xSeries server family with a 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 Processor-based scalable enterprise node platform providing customers with a new tool for conquering transaction-intensive database and ERP application workloads.

High performance, small package
For applications that demand scale-up server performance, the x455 complements existing Windows® and Linux® server environments with high performance in a small, scalable package.

Designed to provide extensive flexibility and scalability for high-performance databases such as IBM DB2 Universal Database™, Microsoft® SQL Server and Oracle, the x455 delivers pure 64- bit, 16-way SMP power to the industry-standard server market. Built on the proven chipset logic of IBM Enterprise X-Architecture, the x455 helps customers more easily exploit the benefits of 64-bit data addressing. And with standard support for memory mirroring, including hot-swap capability, the x455 helps instill confidence in the deployment of pure 64-bit Windows and Linux platforms making it ideal for enterprise applications such as SAP and SAS.

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Server Consolidation Security - Firewall and VPN Solutions for IBM eServers

Today’s on-demand enterprise can gain significant benefits by consolidating servers into their mainframe and midrange systems. Whether an organization uses IBM® eServer® iSeries model 800s or the IBM eServer zSeries® z990, consolidation of servers is now possible, yielding substantial return on investment. Whether it’s mainframes or midrange, organizations can reduce administration, infrastructure, and systems costs significantly by running many virtual servers inside a single eServer zSeries or iSeries machine, instead of using tens or hundreds of x86-architecture based PC servers.

The conversion to server consolidation, although very beneficial to the on-demand organization, is not without concerns. Traditional mainframes and midrange systems were considered very secure. But the introduction of Linux® and Microsoft® Windows® based systems inside these machines, and TCP/IP networking connecting them all together on virtual LANs, introduces the same security concerns that physical servers and LANs have had for many years.

Stonesoft’s StoneGate firewall and VPN solution for IBM eServer zSeries and iSeries provides a unique security solution to address the network security needs of this new architecture design. StoneGate excels in security, manageability, availability and security. This whitepaper will explore the issues surrounding server consolidation on the mainframe and midrange systems, and detail how StoneGate can address the security concerns—providing for a secure, on demand workplace, a significant return on investment and the enablement of new business processes.

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