Leveraging IBM PowerVC and SAP Landscape Management · Leveraging IBM PowerVC and SAP Landscape Management . 2 SAP on IBM POWER Summit DACH 2016 - © IBM Corporation 2016 SAP Landscape

SAP on IBM POWER Summit DACH 2016 - © IBM Corporation 2016

Luis [email protected]

Ehningen, Germany

Leveraging IBM PowerVC and SAP Landscape Management


SAP Landscape Management

IBM PowerVC

Attach Independent Disk Pool

Agenda



IBM PowerVC


Agenda


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...


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.“



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



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



SAP Landscape Management in combination with PowerVC can also…

create snapshots of your SAP hosts

deploy additional hosts

host management and migration



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



IBM PowerVC


Agenda


IBM Power Virtualization Center (PowerVC)


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



IBM PowerVC allows you to…

IPL of virtual hosts

Remove disks

Create snapshots for all or certain disks

Relocate virtual machines

Delete virtual machines



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



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



IBM PowerVC


Agenda



Did you know…?



Prepare target IBM i host and flash copy iASP

Target host without any iASP

CFGDEVASP ASPDEV(*ALL) ACTION(*PREPARE)

IPL to finish setup



Copy independent ASP and attach to new host

Flash copy all volumes in the source iASP

Attach cloned iASP volumes to target host



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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