AIX and Power Systems Software

Monthly Meeting

May 12, 2021

Maria Ward
AIX Product Manager

Ian Robinson
Power Systems Virtualization Product Manager

Steve Finnes
Power Systems HA Product Manager

Charles Thiel
Security, Compliance, & Client Advocacy Manager

Jose Paez
Product Manager, IBM Power Virtual Server

Erin Jurgens
Product Manager, IBM Cloud

Petra Bührer
Global Power Systems Sales Leader (AIX and IBM i)

Prenessa D. Lowery
AIX and Power Systems Product Marketing

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Agenda

• AIX on PowerVS – What’s New, What’s Coming and Recent Wins – Erin Jurgens, Jose Paez

• Oracle Updates – Petra Bührer

• Trial Programs – Ian Robinson

Suggestions for future meeting topics can be sent to Sue Reuland (sreuland@us.ibm.com)

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 AIX and IBM Power Systems Virtual Server

Jose Paez and Erin Jurgens

IBM PowerSystems and IBM Cloud

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What does Flexibility mean to our clients?

TCO Connectivity OPEX Refocus

Total Cost of Ownership Integration between on- Consumption-based Exit datacenter

Reduced for operations prem value and other Model and to avoid ownership
services CAPEX responsibilities

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 IBM Power Systems Virtual Server
Offering Description:
A user can purchase an AIX, IBM i and Linux Power VM-based Virtual Machine-as-a-Service.
IBM manages up to OS deployment and the client self-manages the OS and up.
Our users can purchase the offering through Cloud consumption-based pricing plans available through IBM Cloud Catalog.

Systems: S922, E980, E880,

Compute: 0.25-143 cores (15 for S922, 143 for E980/880), Services Provided
By IBM or BP teams

Shared or Shared option (capped or uncapped)

Storage Type: FS9150 based: Tier 3 (SSD) or Tier 1 (NVMe)
10 GB minimum / 2 TB maximum per disk, 10 GB increments
Network: Public and/or Private IP
OS: AIX / IBM i / Linux
Data Centers: DAL, WDC, FRA, LON, TOR, TOK, SYD, SAO, MON, OSA

Multi-tenant, self managed, Power Virtual Server as-a-service in IBM Cloud

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IBM Power Systems - Power Virtual Server
Worldwide deployment locations*
13 data centers in 7 countries (more coming)
Americas
- Dallas
- Washington DC
- Toronto
- Montreal
- Mexico City
- Sao Paulo
EMEA
- Amsterdam
- Frankfurt
- London
- Oslo
- Paris
APAC
- Chennai
- Hong Kong
- Melbourne
- Seoul
- Singapore
- Sydney NOTE: IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers are co-located in IBM
- Osaka cloud data centers with their own dedicated infrastructure.
- Tokyo
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*Cites in red denote both Power and X86 on-demand SAP deployment sites, non-red is x86 only.
 Use Cases

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Types of clients

AIX/ IBM i/ Linux MSPs/CSPs ISVs

Current Customers Managed Service Provider/ Cloud Service Provider Independent Software Vendors

Use Case: Use Case: Use Case:

Wants to upgrade or expand their options Wants this to offer the service to their customers.  Wants to host and create a SaaS offering.
to deploy on-premise and off premise.

Client Need: Client Need: Client Needs:

• Disaster Recovery as a service  • Be able to service their customers that want a • An infrastructure to take to their SaaS to
• Dev test environments cloud option and it gives them the ability to customers quickly without needing to deploy
• Partially move IT infrastructure to the provide different or new services infrastructure 
cloud  • Looking to get out of the game of buying and • Taking advantage of the GEO footprint
• Justify the capital spending to refresh and hosting their own data centers, it leads to that they get from the Cloud
long-term capacity planning for growth better economic model.  • Looking to leverage IBM cloud to expand
into additional markets
• Reduce or distinguish development costs by
removing the physical infrastructure costs

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Types of Use Cases

Problem Statement: Test AIX and IBM i

CIOs and IT managers that use AIX and IBM i A separate but secure sandbox environment for Power Systems
users to test their own AIX or IBM i workloads, try out new OS
environments love the performance and reliability of
versions operating systems or the latest hardware available.
their Power Systems Infrastructure

But that infrastructure requires a big commitment

on-prem which makes them less flexible than Run enterprise Power workloads
they’d like to be. AIX and IBM i applications are no longer restricted to on on-
premise. Help clients build out a hybrid cloud environment with
the ability to host their AIX and IBM i apps connected to the
What that means to you: public Cloud.
Power VS gives clients the ability to quickly and easily
spin up Power Systems resources.
Clients that are looking to be more flexible with their Disaster Recovery without double commitment
environments can use this option to leverage Power VS
Currently, AIX and IBM i clients need to build out their own
for compute. datacenter to ensure DR. Now, with the Power VS, they get
those options at a more affordable price.

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App Modernization and Cloud Native Development
Using Red Hat OpenShift
Quickly create dev/test environments for Application
modernization projects
Problem Statement:
No more waiting for hardware to arrive, with OpenShift (Bring
CIOs and IT Developers must be more agile to Your Own License) and automation to accelerate cluster set-up,
deliver innovation and develop, deploy, update new projects can be up and running on Power Virtual server in
applications faster and more effectively. no-time. Minimize risk and start-up investment with the
flexibility of a cloud consumption model.
The business demands new cloud-native applications
that infuse AI while preserving and extending
investment in existing applications through Co-locate new RHEL/OpenShift based applications
modernization and application co-existence. with AIX and IBM i
Develop new cloud-native applications alongside existing
AIX and IBM i applications and incrementally modernize your
application landscape on Power. Connect microservices to
What that means to you:
Systems of Record databases running on Power Systems. Enjoy
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Power lower latency, faster response times and exploit data gravity to
Virtual Server supports development best practices using deliver SLAs
micro-services, containerization and container
orchestration to build new cloud native applications, Infuse AI into applications
modernize existing applications and support a You can now run IBM Cloud Paks and a host of other software
heterogenous application landscape of AIX, IBM i and and middleware from IBM, Red Hat and ISVs on OpenShift on
Power Virtual Server. Infuse AI driven analytics and insights into
RHEL/OpenShift applications running together in a hybrid
business apps on Power via an end-to-end data science
cloud environment. environment for Machine learning and inferencing 11
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 Challenge: Solution:

Outsourcing unmanaged HA Migrate on prem-solution

Labeyrie Fine Foods infrastructure looking to free
resources from low value
to Power VS. Backup
also included.
tasks to refocus on new
projects.
Company: Labeyrie Fine Foods – LFF - is a holding IBM unique value :
company of the French food industry with the
following brands: Labeyrie, Blini, Delpierre, Labeyrie. Intel and Power VS in
Frankfurt
Market: Distribution
Solution components: IBM Power Systems Virtual Why IBM?
Server, JD Edwards (JDE), AIX
• Makes an Enterprise class Power architecture available
in a flexible way as clients modernize
• Makes migration of existing on-premises workloads
easy by using an identical technology stack designed for
Power Systems
• Quick migrations enabled with a new infrastructure
management model
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 Challenge: Solution:
IBM i, DR, tapeless backup
A Large North American Bank Migrate on-prem Power
workloads to Power Systems
Virtual Server IBM unique value:

Company: One of the largest North America banking Global data center availability
institutions running core applications and database on
IBM i. The client moved from on premise vendor
infrastructure to IBM Cloud Datacenter using Power
Virtual Server
Market: Financial Why IBM?
Solution components: Build and activate Disaster • Successful migration of IBM i LPARs hosting core applications
Recovery with data replication from IBM Cloud and database data for all branches in the United States
Washington to IBM Cloud Dallas, Network • Automation capabilities
segregation improving production system protection,
• IBM i full network service encryption
IBM i full network service encryption, tapeless backup
using IBM Cloud Object Storage • Flexible pay-as-you-go metered pricing and billing

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 Challenge: Solution:
SAP ECC on Power VS, DB2,
AIX, COS, Backup, Advanced
A Large Multi-National Brewery Migrate SAP workloads for Support
Power on Prem to Power
Systems Virtual Server before IBM unique value:
July 2021
Company: A large multi-national brewery company in SAP certification to run
Americas marks a huge Q1 win for Power Systems production workloads on
Virtual Server. The client has one of the largest DB2 Power Systems Virtual Server
databases in the Americas and needed a strategy to
migrate SAP workloads on Power using AIX and DB2
Market: Distribution Why IBM?
Solution components: Power VS S922 and E980, • Power VS certification with SAP  
Migration of SAP Production and Non-Production • Right sizing and pricing of what was needed
workloads, HA implementation using PowerHA, • Trusted advisor relationship with client CIO
Implementation of DRP, GTS to migration, IBM
• HA/DR capabilities and failover between data centers
Business Partner SAP migration

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 What’s New in Power Systems Virtual
Server

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 Power VS What’s New
• RHEL 8.1 for SAP on Power VS is now available!

• Power VS E2E Process and Guide

• Dual highly available 10 Gbps connection between Power VS and IBM Cloud
services at no cost

• Power Hour: Veeam for Power VS

• Power VS Internal Win Stories

• Power VS External References

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 SAP HANA clients are rapidly adopting IBM Power Systems

3000+ satisfied clients SAP Pinnacle Award Winner

plus hundreds of win IBM Power Systems - Global
wires & public references Partner of Year – Infrastructure

Ranked # 1 in reliability 25% Server revenue share vs

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for last 12 years1 Intel in the large deployments

SAP HEC and 50+ CSP/MSP

using IBM POWER Systems for
Largest scale up capacity for S/4
SAP HANA Clouds HANA and BWH: 28TB2

1. 2020 ITIC Server Reliability Report © 2021

IBM IBM Corporation
Internal Only
2. Scale Up Capacity: SAP Note: 2188482: https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2188482. Available on-prem
Extending the value of IBM Power Systems Virtual Server
POWER for SAP HANA • One-stop for all SAP business solutions. Create a
migration path to SAP HANA
to hybrid cloud* • Granular and differentiated SAP HANA instances

• 48 SAP certified instances for Production workloads

• Zero up-front cost to deploy SAP HANA on HE E980

SAP certified Enterprise Security, Fast Power Systems
cloud instances Performance and Provisioning,
on POWER Resiliency Granular and • Up to 40% better for OLTP pay-as-you-go pricing
Scalable compared to AWS and Azure1
Instances
• Start at $0.92/hour for dev / test instances
Comprehensive implementation services to architect and
deploy SAP HANA based platforms

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Based on list $/TB pricing calculated as of 6/30/2020 for IBM Cloud at
https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/power-systems-virtual-server, AWS at https://www.awsprices.com/ and Azure at
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https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/why-ibm-power-systems-means-business-for-sap/
 What’s Coming

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 IBM Power Systems Virtual Server
External 2021 Roadmap             
Our team’s focus is around improving the ease of use and performance of our networking, achieving new standards in compliance for our client’s data, integrating/facilitating additional workloads into Power
VS, and continuously improving the user experience. The items below have been committed for delivery.

1Q21 2Q21 3Q21 4Q21

Compliance: Compliance: Compliance: Compliance:

• SOC 1 Type 2 • SOC 2 Type 2 • ISO 27K Update • PCI Compliance
• OS Encryption w/ BYOK (AIX)
Storage: Network: Network:
• IOPs script roll-out • Allow 10G DL Connect VCs (Manual/ • Network Automation (UI)
• ticket))  • VPNaaS Automated (API/CLI)            Network:
• VPNaaS automation (UI)
Functionality: • Network Automation (API/CLI) • Private endpoint for PowerVS API
• 10G DL Connect VCs automation
• Increase VM min/max &
mem bounds Storage:
• IBM i 7.1 support Functionality: • Expose storage pools (API)    Storage:
• CentOS on PowerVS • 980 Expansion $/meter support for WDC04 • Expose storage pools (UI/CL)
• RHEL 8.1 & 8.2 BYOI/S • IBM i 7.2 Service Extension Functionality:
• RH Openshift • Enhanced Affinity placement (API) • Software VTL for IBM i PowerVS Functionality:
• IBM-i 5250 console Japanese Language • Hybrid Cloud Credit management
ISV ecosystem: • Integrated Backup (Resiliency Team)
• SAP HANA cert w/RHEL 8.1- image • Enhanced Affinity- UI/CLI 

Performance: 
• Benchmarking for Backup

These dates are subject to change

Submit Ideas Internally: https://internal-ibmcloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/new
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Future Roadmap
These are items we recognize as critical for our clients and partners but have not yet been committed to a date of delivery. We believe in transparency and inclusivity from our clients and partners on our
prioritization, feel free to reach out for questions or comments on our roadmap.

Network:
• Power Edge Router (PER) support (Cloud)
• SNAT support for internet access 
• Cross-zone Automated Virtual Cross Connect Other:
• World View
• Auto-Scale
Storage: • Shared CPU pools
• Flexible Storage tiering (IOPS), • IBM-i License Key injection + key services (field)
• Bulk volume attach (field)
Functionality:
• Full Linux subscription on PowerVS (Cloud)
• Streamlined Integrated Disaster Recovery (DR) w/ Storage replication
• POWER VS - Storage Volume replication 

These dates are subject to change

Submit Ideas Internally: https://internal-ibmcloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/new
 Promotions

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Key Power VS Sales Plays
IDENTIFY VALIDATE QUALIFY SOLUTION PROPOSE COMMIT CONSUME

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Experiential Selling Proof of Concept Deal Sweetener

N
Power VS Attach: Attach $5K of IBM 50 Proof: Offers qualified Power VS Cloud Engagement Fund:
e
w
Cloud PoC funding for clients to opportunities $30K of IBM Cloud PoC Ecosystem funding program pays
experience Power VS on IBM Cloud. funding at cost rates and $20K (80 hours) of business partners (GSIs, ISVs, VARs,
Applicable for new Power Systems systems lab services to execute a proof of VADs) 10% of 3-year IBM Cloud
purchase and existing Power customers concept with Power VS on IBM Cloud. TCV in the form of Cloud credits or
IBM Cloud account will convert into paid or funding for migration services onto
be decommissioned at the end of 3 months. IBM Cloud.

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 Experiential Selling Phase Foundation - Details
Attach Power VS with existing Power Customers and New Power Sales
What is Power VS Attach? What is customer value?
• $5K Power VS credits valid for 90 days • Provide an easy start to try Power VS to begin hybrid cloud
• Free “how-to get started” Power VS documentation journey
• New Power sales: provision Power VS within 90 days of purchase
• Immediate performance enhancement with upgraded POWER
• Existing Power customers (POWER6 or newer): upgrade OS with Power
platform
VS
• Applicable for BPs, ISVs, and GSIs • Move customers to supported HW and SW stack to reduce
• $10K (40 hours) Lab Services included for all Power7, Power8 and maintenance, SWMA, and SW licensing. TCO saving
Power9 MR and HE customers • Smooth transition into PoC phase
• Workloads running on AIX, IBM i, RHOS, and HANA
• Use cases: dev/test, backup, DR, production • Share ”Quick Start Guides” on Seismic
• Participating data centers are DAL12, TOR01, LON04, LON06, SYD04,
What is BPs, ISVs, and GSI value?
SAO01 plus up coming data centers in 2021 pending on capacity
availability (up to 10% capacity). DAL13, WDC04, FRA04, and FRA05 • Experience Power VS for free to build demo, sales assets, and
are excluded start PoCs etc
• Power VS Attach credits expire on 12/31/2021 and provision by
How to execute?
10/1/2021
• Execute by Power and Cloud sellers, BPs, and GSIs to attach to
on-prem Power sales and platform upgrade

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Where to find help?

 Power VS Sales Kit on Seismic – LINK

(client deck, seller/BP enablement, use cases, promotions, sizing and pricing, TCO, demo, video recordings, technical enablement,
etc)
 Movable IBM i subsection - LINK
 SAP HANA subsection – LINK

 Power VS Documentation on IBM Cloud – LINK

 Power VS for SAP HANA Documentation on IBM Cloud - LINK

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Oracle Updates

Petra Bührer

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 Oracle Release Strategy

Oracle changed their release strategy in 2018

 New: Release every year !
- Long-term Releases: latest long-term support release is 19c - supported on IBM Systems (until 2027)
- Shor-term Releases (‘innovation releases’) - available only for 18 months, no extended support
– not supported on IBM Systems 

• Oracle recommends customers to upgrade

to the latest long-term release – e.g. 19c

• Rolling out an innovation release in production increases

pressure on upgrade cycles

• Long-term releases provide a more stable foundation for

production / mission critical workloads

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 Oracle Release Strategy - What happened last Week!?

Oracle published 21c release data on their website stating ‘not supported’ on IBM Systems!
 Now stating: ‘See Release Notes’

https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/Oracle%20Database%20Produc
ts/2766930_1.html
https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/Oracle%20Database%20Produc
ts/742060_1.html
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 Orac UNIX ha
le DB s
Mark ~21%
e t Sh
are (I
DC)

Support Statement Announcement:

Oracle has a newly posted document that confirms their continued commitment
to the 80,0000 IBM Systems customers, both Power AIX and Linux on Z. It is publicly available HERE. 

The announcement addresses concerns customers may have due to Oracle's May 5th update to
their Release Schedule of Current Database Releases (Doc ID 742060.1) which does not provide
a 21c Innovation Release date for IBM Systems (AIX and Linux on Z), causing concern that Oracle
support for IBM Systems has been impacted.  

Highlights of this new document, Announcement: Support Statement for Oracle Database
running on IBM Systems. Confirms the large install base and relevance of IBM Systems customers
to Oracle with 80,000 joint customers ~99% of those running on AIX on Power
• Confirms long-term commitment to developing and releasing Oracle Database on IBM Systems
• Confirms upcoming Long Term Releases of Oracle Database will be on IBM Systems and provides
a target date for next release of 2023
• Demonstrates supported offerings well past the end of the decade
(2023 release + 8 year product support cycle) plus future Long Term Releases

With this information you should be able to confidently address

any concerns raised about Oracle commitment to IBM Systems servers.  Please send any follow-on questions to 
ibmoracle@us.ibm.com.  

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Power Systems - The best Platform for Oracle Workloads
All along the lifecycle, we have the right Experts & Tools available to increase the odds of winning!

The Play Key Assets Competitive Toolkit

Leverage enablement material Seismic Informatiom • Oracle Performance Detective

 Landing Page
to defend/replace Oracle  Sales Play • OraQuickSizer
• ExaSizer
Fast Start Sessions
• Sparc / Solaris conversions  Deck • TCO Compares
 Recording (Precision IT, Techline, IT Economics Team)
• Exadata displacements
• Exadata-Compete-Bundles
• Competing against Oracle Cloud Your Learning Courses
L1 L2 • Lab Services (e.g. Migration Factory)
• Protecting the Power install base  IBMers  IBMers
 BPs  BPs
• IBM Systems Garages
with a Power9 Refresh!
• TSS Support
Client/BP on-demand Webinar

Available On Demand
(Replay, Deck and Opportunity to Q&A!

~1 hour  Register Here!

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AIX and Power System Software Trial Offerings

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PowerVC Free Trial Download
 PowerVC 2.0 trial linked from Try Now button on product page
– https://epwt-www.mybluemix.net/software/support/trial/cst/programwebsite.wss?siteId=1138&h=null&p=null
 Download requires acceptance of clickthrough license agreement
 Try/Buy license allows seamless transition to production deployment
Power vHMC Free Trial Download
 Power vHMC V9R2M950 trial linked from Trials section of IBM Power Web site
– https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=urx-50076
 Download requires acceptance of clickthrough license agreement
 Try/Buy license allows seamless transition to production deployment
PowerSC Free Trial Download
 PowerSC 1.3 90-day free trial
– https://epwt-www.mybluemix.net/software/support/trial/cst/programwebsite.wss?siteId=1287&h=null&p=null
 Download requires acceptance of clickthrough license agreement
 Try/Buy license allows seamless transition to production deployment
Other Power Software Trials
 AIX XL compiler for C++
– https://www.ibm.com/products/xl-cpp-aix-compiler-power

 AIX XL compiler for FORTRAN

– https://www.ibm.com/products/xl-fortran-aix-compiler-power

 PowerHA
– Send e-mail request to finnes@us.ibm.com

 VM Recovery Manager
– Send e-mail request to finnes@us.ibm.com

 AIX 7.3 OpenBeta Program (Coming in 4Q21)

– For more info contact mrward@us.ibm.com
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