Book description
This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the IBM
z13™. IBM z13 delivers a data and transaction system
reinvented as a system of insight for digital business. IBM z
Systems™ leadership is extended with these
features:
Improved ability to meet service level agreements with new
processor chip technology that includes simultaneous
multithreading, analytical vector processing, redesigned and larger
cache, and enhanced accelerators for hardware compression and
cryptography
Better availability and more efficient use of critical data with
up to 10 TB available redundant array of independent memory
(RAIM)
Validation of transactions, management, and assignment of
business priority for SAN devices through updates to the I/O
subsystem
Continued management of heterogeneous workloads with IBM z
BladeCenter Extension (zBX) Model 004 and IBM z Unified Resource
Manager
This Redbooks publication can help you become familiar with the z
Systems platform, and understand how the platform can help
integrate data, transactions, and insight for faster and more
accurate business decisions.
This book explains how, with innovations and traditional strengths, IBM z13 can play an essential role in today's IT environments, and satisfy the demands for cloud deployments, analytics, mobile, and social applications in a trustful, reliable, and secure environment with operations that lessen business risk.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- IBM Redbooks promotions
- IntelliMagic
- Preface
- Mainline Information Systems, Inc.
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Chapter 1. Infrastructure matters
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 IBM z13 technical description
- 1.3 IBM z BladeCenter Extension Model 004
- 1.4 IBM z Unified Resource Manager
- 1.5 Software
- 1.6 Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS)
- 1.7 IBM z Advanced Workload Analysis Reporter (IBM zAware)
- 1.8 Simultaneous multithreading (SMT)
- 1.9 Single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD)
- 1.10 Dynamic memory reassignment
- 1.11 Shared RoCE support
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Chapter 2. Hardware overview
- 2.1 The z13 highlights, models, and upgrades
- 2.2 Frames
- 2.3 z13 CPC drawers, and single chip modules
- 2.4 Processor chip
- 2.5 Processor unit
- 2.6 Memory
- 2.7 I/O system structure
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2.8 I/O features
- 2.8.1 FICON Express16S
- 2.8.2 FICON Express8S
- 2.8.3 FICON Express8 (carry forward only)
- 2.8.4 OSA-Express5S
- 2.8.5 OSA-Express4S (carry forward only)
- 2.8.6 Flash Express
- 2.8.7 zEDC Express
- 2.8.8 The 10 Gigabit Ethernet RoCE Express
- 2.8.9 Coupling links and timing-only links
- 2.8.10 Cryptographic features
- 2.9 Coupling and clustering
- 2.10 Time functions
- 2.11 Hardware Management Console and Support Element
- 2.12 Power and cooling
- 2.13 IBM z BladeCenter Extension
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Chapter 3. Key functions and capabilities of IBM z13
- 3.1 Virtualization
- 3.2 The z13 technology improvements
- 3.3 Capacity and performance
- 3.4 Common time functions of z Systems
- 3.5 Hardware Management Console (HMC) functions
- 3.6 z13 power and cooling functions
- 3.7 IBM z BladeCenter Extension (zBX) Model 004
- 3.8 Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS)
- 3.9 High availability
- 3.10 IBM z Systems and emerging paradigms
- Chapter 4. Operating system support
- Chapter 5. A system of insight for digital business
- Appendix A. Software licensing
- Appendix B. Channel options
- Related publications
- Back cover
-
IBM System x Reference Architecture for Hadoop: IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Reference Architecture
- Introduction
- Business problem and business value
- Reference architecture use
- Requirements
- InfoSphere BigInsights predefined configuration
- InfoSphere BigInsights HBase predefined configuration
- Deployment considerations
- Customizing the predefined configurations
- Predefined configuration bill of materials
- References
- The team who wrote this paper
- Now you can become a published author, too!
- Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
- Notices
Product information
- Title: IBM z13 Technical Introduction
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2015
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738440521
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