IBM April 2016 Announcements

93 Pages·2016·20.8 MB·English

Welcome to the Waitless World
IBM April 2016
Announcement Update
Mark Ruberry
Client Technical Specialist
IBM Power Systems
[email protected]
Welcome to the Waitless World
Agenda
• IBM i in 2016
• Hardware Update
• DB2 for i Enhancements
• IBM i Authority Collection
• Systems Management and
Application Development
• DB2 Web Query for i
• PowerHA Update
• Licensing Update
• Events and Miscellaneous
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IBM i in 2016
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IBM i Roadmap
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
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7.1 7.2
7.1 and 7.2
7.1 TRs
TRs
IBM i 7.3
• Announce April 12, 2016
• GA April 15, 2016
IBM i 7.2 TR4
• Announce April 12, 2016
• GA May 20, 2016
** All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
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IBM i Technology Refresh PTF Group Lifecycle
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2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
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7.1 stable
7.1
7.2
7.3
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Hardware Related
Announcements
Welcome to the Waitless World
Jan/Feb/Mar Hardware Announcement Review
• Power E880 & E870 enhancements (announced 12 Jan)
• 2X memory
• E880 10-core node
• E880 CBU for PowerHA
• “New” 2-port Async adapter for IBM i (announced 8 Mar)
• #EN29 feat = to previous #EN27 = #5289 (see April 4-port)
• Power S822
• EasyScale for MSPs (announced 19 January)
• 4-core for AIX (announced 9 February)
• Fibre Channel adapter Optical Wrap Plug (announced 12 Jan)
• Withdrawal from marketing (announced 9 Feb)
• Power E850 FW enhancements (no announcement letter - 25 Feb GA)
• Better RAS for PCIe Gen3 I/O drawer & SR-IOV vNIC
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IBM i System Support
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssm1platformibmi
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IBM i
Systems IBM i 7.1 IBM i 7.2
7.3
(cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)
POWER8
S814, S822 (VIOS only), S824, E870,
E880
(cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1)
POWER7/7+ Servers
Power 710, 720, 730, 740, 750, 760,
770, 780, 795
POWER7/7+ Blades and Compute (cid:1) (cid:1)
Nodes
X
PS700/701/702/730/704, PureFlex
p260/460
(cid:1) (cid:1)
POWER6/6+
520, 550, 560, 570, 595, JS12/22,
1
JS23/43
(cid:1)
POWER5/5+
515, 520, 525, 550, 570, 595
Note 1 – no IOP or HSL support
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April 12th Hardware Announcement
• Refresh all Power SSD – and add new SSD options
• Significant price performance improvement
• Next iteration of large cache PCIe3 SAS RAID adapter
• Scale-out servers & E850 PCIe Gen3 I/O drawer attachment
• much lower cost copper cabling
• New price-performing PCIe 2-port 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter
(VIOS)
• 4-port Async adapter card for IBM i
• Power Enterprise Pools - multiple managing HMCs support
• Power E850 doubles max memory
• PCIe NVMe Flash Adapter for Linux
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April 12th Planned Hardware Announcement
IBM i IBM i IBM i
7.1 7.2 7.3
• Refresh all Power SSD – and add new SSD options
• eMLC4 2.5” & 1.8” (* 1.55TB IBM i 7.2 or later) X * X X
• 1.9” Read Intensive -- X X
• Next iteration of large cache PCIe3 SAS RAID adapter -- X X
• Scale-out servers & E850 PCIe Gen3 I/O drawer attachment
X X X
• much lower cost copper cabling
• New price-performing PCIe 2-port 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter (VIOS)
VIOS VIOS VIOS
• 4-port Async adapter card for IBM i
X X X
• Power Enterprise Pools - multiple managing HMCs support
X X X
• Power E850 doubles max memory
• PCIe NVMe Flash Adapter for Linux
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