Cloud capabilities are a prerequisite for using enterprise-level IT resources. There is a rich infrastructure around IBM Power to help modernize services with the strategic initiatives of your business.
The most important products are:
Ê IBM Power Virtual Servers
Ê Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power
1.10.1 IBM Power Virtual Servers
IBM Power Virtual Servers on IBM Cloud is an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering that you can use to deploy a virtual server, also known as an LPAR, in a matter of minutes.
IBM Power clients who have typically relied upon an on-premises only infrastructure now can quickly and economically extend their Power IT resources into the cloud. Using IBM Power Virtual Servers on IBM Cloud is an alternative to avoid the large capital expense or added risk when moving your essential workloads to a public cloud.
An IBM Cloud integrates your IBM AIX capabilities into the IBM Cloud experience, which means you get fast, self-service provisioning, flexible management both on-premises and off, and access to a stack of enterprise IBM Cloud services all with pay-as-you-use billing that lets you easily scale up and out.
You can quickly deploy an IBM Power Virtual Servers on IBM Cloud instance to meet your specific business needs. With IBM Power Virtual Servers on IBM Cloud, you can create a hybrid cloud environment that allows you to easily control workload demands.
For more information, see IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers-Getting started.
1.10.2 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power (5639-OCP) provides a secure, enterprise-grade platform for on-premises, private platform-as-a-service clouds on IBM Power servers. It brings together industry-leading container orchestration from Kubernetes, advanced application build and delivery automation, and RHEL certified containers for IBM Power.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power brings developers and IT operations together on a common platform. It provides applications, platforms, and services for creating and delivering cloud-native applications and management so IT can ensure that the environment is secure and available.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power provides enterprises the same functions as the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform offering on other platforms.
Key features include:
Ê A self-service environment for application and development teams.
Ê A pluggable architecture that supports a choice of container run times, networking, storage, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI-CD), and more.
Ê Ability to automate routine tasks for application teams.
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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions are offered in two core increments that are designed to run in a virtual guest. The purchase of a separate RHEL subscription (5639-RLE) is required as the base OS.
For more information, see Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power.
1.10.3 Hybrid Cloud Management Edition
Many enterprises continue to maintain hybrid cloud environments because they host many core business workloads on-premises while creating or migrating newer workloads to public cloud environments. Managing these environments can be a daunting task. Organizations need the right tools to tackle the challenges that are posed by these heterogeneous environments to accomplish their objectives.
Collectively, the capabilities that are listed in this section work together to create a consistent management platform between client data centers, public cloud providers, and multiple hardware platforms (fully inclusive of IBM Power) to provide all the necessary elements for a comprehensive hybrid cloud platform.
The capabilities are:
Ê IBM Cloud Pak® for Watson AIOps
Ê IBM Observability by IBM Instana®
Ê IBM Turbonomic® (an IBM Company)
Ê Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM)
Ê IBM Power servers
Ê IBM Power Virtual Servers