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p012559 PowerVC 1.3.2 News Features & Demo
Nigel Griffiths
AIX, POWER8 and nmon guru
IBM Europe
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PowerVC 1.3.2
New Features
and Demo
Nigel Griffiths
POWER Advanced Technology Support
IBM Europe
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YouTube Videos
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Easy management of Power based on Openstack PowerVC 5 mins 4500

PowerVC Initial Thoughts
12 mins 2787
PowerVC Part 2 - Look Around the GUI
9 mins 1238
PowerVC Part 3 - Config V7000,SAN,Network & Servers 7 mins 1361
PowerVC Part 4 - Virtual Machine Capture
7 mins 1096
PowerVC Part 5 - Deploy to a new Virtual Machine 7 mins 1180
PowerVC 1.2.1 with Shared Storage Pools
20 mins 1260
PowerVC 1.2.1.2 Export Import Image
18 mins 454
Power VUG session 35 PowerVC cool
75 mins 1190+live
15,000+ Views
Lots of interest but now OLD
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YouTube Videos
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1. PowerVM VUG Session:52

Title: PowerVC 1.3.0 from scratch
January 2016
90 mins
960 viewed this +150 live
Lots of background & what I

covered in TechUnis in 2015
2. 2016 PowerVC 1.3.1 Update Series Minutes - Views

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PowerVC 131 Standard Edition part 1
20 - 695
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PowerVC 131 Standard Edition part 2 - Projects & Roles 16 - 331
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PowerVC 131 Cloud Edition part 3 - Cloud Self-Service
23 - 165
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PowerVC 131 Cloud Edition part 4 - Cloud Demo
16 - 186
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PowerVC131 Cloud Edition part 5 Metering
16 - 148
Total 91 minutes - 1525 views
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Available June 2016 Covered in my

IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager V1.3.1 includes:
1. AIX VM - Active Memory Expansion
2. Dynamic Resource Optimiser can be scheduled
3. Remove a VM but keep the storage just in case
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PowerVC
Standard
Edition
PowerVC
4. IBM Cloud Manager merging in to PowerVC
Cloud
a) In two phases June 2016 and December 2016
Edition
b) Project based resources images, disks, VM
c) Project has user roles: admin & self-service
d) Self-service user has limited actions
Deploy templates from their project(s) only
Policy based with or without admin approval process
VM expirations - admin or auto remove
e) Metering data that can be used for chargeback
PowerVC at London Technical University

Stephen Lutz
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3 hours worth!!
PowerVC Admin of Cloud Overview with Live Demo

PowerVC Deep Dive with Live Demo
part 1 & 2
PowerVC Multi-tenancy, Metering and Live Demo
Thierry Huch LAB

Manage Power Systems with IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager
Shamsundar Ashok
PowerVC use with Novalink
part 1 & 2
Upendra Rajan
Cloud PowerVC Manager
Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4
Manoj Kumar, Petra Buehrer

IBM PowerVC Trends & Directions (NDA)
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October 2016 IBM Announcement
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PowerVC V1.3.2 includes support for the following:

New HA Capabilities
Automated VM remote restart
VM remote restart when system is powered off (FSP is down)
enables faster recovery from server failures

expands the coverage of HA events
New Storage Capabilities
Support for Hitachi VSP G-Series storage platforms (G-200, G-400, G-600, G-800 and G-1000)
Improved zoning control (initiator zoning)
allows clients to have fewer zones
Dynamic Resource Optimizer (DRO) Improvements
Balances workload based on memory usage

automatically balanced
allow memory-constrained environments to be
PowerVM NovaLink Management Improvements
SR-IOV via vNIC and vNIC failover configurations
NovaLink partition running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 7.2 and 7.3)
PowerVM Shared Storage Pools (SSPs)
VM console launch
Software Defined Networking (SDN) Tech Preview

VXLAN overlays, floating IPs, routers, etc.
uses Open vSwitch (OVS) and Neutron for
Available 12th Dec 2016
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PowerVC V1.3.2 Summary for Techies

http://ibm.biz/powervc_132
takes you to
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en
_us#!/wiki/Wc1c29d23e0fd_4346_b509_f1c00a2099f0/page/PowerVC%
201.3.2%20overview
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PowerVC 1.3.2 Highlights

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Key:
PowerVM & NovaLink
NovaLink Only
Hardware Disk Specific
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Automatically Remote Restart of virtual machines (POWER8)

Support for SR-IOV devices
Dynamic Resource Optimise host Memory rebalancing
Launch a VM console
Inject an SSH key on deploy
(non-Cloud Deploy)
Initiator zoning (fewer FC zones)
Add text when working with VM requests (Cloud Mgr Deploy)
Expanded support
a. Consistency groups and snapshots (on specific Storage) (not my V7000)
b. Share Storage Pools on NovaLink
c. Hitachi Data Systems driver supports existing VMs
(not my V7000)
d. NovaLink running on RHEL
9. Technical preview: Software Defined Networking
PowerVC 1.3.2 Demonstration
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This is early Beta test code
Subject to Change
Standard PowerVC Edition 1.3.2 &
Cloud PowerVC Manager 1.3.2
Available 16th December = 9 weeks away
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PowerVC 1.3.2 Demonstration

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Key:
PowerVM & NovaLink
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Hardware Disk Specific
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Automatically Remote Restart of virtual machines (POWER8)

Support for SR-IOV devices
Dynamic Resource Optimise host Memory rebalancing
Launch a VM console
Inject an SSH key on deploy
(non-Cloud Deploy)
Initiator zoning (fewer FC zones)
Add text when working with VM requests (Cloud Mgr Deploy)
Expanded support
a. Consistency groups and snapshots (on specific Storage) (not my V7000)
b. Share Storage Pools on NovaLink
c. Hitachi Data Systems driver supports existing VMs
(not my V7000)
d. NovaLink running on RHEL
9. Technical preview: Software Defined Networking

10. Metering Cloud
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Automated
Simplifed Remote Restart
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SRR v1 released in 2015
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Static-Partition-Mobility=SPM
1. Machine crash | halt | power-off

2. Manually HMC or PowerVC used to resurrect VMs
3. Move (SPM) VM to a new machine + Reactivate
4. Wrinkle: the dead machine must be a zombie (FSP alive)
SRR v2 with HMC 8.5.0 May 2016

Wrinkle removed: We dont need the FSP
Much better function & by popular demand
Also larger concurrency = 32 SRR at a time
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Automated SRR with PowerVC 1.3.2

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Machine crash | halt | power-off

PowerVC notices & automatically takes action
Move (SPM) VM to a new machine + Reactivate
In order of their Partition Availability Priority (old feature)
With HMC 860 Q4 2016

Can change SRR flag on a VM without a VM power off
HMC 850: VM Shutdown, use HMC CLI, VM Startup

= a right pain in the neck!
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Quick example manual HMC CLI to set SRR
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VM Overview shows
hmc14:~> lssyscfg -r lpar -m P8-S822-lime -F

simplified_remote_restart_capable,name,remote_restart_status
1,vm61-AIX735,Remote Restartable
0,limevios2,Invalid
0,limevios1,Invalid
1,vm190-AIX72,Remote Restartable
0,vm25-8376eef6-0000001b,Invalid
Assuming the LPAR of powered-off
hmc14:~> chsyscfg -r lpar -m P8-S822-lime -i "name=vm258376eef6-0000001b,simplified_remote_restart_capable=1"
nag@hmc14:~>
Note: the double quotes
Quick example Partition Availability Priority
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HMC Classic view

Used to decide on victim LPAR(s)
If HW failures means something has to go!
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Set Simplifed Remote Restart for next Deploy
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Now SRR enabled
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If VM Shutoff:
Enabled
State: Invalid
Once started
Enabled
State:restartable
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Test
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Crash the Server

HMC Server Power-Off and
ignore the Warning about VM are running
Yank the power out not recommended
PowerVC will kick in

In order of LPAR priority
Move the VMs to other Servers in the Host group
You can select VM not to be saved (test dev, temp VM)
You can select Host not to be saved (not in production)
Start Demo Here
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Gotchas
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Dead S822 lime

20 CPU & 128 GB RAM
Alive S824 emerald
16 CPU & 256 GB RAM
Alive S850 ruby
32 CPU & 512 GB RAM
All SRR failed!!
Not enough CPU!
Lime 20 CPU 14 Available = 6 Used

Discount the VIOS
VMs = 4
VIOS = 2
But I just shutdown

half the VMs !!!
Gotchas
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We have a remote HMC script that does this in 15 seconds

# nuke P8-E850-ruby
# nuke P8-S824-emerald
Something to watch
We nuke the machines every week.
If you have a machine down and Automated SRR fails
even with 100s of unused CPU unused it would be #@&^$ frustrating!
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Gotchas
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Why?
Shutdown LPARs cling on to the CPUs they last used
This is deliberate
Ensures not unexpected performance effects on restart
In this case = very annoying!!!
Solution:
Make a massive LPAR start to SMS, halt it & remove it
then we have unused CPUs are CPUs available
In Clouds: you LPM or Remove the VM = freed up CPU

Only happens on hand managed VMs and keep shutdown VMs &
keep them hanging about = old school
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Also once you set SRR flag on every LPAR

then expect issues when you next start the LPARs
SRR implies the VM must be LPM ready
so no physical adapters and nor virtual optical
I also get warnings when

starting VMs about
configuration data needed by
remote restart data is
not updated
= just start the LPAR a 2nd time
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Remember with HMC860
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No need to stop the LPAR

= Dynamic SRR capable flag change
But double check that:
remote_restart_status = Remote Restartable
Notes:
simplified_remote_restart_capable is not just a flag
To rebuild a LPAR, configuration info needs to be
regularly extracted from the VIOS(s) by the HMC
With HMC 840/850 this process was initialised
only when starting a SSR capable LPAR
Beta Code Demo!!!
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Power-Off S824 lime
Wait ~ 5 minutes
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Beta Code - Demo . . .
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Initially
~ 5 minutes
HMC vm25 moved to ruby
Then vm61 moved to ruby
Then vm25 running
Etc Beta Code = about 15 minutes
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All VM(s) on ruby
Lime is off line
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Inject an SSH key on Deploy

on regular Deploy
(not Cloudy Self-Service Deploy)
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IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager 1.3.2 Beta Demonstration Subject to Change
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Alternative way to this Key Pairs panel
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DRO
Dynamic Resource Optimizer
for Memory if using NovaLink
Moving VMs to balance the RAM across the cluster
. . . but YOU need add RAM to the VM to improve
performance.
So really balancing the free RAM
Dynamic Resource
Optimizer (DRO)
Memory
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Host Group
Select one
Edit
Only if NovaLink
Managed
More below here
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DRO for RAM
NovaLink
Moving VMs to balance the RAM across the cluster

. . . but YOU need add RAM to the VM
to improve performance.
So really balancing the free RAM so you can tune
by growing the hot VM RAM size!
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Add text when working

with VM Cloudy Deploy
Requests
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As a self_service user
for Cloud project seven
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Only one sample Template for POWER7 hosts
Demo if time allows
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New message to
any Project
seven admin
As a admin user
New Request to
seven admin
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As a admin user
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Click on the Deploy
As a admin user
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Click on the Deploy
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Click on the Deploy
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Metering of VM Use
Starter Pack
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Video from PowerVC 1.3.1 still useful

PowerVC131 Cloud Edition part 5 Metering
Minutes 16 long
AIXpert Blog article + download for worked example scripts

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/aixpert/entry/Pow
erVC_1_3_1_Cloud_Edition_Metering_via_REST_API?lang=en_us
PowerVC 1.3.2
No additional metering stats or
Extraction methods (REST API) or
Graphing tools
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User Metering via REST API
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Sort of remotely login to PowerVC as a website

curl -s -k -1 -i -X POST https://localhost:5000/v3/auth/tokens \
-H "Accept: application/json -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d @out.auth.json
(file contains user/password/project)
Returns a TOKEN to use for the below GET data requests
Get a meter value, here Entitlement (called total_vcpu)

curl -s -1 -k -H "X-Auth-Token:$TOKEN" \
-X GET "http://localhost:8777/v2/meters/total_vcpu/statistics
Similar for total_memory (RAM MB) and total_volumes (Diskspace GB)
Get the Ceilometer to do some of the work

curl -s -1 -k -H "X-Auth-Token:$TOKEN" \
-X GET "http://localhost:8777/v2/meters/total_vcpu/statistics \
?q.field=timestamp&q.op=gt&q.value=$TIMESTAMP
&period=86400
&aggregate.func=max
&q.field=project_id&q.value=$PROJECTID"
Timestamp
Data
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Want to do want for Billing a project?
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Spreadsheet comma separated values (CVS)

Stats for each day
For each project in PowerVC
CPU configured for all VMs in Entitlement
Memory configured for all VMs in MB
Disk volume configured in for all VMs in GB
Factor in the costs of each CPU,RAM MB, Disk GB

and a so calculated total costs
Project,eight
User,powervc
Date,Tue Aug 2 19:46:28 BST 2016
CPU Costs,12.50, per CPU per day (CPU Entitlement)
Memory Costs,0.01, per MB of memory per day
Disk Costs,0.50, per GB of disk space per day
VCPU Costs (actually Entitled Capacity)
Date,vCPU,UnitPrice,Price
. . .
2016-08-01,10.00,12.50,125.00
2016-08-02,20.50,12.50,256.25
2016-08-03,35.00,12.50,437.50
RAM Costs in Megabytes
Date,MB,UnitPrice,Price
. . .
2016-08-01,10000.00,0.01,100.00
2016-08-02,17560.00,0.01,175.60
2016-08-03,22118.00,0.01,221.18
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CSV
Spreadsheet
Example
DISK Costs in Gigabytes

Date,GB,UnitPrice,Price
. . .
2016-08-01,750.00,0.50,376.00
2016-08-02,900.50,0.50,450.25
2016-08-03,1121.00,0.50,560.50
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Are you keeping up to date?
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mr_nmon on twitter
Only used to POWER / AIX
technical content, hints, tips and links
131 techie hands-on videos on YouTube at

http://www.youtube.com/nigelargriffiths
AIXpert Blog
Lots of mini articles & thoughts
http://tinyurl.com/AIXpert
Also:
http://tinyurl.com/ibmAIXVUG
http://tinyurl.com/ibmPowerVUG
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October 24, 2016

London Technical University 2016

Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

October 24, 2016

Easy management of Power based on Openstack PowerVC 5 mins 4500

Lots of interest but now OLD

YouTube search: PowerVC Nigel Griffiths

1. PowerVM VUG Session:52

Lots of background & what I

2. 2016 PowerVC 1.3.1 Update Series Minutes - Views

PowerVC 131 Standard Edition part 1

PowerVC 131 Standard Edition part 2 - Projects & Roles 16 - 331

PowerVC 131 Cloud Edition part 3 - Cloud Self-Service

PowerVC 131 Cloud Edition part 4 - Cloud Demo

PowerVC131 Cloud Edition part 5 Metering

Total 91 minutes - 1525 views

YouTube search: PowerVC Nigel Griffiths

Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

October 24, 2016

Available June 2016 Covered in my

PowerVC at London Technical University

PowerVC Admin of Cloud Overview with Live Demo

Thierry Huch LAB

Manoj Kumar, Petra Buehrer

Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

October 24, 2016

October 2016 IBM Announcement

PowerVC V1.3.2 includes support for the following:

Automated VM remote restart

VM remote restart when system is powered off (FSP is down)

enables faster recovery from server failures

New Storage Capabilities

Improved zoning control (initiator zoning)

allows clients to have fewer zones

Dynamic Resource Optimizer (DRO) Improvements

Balances workload based on memory usage

allow memory-constrained environments to be

PowerVM NovaLink Management Improvements

SR-IOV via vNIC and vNIC failover configurations

PowerVM Shared Storage Pools (SSPs)

Software Defined Networking (SDN) Tech Preview

uses Open vSwitch (OVS) and Neutron for

Available 12th Dec 2016

PowerVC V1.3.2 Summary for Techies

Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

October 24, 2016

PowerVC 1.3.2 Highlights

Automatically Remote Restart of virtual machines (POWER8)

d. NovaLink running on RHEL

9. Technical preview: Software Defined Networking

PowerVC 1.3.2 Demonstration

This is early Beta test code

Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

October 24, 2016

PowerVC 1.3.2 Demonstration

Automatically Remote Restart of virtual machines (POWER8)

d. NovaLink running on RHEL

9. Technical preview: Software Defined Networking

Copyright IBM Corporation 2011

October 24, 2016

Simplifed Remote Restart

1. Machine crash | halt | power-off

SRR v2 with HMC 8.5.0 May 2016