IBM Redbooks Linux

- Understand and apply different programming models and strategies
- Make the most of SDK 3.0 debug and performance tools
- Use practical code development and porting examples

In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we provide an introduction to the Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.™ ) platform.

- An introduction to z/VM and Linux to z/OS programmers
- Migrate z/OS to a z/VM guest system
- Install and manage Linux on System z

This IBM® Redbooks® publication discusses z/VM® and Linux® operations from a z/OS® programmer or system programmer's perspective.

- IBM InfoSphere Information Server grid deployment overview
- Migrate an existing IBM InfoSphere Information Server
- Grid deployment toolkits

The IBM InfoSphere Information Server and the IBM Blade/GRID offering is a revolutionary new software/hardware platform (leveraging Linux on Intel) that helps organizations derive more value from the complex heterogeneous information spread across their systems.

- Architecting SAP NetWeaver for High Availability
- Building a LifeKeeper cluster on Linux
- Failover scenarios, administration and troubleshooting

Business processes based on the SAP® NetWeaver® platform often require a high level of availability and fault tolerance.

- Learn a Linux on System z problem determination methodology
- Discover problem determination tools for z/VM and Linux on System z
- Do a case study using what you learn here

This IBM Redbooks publication addresses some of the common problems that customers have experienced on the Linux® on System z™ platform.

- Runs x86 Linux binaries without porting
- Allows you to consolidate x86 and System p servers
- Provides greater access to software solutions from ISVs

IBM® PowerVM™ Lx86 brings new benefits to customers and application providers who want the reliability and flexibility of System p™ in their Linux® environment yet use applications that have not yet been ported to the platform.

- Setting up VM and Linux for Oracle Database 10gR2
- Setting up an environment for Data Guard
- Setting up multiple Linux guests for Oracle

Linux on System z offers many advantages to customers who rely upon the IBM mainframe systems to run their businesses.

- Understanding Linux performance on System z
- z/VM performance concepts
- Tuning z/VM Linux guests

In this IBM Redbooks publication we examine performance measurement and tuning for running Linux as a z/VM guest on an IBM System z z9 machine with a focus on the SLES 10 2.6 kernel and z/VM 5.3.

- Use System p virtualization capabilities with Linux
- Plan, configure, and install Linux infrastructure services
- Create and manage a Linux operating system-based server environment

This book positions the capabilities of IBM® System p™ to virtualize Linux® infrastructure services for server consolidation using Advanced POWER™ Virtualization features.

- See the IBM Blue Gene solution overview
- Learn to install and configure a Blue Gene environment
- Take advantage of code scripts for plug-ins

The larger a data center grows, the more monitoring it requires.

- FCP concepts
- FCP multipathing
- N_Port virtualization

This IBM® Redbooks® publication builds upon the existing Linux for zSeriesLinux on zSeries: Fibre Channel Protocol Implementation Guide, SG24-6344, to produce a System z™ book that includes (among other things): - A general introduction to Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) concepts - Operating system support and usage - FCP naming and addressing - FCP devices in the 2.6 Linux® kernel - N-Port ID Virtualization - FCP Security topics

- Mission critical solution methodology
- Highly reliable IBM System p hardware
- Highly available Linux deployments

This IBM Redbooks publication gives you the information you need to help you run mission critical applications in an IBM System p environment.

- Learn HADR setup, administration, monitoring, and best practices
- Use HACMP, MSCS, TSA with DB2 and DB2 HADR
- Quick start with DB2 DPF

As organizations strive to do more with less, IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows provides various built-in high availability features.

- Learn how to size and design a scalable Business Continuity solution
- Learn when to use Global Mirror, Metro Mirror, and Flash Copy
- Learn Business Continuity solutions with the SVC

This IBM Redbooks publication gives a broad understanding of how you can use the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) as the foundation for IT Business Continuity in your enterprise.

- Differentiating database partitioning, table partitioning, and MDC
- Examining implementation examples
- Discussing best practices

As organizations strive to do more with less, DB2 Enterprise Server Edition V9 for Linux, Unix, and Windows contains innovative features for delivering information on demand and scaling databases to new levels.

- Step-by-step guide to migrating from Oracle to DB2 9.1
- Conversion examples - including XML
- Step-by-step guide to MTK tool usage

IBM DB2 has long been known for its technology leadership.

This Technote provides information that is necessary to complete the installation of Oracle 10.2.0.2 and 10.2.0.3 on SLES10.

- Operating system tuning methods
- Performance monitoring tools
- Performance analysis

Over the past few years, Linux has made its way into the data centers of many corporations all over the globe.

- Linux kernel tuning
- DB2, WebSphere, and Oracle tuning
- SystemTap examples

This IBM Redbooks publication describes what you can do to improve and maximize the performance of your business server applications running on System p hardware with the Linux operating system.

- Configuring NIM - illustrated
- Sample best practices
- NIM case scenarios

This IBM Redbooks publication will help the AIX 5L technical community, and in particular system administrators who are well versed in the concepts and terminology of the AIX Operating System, to understand the benefits of implementing a Network Installation Manager (NIM) environment in their data center.