Virtualization plays an important role in resource efficiency by optimizing performance, reducing costs, and improving business continuity. IBM PowerVM® provides a secure and scalable server virtualization environment for IBM AIX®, IBM® i, and Linux applications. PowerVM is built on the advanced reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features and leading performance of IBM Power servers.

This IBM Redbooks® publication introduces PowerVM virtualization technologies on Power servers. This publication targets clients who are new to Power servers and introduces the available capabilities of the PowerVM platform. This publication includes the following chapters:

This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world.

Turgut Genc is a Senior Consultant at IBM Technology Services (FKA Lab Services) in the UK. He holds an MSc degree in Computer Science Engineering from Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul. He is a versatilist with 19 years of experience on IBM Power server and AIX. Turgut is the Power to Cloud Rewards EMEA team leader for IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS), Enterprise Pools, Performance, Migration workshops, and Technology Services tools.

Ivaylo Bozhinov is a Technical Support Professional for the IBM Power hardware division in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is a subject matter expert (SME) with a focus on service processors, enterprise Baseboard Management Controller (eBMC), Flexible Service Processor (FSP), and PowerVM hypervisor (PHYP). Ivaylo joined IBM in 2015 and contributed to numerous educational and client-related workshops and presentations. He holds a bachelor's degree in Information Technology from the State University of Library and Information Technology and a master's degree in Cybersecurity from New Bulgarian University. He supports many clients from the banking and telecom industries and retail sector.

Muhammad Farrukh Mahmood is a Senior IT Managing Consultant in Pakistan. He works for IBM Technology Services Middle East and Pakistan. He has 19 years of experience, and for the last 12 years has been working for IBM Power server and IBM Storage Systems. His areas of expertise include AIX, system migration, storage data migration, PowerVM, BigFix, and AIX security. He supports many customers in the banking and the telecom sectors.

Ahmed Mashhour is a Power Technology Services Consultant Lead at IBM Egypt. He is an IBM L2 certified Expert. He holds IBM AIX, Linux, and IBM Tivoli® certifications. He has
17 years of professional experience in IBM AIX and Linux systems. He is an IBM AIX back-end SME who supports several customers in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. His core expertise is in IBM AIX, Linux systems, clustering management, AIX security, virtualization tools, and various IBM Tivoli and database products. He authored several publications inside and outside IBM, including co-authoring other IBM Redbooks publications. He also hosted IBM AIX, Security, PowerVM, IBM PowerHA®, and IBM Spectrum® Scale classes worldwide.

Ayman Mostafa is an IBM PowerVM and VIOS Software Engineer and a team leader for the IBM PowerVM Product Support team that is based in Cairo, Egypt. Ayman joined IBM in 2015 after earning a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Higher Institute of Engineering, El Shorouk Academy in 2007. Ayman's passion for virtualization and automation technologies led him to build a broad and deep knowledge of the key virtualization platform from IBM. Ayman is recognized as a technical leader by his team and IBM clients.

Vivek Shukla is a presales consultant for cloud, AI, and cognitive offerings in India, and he is an IBM  Certified L2 (Expert) Technical Specialist. He has over 20 years of IT experience in infrastructure consulting, AIX, and IBM Power servers and storage implementations. He also has hands-on experience with IBM Power servers, AIX and system software installations, request for proposal (RFP) understandings, statement of work (SOW) preparations, sizing, performance tuning, root cause analysis (RCA), disaster recovery (DR), and mitigation planning. He wrote several Power server FAQs and is a worldwide focal point for Techline FAQs Flash. He holds a master’s degree in Information Technology from IASE University and a bachelor's degree (BTech) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from IETE, New Delhi. His areas of expertise include Red Hat OpenShift, Cloud Paks, and hybrid cloud.

Prerna Upmanyu is a Software Performance Analyst in the Cognitive Systems Power Servers performance team in India. She holds an M.Tech degree in Software Systems from BITS Pilani. Prerna has over 15 years of experience working with customers designing and deploying solutions on IBM Power server. She focuses on areas such as Automation and Data Lakes-based design and deployments. Prerna’s areas of expertise include system performance, availability, and automation.

Special thanks to Turgut Genc for his unique contributions to this publication and the overall project. Turgut was the technical leader for this project. He provided technical guidance to the team throughout the entire writing and reviewing process.

Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:

Chris Engel, Austin Fowler, George Gaylord, Daniel Goldener, Chuck Graham, Pete Heyrman, Stuart Jacobs, Bob Kovacs, Dave Larson, Vani Ramagiri, Adrian Robinson,
Ken Vossen
IBM US

Hari Muralidharan
IBM India

Stuart Cunliffe and Richard Moult
IBM UK

Lars Johannesson
IBM Denmark

Elvis Metodiev and Dimitar Mitev
IBM Bulgaria

Mohamed Badr and Mohamed El-Tayeb
IBM Egypt

Martin Keen and Upendra Rajan
IBM Systems Technical Training

Marcela Adan and Wade Wallace
IBM Redbooks

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