COMMON POWERUp 2024

Learn the fundamental, options and best practices for running your IBMi workloads on Power Virtual Server.  In this session we will talk about how to get started, best practices, lessons learned while getting started on a hybrid and multi-cloud journey- all while reducing risk and realizing immediate and significant ROI efficiencies.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about IBMi on PowerVS Solutions
2. Learn about the ideal workloads and the ROI
3. Understand the solutioning and all steps required

We will look at the IO offering portfolio including ethernet, fibre channel, NVMe, storage and IO expansion. We will highlight the latest updates and interesting capabilities along the way.

When virtualizing IBM POWER Systems you have two primary choices for the hosting environment, VIOS and IBM i. Each of these offers strengths and each has weaknesses. In this session we'll go over more than 35 comparison points putting the two hosting choices side by side. Well cover technical capabilities as well as usability and visual items. We'll look at costs and requirements for each host.

Come and select your choice for a hosting partition or confirm that you've gone down the right track.

Learning Objectives:
What requirements would lead you to select VIOS as your hosting environment
What requirements would lead you to select IBM i as your hosting environment
What are the costs or need-to-knows for each of the two hosts.

in this session we are going to find out how IBM Power Virtual Server can help you to accomplish your Disaster Recovery and also your Cyber Resilience goals.

Also the reason for PowerVS as a DR environment will be discussed.

Learning Objectives:
-Understand how to set up a secure environment in IBM Power Virtual Server
-Compare on premise security to IBM Power Virtual Server security.
-How can IBM Power Virtual Server help you around Cyber Resiliency.

Join us as we enhance your Journey to the Cloud. PowerVS, is an enterprise solution that will allow you to deploy your Power IBM i Development, Disaster Recovery, High Availability and Production workloads into the IBM Public Cloud. We will discuss topics to take into consideration when creating your Roadmap for a successful migration to a robust and secure PowerVS solution.

Your traveling agents are Tonny Bastiaans WW offering manager PowerVS at IBM and David Contreras, IBMI i Power Specialist at Meridian

Learning Objectives:
1. Introduction/learning about IBM PowerVS.
2. Considerations when migrating to the Cloud.
3. Understanding how to plan to their Journey to the Cloud.
4. Slides will reflect some topics covering analysis and design when migrating.
5. Backup and Restore in the cloud will not have a tape drive, what now? Talk about solutions they will need to consider filling this gap.

IBM Power Virtual Server (PowerVS) provides a simple and straightforward solution for infrastructure modernization, while delivering the benefits of a hybrid cloud architecture. It provides a seamless and fast cloud transition for IBM Power workloads since there is no need to change architectures. A customer has access to additional application and data services as well as high availability and disaster recovery. Leading businesses worldwide use IBM Power Virtual Server for their production operations, so attend this session to hear the latest and greatest about IBM PowerVS for an IBM i customer.