PowerVC

Hello there.

I am in a process of scoping a setup for PowerVC (Latest Version) and l am looking for some ideas/best practices. The main points are

1. To deploy PowerVC in an existing environment which currently HMC managed
2. Deploy PowerVC with HMC, no Nova!
3. Number of managed systems (Hosts) Less then 10, from Power 10, 9 and 8s
4. Number of VMs less then 100
5. IBM Storage, mostly storwize
6. Mix of SAN Fabrics (Cisco and Brocades)

My main question: I would also like to understand the redundancy components of PowerVC, most documents cover a single instance of PowerVC with backup and restore. What's the best way of having it highly available?

Warm Regards,

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sc

Hi,

PowerVC since version 2.0.2  release support for three-node architecture, the multi-node deployment provide HA solution.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/powervc/2.1.1?topic=powervc-high-availability-scale-architecture

This deployment provides a solution such that most of the services run in Active-Active mode that is monitored by Pacemaker.

The PowerVC HA deployment is accessible through a virtual IP address (VIP) that internally routes the request to one of the three PowerVC management nodes.

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Thierry Huché
Power Systems Brand Technical Specialist
IBM France
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Original Message:
Sent: Mon October 02, 2023 10:48 PM
From: Sasi Chand
Subject: PowerVC - Brand New Installation and Setup

Hello there.

I am in a process of scoping a setup for PowerVC (Latest Version) and l am looking for some ideas/best practices. The main points are

1. To deploy PowerVC in an existing environment which currently HMC managed
2. Deploy PowerVC with HMC, no Nova!
3. Number of managed systems (Hosts) Less then 10, from Power 10, 9 and 8s
4. Number of VMs less then 100
5. IBM Storage, mostly storwize
6. Mix of SAN Fabrics (Cisco and Brocades)

My main question: I would also like to understand the redundancy components of PowerVC, most documents cover a single instance of PowerVC with backup and restore. What's the best way of having it highly available?

Warm Regards,

--

sc

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[Sasi] [Chand] [Mr]
[Snr Engineer]
[Auckland] [Wellington]
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Thanks Thierry,

Appreciate your feedback. 

How does the licensing work with HA? E.g., PowerVC for Private Cloud if we were to deploy a 2 or 3 node solution, please?

Regards,

Sasi

Original Message:
Sent: Tue October 03, 2023 02:38 AM
From: Thierry Huche
Subject: PowerVC - Brand New Installation and Setup

Hi,

PowerVC since version 2.0.2  release support for three-node architecture, the multi-node deployment provide HA solution.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/powervc/2.1.1?topic=powervc-high-availability-scale-architecture

This deployment provides a solution such that most of the services run in Active-Active mode that is monitored by Pacemaker.

The PowerVC HA deployment is accessible through a virtual IP address (VIP) that internally routes the request to one of the three PowerVC management nodes.

------------------------------
-----------------------------------
Thierry Huché
Power Systems Brand Technical Specialist
IBM France

Original Message:
Sent: Mon October 02, 2023 10:48 PM
From: Sasi Chand
Subject: PowerVC - Brand New Installation and Setup

Hello there.

I am in a process of scoping a setup for PowerVC (Latest Version) and l am looking for some ideas/best practices. The main points are

1. To deploy PowerVC in an existing environment which currently HMC managed
2. Deploy PowerVC with HMC, no Nova!
3. Number of managed systems (Hosts) Less then 10, from Power 10, 9 and 8s
4. Number of VMs less then 100
5. IBM Storage, mostly storwize
6. Mix of SAN Fabrics (Cisco and Brocades)

My main question: I would also like to understand the redundancy components of PowerVC, most documents cover a single instance of PowerVC with backup and restore. What's the best way of having it highly available?

Warm Regards,

--

sc

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[Sasi] [Chand] [Mr]
[Snr Engineer]
[Auckland] [Wellington]
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Hi,

To deploy PowerVC in a 3 nodes configuration, you need a High Availability Red Hat subscription.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/powervc/2.1.1?topic=center-installing-power-virtualization-from-download

Installing PowerVC

1. Configure these repositories for RHEL.