Index_P

P

partitioning, 25–27, 50, 56–57, 58

partner for migrating to pSeries, 46–47

PDAs (personal digital assistants), 57

performance

improvements, server consolidation (Toyota Australia), 63

leadership, IBM eServer strategy, 11–12

migrating to pSeries, 52–54

performance management for AIX (PM/AIX), 24–25, 54

personal digital assistants (PDAs), 57

PM/AIX (performance management for AIX), 24–25, 54

POWER4/POWER4+ chips, 13, 18–20, 53

pre-packaged application programs, 29–30, 54–55

price vs. performance, 11–12, 58

PricewaterhouseCoopers, 66

"processor days," 24

proprietary environment traps, 48–50

pSeries (evolved from RS/6000), 17–44. See also e-business; help with e-business plan; IBM TotalStorage; migrating to pSeries; pSeries model specifics; server consolidation (Toyota Australia); software

active processors (start-up processors), 23

autonomic computing strategy, 5, 21, 51–52

backup and recovery, 26

Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD), 21, 22–25, 50, 53

copper wiring innovation, 13, 19

cost reduction, 25–26

density packaging technology, 19

disk storage, 24, 41, 54

Dynamic Logical Partitioning (LPAR), 25–27, 50, 56–57, 58

dynamic processor deallocation, 21–22, 52

environments, 9, 17–18

high-performance computing (HPC), 9, 17

inactive standby processors, 23

local area network (LAN) and, 18

logical partitioning (LPAR), 25–27, 50, 56–57, 58

memory, 24, 52

More on the Web, 19, 24, 27

On/Off Capacity on Demand, 23, 24

overview of, 3, 9

performance management for AIX (PM/AIX), 24–25, 54

POWER4/POWER4+ chips, 13, 18–20, 53

"processor days," 24

reduced instruction set computing (RISC), 18–19

reliability, 26

self-healing function, 21–22

server consolidation, 25–26, 27

silicon-on-insulator (SOI) chips, 13, 19

symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), 20–22

system management, 25, 26

"test" partition, 26

traditional commercial application environment, 9, 17–18

users, sets of independent, 25, 29, 31

workloads, consolidating, 25–26

pSeries model specifics, 35–40

Cluster 1600 configurations, 35, 39, 53

entry models, 35–36, 37

high-end models, 35, 36, 39, 40

midrange models, 35, 36, 38

Model 610, 35, 37

Model 615, 35–36, 37

Model 620, 37

Model 630, 37

Model 640, 37

Model 650, 36, 38, 53

Model 655, 38

Model 660, 38

Model 670, 38

Model 690, 36, 39, 40, 53, 62

More on the Web, 39

publishing information, 6, 7