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Overview of IBM PureSystems

During the last 100 years, information technology has moved from a specialized tool to a pervasive
influence on nearly every aspect of life. From tabulating machines that simply counted with mechanical
switches or vacuum tubes to the first programmable computers, IBM has been a part of this growth,
while always helping customers to solve problems.

IT is a constant part of business and of our lives. IBM expertise in delivering IT solutions has helped the
planet become smarter. As organizational leaders seek to extract more real value from their data,
business processes, and other key investments, IT is moving to the strategic center of business.

To meet those business demands, IBM is introducing a new category of system--systems that combine
the flexibility of general-purpose systems, the elasticity of cloud computing, and the simplicity of an
appliance that is tuned to the workload. Expert integrated systems are essentially the building blocks of
capability. This new category of systems represents the collective knowledge of thousands of
deployments, established best practices, innovative thinking, IT leadership, and distilled expertise.

The IBM PureSystems offerings are designed to deliver value in the following ways:

Built-in expertise helps you to address complex business and operational tasks automatically.
Integration by design helps you to tune systems for optimal performance and efficiency.
Simplified experience, from design to purchase to maintenance, creates efficiencies quickly.

The IBM PureSystems offering are optimized for performance and virtualized for efficiency. These
systems offer a no-compromise design with system-level upgradeability. IBM PureSystems is built for
cloud, containing built-in flexibility and simplicity.

At IBM, expert integrated systems come in three types:

IBM PureFlex System: Infrastructure systems deeply integrate the IT elements and expertise of your
system infrastructure.
IBM PureApplication System: Platform systems include middleware and expertise for deploying and
managing your application platforms
IBM PureData System. Systems designed for Big Data and analytics that are optimized for
transaction processing, reporting analytics and operational analytics environments.

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IBM PureFlex System
To meet todays complex and ever-changing business demands, you need a solid foundation of server,
storage, networking, and software resources that are simple to deploy and hat can quickly and
automatically adapt to changing conditions. You also need access to, and the ability to take advantage of,
broad expertise and proven best practices in systems management, applications, hardware maintenance,
and more.

IBM PureFlex System is a comprehensive infrastructure system that provides an expert integrated
computing system, combining servers, enterprise storage, networking, virtualization, and management
into a single structure. Its built-in expertise enables organizations to simply manage and flexibly deploy
integrated patterns of virtual and hardware resources through unified management. These systems are
ideally suited for customers interested in a system that delivers the simplicity of an integrated solution but
who also want control over tuning middleware and the run-time environment.

IBM PureFlex System recommends workload placement based on virtual machine compatibility and
resource availability. Using built-in virtualization across servers, storage, and networking, the
infrastructure system enables automated scaling of resources and true workload mobility.

IBM PureFlex System undergoes significant testing and experimentation, so it can mitigate IT complexity
without compromising the flexibility to tune systems to the tasks that businesses demand. By providing
both flexibility and simplicity, IBM PureFlex System can provide extraordinary levels of IT control,
efficiency, and operating agility that enable businesses to rapidly deploy IT services at a reduced cost.
Moreover, the system is built on decades of expertise, enabling deep integration and central management
of the comprehensive, open-choice infrastructure system and dramatically cutting down on the skills and
training required for managing and deploying the system.

IBM PureFlex System combines advanced IBM hardware and software along with patterns of expertise
and integrates them into three optimized configurations that are simple to acquire and deploy so you get
fast time to value for your solution.

The three PureFlex System configurations are:

IBM PureFlex System Express: Designed for small and medium businesses. The most affordable
entry point for PureFlex System.
IBM PureFlex System Standard: Optimized for application servers with supporting storage and
networking, and is designed to support your key ISV solutions.
IBM PureFlex System Enterprise: Optimized for transactional and database systems and has built-in
redundancy for highly reliable and resilient operation to support your most critical workloads.

These are summarized in the following table.

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Table 1. IBM PureFlex System
Component IBM PureFlex System IBM PureFlex System IBM PureFlex System
Express Standard Enterprise

IBM PureFlex System 1 1 1

42U Rack

IBM Flex System 1 1 1

Enterprise Chassis

IBM Flex System Fabric 1 1 2 with both port-count

EN4093 10Gb Scalable upgrades
Switch

IBM Flex System 1 2 2

FC3171 8Gb SAN
Switch, or
IBM Flex System
FC5022 24-port 16Gb
ESB SAN Scalable
Switch

IBM Flex System 1 1 1

Manager Node

IBM Flex System IBM Flex System IBM Flex System Manager Flex System Manager
Manager software Manager with 1-year Advanced with 3-year service Advanced with 3-year
license service and support and support service and support

Chassis Management 2 2 2
Module

Chassis power supplies 2/6 4/6 6/6

(std/max)

Chassis 80 mm fan 4/8 6/8 8/8

modules (std/max)

IBM Flex System V7000 Yes (redundant Yes (redundant controller) Yes (redundant controller)
Storage Node, or controller)
IBM Storwize V7000
Disk System

IBM Storwize V7000 Base with 1-year Base with 3-year software Base with 3-year software
Software software maintenance maintenance agreement maintenance agreement
agreement Optional Real Time Optional Real Time
Optional Real Time Compression Compression
Compression

The fundamental building block of IBM PureFlex System solutions is the IBM Flex System Enterprise
Chassis complete with compute nodes, networking, and storage.

For more details about IBM PureFlex System, see the IBM Redbooks publication IBM PureFlex System
Products & Technology, SG24-7984, available here:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247984.html?Open

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IBM PureApplication System
IBM PureApplication System is a platform system that pre-integrates a full application platform set of
middleware and expertise in with the IBM PureFlex System with a single management console. It is a
workload-aware, flexible platform that is designed to be easy to deploy, customize, safeguard, and
manage in a traditional or private cloud environment, ultimately providing superior IT economics.

With the IBM PureApplication System, you can provision your own patterns of software, middleware, and
virtual system resources. You can provision these patterns within a unique framework that is shaped by IT
best practices and industry standardsstandards that have been culled from many years of IBM
experience with clients and from a deep understanding of smarter computing. These IT best practices and
standards are infused throughout the system.

With IBM PureApplication System:

IBM builds expertise into preintegrated deployment patterns, which can speed the development and
delivery of new services.
By automating key processes, such as application deployment, PureApplication System built-in
expertise capabilities can reduce the cost and time required to manage an infrastructure.
Built-in application optimization expertise reduces the number of unplanned outages through best
practices and automation of the manual processes identified as sources of those outages.
Administrators can use built-in application elasticity to scale up or to scale down automatically.
Systems can use data replication to increase availability.

Patterns of expertise can automatically balance, manage, and optimize the elements necessary, from the
underlying hardware resources up through the middleware and software. These patterns of expertise help
deliver and manage business processes, services, and applications by encapsulating best practices and
expertise into a repeatable and deployable form. This best-practice knowledge and expertise has been
gained from decades of optimizing the deployment and management of data centers, software
infrastructures, and applications around the world.

These patterns help you achieve the following types of value:

Agility: As you seek to innovate to bring products and services to market faster, you need fast
time-to-value. Expertise built into a solution can eliminate manual steps, automate delivery, and
support innovation.
Efficiency: To reduce costs and conserve valuable resources, you must get the most out of your
systems with energy efficiency, simple management, and a fast, automated response to problems.
With built-in expertise, you can optimize your critical business applications and get the most out of
your investments.
Increased simplicity: You need a less complex environment. Patterns of expertise can help you easily
consolidate diverse servers, storage, and applications onto an easier-to-manage, integrated system.
Control: With optimized patterns of expertise, you can accelerate cloud implementations to lower risk
by improving security and reducing human error.

IBM PureApplication System is available in three classes:

W1500-32 and W1500-64, using Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors, housed in a 25U rack
W1500-96 through to W1500-608, using Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors, housed in a 42U rack
W1700-96 through to W1700-608, using IBM POWER7+ processors, housed in a 42U rack

These configuration options enable clients to choose the size and compute power that meets needs for
application infrastructure. They can upgrade within class to the next size when their organization requires
more capacity, and in most cases, can do so without taking an application downtime.

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The following three table provides a high-level overview of the configurations.

Table 2. IBM PureApplication System W1500 configurations

IBM PureApplication W1500 IBM PureApplication System IBM PureApplication System
W1500-32 W1500-64
25U Rack 25U Rack

Cores (Intel Xeon processors) 32 64

RAM 0.5 TB 1.0 TB

SSD Storage 2.4 TB 2.4 TB

HDD Storage 24.0 TB 24.0 TB

Application Services Entitlement Included Included

Table 3. IBM PureApplication System W1500 configurations

IBM IBM IBM IBM PureApplication IBM PureApplication

PureApplication PureApplication PureApplication System W1500-384 System W1500-608
W1500 System W1500-96 System W1500-192 42U Rack 42U Rack
42U Rack 42U Rack

Cores (Intel Xeon 96 192 384 608

processors)

RAM 1.5 TB 3.1 TB 6.1 TB 9.7 TB

SSD Storage 6.4 TB 6.4 TB 6.4 TB 6.4 TB

HDD Storage 48.0 TB 48.0 TB 48.0 TB 48.0 TB

Application Included Included Included Included

Services
Entitlement

Table 4. IBM PureApplication System W1700 configurations

IBM IBM IBM PureApplication IBM PureApplication IBM PureApplication

PureApplication PureApplication System W1700-192 System W1700-384 System W1700-608
W1700 System W1700-96 42U Rack 42U Rack 42U Rack
42U Rack

Cores (IBM 96 192 384 608

POWER7+
processors)

RAM 1.5 TB 3.1 TB 6.1 TB 9.7 TB

SSD Storage 6.4 TB 6.4 TB 6.4 TB 6.4 TB

HDD Storage 48.0 TB 48.0 TB 48.0 TB 48.0 TB

Application Included Included Included Included

Services
Entitlement

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IBM PureData System
With the challenge of growing volume, velocity and variety of data used today in all aspects of the
business, using a multi-purpose systems for all data workloads is often not the most cost effective or low
risk approach, and definitely not the fastest to deploy.

PureData System is optimized exclusively for delivering data services to today's demanding applications.
Like IBM PureApplication System, it offers built-in expertise, integration by design, and a simplified
experience throughout its life cycle. Features include:

Built-in expertise
Data management best practices are provided for each workload. PureData System delivers
automated pattern-based deployment and management of highly reliable and scalable database
services.
Integration by design
Hardware, storage and software capabilities are designed and optimized for specific high
performance data workloads such as patented data filtering using programmable hardware for
ultrafast execution of analytic queries without the need for indices.
Simplified experience
The PureData System provides single part procurement with no assembly required (ready to load
data in hours), open integration with third-party software, integrated management console for the
entire system, single line of support, and integrated system upgrades and maintenance.

PureData System comes in different models that have been designed, integrated and optimized to deliver
data services to today's demanding applications with simplicity, speed and lower cost.

IBM PureData System is available in four offerings:

IBM PureData System for Transactions

IBM PureData System for Analytics
IBM PureData System for Operational Analytics
IBM PureData System for Hadoop

IBM PureData System for Transactions

PureData System for Transactions contains factory-integrated and optimized server, storage, network
and software resources selected specifically for online transactional processing (OLTP) workloads. The
hardware and software are designed, integrated and tuned to support high-volume transactional
processing applications with high scalability, high reliability and consistent response time with high
throughput.

The IBM PureData System is a perfect companion to the IBM PureApplication System. While both
systems provide data services, PureApplication System provides standard database availability and
performance. If an application requires higher levels of scalability and availability, PureApplication
System can automatically deploy the database to PureData System to meet higher levels of service. This
policy-driven, cross-system integration simplifies database management by placing databases on the
system best able to meet the applications needs.

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The following table shows the configurations available for PureData System for Transactions.

Table 5. PureData System for Transactions

Specifications Small Medium Large
(Quarter Rack) (Half Rack) (Full Rack)

IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis 1 1 2

IBM Flex System x240 Compute Nodes 6 12 24

Two Intel Xeon E5-2670 8C 2.6 GHz processors
One EN4132 2-Port 10Gb Adapter with RoCE support
One FC3172 2-port 8Gb FC Adapter

IBM System Networking RackSwitch G8264 2 2 2

48 ports SFP+, 4 ports QSFP+

Total cores 96 192 384

Total memory 1.5 TB 3.1 TB 6.2 TB

IBM Storwize V7000 Disk Units 1 2 4

IBM Storwize V7000 Disk expansion units 1 2 4

Unformatted HDD storage capacity (400 GB drives) 4.8 TB 9.6 TB 19.2 TB

Unformatted HDD storage Capacity (900 GB drives) 32TB 64 TB 128 TB

Power consumption 5.6 KW 9 KW 16.6 KW

Cooling 19,000 BTU/Hr 31,000 BTU/Hr 57,000 BTU/Hr

Weight 531 kg 636 kg 950 kg

For more information on IBM The PureData System for Analytics see this URL:
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/puresystems/us/en/pd_transactions.html

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IBM PureData System for Analytics

PureData System for Analytics, powered by Netezza technology, is a simple data appliance for serious
analytics. It simplifies and optimizes performance of data services for analytic applications, enabling very
complex algorithms to run in minutes not hours. This system is designed specifically for running complex
analytics on very large data volumes.

PureData System for Analytics delivers the proven performance, scalability, intelligence, and simplicity
aligned to business needs. It is a low cost option requiring minimal ongoing administration or tuning, for a
low total cost of ownership (TCO).

The following table shows the specifications of the PureData System for Analytics.

Table 6. PureData System for Analytics

Specifications Single rack systems Multi-rack systems

N10001-002 N1001-005 N1001-101 2 Racks 3+ Racks

Racks 1 1 1 2 3 - 10

Active S-Blades 4 7 14 28 # racks x 14

CPU cores 32 56 112 224 # racks x 112

FPGA cores 32 56 112 224 # racks x 112

User data 32 TB 64 TB 128 TB 256 TB # racks x 128 TB

Power/rack 2820 W 3960 W 7635 W 7400 W 7000 W

Cooling/rack (BTU/Hr) 9600 BTU/Hr 13,500 BTU/Hr 26,100 BTU/Hr 25,500 BTU/Hr 24,000 BTU/Hr

Weight/Rack 454 kg 590 kg 907 kg 907 kg 907 kg

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IBM PureData System for Operational Analytics

The PureData System for Operational Analytics is a data warehouse system for delivering insights to
business operations for real-time decision-making. It is optimized to handle complex analytics and
designed to handle large numbers of concurrent operational queries.

With in-database analytics, you run analytics on your data where it resides - in the warehouse. This
eliminates the time, cost and risk associated with copying data out of the warehouse to analyze it.

Using multidimensional cubing services, this PureData System delivers rapid insight into high volumes of
fast-moving data. Users can create, edit, import, export and deploy cube models over the relational
warehouse schema to analyze multiple business variables. Cubing services help optimize performance
for online analytical processing (OLAP) queries, providing more power for users to analyze data and
generate business insight, providing the potential to enhance both profitability and customer satisfaction

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The following table shows the specifications of the PureData System for Analytics.

Table 7. PureData System for Operational Analytics

Specification Extra Small Small Medium Large

Contains: Foundation Foundation rack + Foundation + Foundation +

rack 1/3 Rack 2/3 Rack full rack
1 1 foundation node 1 foundation 1 foundation
foundation 1 data node node node
module 2 data nodes 3 data nodes

Cores 32 64 80 96

Memory 256 GB 512 GB 640 GB 768 GB

SSD Storage 4.8 TB 9.6 TB 12 TB 14.4 TB

HDD unformatted storage 64.8 TB 151.2 TB 237.6 TB 324 TB

HDD RAID capacity 54 TB 126 TB 198 TB 270 TB

HDD user data 29.7 TB 69.3 TB 108.9 TB 148.5 TB

uncompressed

Primary servers 1 2 3 4

Standby servers 1 2 2 2

Uncompressed disk 3.2 GB/s 9.6 GB/s 16 GB/s 22.4 GB/s

bandwidth
3.2 GB/s for each
foundation node
6.4 GB/s for each data
node

Database disk performance 34K IOPS 57K IOPS 148K IOPS 205K IOPS

Data load rate - 1,161 GB/h 3,484 GB/h 5807 GB/h 8130 GB/h
Uncompressed

Data load rate - 890 GB/h 2,670 GB/h 4,450 GB/h 6,230 GB/h
Compressed

Database software and IBM Data Warehousing and analytics software entitlements included
tools

Processors and operating IBM POWER7 with AIX

system

Max power - foundation 6196 W 6196 W 6196 W 6196 W

rack

Max power - data rack Not applicable 4647 W 7551 W 10,454 W

Cooling - foundation rack 14160 BTU/h 14160 BTU/h 14160 BTU/h 14160 BTU/h

Cooling - data rack Not applicable 11601 BTU/h 19543 BTU/h 27467 BTU/h

Weight - foundation rack 658 Kg 658 Kg 658 Kg 658 Kg

Weight - data rack Not applicable 567 Kg 749 Kg 976 Kg

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IBM PureData System for Hadoop

The PureData System for Hadoop is a purpose-built, standards-based, expert integrated system that
architecturally integrates IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Hadoop-based software, server, and storage into a
single, easy-to-manage system that can accelerate time to value.

IBM PureData System for Hadoop combines IBM InfoSphere BigInsights and IBM System x hardware for
an integrated Hadoop system. It delivers enterprise Hadoop capabilities with easy-to-use analytic tools
and visualization for business analysts and data scientists. It includes rich developer tools, powerful
analytic functions, and exceptional administration and management capabilities, as well as the latest
versions of Hadoop and associated projects. In addition, IBM PureData System for Hadoop provides
extensive capabilities with enhanced big data tools for monitoring, development, and integration with
many more enterprise systems.

IBM PureData System for Hadoop:

Provides an exploratory environment for data analysts to help understand new and emerging data
sources
Provides a landing area for data from other sources, enabling aggregation, initial integration,
visualization, and exploration before data moves to other parts of the analytic ecosystem
Provides an integrated management console for the entire system
Provides built-in analytics and enterprise functionality, on top of Hadoop technology, to help meet big
data enterprise requirements
Integrates advanced hardware cluster management capabilities with IBM InfoSphere BigInsights
Incorporates integrated data archiving and transfer capabilities with connectivity to enterprise data
warehouse systems
Integrates with IBM DB2, IBM Netezza, IBM PureData System for Analytics, and IBM InfoSphere
Guardium

The following table shows the specifications of the PureData System for Hadoop

Table 8. PureData System for Hadoop

Specification 42U Rack

Management nodes (1 primary, 1 standby) 2 IBM System x3550 M4 servers with two 8-core Intel Xeon
processors at 2.4 GHz, 128 GB RAM, three 3 TB 3.5" drives

Data nodes 18 IBM System x3630 M4 severs with two 6-core Intel Xeon
processors at 2.2 GHz, 96 GB of RAM, 14x 3 TB 3.5" drives

Total processor cores 216 cores

Memory 96 GB per node, 1,728 GB total

Raw space 216 drives, 3 TB each. 648 TB total

User space 216 TB uncompressed / 864 TB compressed

Management switch 48 ports, each 1 Gb Ethernet

Rack switch 48 ports each 10 Gb Ethernet, 4 ports each 40 Gb Ethernet

Power requirements 9.6 kW

Cooling requirements 32,757 BTU/hr

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IBM Flex System: The building blocks

PureData System for Transactions, PureApplication and PureFlex system are based on the IBM Flex
System platform. IBM Flex System is designed for multiple generations of technology, supporting your
workload today while being ready for the future demands of your business.

Management

IBM Flex System Manager is designed to optimize the physical and virtual resources of the IBM Flex
System infrastructure while simplifying and automating repetitive tasks. From easy system setup
procedures with wizards and built-in expertise, to consolidated monitoring for all of your resources
(compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and energy), IBM Flex System Manager provides core
management functionality along with automation. It is an ideal solution that allows you to reduce
administrative expense and focus your efforts on business innovation.

From a single user interface you get:

Intelligent automation
Resource pooling
Improved resource utilization
Complete management integration
Simplified setup

Compute nodes

Taking advantage of the full capabilities of IBM POWER7 processors or Intel Xeon processors, the
compute nodes are designed to offer the performance that you need for your critical applications.
With support for a range of hypervisors, operating systems, and virtualization environments, the compute
nodes provide the foundation for:

Virtualization solutions
Database applications
Infrastructure support
Line of business applications

Storage

The storage capabilities of IBM Flex System give you advanced functionality with storage nodes in your
system, and take advantage of your existing storage infrastructure through advanced virtualization.

Storage is available either integrated within the chassis using the IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node
that integrates inside the Flex System Chassis, or externally using the IBM Storwize V7000.

IBM Flex System simplifies storage administration with a single user interface for all your storage with a
management console that is integrated with the comprehensive management system. These
management and storage capabilities allow you to virtualize third-party storage with non-disruptive
migration of the current storage infrastructure. You can also take advantage of intelligent tiering so you
can balance performance and cost for your storage needs. The solution also supports local and remote
replication and snapshots for flexible business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.

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Networking

The range of available adapters and switches to support key network protocols allow you to configure IBM
Flex System to fit in your infrastructure. However, you can do so without sacrificing being ready for the
future. The networking resources in IBM Flex System are standards-based, flexible, and fully integrated
into the system. This combination gives you no-compromise networking for your solution. Network
resources are virtualized and managed by workload. And these capabilities are automated and optimized
to make your network more reliable and simpler to manage.

IBM Flex Systems gives you these key networking capabilities:

Supports the networking infrastructure you have today, including Ethernet, Fibre Channel, FCoE, and
InfiniBand
Offers industry-leading performance with 1 Gb, 10 Gb, and 40 Gb Ethernet; 8 Gb and 16 Gb Fibre
Channel; and FDR InfiniBand
Provides pay-as-you-grow scalability so you can add ports and bandwidth when needed

Infrastructure

The IBM Flex System Enterprise Chassis is the foundation of the offering, supporting intelligent workload
deployment and management for maximum business agility. The 14-node, 10U chassis delivers
high-performance connectivity for your integrated compute, storage, networking, and management
resources. The chassis is designed to support multiple generations of technology and offers
independently scalable resource pools for higher utilization and lower cost per workload.

More information
For more information about IBM Flex System, see:

IBM PureSystems home page

http://ibm.com/puresystems

IBM Flex System Products & Technology, SG24-7984

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247984.html?Open

Product guides about the components of IBM Flex System

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/portals/puresystems?Open&page=pgbycat

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