Particularities of each of the models for the IBM Power Servers, specially for the IBM i, and their use cases. The tools you can use to perform capacity planning and what you need to consider. Licensing and the opportunities to save by gowing to a lower P-Group. When you can and can't transfer licenses.Things to consider when doing a ROI analysis. The opportunities for workload consolidation, having different Operating Systems on the same Frame, for saving on Hardware whilst imrpoving availability by using virtualization.
Learning Objectives: 1.- Know what IBM Power Server fits their needs. 2.- Know licensing particularities for the IBM 3.- Understand the opportunities to consolidate workloads, reduce costs and improve availability by using virtualization.
Audience Decision makers, Solution Architects, System Administrators planning for a future hardware upgrade or dealing with a workload increase or consolidation plans.