IBM Power Systems Enterprise Cloud Edition

—————————————Petra Buehrer ( Petra.Buehrer@de.ibm.com )Offering Manager Power Systems SoftwareIBM Cognitive Systems

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Announce Oct 9th, 2018GA Nov 9th, 2018

IBM Cloud/ © 2018 IBM Corporation

Cloud has reset IT expectations

91% of public cloud adopters will use some degree of internal private cloud1

80% of businesses migrated some of their applications in public to private cloud or on-premises2

1 – Source: Forrester Data Global Business Technographics Infrastructure Survey, 2017. 2 – Source: IDC, Doc Name: Cloud Repatriation Accelerates in a Multicloud World, Doc #: US44185818, Pub Date: Aug 2018

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IBM POWER9 processor drives the world’s fastest supercomputers and is ready to accelerate your enterprise.

Scale Performance Affordably

IBM Power Systems ranks #1 in every major reliability category by ITIC and is an industry leader of Mid Range and High End Servers.

Proven Reliable

Instantly cloud enable any workload with IBM POWER9 based Power Systems and build a cloud designed for the most data intensive workloads.

Simplified Multicloud

IBM Power Systems have security built in at all layers, from Chip to the OS, and IBM tests all permutations of entire stack to deliver end to end security.

Delivered Secure

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Cloud Anywhere. On Premises, Hybrid or Multi-Cloud.

• Transform IT Infrastructure to an on premises private cloud

• Extreme simplicity with IBM / Nutanix HCI

• Heterogeneous cloud management

• IBM Cloud Private & Docker

• Enabled for Multi-cloud

Linux Clusters

Off-premCloud

Hyperconverged by Nutanix

Cloud-Ready Enterprise & Scale-Out

Cloud Manager

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Private

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Secure, Accelerated Live Mobility

Enterprise Cloud Edition

vRealizeOperations

NEW!

NEW!

NEW! NEW!

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Ø AIX Live Update leveraging LPMØ Trusted Boot / Trusted Install to assure no tampering of OS imagesØ Default SMT setting changed to SMT8 to provide the best out-of-the-box performance Ø 1536 threads / 32 TB in a single LPAR Ø New / updated AIX Toolbox packages such as PostgreSQL, Mongoc, R, Gcc-go, Json-c, …Ø Leverage njmon for modern performance stats tooling (~ 600 stats avail. f. AIX & VIOS)…

Power Systems AIX Highlights

Packages of AIX 7.2 Monthly Subscription Licenses in AAS / eConfigØ Using Term Licenses (one time charge)

Ø Based on AIX 7.2Ø Available on small & medium tierØ Serial-number entitledØ This offering incl. license and SWMA and needs no renewals

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New Back-up to the Cloud OptionNew Metrics that allow to track failover times and calculate recovery timeAutomated offline backup (SVC only) Policy-based incremental and full backupsSupport for one-site and multisite deployments

Every POWER9 based server workload is virtualized, mobile and fully cloud-enabled with PowerVMMobile workloads are compressed and encrypted for improved security and accelerationLive migration from POWER7, POWER8 to POWER9 based systems with Live Partition Mobility

Simplify Management o Security & Compliance across AIX and LoPImproved real-time Malware detectionEnhanced compliance automation with support for GDPR Scalability enhancements incl. REST APIsImproved Audit support (end-to-end) incl. a new interactive time-line

Export / Import capability to share images across data centers /cloudsIntegration with Spectrum Scale to support SAN-less CloudsOpenPower Support: Seamlessly manage AIX, IBM i and cloud native appl. with a single pane of glassSupport for IBM Cloud Private

Enhanced support covering AIX, Linux on Power, and the HMCAdditional factors in addition to RSA SecurID and certificate based smart cards were added - such as TOTP on your phone, Yubikey, Radius protocol, and more

VMR provides a simplified VM replication and restart solution Server, VM, and workload-level HA OS agnostic Co-location and anti-colo policy supportNon-discruptive DR rehearsalApplication monitoring agents for DB2, Oracle, and SAP HANA

Power Systems Software Highlights

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AIX Enterprise Edition- AIX Std- PowerVC Cloud- PowerSC- (DSO)

Linux

- Big Fix- ITM

PowerHA Linux

VM Recovery Mgr. DR

PowerHA AIX

PowerSC

HMC / vHMCPowerSCMFA

VM Recovery Mgr. HA

PowerVC

CMC

Aspera APM8

Supports AIX, Linux( & IBM i )AIXLinuxIBM i

AIX Enterprise Edition

IBM i

PowerHAfor i

PowerVC

VM Recovery Mgr. HA

VM Recovery Mgr. HA

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VMR HA

Single Enterprise Cloud Management PID for all OSes with focus on Cloud DeploymentsØ Expands client interest for bundle

to Linux / IBM iØ Bundles key offerings broadly

adopted and requested by clients facilitating cloud deployments (private, hybrid, multi-clouds)

Ø Allows for more licensing flexibility in terms of the OS in the era of cloud

Ø Simplified and more cost attractive purchasing model

Ø 2nd flavor of this bundle available which incl. AIX Std. Ed.

ICAM BaseMFASDI

pids: 5765-ECB5765-CBA

RFA: https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/6/897/ENUS218-006/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en

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Deploy and manage private clouds with

simplicity

PowerVC Cloud

Spectrum Scale

Cloud Management Console

PowerVC CloudSelf service infrastructure provisioning

SW defined solution for SAN less cloud

Single pane monitoring of all Power Systems infrastructure

AIX Enterprise EditionPower Systems Enterprise Cloud Edition

PowerSC Std. Ed.Simplify managing

Security and Compliance

Big Fix Lifecycle

PowerSC MFA

PowerSC Std. Ed.Security and Compliance management of cloud environments

Big Fix LifecycleDiscover, secure and manage endpoints on different OS versions

Raise the assurance levels with multi factor authentication

Simplified high availability VM Recovery Manager HA Simplified HA solution for cloud deployments

AsperaAccelerated file transfer in cloud

environmentsHigh Speed file exchange between private and public clouds

Cloud App Management Cloud-native infrastructure monitoring and analysis ITM6

AIX Std. Ed.OS

with AIX

Rapidly deploy Power Cloud Infrastructures with cost-effective Software Bundles pids: 5765-ECB

5765-CBA

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AIX 7.2 Std. Ed./

Why PowerVC?

• Simplified virtualization and cloud management for IBM® Power Systems

• Easily replicate virtual machines for consistency and fast deployment

• Self-service portal enabling easy provisioning of new workloads into a cloud

• Automated configuration of I/O resources enables mobility and highly available configurations

• Policy-based workload placement simplifies and automates administration

• Virtual image management, including virtual machine capture, deployment and catalog

Virtualization and Cloud management solution for IBM Power Systems

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Why Spectrum Scale?

• Consolidate storage across traditional file and new-era workloads

• Achieve new operational efficiency and cost effectiveness—deliver up to 10 times higher performance on the same hardware1

• Help lower the cost of data retention up to 90 percent through policy-driven automation2

• Enable collaboration and efficient sharing of resources among global, distributed teams

• Transparently tier to and from cloud object storage on-premises or in the cloud

• Enable SAN-less cloud deployments

Advanced storage management of unstructured data for cloud, big data, analytics, objects & more

Simplify Cloud Management

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Simplify Cloud Management

Standard Edition

built on

Key Features:1. Deploy VMs in minutes2. Full lifecycle management of VMs3. Automated VM recovery4. Single-click host evacuation5. Automated cloud optimization via DRO6. Multi-tenancy and resource isolation7. Software-defined networking8. OpenStack API enablement9. Upward integration for cloud managers

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Managerbuilt on

Key Features:1. Everything in PowerVC Standard

Edition !2. Self-service, single-click deployment for

cloud users and developers3. Policies and quota management to

govern how the private cloud operates4. Import/export VMs between Clouds5. DBaaS capability (Tech Preview)

Key Features:1. Everything in Cloud PowerVC

Manager !2. Software-defined storage/compute

Ø Enables SDI solutions such as SAN-less private clouds

Ø Integrates IBM Spectrum Scale (Data Management Edition 5.0)

IBM Cloud

Manager for SDIbuilt on

vRealize

Upward Integration with Cloud Orchestration and Container Management Solutions

LAMA

PowerVC - The ‘Face’ of Power Virtualization and Cloud

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PowerVC for SDI – Overview & possible Storage Configurations

Overview• Use Spectrum Scale on PowerVM (NovaLink) or

OpenPOWER KVM systems to virtualize storage I/O• Automated cluster creation and upgrade via PowerVC• Analytics based cluster optimizer simplifies Spectrum Scale

management

Includes:• IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager

Ø PowerVM and KVM on Power (OpenPOWER) Virtual Machine ManagementØ Software Defined Infrastructure (SDN and SDS)Ø Self Service PortalØ All of your standard PowerVC benefits

• Spectrum ScaleØ Entitlement for 2 TB of storage per socketØ Additional storage can be added as needed

Mix and match traditional PowerVM with SDI• Bring your own Hypervisor (PowerVM or KVM)

Supported ConfigurationsVirtual SAN across Local Disk (FPO over Ethernet)

Power NVME

SAS

SATA

PowerNVME

SAS

SATA

Virtual SAN on iSCSI (Ethernet Backed Storage)

Power PoweriSCSIiSCSI

iSCSI SAN- Ex. NetApp, 3PAR, XIV, SVC, etc…- Any array supported by Linux Host (ex. Ubuntu 16.04 ppc64le)

Virtual SAN on FC (Reuse existing FC Infrastructure)

Power PowerFCFC

Redundant across servers

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Why Cloud Mngt. Console?

• Gain insights on the performance, inventory, logging and patch status of Power Systems infrastructure

• Inventory systems including Power Systems, HMCs, VMs, OSes and virtual resources

• “At a glance views” with logical groupings show system health, energy usage and OS metrics

• Secure cloud-based services accessible from mobile devices, tablets and PCs

Single pane monitoring of all Power Systems infrastructure

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Cloud Management for Power Systems – SaaS and On-premCentral Power System SW UI launch point: Extend CMC to accomodate on-prem Power Systems Software

Ø Improves ease of use of Power Systems software - both on-prem and SaaS - with a single launch point

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Why Cloud App Management?

• Manage and monitor Kubernetes-orchestrated, cloud-native applications

• Allows to use ITM6 and APM8, which were its successors, as well

• Use embedded cognitive analytics to learn, predict and adjust your application environment before problems arise

• Accelerate innovation with continuous application monitoring and active problem resolution

Cloud-native application mngt. platform to ensure optimal application performance and availability

Simplify Cloud Management

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Why PowerSC Std. Ed.?

• Reduce admin cost and increase efficiencies with security and compliance automation

• Enhance detection of security exposures in cloud and virtualized environments in real-time

• Reduce time and skills required for preparation of security audits with compliance reports

• Reduce time and cost of deploying security industry standards with preconfigured profiles and a web-based profile editor

• Quickly view security status and compliance of an entire datacenter for AIX and Linux on Power

• Trusted Logging to make it tamper-proof

• Policy-based patching capabilities and more

Designed for Enterprise Security & Compliance in Cloud and Virtualized environments

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Why PowerSC MFA?

• Enforces users to log in with multiple authentication factors

• Supported MFA Factors - RSA SecurID Tokens, incl. hard / soft tokens - Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and Common Access Card (CAC),- TOTP (i.e. IBM / Google Verify) - fingerprint to be added soon- RADIUS protocol support (Generic, Gemalto SafeNet, and RSA SecurID )- Yubikey- LDAP

• Provides a centralized GUI where different factors for different user population can be administered and combined

• Allow extending the solution by adding new factors as they become available

• Unique solution providing in-band support in addition to out-of-band

Raise the assurance levels of mission-critical Power systems

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Why BigFix Lifecycle?Single solution to manage endpoint securityacross the organization• Manage hundreds of thousands of endpoints

regardless of location, connection type or status

• Employ an agent-based approach that delivers up-to-date visibility and automatically remediates issues

• Reduce management complexity and cost, increase accuracy, and boost productivity

Simplify Security & Compliance Management

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Why VM Recovery Manager HA?Increase availability of cloud deployments on IBM Power Systems• Provides Server, VM, and workload-level HA

• Easily manage HA for a large number of VMs – OS agnostic

• GUI for single pane monitoring and managing making it well suited for cloud deployments

• Reduce the cost of duplicate licenses needed in traditional HA set-ups

• Application monitoring agents for DB2, Oracle and SAP

Simplify High Availability Management

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Why Aspera high-speed Endpoint?High Speed large file transfers across cloud environments• Unrivaled aspera performance - content is sent at high

speed, regardless of file sizes, transfer distances or network conditions.

• Versatile yet easy-to-use software

• Precise bandwidth utilization control - Ability to adjust bandwidth utilization on the fly

• Bullet-proof security with Aspera’s enterprise-grade security features

• Remote management via aspera console

Accelerated File Transfer

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IBM Cloud/ © 2018 IBM Corporation

Rapidly deploy and easily manage private cloud

Simplify security and compliance management Simplify high availability

Accelerate large file transfers across clouds

Enterprise Cloud EditionSummary

Cost effective bundle of compelling Power Systems SW Offerings providing value in the following pillars

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Enterprise Cloud EditionEnterprise Cloud Edition with AIX

AIX Std. Ed 7.2 is included in this edition to enable easy upgrade from AIX Enterprise Edition

Making two Flavors of Enterprise Cloud Edition available

Simplified purchasing model, added value, broadened scope and allowing more licensing flexibility!

This edition does not have any OS included but it can be deployed on top of any OS on Power Systems, primarily benefitting AIX and Linux on Power for now

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The Role of AIX!

… important!

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AIX Strategy & Roadmap

2019 is end of service for POWER5, POWER6,

and POWER7 !

• AIX Std. Ed. continues to be marketed as is Ø perpetual and in form of AIX Monthly options

• AIX EE continues to be marketed as is for nowØ set of bundled products won’t be extended / changed

• AIX Cloud Edition (Enterprise Cloud Edition with AIX)Ø A 3rd option how to purchase AIX

– in this case in from of a compelling SW bundle Ø might supersede AIX EE at some point in time

AIX 5.3 End of Life April 2019AIX 6.1 (TL9) End of Service: 30 April 2017- Extended support until April 2020 (add. fee)

AIX 7.1 Service Pack Support- AIX 7.1 TL4 EoSPS– Dec 31, 2019- AIX 7.1 TL5 EoSPS – April 30, 2022

AIX 7.2 Service Pack Support- AIX 7.2 TL0 EoSPS – Dec 31, 2018- AIX 7.2 TL1 EoSPS – Nov 30, 2019- AIX 7.2 TL2 EoSPS – Oct 31, 2020

AIX Roadmap AIX Purchasing Options / Considerations

AIX EOS / EOL & Upgrade Considerations AIX Support Matrix

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Three Extremes from Social Media1. ‘So IBM finally admits AIX is dead’

2. ‘Now we have IBM's bid to kill off Linux by making it propriety’

3. ‘IBM will clearly merge AIX and RedHat and make a mess of both’

Our message always was and and will be ‘Pick and choose’!We have 3 OSes running on Power, two were developed in-house the 3rd one, which is Linux by the various distros Ø now we added a linux distro to our portfolio which

allows us to offer the complete portfolio, as well as for more flexible licensing scenarios for our clients

Red Hat is more than ‘just another OS’Ø evolved from an open source pioneer to

a driving force in hybrid cloud computing

”The merge" would take a 100 years of (legal) wrangling and we can't see that ever happening in out lifetime

& the Acquisition – my 2 Cents

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On the AIX Toolbox!Ø Master runs on Linux,

worker nodes can be AIXØ Underlying containers are AIX WPARs

instead of Docker containersØ AIX images are stored in the Docker repository

alongside Linux images and deployed the same way

AIX in the IBM Cloud for Skytap Solutions

AIX in the *** Cloud

AIX in the *** cloud

ICP / Cloud native apps Ø API access to workloads / data running on e.g. AIX

AIX & Kubernetes

AIX ModernizationAIX in the hyperconverged space

AIX / Enterprise Systems & AI

AIX in the Cloud

Further simplify the datacentre environment

AIX under PRISM - ”Just like other VM Guests”Ø AIX runs fully virtualized

on the Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor

Ability to connect to the Watson Data Platform and analyse your data!

Enable AI/Cognitive capabilities for data residing in Enterprise Systems

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I am happy to come back and talk to the one or other topic in more detail!

AIX Strategy & Roadmap

Recent AIX Enhancements

AIX Modernization

Power Systems Security

Power Systems SW Components (myself on PowerSC portfolio, my peers on the other ones)

….

Just let me or Joe know!

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Reference Links

Cloud Bundle RFAØ http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/6/897/ENUS218-

006/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en

Cloud Bundle Website / MarketplaceØ https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/power-enterprise-cloud-edition

Cloud Bundle Announcement BlogØ https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/deploy-and-manage-cloud-environments-with-new-software-bundles-on-

ibm-power-systems/

Cloud Bundle DatasheetØ https://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/0e/en/0eff0b38-c382-4d87-89e3-e4d6a319af92usen/0eff0b38-

c382-4d87-89e3-e4d6a319af92_32019832USEN.pdf

AIX & Power Systems SW Resources

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ICAMØ https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/app-management

BifFix LifecycleØ https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/bigfix-lifecycle

Aspera Endpoint Ø https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/aspera-point-to-point-client

Non-Power References

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AIX WebsiteØhttps://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power/os/aix

AIX Release OverviewsØhttp://ibm.biz/IBM_AIX721_overviewØhttp://ibm.biz/AIX_2017_TL_Releases

Power Systems Software WebsiteØhttps://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power/softwareØhttps://yourlearning.w3bmix.ibm.com/#activity/LDE-LTU66712

PowerVM WebsiteØhttps://www.ibm.com/de-en/marketplace/ibm-powervm

PowerVC WebsiteØhttps://www.ibm.com/de-en/marketplace/powervc

PowerSC WebsiteØhttps://www.ibm.com/de-en/marketplace/powersc

PowerHA WebsiteØhttps://www.ibm.com/de-en/marketplace/powerha

AIX & Power Systems SW ResourcesAIX Systems Magazine Articles

Who said AIX is Dead!?Øhttp://ibmsystemsmag.com/power/businessstrategy/executiveperspective/who-said-aix-is-dead/

AIX is at the Center of Cloud Initiatives and AIØhttp://ibmsystemsmag.com/power/businessstrategy/competitiveadvantage/aix-is-at-the-center/

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IBM Cloud for Skytap Solutions (ICSS)• IBM Website

Ø https://www.ibm.com/cloud/skytap

Skytap WebsiteØ https://www.skytap.com/partners/ibm-cloud-skytap-solutions/

Datasheet Ø https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=KUD12403USEN

Short youtube video: ICSS Overview & Demo (general)Ø https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boUvlFVAFkY

Short youtube video: AIX in the CloudØ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6_tDsyu_10

ICSS Resources

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CMC WebsiteØ https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/cloud-

management-console/

Announcement BlogØ http://ibmsystemsmag.com/aix/trends/ibm-

announcements/mfa/

CMC DatasheetØ https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-

bin/ssialias?htmlfid=POD03130USEN&

CMC Security WhitepaperØ https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-

bin/ssialias?htmlfid=POW03204USEN

Short youtube Video: Ø https://youtu.be/vpbhahnUDbs

Cloud Reference LinksCapacity on DemandØ https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/cod/

CoD Knowledge CenterØ https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/POWER8/p8ha2/codofferings.htm

Elastic CoD on IBM MarketplaceØ https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/elastic-capacity-on-demand

ESS -> my entitled HWØ https://www-304.ibm.com/servers/eserver/ess/ProtectedServlet.wss

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Announcement Blog– https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/simplify-aix-environment-hyperconverged-infrastructure

Think! 2018 Presentation– https://www.ibm.com/events/think/watch/replay/113885402/

IBM Hyperconverged Systems Marketplace page– https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/hyperconverged-systems=

Updated IBM Hyperconverged Systems Datasheet– https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=POD03132USEN&

AIX on Nutanix Solution Brief– https://ibm.biz/BdZAuJ

AIX Binary Compatibility Statement– https://ibm.biz/BdZAuV

IBM Hyperconverged Client Center POC Support Request:– http://ibm.biz/BMC_Nutanix

CSSC Sales Support Request– https://ibm.biz/BdFfcV or cssc@us.ibm.com

Nutanix Resources

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IBM Cloud Private Resources

See it in action

ü Try ICP Community Edition for free: http://ibm.biz/ICP-SignUpü YouTube ICP tutorials play list: http://ibm.biz/ICP-YouTubeTutorials

Get help ü Join the #ibm-cloud-private public Slack channel: http://ibm.biz/ICP-Slackü ICP on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-cloud-private

Learn more

ü ICP Product page: http://ibm.biz/IBMCloudPrivateü ICP on Power DeveloperWorks page: http://ibm.biz/ICP-Power-TechnicalCommunityü Linux on Power Development portal: https://developer.ibm.com/linuxonpowerü ICP Technical Community: http://ibm.biz/ICP-TechnicalCommunityü ICP Knowledge Center: http://ibm.biz/ICP-KnowledgeCenterü Introduction to ICP (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL_jXJoRPdYü ICP Overview (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzXA3qhfaq0ü ICP on IBM Power (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73LpA1Cmqcc

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