Power Enterprise Pools 1.0 and 2.0 - Overview

IBM Power Enterprise Pools is an offering supported on certain modern Power systems, designed to deliver enhanced multisystem resource sharing and by-the-minute consumption of on-premises Power compute resources to clients deploying and managing a private cloud infrastructure.

With the Power Enterprise Pools application you can navigate and see all activities within the pool.

The Power Enterprise Pool types are categorized as Power Enterprise Pools 1.0 and Power Enterprise Pools 2.0.

Power Enterprise Pools 1.0

Advantages of Power Enterprise Pools 1.0 with mobile capacity - shared manually or via scripts include:

  • All installed processor cores or memory units are activated based on Elastic CoD, allocated per system, enabled for use manually or via scripts, charged by the day Utility CoD (processor) by the minute
  • System capacity may be collected by system and aggregated manually or programmatically
  • A single Power Enterprise Pool may support unlimited shared processor partitions across unlimited supported systems within a single enterprise, within a single country and within European Community
  • Each Power Enterprise Pool is monitored and managed from Hardware Management Console
  • Minimum resource activation required is 8 cores Static 50% Memory (100 GB increment)
  • Capacity Credits may be purchased ONLY from authorized IBM Business Partners
  • Related article Power Enterprise Pools 1.0 - Ordering and enabling mobile activations
  • Related article Power Enterprise Pools 1.0 - How to decommission servers from PEP 1.0?

For Enterprise Pools 1.0 you can only do for the pool you have selected:

  • Download the current .xml configuration file
  • View your servers in the pool

Power Enterprise Pools 2.0

Advantages of Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 with base capacity - a cloud-based approach include:

Share resources and continuity

  • All installed processors and memory on servers in a Power Enterprise Pool (2.0) are activated and made available for immediate use when a pool is started. There is no need to reallocate mobile resources from server to server
  • System capacity may be seamlessly made available when it is needed without requiring human awareness or intervention
  • Permanent, Capacity Upgrade on Demand processor and memory activations (Base Capacity) and corresponding license entitlements are purchased on each supported system. These Base Processor and Memory Activation resources are then aggregated across a pool.
  • Dormant (inactive upon shipment) processor and memory capacity in the pool is activated when a pool is started and can be subsequently used on a Monthly Billing basis (Metered Capacity) or from Capacity Credits purchased from IBM or an authorized IBM Business Partner.
  • A single Power Enterprise Pool may support up to 500 shared processor partitions across up to 16 supported systems within a single enterprise, within a single country

Tracking

  • Processor resources within a pool is tracked by the minute, based on actual consumption by shared processor partitions
  • Memory resources within a pool is tracked by the minute, based on the assignment of resources to partitions, not based on operating system usage of the memory
  • Metered Capacity consumption on one system may be offset by idle Base Capacity elsewhere in the pool during the same period.
  • Related article What is a credit and current consumption rates

Monitoring

Payment

Power models supported in Power Enterprise Pools 2.0

High-end

  • 9080-M9S - IBM Power E980
  • 9080-HEX - IBM Power E1080

Midrange

  • 9040-MR9 - IBM Power E950
  • 9043-MRX - IBM Power E1050

Scale-out

  • 9009-22G - IBM Power S922
  • 9009-42G - IBM Power S924
  • 9105-22A - IBM Power S1022
  • 9105-42A - IBM Power S1024 (except the P30 processor configuration)