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:
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
- Each Power Enterprise Pool is monitored and managed from a Cloud Management Console in the IBM Cloud.
- Related article Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 - Cloud Management Console - how does subscription and entitlement work
Payment
- You can choose between Prepaid or Monthly Billing.
- Capacity Credits may be purchased from IBM, an authorized IBM Business Partner, or online through the IBM Entitled Systems Support website, where available.
- Related article Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 - Prepaid Capacity Credits - How to buy?
Trends
- Clients may more easily identify capacity usage and trends across their new generation Power systems in a pool by viewing web-accessible aggregated data without spreadsheets or custom analysis tools
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)