Specifications

150 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction
For information regarding Advance Toolchain, see the following website:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/hpccentral/How+to+use+Advance+Tool
chain+for+Linux+on+POWER
Also see the University of Illinois Linux on Power Open Source Repository:
򐂰 http://ppclinux.ncsa.illinois.edu
򐂰 ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/at05/suse/SLES_11/release_notes.at05-
2.1-0.html
򐂰 ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/at05/redhat/RHEL5/release_notes.at05-
2.1-0.html
3.5 System Planning Tool
The IBM System Planning Tool (SPT) helps you design systems to be partitioned with logical
partitions. You can also plan for and design non-partitioned systems by using the SPT. The
resulting output of your design is called a
system plan, which is stored in a .sysplan file. This
file can contain plans for a single system or multiple systems. The .sysplan file can be used
for the following reasons:
򐂰 To create reports
򐂰 As input to the IBM configuration tool (e-Config)
򐂰 To create and deploy partitions on your system (or systems) automatically
System plans that are generated by the SPT can be deployed on the system by the Hardware
Management Console (HMC), Systems Director Management Console (SDMC), or
Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM).
You can create an entirely new system configuration, or you can create a system
configuration based on any of these items:
򐂰 Performance data from an existing system that the new system is to replace
򐂰 Performance estimates that anticipates future workloads that you must support
򐂰 Sample systems that you can customize to fit your needs
Integration between the SPT and both the Workload Estimator (WLE) and IBM Performance
Management (PM) allows you to create a system that is based on performance and capacity
data from an existing system or that is based on new workloads that you specify.
Tickless idle No Yes No Yes Improved energy
utilization and
virtualization of
partially to fully idle
partitions
Features Linux releases Comments
SLES 10 SP4 SLES 11 RHEL 5.7 RHEL 6.1
Note: Ask your IBM representative or Business Partner to use the Customer Specified
Placement manufacturing option if you want to automatically deploy your partitioning
environment on a new machine. SPT looks for the resource’s allocation to be the same as
that specified in your .sysplan file.