IBM launches AIX-to-cloud app migration program
Summary
The solution consists of three POWER System S922 servers with 20 CPU cores, 256GB of RAM, and 3.2TB of NVMe local storage, plus a new storage enclosure, the FlashSystem 5200, with a minimum of 9.6TB and a pair of SAN24B-6 switches with 24 Fibre Channel ports. On the software side, the bundle comes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, IBM PowerVM Enterprise Edition, IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), and Red Hat OpenShift OpenShift Container Storage (OCS). The solution combines an optimized stack of hardware and software to simplify the deployment of cloud-native apps in a private cloud environment. IBM claims these bundles mean "traditional eight-week deployment is condensed to eight hours" through automation. It also as claims twice as much performance per compute node and 3.2 times greater container density per core as compared to x86 architectures.