Skytap Power Discovery - Workloads

The following section outlines IBM Power Workload discovery:

Skytap Power Discovery for Workloads - Goals

The goal of discovery is to develop the proper framework for your workloads running in Skytap. It can be further defined by these supporting goals:

  • Uncover exact on-premises workloads to be migrated at the LPAR/VM level
  • Match existing data center workloads as closely as possible in Skytap
  • Match or exceed existing data center performance
  • Deeply understand usage patterns
  • Deliver a well-reasoned cost proposal and practical migration approach

Skytap Power Discovery for Workloads - Considerations and Questions

There are relevant considerations to be made and questions to ask your organization during the discovery phase aligned to three key areas:

Organizational

  1. Are your workloads internally managed or outsourced?

  2. Which compliance regulations are you required to adhere to?

  3. Are there unique considerations to your IBM Power environment?

  4. What approval is needed for networking changes, remote access, software agent install and maintenance windows?

Application

  1. Which third party applications are in use?

  2. What technologies do you prefer to use for backup, disaster recovery (DR) and/or high availability (HA)?

  3. Can you describe the existing network set up between LPARs and WAN (ExpressRoute) set up?

  4. Are there specific licensing requirements to be aware of?

Scenario

  1. What is your Recovery Point Objective (RPO)/Recovery Time Objective (RPO) for the migration?

  2. Do you have development environments that can be powered down when not in use?

  3. What are the approximate number of active users in your IBM Power environment? Which time zones do your users operate in?

Skytap Power Discovery for Workloads - Skytap for Azure Support and Limits (AIX and IBM i)

Skytap Power Discovery for Workloads - Sample Outputs

AIX

After performing the initial inventory of LPARs, execute the following commands and catalog into Bill of Materials (BOM) for the migration (can also run a SNAP command):

IBM i (SYSSTS, PTF, SFW Output)

After performing the initial inventory of LPARs, you can execute the following commands and catalog into the BOM for the migration.

Example BOM for Migration – AIX, IBM i, Spot Windows/Linux

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