Published on 10 Sep 2012
Currently all Sizing Guides recommend System x or Power System hardware based on workload characteristics. Sizing Guides are now enabled to recommend IBM PureFlex hardware using a new IBM Systems Workload Estimator (WLE) feature to resize default system recommendation to IBM PureFlex.
- “Resize to PureFlex” link on WLE Recommendation page converts default system recommendation to IBM PureFlex hardware recommendation
- “Resize to User Options” converts back the IBM PureFlex hardware recommendation to Default System recommendation
Following steps show how a default system recommendation can be converted to IBM PureFlex Systems hardware recommendation.
Step 1 - Default System Recommendation
A sample two tier application which includes Database and Application Server (AppServer). In two tiers, Database is deployed on Power System and Application Server on System x.
Step 2 - Option to convert Default System to IBM PureFlex System Recommendation
The default recommendation can be converted IBM PureFlex using option “Resize to PureFlex”.
Step 3 - IBM PureFlex System Recommendation
Two different Compute ITE are recommended for Database and Application Tier in same Chassis group. It also has Management node in Chassis Group. Chassis information also indicates number of half wide slots filled with given Compute ITEs .
Step – 4A: IBM PureFlex System Recommendation – Database and Appserver Compute ITE
Detailed Information regarding a specific system can be found by clicking on the System name (Refer previous figure).
Database Tier
Application Tier
Step – 5: IBM PureFlex System Recommendation – Chassis Information and PDF file
The below chassis data is shown on the recommendation page
WLE has the option to save recommendation in PDF and hence the attached PDF file would have IBM PureFlex hardware recommendation for the given sample two tier application.
