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MANAGEMENT BRIEF
VALUE PROPOSITION FOR
IBM POWER SYSTEMS Virtualization Impact for Enterprise
UNIX and Linux Server Infrastructures
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1
COST PICTURE 2 UNIX Server Infrastructures 2
IT Costs 2
Linux Server Infrastructures 5 IT Costs 5 Costs of Downtime 5
New UNIX System Deployments 6 Cost Comparisons 6 Costs of Downtime 9
DETAILED DATA 10 UNIX Server Infrastructure Comparisons 10
Installations and Scenarios 10 IT Costs 11 Costs of Downtime 13
Linux Server Infrastructures 13 Installations and Scenarios 13 IT Costs 14 Costs of Downtime 15
New UNIX System Deployments 15 Installations and Scenarios 15 IT Costs 17 Costs of Downtime 18
Cost Assumptions 19 Server Costs 19 Personnel Costs 19
List of Figures
1. Conventional and Power Virtualized UNIX Server Scenarios: Five-year Operating Costs 2 2. Conventional and Power Virtualized UNIX Server Scenarios: Five-year Overall Costs
(Virtualized Scenarios include Operating and Acquisition Costs) 3 3. Five-Year I/O-related Costs for Partitioned IBM Power Servers:
Averages for All Power Virtualized Scenarios 4 4. Conventional and Power Virtualized UNIX Server Scenarios: Five-year Costs of Downtime 4 5. x86 and Power Linux Server Scenarios: Average Five-year Costs for All Installations 5 6. x86 and Power Linux Server Scenarios: Five-Year Costs of Downtime 6 7. New UNIX System Deployments: Five-year IT Costs 7 8. Numbers of Hard Partitions Supported: HP and Sun UNIX Server Platforms 8 9. New UNIX System Deployments: Five-year Costs of Downtime 9 10. Profile Installations and Scenarios for UNIX Server Infrastructure Cost Comparisons 10 11. Cost Breakdowns for UNIX Server Infrastructure Comparisons 12 12. Profile Installations and Scenarios for Linux Server Infrastructure Cost Comparisons 13 13. Cost Breakdowns for Linux Server Infrastructure Comparisons 14 14. Profile Installations and Scenarios for New UNIX System Deployments Comparisons 15 15. Cost Breakdowns for New UNIX System Deployment Comparisons 18
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Server virtualization has emerged of one the critical technologies of our time. The potential clearly exists
to significantly reduce costs and complexities of enterprise server infrastructures, to create new flexibility
in server reconfiguration and provisioning, and to improve availability and other variables of service
quality for server-based applications throughout organizations.
Although industry debate tends to focus on the application of VMware and equivalents to x86 server
consolidation, in reality UNIX server virtualization technologies are – by wide margins – more
sophisticated and mature than their x86 counterparts.
The Power platform is, in turn, the recognized industry leader in UNIX server virtualization. Because the
technologies it employs have evolved rapidly over the last few years, even many longstanding Power
users have yet to fully exploit its potential.
This report deals with this potential. Specifically, it looks at three opportunities to reduce IT costs through
use of latest-generation IBM Power servers and PowerVM technology:
1. By replacing existing UNIX server infrastructures with virtualized Power servers, five-year
operating costs may be reduced by an average of 61 percent.
Comparisons are between the use of diverse multivendor bases of UNIX servers, which are
representative of most large organizations today, and current-generation Power servers exploiting
the full potential of PowerVM virtualization capabilities.
If costs of acquiring new Power server hardware and systems software to realize these savings are
allowed for, overall costs are still significantly lower. Five-year costs, including acquisition and
operating costs, average 54 percent less.
2. By replacing existing Linux server infrastructures with virtualized Power servers, five-year
operating costs may be reduced by an average of 58 percent.
Comparisons are between Linux applications deployed on distributed x86 servers and on current-generation Power servers again exploiting the potential of PowerVM capabilities. If acquisition
costs are included in Power virtualized scenarios, five-year costs average 52 percent less.
3. For large-scale new UNIX system deployments, five-year acquisition and operating costs for use
of Power servers average 43 percent less than those for Hewlett-Packard Integrity and 60 percent
less than those for Sun Microsystems M and T series servers.
Comparisons are between database-intensive systems with high levels of virtualization deployed
on Power servers using PowerVM; on HP Integrity servers using the company’s Virtual Server
Environment (VSE); and on Sun servers employing dynamic domains, Logical Domains
(LDoms), and Solaris Containers and Zones technologies.
Use of Power servers and PowerVM may also result in lower costs of downtime – meaning costs incurred
by organizations due to disruptions affecting business processes and user productivity – than for existing
UNIX and Linux server infrastructures, and for new UNIX system deployments. These results are
outlined in the following section.
Additional information on the methodologies and assumptions employed, along with breakdowns of
installations, configurations and costs are presented in the Detailed Data section of this report.
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COST PICTURE
UNIX Server Infrastructures
IT Costs
This set of five-year cost comparisons is based on three composite profile installations in large financialservices, manufacturing and retail companies with between $15 billion and $35 billion in revenues. For
each profile installation, two sets of scenarios were developed:
1. Conventional scenarios. These include diverse bases of between 78 and 242 UNIX servers,
including a variety of HP, IBM, Silicon Graphics and Sun models. The demographics of these
server bases and the efficiency with which they are used are representative of most large
organizations today. Virtualization is employed to a limited degree.
2. Power virtualized scenarios. In these, the same applications and workloads run on current-
generation Power servers exploiting the full potential of PowerVM virtualization capabilities.
Five-year operating costs for Power virtualized scenarios range from 54 to 65 percent less, and average 61
percent less than those for conventional equivalents. Figure 1 summarizes these results.
Figure 1
Conventional and Power Virtualized UNIX Server Scenarios: Five-year Operating Costs
Operating costs, in this context, include hardware maintenance, update subscriptions and support for
systems and database software, personnel for system administration-related functions, and facilities costs
for data center occupancy, power and cooling.
Database costs are for Oracle databases and management tools. Calculations reflect the change in Oracle
database pricing for POWER6-based servers in March 2009.
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Lower costs were enabled through multiple virtualization capabilities. Both forms of partitioning
supported by PowerVM – firmware-based logical partitions (LPARs) and software-based Workload
Partitions (WPARs) – were employed aggressively to achieve high levels of server consolidation for
diverse applications, databases and workloads.
Consolidation was achieved without impairing performance or availability. Closely integrated Power
server system and workload management facilities were exploited to enable organizations to realize high
levels of capacity utilization, while minimizing risks that partition workloads on the same server wouldinterfere with each other, or cause performance bottlenecks or outages.
Full time equivalent (FTE) staffing levels for system administration-related functions such as asset,
capacity, change, configuration and performance management are significantly lower for Power
virtualized scenarios. Personnel costs for these functions are correspondingly less.
This is due to reductions in numbers of physical servers; reduced diversity of hardware and software
platforms; replacement of older-technology servers and systems software with latest-generation Power
hardware and software; improved management tools and practices, including increased automation; and
use of PowerVM virtualization capabilities.
If costs of acquiring new Power server hardware and systems software to realize these savings were
allowed for, overall costs were still significantly lower. Five-year costs ranged from 46 to 59 percent less,
and averaged 54 percent less than those for conventional scenarios.
Figure 2 summarizes these results.
Figure 2
Conventional and Power Virtualized UNIX Server Scenarios: Five-year Overall Costs(Virtualized Scenarios include Operating and Acquisition Costs)
In Power virtualized scenarios, use of Virtual I/O Servers resulted in I/O-related costs for servers
employing LPARs that averaged 73 percent less than would have been the case if dedicated adapters were
employed. Figure 3 summarizes these results.
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Figure 3
Five-Year I/O-related Costs for Partitioned IBM Power Servers:Averages for All Power Virtualized Scenarios
Savings were realized in acquisition, maintenance and support costs through use of fewer physical local
area network (LAN) and storage area network (SAN) adapters, as well as in costs for related
infrastructure components such as cabling, hubs and switches.
Costs of Downtime
Five-year costs of downtime for Power virtualized scenarios ranged from 43 to 54 percent less, andaveraged 47 percent less than those for conventional equivalents. Figure 4 summarizes these results.
Figure 4
Conventional and Power Virtualized UNIX Server Scenarios: Five-year Costs of Downtime
COMPANY FINANCIAL SERVICES MANUFACTURING RETAIL
CONVENTIONAL SCENARIOS
Availability levels
Five-year costs ($000)
99.5% – 99.94%
26,266.8
99.83% – 99.9%
46,165.3
98.7% – 99.9%
14,552.5
POWER VIRTUALIZED SCENARIOS
Availability levels
Five-year costs ($000)
99.8% – 99.97%
12,148.3
99.9% – 99.96%
26,285.4
99.3% – 99.95%
7,453.0
In this presentation, availability percentages reflect hours of system-level outages relative to annual hours
of operation of companies, or business areas within companies that are supported by specific applications.
Costs of downtime for the financial services company represent lost operating profit, meaning net revenue
after deduction of personnel, occupancy, equipment and other overhead. For the manufacturing and retail
companies, the comparable metric is lost gross profit, meaning profit net of cost of goods sold, but before
deduction of selling, general and administrative (SG&A) and other expenses.
Key Power availability strengths that contributed to lower costs of downtime included reliability,
availability and serviceability (RAS) features of Power hardware and the AIX operating system, and theIBM PowerHA for AIX clustered failover solution.
LPARs also assisted in avoiding planned outages by allowing users to upgrade or modify software
without taking systems offline. Two newer capabilities made it possible to transfer partitions between
servers if these needed to be shut down: (1) Live Partition Mobility involved no interruption of service,
while (2) Live Application Mobility involved interruptions of typically no more than 20 seconds.
Power server system and workload management capabilities further reduced risks of bottlenecks and
outages caused by workload spikes and operational errors.
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Linux Server Infrastructures
IT Costs
In addition to the AIX operating system, Power servers may also run the major Linux distributions in
native mode. To address this potential, comparisons were made for different sets of Linux-based
applications for the three profile companies. Comparisons were based on mixes of business as well as
Web and intranet serving, file serving, software development and other applications.
Two sets of scenarios were then compared. First, in x86 server scenarios, applications were deployed on
one- to four-way Intel-based servers from Dell, HP, IBM and other vendors, with limited use of VMware
and Xen virtualization tools. Second, in Power server scenarios, multiple Linux operating system
instances were hosted on Power servers using PowerVM.
For x86 server scenarios, operating costs – primarily hardware maintenance, personnel and facilities –
were calculated. For Power server scenarios, operating costs as well as acquisition costs for server
hardware and PowerVM licenses were calculated. Figure 5 summarizes results.
Figure 5
x86 and Power Linux Server Scenarios: Average Five-year Costs for All Installations
Five-year operating costs for Power server scenarios ranged from 55 to 61 percent less, and averaged 58
percent less than those for x86 server scenarios. If acquisition costs are included in Power virtualized
scenarios, five-year costs for these ranged from 50 to 57 percent less, and averaged 52 percent less.
Costs of Linux operating systems and databases were not included. Operating system costs would depend
on the number of instances employed, which was the same for x86 as for Power server scenarios.
Database costs were not included because Linux servers were not widely employed as database servers in
the organizations upon which profile installations were based.
Factors causing lower costs for Power scenarios included high levels of consolidation and capacity
utilization enabled by LPARs; lower staffing levels and personnel costs for system administration-related
functions; and lower facilities costs due to use of significantly fewer physical servers.
Costs of Downtime
Costs of downtime were also compared for x86 and Power virtualized scenarios for Linux serving,
although a different quantification method was employed.
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Linux servers in the organizations upon which profile installations were based did not typically support
business-critical systems for which downtime could be measured in the same manner as for UNIX server
comparisons. It was thus decided to employ lost productivity values based on interruptions caused to
application users.
Using this approach, results for costs of downtime were calculated as shown in figure 6.
Figure 6
x86 and Power Linux Server Scenarios: Five-Year Costs of Downtime
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x86 SERVER SCENARIOS
Availability levels
Five-year costs ($000)
99.45% – 99.93%
1,943.7
98.5% – 99.75
2,686.8
99.25% – 99.85%
2,086.2
POWER SERVER SCENARIOS
Availability levels
Five-year costs ($000)
99.93% – 99.98%
275.3
99.85% – 99.95%
689.1
99.88% – 99.98%
452.0
Costs of downtime for Power server scenarios ranged from 74 to 86 percent less, and averaged 79 percent
less than those for x86 server equivalents.
New UNIX System Deployments
Cost Comparisons
Five-year IT costs as well as costs of downtime were also compared for new UNIX system deployments
employing HP Integrity, IBM Power and equivalent Sun platforms.
Three different composite installation profiles were employed for these comparisons. These were for
deployments of database-intensive systems with high levels of virtualization in telecommunications,
distribution and manufacturing companies with revenues of between $500 million and $12 billion.Installations included business-critical as well as secondary applications supported by multiple high-end,
midrange and small server platforms.
Three sets of scenarios were developed:
1. HP VSE scenarios were built around HP Integrity servers employing the HP-UX 11v3 operating
system and the three forms of partitioning – (1) hardware-based nPars and software-based (2)
vPars and (3) Integrity Virtual Machines – supported by the company’s Virtual Server
Environment (VSE).
2. IBM PowerVM scenarios were built around IBM Power servers employing the AIX 6.1
operating system, along with PowerVM including LPARs and AIX WPARs.
3. Sun scenarios were built around multiple Sun server platforms employing the Solaris 10
operating system.
These included SPARC Enterprise M series servers employing the company’s hardware-based
partitioning technology, dynamic domains; T series (CoolThreads) servers employing software-
based LDoms; and Sun x64 servers. The Sun application-based partitioning technology, Solaris
Containers and Zones, was employed on all three platforms.
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For clustered failover, HP Serviceguard and IBM Power HA solutions were employed in HP and IBM
scenarios respectively, and an equivalent third-party solution was employed in Sun scenarios.
Five-year IT costs were then calculated for these scenarios for each profile installation. Costs included
acquisition of hardware and licenses for operating systems; virtualization tools; cluster solutions and
Oracle 11g databases and management tools; hardware maintenance and software update subscriptions
and support; and facilities costs for data center occupancy, power and cooling.
Database costs again reflected the change in Oracle pricing for POWER6-based servers in March 2009.
Personnel costs for system administration and related functions are not included, as these would have
been largely similar, at least for HP VSE and IBM PowerVM scenarios.
Results are summarized in figure 7.
Figure 7
New UNIX System Deployments: Five-year IT Costs
Five-year IT costs for PowerVM scenarios range from 38 to 50 percent less, and average 43 percent less
than those for HP VSE equivalents; and range from 48 to 67 percent less, and average 60 percent less than
those for Sun equivalents.
Lower IT costs for PowerVM scenarios are due to multiple factors. One is the higher granularity of IBM
LPARs compared to Hewlett-Packard’s nPars and Sun’s dynamic domains.
Among the organizations that provided input for this report, “hard” partitioning technologies were
preferred for business-critical production environments whose performance and availability requirements
were more demanding than the norm. This was consistent with general industry experience.
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HP and Sun employ hard partitioning technologies based on cell boards in Integrity and M series servers
respectively. In the case of HP, nPars can be configured in increments of four Itanium2 processors (eight
cores), corresponding to the cell board structure of larger Integrity models. nPars are not supported on
smaller Integrity models with up to four processors, which are not cell board-based.
Sun dynamic domains can be configured in increments of one system board (cell board) with four
processors (16 cores using quad-core SPARC64 processors), or one-quarter of a system board with one
processor (four cores), along with one quarter of the board’s memory and I/O resources.
There are, however, limitations in the overall number of dynamic domains supported, which are
illustrated in figure 8. Dynamic domains are supported only on M series servers.
Figure 8
Numbers of Hard Partitions Supported: HP and Sun UNIX Server Platforms
HEWLETT-PACKARD
Modelrx2660rx3600
rx6600 rx7640 rx8640 Superdome
Processors 1 – 2 1 – 4 1 – 8 1 – 16 1 – 64
nPars n/a n/a 1 – 2 1 – 4 1 – 16
SUN MICROSYSTEMS
Model M3000 M4000 M5000 M8000 M9000
Processors 1 1 – 4 1 – 8 1 – 16 1 – 64
Dynamic domains 1 1 – 2 1 – 4 1 – 16 1 – 24
Granularity limitations affected configuration sizes for Integrity as well as M series servers. In
comparison, firmware-based LPARs allowed use of smaller partitions – granularity of up to 0.1 of a core
is supported – and Power server mechanisms for allocating and reallocating resources between these were
also more effective than HP and Sun equivalents.
As a result, system-level capacity utilization for hard-partitioned applications and databases was higher
for Power servers than for HP and Sun M series equivalents. Moreover, it was possible to employ LPARson comparatively small servers. LPAR capability is supported on all Power models.
(It is occasionally argued that nPars and dynamic domains allow for “electrical isolation,” which
increases reliability as well as security. In practice, however, users have not found availability levels to be
lower for Power servers, and LPARs provide comparable partition isolation for security purposes.)
Sun configurations were also affected by the fact that the company’s LDoms partitioning technology,
which enables software-based hosting of operating system instances, is supported only for the company’s
T series servers.
Superior price/performance levels for Power servers also contributed to lower costs for PowerVM
scenarios The Itanium2 processor architecture is aging, and lags far behind POWER6 in all major
industry performance ratings. Sun’s SPARC64 is generally recognized to be an even weaker design,
delivering even lower performance relative to Power servers for comparable configurations.
Higher system performance, as well as higher capacity utilization enabled by PowerVM, offset what
might otherwise have been a Power server disadvantage in database costs – Oracle license costs are
calculated at 0.5 of a processor for Itanium2, 0.75 for SPARC64, and 1.0 for POWER6 processors.
For all profile installations, however, five-year Oracle database license and support costs were
significantly lower for PowerVM than for HP VSE and Sun scenarios.
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Finally, HP as well as IBM platforms benefited from integrated system and workload management
capabilities that are, by wide margins, superior to those offered by Sun for Solaris servers. As a result,
Sun platforms suffered a penalty relative to Integrity and Power servers in comparative capacity
utilization levels.
Costs of Downtime
Costs of downtime for new UNIX system deployments were calculated in a manner similar toconventional and Power virtualized scenarios for UNIX server infrastructure comparisons.
Results are summarized in figure 9.
Figure 9
New UNIX System Deployments: Five-year Costs of Downtime
COMPANY TELECOMMUNICATIONS DISTRIBUTION MANUFACTURING
HP VSE SCENARIOS
Availability levels
Five-year costs ($000)
99.94% – 99.97%
5,497.0
99.97% – 99.98%
4,847.7
99.94%
1,338.1
IBM POWERVM SCENARIOS
Availability levels
Five-year costs ($000)
99.96% – 99.98%
5,238.3
99.97% – 99.98%
4,568.9
99.95%
1,115.1
SUN SCENARIOS
Availability levels
Five-year costs ($000)
99.93% – 99.97%
8,877.3
99.94% – 99.97%
6,377.1
99.92%
1,784.2
In this presentation, availability levels again reflect hours of system-level uptime relative to annual hours
of operation of companies, or business areas within companies that are supported by specific applications.
Costs of downtime again represent lost gross profit, meaning profit net of cost of goods and/or services,
but before deduction of SG&A and other expenses.
Costs of downtime for the HP VSE and IBM PowerVM scenarios are generally similar. This reflects high
levels of hardware RAS and strong clustered failover offerings, along with capabilities for partition-based
software upgrades and maintenance, live partition movement between physical servers, and other
availability optimization functions for both vendors’ platforms.
Marginally higher costs of downtime for HP VSE scenarios for reflect slightly higher levels of planned
downtime for Superdome platform, as well as lower availability levels for secondary applications
deployed on other Integrity servers.
Costs of downtime for Sun scenarios were significantly higher than for HP VSE and PowerVM scenarios.
This reflects less effective hardware as well as software availability optimization across all Sun platforms.
Live partition movement, for example, is supported only for LDoms on Sun T series servers, which wereemployed for secondary applications in the Sun telecommunications company scenario.
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DETAILED DATA
UNIX Server Infrastructure Comparisons
Installations and Scenarios
Comparisons of five-year costs for conventional and Power virtualized scenarios for UNIX server infrastructures are based on the composite profile installations summarized in figure 10.
Figure 10
Profile Installations and Scenarios for UNIX Server Infrastructure Cost Comparisons
COMPANY FINANCIAL SERVICES MANUFACTURING RETAIL
Business Profile $400 billion assets$15 billion revenues14 million customers1,650 branches55,000 employees
$33 billion revenuesConsumer products28 manufacturing plants25 distribution centers50,000 employees
$35 billion revenuesSpecialty chain1,000+ outlets10 distribution centers150,000 employees
Focus of Comparisons
69 major applicationsSystem groups:
• Corporate systems• Retail banking• Commercial banking• Financial services• Online systems• Intranet infrastructure
30 major applicationsSystem groups:
• Core ERP systems• Supply chain management• Product management• Business intelligence• eProcurement• BPM, CRM, PLM
36 major applicationsSystem groups:
• Corporate systems• Supply chain management• Logistics & transportation• Marketing, sales & service• Business intelligence• eCommerce
CONVENTIONAL SCENARIOS
Servers Hewlett-Packard Superdome, rx8640, rx8620,rx7620, rx6600, rx4640,rx3600, rx2660, rx2620,rx2600, rp8420, rp8400
IBM pSeries 690, 670, 650, 615System p 595, 570, 550, 510,505, Power 570, BladeCenter
Sun Microsystems E25K, E6800, E4900, E4800,E2900, M4000, V890, V880,V490, V480, V40Z, X4600,X4500, X4200, X4100, X2000,Blade 6000, various
Silicon Graphics Altix 450
Total: 242 servers
Hewlett-Packard Superdome, rx7640, rx7620,rx6600, rx4640, rx3600,rx2660, rx2620, rp8400,rp5470
IBM pSeries: 670, 650, 615System p 570, 550, 520, 510Power 570
Sun Microsystems E20K, E15K, V890, V880,V490, V40Z, X4600, X4200,X4100, X2000
Total: 78 servers
Hewlett-Packard rx8640, rx8620, rx7620,rx6600, rx4640, rx2660,rx2620, rx2600, rx1600
IBM pSeries 670, 650, 615System p 570, 550, 520, 510,505, 185
Sun Microsystems E15K, E4900, E4800, V890,V490, V480, V440, V250,V240, V40Z, V20Z, X4600,X4500, X4200, X2000,various
Total: 98 servers
Personnel 28 FTEs 13 FTEs 14 FTEs
POWER VIRTUALIZED SCENARIOS
Servers 9 x 570, 7 x 550, 3 x 5203 x JS43, 16 x JS235 x JS12, 2 x BladeCenter H
Totals:43 servers
125 LPARs106 WPARs
5 x 570, 9 x 5506 x JS23, 3 x JS12BladeCenter H
Totals:23 servers58 LPARs47 WPARs
5 x 570, 5 x 5503 x 520, 1 x JS43, 14 x JS238 x JS12, 2 x BladeCenter H
Totals:36 servers74 LPARs69 WPARs
Personnel 15 FTEs 8 FTEs 9 FTEs
Profile installations were constructed using data on applications, server bases, configurations, utilization
and service levels, staffing and other variables supplied by 16 companies in the same industries and
approximate size ranges, with generally similar business profiles.
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Companies employed a variety of Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun and other servers employing HP-UX, AIX,
Solaris and other UNIX variants.
Using this data, two sets of scenarios were developed:
1. Conventional scenarios are based on data reported by the 16 companies, and are built around
diverse multivendor server bases that include different technology generations and systems
software versions. Conventional management and operating practices are employed.
2. Virtualized scenarios are for the same applications and workloads deployed on latest-generation
Power servers. Configurations for these scenarios were developed on a case-by-case basis within
major system groups. Where appropriate, multiple applications were configured on the same
physical servers using LPARs and/or WPARs.
In translating configurations employed in conventional scenarios into Power server configurations
employed in virtualized scenarios, the following approach was employed.
Power server configurations delivering performance equivalent to conventional scenario servers
were developed for each of the main applications in profile installations. Configurations were
developed for production and non-production instances.
Further calculations were undertaken to allow for the effects of virtualization. Nominal
configuration requirements were first determined for groups of instances were deployed on
separate servers, but represented realistic candidates for consolidation onto a single Power
physical server.
An overall utilization value reflecting realistic potential consolidation efficiencies was then
assigned to each group of instances, and allowance was made for other factors affecting capacity
requirements. The resulting configuration was then rounded to next largest capacity increment
offered by IBM; e.g., a nominal configuration of 3.3 x 4.2 GHz cores with 12.6 GB of RAM was
rounded to a 4 x 4.2 GHz 550 model with 16 GB of RAM.
Other hardware components were configured similarly. Allowance was made for use of other
PowerVM capabilities, including Virtual I/O Servers and Integrated Virtual Ethernet.
All installations and scenarios include database, application and, where appropriate, Web and intranet
servers; and production systems as well as non-production instances for functions such as development,
test, quality assurance and training. Clustered failover configurations are employed in conventional and
Power virtualized scenarios for systems requiring high levels of availability.
Financial services company scenarios include a variety of custom and packaged software solutions.
Manufacturing company scenarios are built primarily around SAP and complementary third-party
applications, including business process management (BPM), customer relationship management (CRM)
and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions.
Retail company scenarios include a mix of applications from EXE Technologies, i2 Technologies, JDASoftware, Oracle (including PeopleSoft offerings) and other vendors. Costs of applications software were
not included in calculations.
IT Costs
For conventional scenarios, calculations are for operating costs only. These include hardware
maintenance, update and support subscriptions for systems and database software, along with personnel
and facilities costs.
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For Power virtualized scenarios, calculations are for operating costs, which include the same components,
along with costs of hardware and systems software acquisition for new servers. Hardware maintenance
costs are for 24x7 coverage.
For both sets of scenarios, systems software includes operating systems, virtualization software, clustered
failover solutions and related tools. For Power virtualized scenarios, systems software includes IBM AIX
6.1, PowerVM, PowerHA and – for BladeCenter configurations – BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager.
Costs for database update and support subscriptions are for Oracle databases and management tools.
Calculations do not include initial license costs. For Power virtualized scenarios, database costs are for
Oracle 11g equivalents. Calculations reflect the change in Oracle pricing for POWER6-based servers
announced in March 2009; i.e., calculations are based on a value of 1.0 processor.
Detailed breakdowns of IT costs are presented in figure 11.
Figure 11
Cost Breakdowns for UNIX Server Infrastructure Comparisons
COMPANY FINANCIAL SERVICES MANUFACTURING RETAIL
CONVENTIONAL SCENARIOS
Maintenance 4,819.7 2,775.8 1,612.5Systems software support 1,990.7 598.8 537.1
Database software support 13,803.7 5,733.0 5,051.1
Personnel 16,623.0 7,717.8 8,311.5
Facilities 1,173.1 548.4 432.3
TOTAL ($000) 38,410.2 17,373.8 15,944.7
POWER VIRTUALIZED SCENARIOS
Hardware 2,025.5 1,345.1 1,086.3
Systems software 444.2 215.9 185.8
Acquisition costs (Subtotal) 2,469.8 1,561.0 1,272.2
Maintenance 461.4 251.1 215.6
Systems software support 1,122.0 303.8 234.2
Database software support 2,546.4 1,655.3 1,443.5
Personnel 8,905.2 4,749.4 5,343.1
Facilities 275.7 163.4 121.3
Operating costs (Subtotal) 13,310.8 7,122.9 7,357.8
TOTAL ($000) 15,780.6 8,683.9 8,629.9
Additional detail on the basis of calculations for personnel and facilities costs for these and other
comparisons may be found at the end of this section.
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Costs of Downtime
Costs of downtime for UNIX server infrastructures were calculated using industry- and company-specific
values assuming consistent levels of availability and business cost structures over a five-year period.
For the financial services company, costs of downtime consists primarily of lost transaction fees and
customer lifetime value (CLV) for outages affecting online banking, brokerage and other customer self-
service systems, along with CRM systems and Internet infrastructure servers supporting these.
Costs of downtime for the manufacturing company were calculated based primarily on outages affecting
the company’s core SAP ERP, supply chain management and procurement systems. For the retail
company, costs were calculated based on outages affecting the company’s supply chain systems as well as
Internet marketing, sales and customer service systems.
The impact of outages on the retail company’s Internet systems includes the effects not only of lost online
sales, but also of storefront sales lost because customers are unable to obtain information on products,
promotions, pricing, availability, store locations and other subjects.
Linux Server Infrastructures
Installations and Scenarios
Comparisons of five-year costs for x86 and Power Linux server infrastructures are based on the
composite profile installations and scenarios summarized in figure 12.
Figure 12
Profile Installations and Scenarios for Linux Server Infrastructure Cost Comparisons
COMPANY FINANCIAL SERVICES MANUFACTURING RETAIL
Applications Market value & risk analyticsEquities trading, market dataMortgage loans, antifraud
Departmental applicationsContent managementSoftware development & testIntranet applicationsIntranet infrastructure, various
SAP xAppsComputer aided designDepartmental applications
Software development & testFile servingWeb infrastructure, various
Internal portal, e-procurementPromotional e-mailDepartmental applications
Office applicationsPOS software developmentFile serving, fax servingNetwork managementWeb infrastructure, various
x86 SCENARIOS
Servers Dell, HP, IBM
128 physical servers56 VMs
HP, IBM
29 physical servers15 VMs
Dell, HP, IBM, various
84 physical servers30 VMs
Personnel 5.1 FTEs 1.05 FTEs 2.55 FTEs
POWER VIRTUALIZED SCENARIOS
Servers 3 x 550 4/8 x 4.2 GHz4 x 520 2/4 x 4.7 GHz
185 LPARs
2 x 520 2/4 x 4.7 GHz
44 LPARs
2 x 550 4/8 x 4.2 GHz
120 LPARsPersonnel 2.15 FTEs 0.45 FTE 1.25 FTEs
The same companies are employed as for UNIX server infrastructure comparisons. Installation profiles,
however, are different. Application portfolios, server bases and staffing levels were developed using data
from 23 companies, including companies that, in some cases, did not supply UNIX server data.
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These companies employed x86 servers from Dell, HP (including Compaq), IBM and other vendors.
Bases included different hardware generations – ranging from Pentium 4-based servers installed in 2002
to recent Intel Xeon- and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Opteron-based servers – running Red Hat,
SUSE and other Linux distributions.
x86 server scenarios are based on user-reported data. Power server scenarios were developed, and
configurations sized in the same manner as for Power virtualized scenarios for UNIX server infrastructure
comparisons. PowerVM Standard Edition is employed on all Power servers.
It is assumed that Linux applications are deployed on Power servers in native mode in a manner that
effectively exploits the potential of PowerVM and that management and operating practices are
supportive of this potential.
IT Costs
For x86 server scenarios, calculations are for operating costs only. These include hardware maintenance,
and update and support subscriptions for VMware and Xen software, personnel and facilities costs.
For Power server scenarios, calculations are for operating costs, which include the same components,
along with costs of hardware acquisition and PowerVM licenses for new servers. Operating costs include
24x7 hardware and software maintenance.
Detailed breakdowns of IT costs are presented in figure 13.
Figure 13
Cost Breakdowns for Linux Server Infrastructure Comparisons
COMPANY FINANCIAL SERVICES MANUFACTURING RETAIL
x86 SERVER SCENARIOS
Maintenance 190.1 42.6 85.1
Virtualization software 20.6 4.1 6.2
Personnel 2,721.5 560.3 1,360.7
Facilities 225.2 82.4 154.5TOTAL ($000) 3,157.4 689.4 1,606.5
POWER SCENARIOS
Hardware 232.0 26.0 92.8
Maintenance 50.8 8.2 20.3
Virtualization software 46.0 9.2 18.4
Personnel 1,147.3 240.1 667.0
Facilities 49.5 10.5 11.5
TOTAL($000) 1,525.6 294.0 810.0
For reasons discussed earlier, calculations do not include acquisition or ongoing costs for Linux operating
systems and databases.
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Costs of Downtime
Costs of downtime for Linux server infrastructure comparisons are for user productivity loss.
This was measured in terms of (1) idle time, reduced productivity or both for periods when applications
were not available to users during working hours and (2) reduced productivity following an outage; e.g., a
one-hour outage causing a 60 percent productivity reduction might be followed by a two-hour period in
which a 20 percent productivity loss occurs.
Productivity loss calculations were developed for each user community supported by Linux applications.
Costs are based on industry median salaries, benefits and other compensation for large U.S. financial
services, manufacturing and retail companies for the occupational groups using applications.
Productivity losses were quantified based on the number of individuals using each application who would
be affected by outages, their average remuneration per hour, and percentage values for reductions in their
productivity during and subsequent to outages.
New UNIX System Deployments
Installations and Scenarios
Comparisons of five-year costs for new UNIX system deployments are based on the composite profile
installations and scenarios summarized in figure 14.
Figure 14
Profile Installations and Scenarios for New UNIX System Deployments Comparisons
TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY
BUSINESS PROFILE APPLICATIONS
$12 billion revenues20+ million customersFixed line, mobile, broadband &
data network services20,000+ employees
CRM, billing, financial & operational systems,data warehouse, application servers, identitymanagement, intranet, customer portal,
development & test
CONFIGURATIONS
HP VSE SCENARIO IBM POWERVM SCENARIOS SUN SCENARIOS
2 x Integrity Superdome 64/128 x 1.6 GHz each28 nPars + 80 vPars
rx8640 12/24 x 1.6 GHz2 nPars + 15 Integrity VMs
rx7640 8/16 x 1.6 GHz10 Integrity VMs
2 x rx6600 4/8 x 1.6 GHz each20 Integrity VMs
HP-UX 11v3 VSEServiceguard (Superdomes)
Oracle 11g, Enterprise Manager
2 x Power 595 24/48 x 5.0 GHz each110 LPARs4 Virtual I/O Servers
Power 550 4/8 x 5.0 GHz2 LPARs + 15 WPARsVirtual I/O Server
Power 550 4/8 x 4.2 GHz – 10 WPARs
2 x Power 520 2/4 x 4.2 GHz – 20 WPARs
AIX 6.1, PowerVMPowerHA (Power 595s)
Oracle 11g, Enterprise Manager
2 x Enterprise M9000 56/224 x 2.52 GHz each28 dynamic domains52 Zones
2 x T5440 4/32 x 1.4 GHz each25 LDOMs
3 x T5140 2/16 x 1.2 GHz each20 LDOMs
Solaris 10Third-party clustered failover (M1000e) & systemmanagement tools
Oracle 11g, Enterprise Manager
Profile installations were constructed using data on applications, server and partition configurations,
utilization and service levels, and other variables supplied by 15 companies in the same industries and
approximate size ranges, with generally similar business profiles.
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Figure 14 (Continued)
DISTRIBUTION COMPANY
BUSINESS PROFILE APPLICATIONS
$7 billion revenuesChemical products distributor 40 distribution centers10,000 employees
ERP, CRM, order management, warehousemanagement, transportation management,business intelligence, procurement
CONFIGURATIONSHP VSE SCENARIO IBM POWERVM SCENARIO SUN SCENARIO
2 x Integrity Superdome
36/72 x 1.6 GHz – 4 nPars30 vPars & Integrity VMs
32/64 x 1.6 GHz6 nPars + 20 vPars
2 x rx7640 8/16 x 1.6 GHz – 2 nPars8/16 x 1.6 GHz – 12 Integrity VMs
HP-UX 11v3 VSEServiceguard (Superdomes)
Oracle 11g, Enterprise Manager
2 x Power 570 12/24 x 4.2 GHz – 36 LPARs2 Virtual I/O Servers
8/16 x 4.7 GHz28 LPARs2 Virtual I/O Servers
2 x Power 550 4/8 x 4.2 GHz – 2 LPARs4/8 x 3.5 GHz – 12 WPARs
AIX 6.1, PowerVMPowerHA (Power 570s)
Oracle 11g, Enterprise Manager
2 x Enterprise M8000 16/64 x 2.52 GHz8 dynamic domains
16/64 x 2.4 GHz4 dynamic domains + 31 Zones
Enterprise M5000 8/32 x 2.4 GHz2 dynamic domains
Sun Fire x4440 4/16 x 2.5 GHz – 13 Zones
Solaris 10Third-party clustered failover (M8000s) & system
management toolsOracle 11g, Enterprise Manager
MANUFACTURING COMPANY
BUSINESS PROFILE APPLICATIONS
$500 million revenuesFood & beverage products6 manufacturing plants35 distribution facilities1,800 employees
ERP, supply chain management, HRMS, businessintelligence, development & test
CONFIGURATIONS
HP VSE SCENARIOS IBM POWERVM SCENARIO SUN SCENARIO
rx8640 12/24 x 1.6 GHz2 nPars + 6 vPars
rx7640 8/16 x 1.6 GHz2 nPars + 8 vPars
rx6600 4/8 x 1.6 GHz – 9 Integrity VMs
rx2660 2/4 x 1.66 GHz – 3 Integrity VMs
HP-UX 11v3 VSEServiceguard (rx8640 & rx7640)
Oracle 11g, Management tools
2 x Power 550 4/8 x 5.0 GHz10 LPARs2 Virtual I/O servers
4/8 x 4.2 GHz10 LPARs
2 x Power 520 2/4 x 4.7 GHz – 9 WPARs1/2 x 4.2 GHz – 3 WPARs
AIX 6.1, PowerVMPowerHA (Power 570 & 550)
Oracle 11g, Management tools
Enterprise M80008/32 x 2.52 GHz2 dynamic domains + 7 Zones
Enterprise M5000 8/32 x 2.4 GHz2 dynamic domains + 9 Zones
Sun Fire x4240 2/8 x 2.7 GHz – 10 Zones
Sun Fire x4140 1/4 x 2.7 GHz – 4 Zones
Solaris 10Third-party clustered failover (M8000 & M5000) & systemmanagement tools
Oracle 11g, Management tools
Companies employed HP Integrity, IBM Power and System p, or Sun Microsystems SPARC-based, T
series and x86 servers running HP-UX, AIX and Solaris operating systems respectively. All companies
employed Oracle databases.
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Where companies employed older versions of platforms, configurations were updated to current-
generation models using vendor or industry comparative performance data. Comparable configurations
were then developed of the other two vendors’ platforms based on industry comparative performance data
and partition granularity; e.g., if an IBM LPAR was sized to utilize 1.2 POWER6 cores, this would be
translated into the next-largest HP nPar or Sun dynamic domain increment.
A similar approach was employed for partitions utilizing shared resources. Comparative sizing was based
on the overall number of processors and amount of memory in the resource pool.
Where this approach was more cost-effective than use of dedicated adapters, Power servers are equipped
with one or (for redundancy purposes) two Virtual I/O Servers running in dedicated LPARs.
Configurations were equipped with operating systems, virtualization tools and, where appropriate,
clustered failover solutions. Software for Integrity servers included HP Virtual Server Operating
Environment (VSE-OE) Version 4.1, which includes HP-UX 11v3, and Serviceguard. Power servers were
equipped with AIX 6.1, PowerVM Standard or Enterprise Edition as appropriate, and PowerHA.
Sun servers were equipped with Solaris 10, which includes support for dynamic domains on M series
servers, LDoms on T series servers, and Solaris Containers and Zones on these and x86 servers; and a
widely used third-party clustered failover solution. Logical Domains 1.1 was employed on T series
servers.
Database servers were equipped with Oracle 11g Enterprise or Standard Edition, and Oracle Enterprise
Manager (for the telecommunications and distribution companies), or Diagnostics and Tuning Packs (for
the manufacturing company).
Telecommunications company scenarios include use of Amdocs, SAP, SAS, Siebel and proprietary
systems; distribution company scenarios include ERP, CRM and operational systems supporting multiple
business units; and manufacturing company scenarios include JD Edwards ERP and CRM systems. Costs
of applications software are not included in calculations.
Scenarios include development, test, and other non-production and production instances. Non-production
instances are in most cases deployed on failover servers.
IT Costs
For all installations and scenarios, calculations include acquisition, as well as hardware maintenance,
update and support subscription, and facilities costs. All hardware maintenance and software support
costs are for 24x7 coverage. For reasons discussed earlier, personnel costs are not included.
Calculations for Oracle database and management tool costs again reflect the company’s change in
pricing for POWER6-based servers announced in March 2009; i.e., calculations are based on a value of
1.0 processor.
Detailed breakdowns of IT costs are presented in figure 15.
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Figure 15
Cost Breakdowns for New UNIX System Deployment Comparisons
COMPANY TELECOMMUNICATIONS DISTRIBUTION MANUFACTURING
HEWLETT-PACKARD VSE SCENARIOS
Hardware 5,234.4 2,971.5 592.4
Maintenance 2,709.7 1,444.5 111.1
Systems software 1,164.8 753.5 197.2Database software 6,552.0 3,822.0 1,186.5
Facilities 304.3 224.0 55.6
TOTAL ($000) 15,965.2 9,215.5 2,142.8
IBM POWERVM SCENARIOS
Hardware 3,159.4 1,195.3 174.9
Maintenance 891.7 141.7 20.8
Systems software 682.9 995.9 89.8
Database software 4,914.0 2,184.0 830.6
Facilities 174.9 120.4 33.8
TOTAL ($000) 9,822.9 4,637.3 1,149.9
SUN SCENARIOS
Hardware 7,588.1 2,726.4 627.5
Maintenance 591.1 276.5 110.1
Systems software 435.4 238.8 70.5
Database software 17,199.0 5,460.0 2,610.3
Facilities 501.6 281.3 102.1
TOTAL ($000) 26,315.2 8,983.0 3,520.5
Costs of Downtime
Costs of downtime for new UNIX system deployment comparisons were determined in the same manner
as for UNIX server infrastructures, using industry- and company-specific values assuming consistentlevels of availability and business cost structures over a five-year period.
For the telecommunications company, costs of downtime were calculated for outages affecting billing,
CRM, financial and operational systems, as well as customer-facing online applications. Calculations
include allowance for lost sales and CLV due to interruptions in call center as well as online customer
service.
For the distribution company, costs of downtime were calculated for outages affecting ERP, CRM, order
management, warehouse management, transportation management and procurement systems. For the
manufacturing company, the focus was on outages affecting the company’s ERP and CRM systems.
Allowance was also made in both cases for lost sales due to customer service interruptions.
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Cost Assumptions
Server Costs
For all comparisons, costs for server hardware acquisition and maintenance, and for software licenses,
and update and support subscriptions were calculated based on vendor list prices. These were discounted
to reflect prevailing “street” prices for installed bases and new deployments comparable to those in profileinstallations.
Facilities costs include data center occupancy, power and cooling equipment and energy costs over a five-
year period. Occupancy cost calculations were based on EIA 42U rack mount units and service clearances
for these, plus allowance for inactive areas. A conservative assumption for annual cost per square foot for
existing facilities was employed (i.e., costs do not include new facilities construction).
Costs for power and cooling equipment were based on configurations of such equipment appropriate for
the servers employed in each installation and scenario. Costs were calculated for acquisition and
maintenance over a five-year period, using discounted list prices for equipment from leading vendors.
Energy costs were calculated using vendor electricity consumption values for servers, as well as power
and cooling equipment. Specific utilization levels and hours of operation for each profile installation were
applied, and a conservative assumption for average price per kilowatt/hour was employed to determine
five-year costs.
Personnel Costs
Personnel costs are for the numbers of full time equivalent (FTE) staff for system administration-related
functions shown in figures 10 and 12.
Calculations were based on annual salaries of $79,316 for AIX system administrators, as well as for
UNIX system administrators for other platforms for conventional scenarios for UNIX server
infrastructure cost comparisons; and $71,292 for Linux system administrators for x86 and Power servers
for Linux server infrastructure comparisons.
Salaries were increased by 49.7 percent to allow for benefits, bonuses, training and other personnel-
related overhead, and overall costs were calculated for a five-year period.
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