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IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

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Overview: The IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper is an entry-level system in the LinuxONE portfolio, designed to offer open, flexible, simple, efficient, and trusted solutions for Linux infrastructure. It supports a wide range of applications and tools, providing a secure and resilient cloud-ready environment.
Scalability and Performance: Rockhopper supports up to 20 cores and 4 TB of memory, capable of hosting nearly a thousand virtual Linux servers. It offers high utilization rates and can scale capacity on demand, reducing complexity and costs compared to x86 servers. It supports multiple Linux distributions and virtualization through KVM and IBM z/VM hypervisors.
Security and Reliability: The system is designed to minimize business disruptions with high availability features and fault tolerance. It includes a dedicated cryptographic coprocessor (CPACF) and Crypto Express5S for secure key operations, ensuring data privacy and security.
Enterprise Qualities: Rockhopper provides robust performance for critical workloads with low transaction costs. It includes resiliency analytics for real-time diagnostics and IBM GDPS Virtual Appliance for high availability and disaster recovery. IBM Spectrum Scale offers high availability and data replication capabilities.
Technical Specifications: Rockhopper models range from 1 to 20 cores and 64 GB to 4 TB of memory. It supports up to 128 FICON ports and 96 NIC ports, with HiperSockets for virtual LAN connections. Supported Linux distributions include Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu.
Physical Specifications: The system's dimensions are 30.9 x 62.8 x 79.3 inches without overhead cabling, and it weighs between 1535 lbs and 2743 lbs depending on configuration.
Conclusion: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper is designed to enhance business growth and customer experience with efficient, secure, and scalable technology solutions. IBM offers expertise in systems, software, and financing to optimize Linux environments.
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IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper-1

IBM Systems Data Sheet IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper Highlights ●● ● ● OPEN: Choose the tools and applications you know and love FLEXIBLE: Meet demand with virtually limitless scale SIMPLE: Fewer servers, less complexity, lower cost EFFICIENT: Get unparalleled utilization and speed TRUSTED: Embedded security and designed to never stop Linux has been the world’s fastest growing server operating system for a number of years and is now a major player in the global IT market, driving a multitude of new solutions. To be competitive in the market, the Linux infrastructure has to be efficient, secure, adaptive, and integrated. It must be designed to handle the explosive growth of mobile clients, be able to leverage vast amounts of data, and provide deep real-time insight at the point of greatest business impact. And it must be deployable within a secure and resilient cloud ready environment. The IBM® LinuxONE Rockhopper™ system is designed as an entry point for LinuxONE™ portfolio. It embodies the same innovation and value, flexible growth options, industry- leading virtualization, trusted resiliency, secure cloud, enterprise mobility and operational analytics capabilities as

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IBM Systems Data Sheet Trustful, reliable and secure for less risk The LinuxONE Rockhopper allows for a simple Linux infrastructure approach. It is available with up to 20 cores, running at 4.3 GHz, and 4 TBs of memory for performance and scaling advantages. It is capable of supporting nearly a thousand virtual Linux servers on a single footprint. Its memory hierarchy, execution processing, and prefetch instructions are all designed to optimize throughput for many workloads. This means in the few square meters it takes up, one Rockhopper can result in a less complex Linux infrastructure with...

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IBM Systems Data Sheet Enterprise qualities of service Rockhopper enables enterprise grade Linux, one that is more robust and trusted for critical workloads, provides high performance and throughput to deliver a low cost per transaction. Resiliency analytics for LinuxONE is designed to offer near real time diagnostics to help identifying potential problems in the Linux environment. It is an analytics solution executed in firmware, which intelligently examines message logs for potential inconsistencies or anomalies. With this capability organizations can address IT problems quickly, minimize availability...

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IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper (2965) at a glance

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Supported Hypervisors

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Why IBM? IBM understands your goals to drive top line growth and to enhance customer experience and loyalty. We understand your desire to use smart, efficient and robust technology solutions to achieve this. IBM provides expertise in systems, software, services and financing, that can help you optimize your Linux environments for the constant flow of opportunities and challenges. Rockhopper helps you address the velocity of your business while helping to keep users and data secure and budgets in check. For more information To learn more about the IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper, please contact your IBM...

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