Volvo IT’s Mainframe journey
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Inspired by Volvo IT Mainframe 2023
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September 2013
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What is a mainframe – part I
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September 2013
AGENDA
 Välkomna & Introduktion
– Facilitator: Ronny Wester
 Continuous Availability
– Volvo IT: Jonas Elmquist
 Volvo IT säkrar Mainframe-kompetensen
– Volvo IT: Carl-Magnus Carlsson
 “Så här bytte vi Mainframe-leverantör”
– ICA AB: Ola Andreasson, Head of IT Operations
 “Mainframe 2023”
– IBM: Thomas Wolf, Director System z Firmware Development
Volvo IT
Introduktion
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5
September 2013
AGENDA
 Välkomna & Introduktion
– Facilitator: Ronny Wester
 Continuous Availability
– Volvo IT: Jonas Elmquist
 Volvo IT säkrar Mainframe kompetensen
– Volvo IT: Carl-Magnus Carlsson
 “Så här bytte vi Mainframe-leverantör”
– ICA AB: Ola Andreasson, Head of IT Operations
 “Mainframe 2023”
– IBM: Thomas Wolf, Director System z Firmware Development
Volvo IT
Continuous Availability
24 hours a day
7 days a week
365 days a year
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Inspired by Volvo IT Mainframe 2023
7
September 2013
Redundancy as a Philosophy
Duplicated data centers.
Logging of all system activities.
Redundancy in hardware &
communication.
Physical security.
Diesel power generators.
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September 2013
Mainframe at Volvo IT
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9
September 2013
Unavailability risks on Standard Services
 Primary Disc System Failures
(requires IPL to startup LPAR to use Secondary Disc system).
 Failure in one or several sub systems (IMS, CICS, DB2 etc.) (*)
 Complete LPAR outage (*)
 HW failure (*)
 Volvo IT Maintenance Windows
- planned => may imply unwanted unavailability.
- 2 occasions at daylight saving times  HW Maintenance
(*) A D/R solution may somewhat mitigate unavailability.
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10 September 2013
How to mitigate?
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11 September 2013
Parallel Sysplex for z/OS
 Up to 32 systems (LPARs) joined creating a powerful clustered system.
 Specialized hardware & software operating environment “coupling facility
control code” (CFCC).
 Multi-system data-sharing technology  no loss of data integrity .
 Hardware & software can be maintained non-disruptively.
 Transactions & queries can be distributed for parallel execution based on
available capacity, not restricted to a single node.
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12 September 2013
What can Sysplex do for YOU?
 Platform for continuous availability
- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
 More work
- Greater capacity.
- Manage response time.
- Further capacity & response time advances.
 Greater flexibility
- Mix levels of hardware & software.
- Dynamically add systems.
- Easy path for incremental growth.
- Workload balance.
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13 September 2013
Benefits with Continuous Availability
 No single point of failure.
Loss of a server transparent to
the application, workload
redistributed automatically.
 Peer instances => take over
Each system is still individual.
recovery responsibility.
 Automatic restart on still
healthy systems.
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14 September 2013
Continuous availability even
during changes.
Design Goal – no application
changes.
Consequences
• Reduced capacity when
one LPAR is lost. Thus
maintenance should be
planned to non peak
hours.
• Critical applications
should be Sysplex
compliant, may imply
OTC.
Volvo IT
Inspired by Volvo IT Mainframe 2023
15 September 2013
Continuous Availability for Linux on z
VM06
VM03
CSE
Linux
Linux
System data
Application data
PPRC
Primary 3390
Mirror 3390
NFS / NetApp
- The VM Linux-partions act backup for each other with capacity to take over all procuction machines from the other.
- All disk configured reachable from both LPAR. Definition in SYSTEM CONFIG i n each machine what are on-line.
- Cross System Extension admit shared disk between guests plus some Xlink / Xspool-funktionalitet.
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16 September 2013
3 methods
• Clustering.
• Semi cluster with automated scripts.
• Live Guest Relocation.
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17 September 2013
Volvo IT’s offering
• A suitable customized Parallel Sysplex z/OS environment for
continuous availability.
• Linux on z services with continuous availability.
=> all
to meet our customers’ business demands.
Volvo IT
Inspired by Volvo IT Mainframe 2023
18 September 2013
AGENDA
 Välkomna & Introduktion
– Facilitator: Ronny Wester
 Continuous Availability
– Volvo IT: Jonas Elmquist
 Volvo IT säkrar Mainframe-kompetensen
– Volvo IT: Carl-Magnus Carlsson
 “Så här bytte vi Mainframe-leverantör”
– ICA AB: Ola Andreasson, Head of IT Operations
 “Mainframe 2023”
– IBM: Thomas Wolf, Director System z Firmware Development
Volvo IT
What is a mainframe – part II
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Inspired by Volvo IT Mainframe 2023
21 September 2013
”Volvo IT säkrar
Mainframe-kompetensen ”
Presentation av Carl-Magnus Carlsson,
Volvo IT
 Se separat presentation.
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AGENDA
 Välkomna & Introduktion
– Facilitator: Ronny Wester
 Continuous Availability
– Volvo IT: Jonas Elmquist
 Volvo IT säkrar Mainframe-kompetensen
– Volvo IT: Carl-Magnus Carlsson
 “Så här bytte vi Mainframe-leverantör”
– ICA AB: Ola Andreasson, Head of IT Operations
 “Mainframe 2023”
– IBM: Thomas Wolf, Director System z Firmware Development
Volvo IT
”Så här bytte vi
Mainframe-leverantör”
Presentation av Ola Andreasson, ICA, Head
of IT Operations
 Är du intresserad att ta del av ICAs
presentation eller har du några frågor;
vänligen kontakta Ann Hedlund, Volvo IT.
 Ann Hedlund
Tel: 016-5415100 E-post: [email protected]
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AGENDA
 Välkomna & Introduktion
– Facilitator: Ronny Wester
 Continuous Availability
– Volvo IT: Jonas Elmquist
 Volvo IT säkrar Mainframe-kompetensen
– Volvo IT: Carl-Magnus Carlsson
 “Så här bytte vi Mainframe-leverantör”
– ICA AB: Ola Andreasson, Head of IT Operations
 “Mainframe 2023”
– IBM: Thomas Wolf, Director System z Firmware Development
Volvo IT
”Mainframe 2023”
Presentation av Thomas Wolf, IBM, Director
System z Firmware Development
 Är du intresserad att ta del av IBMs
presentation eller har du några frågor;
vänligen kontakta Hans Hägerström, IBM.
 Hans Hägerström
Mobil: 0707-930059 E-post: [email protected]
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