IBM Linux server hardware performance and software license costsThe best Linux server hardware for enterprise open-source ecosystems will be the platform that delivers the best processor, memory and disk performance per core. Judging by the number of discussions in customer support communities, technical articles and blog posts on various Linux server performance troubleshooting, there is clearly a need for a better performing Linux server for both scale up and scale out infrastructures. This article will explain the importance of selecting the best performing hardware for your Linux server farm and how it affects software license costs. IBM POWER9 Linux Server Hardware models: 9009-22G S922 1-2 Processors, 8-22 Cores, 4TB Memory 9008-22L S922 1-2 Processors, 8-12 Cores, 4TB Memory9183-22X IC922 1-2 Processors, 12-20 Cores, 2TB Memory9006-12P LC921 1-2 Processors, 16-40 Cores, 1TB Memory9006-22P LC922 1-2 Processors, 16-44 Cores, 1TB Memory9009-41G S914 1 Processor, 4-8 Cores, 1TB Memory9009-41A S914 1 Processor, 4-8 Cores, 1TB Memory9009-42G S924 1-2 Processors, 8-24 Cores, 4TB Memory9009-42A S924 1-2 Processors, 8-24 Cores, 4TB Memory9009-22A S922 1-2 Processors, 4-10 Cores, 4TB Memory Should I scale up or scale out my Linux server farm?A scale up Linux server environment enables economies and performance of scale for all levels of the IT infrastructure, by reducing the number of physical systems and underlying ecosystem components that will require administration and support. Scaling up means less human resources needed, less software licenses, less hardware, less failures, less power, less vulnerabilities and less everything else that negatively effects costs. In addition, a scale up environment can have power and resources available to share much more efficiently than a scale out infrastructure, which must distribute workloads across multiple servers, will increase software licenses, as well as infrastructure and system administration costs at every level. Almost every virtualized Linux server environment can benefit from a scale up server approach to save money and improve performance. IBM Power9 Linux server performance results have consistently shown it is the most cost effective and fastest midrange Linux platform to run database, ERP, big data analytics, Java, video, cloud, Nutanix, web, file system, DevOps. Any CPU, I/O intensive or memory demanding Linux server workload running NoSQL like MongoDB, Relational DBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL,...
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