Expanding your options with the MQ Appliance

Session #3456: Expanding your options with the IBM MQ Appliance Leif Davidsen – Senior Offering Manager, IBM Messaging Anthony Beardsmore – IBM MQ Appliance Architect

Overview

• The scalability and security of IBM MQ V8 in a physical appliance form factor

• Rapid, reliable, simple, secure exchange of data across applications, systems and services

• Convenience, fast time-to-value, and low total cost of ownership of an appliance

• Use as a messaging hub to extend connectivity within your enterprise, in branch offices, factories or stores

What’s new in IBM MQ Appliance M2000 Integrates seamlessly into MQ networks and clusters

Simple out of the box High-Availability and Disaster Recovery with paired connectivity to other appliances

Simpler maintenance with fixpacks delivered as certified firmware updates onto a locked down appliance

Appliance delivered pre-optimized for maximum performance out-of-the-box

New MQ Console to provide a browser-based user interface offering personalized monitoring and configuration

General Availability: March 13th 2015

IBM MQ Appliance M2000

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IBM MQ Appliance offers:

Optimized solutions to meet the needs of these use cases Differentiation compared to MQ software deployment approaches 2 price points to meet different deployment-based business needs

What do you want to do?

Consolidate my MQ

infrastructure into an “MQ

Hub” for lower TCO

Deploy to remote

premises, e.g. Branch, Factory,

Warehouse

Deploy to business partner,

e.g. Dealer, Broker

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Challenges

Mixture of platforms and versions

Complex dependencies

Migrations difficult – lack of standardization

Application downtime impacts other applications

Consolidate my MQ infrastructure into a “MQ Hub” for lower TCO

Objectives

Reduce TCO

Reduce footprint

Standardise deployments

Build 'hub' - concentrate expertise

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Benefits

Easy to deploy Simplified maintenance Familiar administration Separates applications from Infrastructure Supports existing MQ definitions, concepts and security model HA avoiding external dependencies

Challenges

Avoiding single points of failure

Outside assistance needed – lack of local skills and resources

Deploy to a remote premises

Objectives

Resilient connectivity to remote location

Robust and secure

Flexibility, minimal time to value at new sites

Benefits

Standardization makes ‘pre-canned’ rollout simpler

Remote configuration and management

High availability requires no additional systems or skills

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Challenges

Partner may not have MQ or MQ skills today

Time to build and deploy

Configuration needs to meet our standards

Downtime directly effects business relationship

Deploying to business partner: Appliances as ‘Gateways’

Objectives

Extend connectivity to external business partner

Rapid onboarding

Control and limit access

QOS expectations from both parties

Benefits

Easy to deploy Simplified maintenance

Ability to preconfigure a very standard system both helps ensure standards applied and speed deployment

HA avoiding external dependencies

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© 2015 IBM Corporation

High-end solution for enterprise consolidation use case Capable of handling large MQ workloads for persistent

and non-persistent messaging Host multiple Queue Managers to act as a messaging

hub A replacement for multiple separate MQ servers Built-in High Availability when paired to a 2nd appliance

and off-site disaster recovery to another Appliance Supports MQ AMS, and can be used to move MQ MFT

files between MFT endpoints

Lower-end solution for branch office or factory deployment

Same software and hardware as the Enterprise appliance, but processor usage limited

Designed to meet lower messaging throughput requirements

Supports all features of M2000A, including High Availability, Disaster Recovery and MQ AMS

Trade-up part available from M2000B capacity to M2000A capacity

IBM MQ Appliance M2000A (for Enterprise) IBM MQ Appliance M2000B (Branch etc.)

Easily deploy and maintain MQ messaging in minutes!

Which MQ Appliance is right for you?

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Prebuilt for Hub pattern – no Apps on device No additional software installation

No user Exits in MQ

Monitoring agents must be remote

High Availability out-of-the-box Single Firmware update for whole appliance

Firmware update inc. appliance and MQ Fixpack

Can be rolled back as an single unit

Controlled administration environment Web, MQ Explorer and MQSC/cmd-line admin of MQ

IBM MQ Appliance IBM MQ V8 on Custom Server

Key Differences with Appliance Form-factor Apps Tuning

MQ / Middleware

OS

Hardware

DIY Hub or Generic server – Apps + Middleware Install any software

Build & maintain your own custom extensions

Add local monitoring agents

Needs HA Cluster SW or Network Storage for HA Custom tuning for each layer (OS/Middleware) Discrete maintenance for each layer

MQ Fixpacks;OS maintenance, security patches etc.

Generic OS shell for local administration MQ Explorer and MQSC/cmd-line administration of MQ

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QM1 QM2 QM3

QM1 QM2 QM3

Fully synchronous replication (HA) or asynchronous (DR)

• No persistent data loss on failure (HA mode)

• No external storage • No additional skills

required

• Manual control of failover for migration/maintenance

• Queue manager level active/passive (i.e. both appliances can run workload)

Designed to be configured in seconds with no external dependencies

Availability options in the MQ Appliance

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IBM MQ Appliance M2000 • Optimized messaging, right out of the box

• Secure your business with High Availability built-in

• Lower your TCO with simpler maintenance, and

lower data storage space and power requirements

• Deploy to partners and remote premises, without

requiring local MQ expertise

IBM Integration Bus V10 • Increased flexibility with separate deployment for MQ

• Install in minutes

• New patterns to rapidly create mobile integrations

• Flexible cloud deployment options

The Complete Messaging and Integration Solution

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MQ Appliance key capabilities

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Lets really simplify it…

An MQ Appliance is a box where you create and run queue managers…

Queue manager 1 Queue manager 2 Queue manager 3

Application Application

Application

Application Application

Queue manager 4

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Physical configuration

2x Management 1GB Ethernet (also IPMI)

Display (includes capacity and version information)

Serial / KVM connection N.B. REQUIRED for initial setup General purpose 1GB Ethernet

(MQ Application traffic)

General purpose 10GB Ethernet (SPF+) (MQ Application traffic)

2x 1GB Ethernet: HA or general purpose

10 GB Ethernet (SPF+): HA or general purpose

HBA (unused)

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M2000(mqcli)# crtmqm test Please wait while 64 GB file system is initialized for queue manager 'test'. IBM MQ Appliance queue manager created. The queue manager is associated with installation 'MQAppliance'. Creating or replacing default objects for queue manager 'test'. Default objects statistics : 83 created. 0 replaced. 0 failed. Completing setup. Setup completed.

M2000(mqcli)# strmqm test IBM MQ Appliance queue manager 'test' starting. The queue manager is associated with installation 'MQAppliance'. 5 log records accessed on queue manager 'test' during the log replay phase. Log replay for queue manager 'test' complete. Transaction manager state recovered for queue manager 'test'. IBM MQ Appliance queue manager 'test' started using V8.0.0.4. M2000(mqcli)# runmqsc test 5724-H72 (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1994, 2014. Starting MQSC for queue manager test.

Serial/SSH HTTP

M2000(mqcli)# crtmqm test Please wait while 64 GB file system is initialized for queue manager 'test'. IBM MQ Appliance queue manager created. The queue manager is associated with installation 'MQAppliance'. Creating or replacing default objects for queue manager 'test'. Default objects statistics : 83 created. 0 replaced. 0 failed. Completing setup. Setup completed.

M2000(mqcli)# strmqm test IBM MQ Appliance queue manager 'test' starting. The queue manager is associated with installation 'MQAppliance'. 5 log records accessed on queue manager 'test' during the log replay phase. Log replay for queue manager 'test' complete. Transaction manager state recovered for queue manager 'test'. IBM MQ Appliance queue manager 'test' started using V8.0.0.4. M2000(mqcli)# runmqsc test 5724-H72 (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1994, 2014. Starting MQSC for queue manager test.

MQ Channel (PCF)

New for Version 8!

New for

Appliance

Administration

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Much more detail in…

3458A

The IBM MQ Appliance: Administration Simplified

Mandalay Bay NORTH - South Pacific Ballroom I

Tue, 23-Feb 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM

Aka… the session right after this!

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M2000(mqcli)# crtmqm test Please wait while 64 GB file system is initialized for queue manager 'test'. IBM MQ Appliance queue manager created. The queue manager is associated with installation 'MQAppliance'. Creating or replacing default objects for queue manager 'test'. Default objects statistics : 83 created. 0 replaced. 0 failed. Completing setup. Setup completed. M2000(mqcli)# strmqm test IBM MQ Appliance queue manager 'test' starting. The queue manager is associated with installation 'MQAppliance'. 5 log records accessed on queue manager 'test' during the log replay phase. Log replay for queue manager 'test' complete. Transaction manager state recovered for queue manager 'test'. IBM MQ Appliance queue manager 'test' started using V8.0.0.4. M2000(mqcli)# runmqsc test 5724-H72 (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1994, 2014. Starting MQSC for queue manager test.



Administrative user repository

Messaging user repository

Administrators are always defined locally on the appliance and can connect via SSH or WebUI to administer all aspects of the system

Messaging Users may be defined locally or in LDAP repository (choice per QM), and remote applications always connect with these credentials.

Secure administration

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Traditional MQ (software) Queue Manager

Application

Application


New certificate management commands

TLS (SSL) on channels

End to end and at-rest encryption using AMS built in and included as standard

Secure messaging

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Secure updates

Mq-appliance-8.0.0.3.scrypt3

Visit fix central to download appliance updates to a local server ready to deploy

Updates are supplied as a simple single file download, signed and secure, and are the only thing which can be installed on the appliance hardware.

Copy to appliance – update, and reboot. All driver, system and MQ updates are applied as a single operation

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Log database or file

The MQ Appliance can be the Queue Manager to provide both regular MQ Queue Manager capabilities No other MQ server deployment

needed Also Coordination Queue Manager

capabilities No files are stored on the appliance No MQ MFT Agent needed on the

appliance to support this Highly available and robust Secure with MQ AMS entitlement built in

– Content encrypted based on policies

Applications exchanging file data

Agent Agent Agent

“Coordination” Queue Manager

Commands

Using MQ MFT and the MQ Appliance

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• The IBM MQ Appliance supports a number of protocols for message transmission

• Today: – MQ client protocol – for connectivity from applications

•Client libraries available in the usual places, not shipped with the appliance – MQ server protocol – for connectivity with other queue managers

•This will support sender-receiver channels and server-requester channels, including cluster flows

• Subject to customer interest we may add further protocols such as – MQTT – for internet of things and mobile/web messaging – AMQP – for MQ Light API client connectivity

Connectivity

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QM1 QM2 QM3

QM1 QM2 QM3

Fully synchronous replication

Key design points: - No (persistent) message loss - No external dependencies - Transparent to application

HA Overview

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QM1 QM2 QM3

QM1 QM2 QM3

HA – When things go wrong

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DR Replication Asynchronous (10 Gb Ethernet)

• New function in 8.0.0.4 update • Provides for longer distance

recovery than HA • e.g. Out Of Region standby site

• Still ultimately requires high bandwidth connectivity as all persistent data fully mirrored

• But - asynchronous so better choice than HA for higher latency, ‘bursty’ or ‘lossy’ networks)

• Also means most recent messages are potentially lost on failover, and application logic must consider

• Manual interaction required to trigger failover/fail back.

Disaster Recovery

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Disaster Recovery – Flexible topologies

Production appliance

Off-site DR appliance

Asynchronous replication

Flexible Config •As with HA, configuration is per queue manager – though with DR there is no concept of a ‘group’. •Each QM independently configures replication to a particular appliance. •E.g. could configure single ‘DR’ site covering live appliances at multiple sites

Mixed Test/DR appliance

Production appliance

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Much more detail in…

3465A

Deploying a Highly Available Messaging Hub Using the IBM MQ Appliance

Mandalay Bay NORTH - South Pacific Ballroom I

Thu, 25-Feb 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM

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Monitoring MQ on the appliance

Typically, third party (or other IBM product) tooling will already support MQ appliance queue managers without changes. This image shows Tivoli Remote Agent displaying queue and channel information from an appliance queue manager. Various third party vendors have already explicitly confirmed support (check with vendor for specific product information).

But there are also appliance specific features… 26

• To create, click hotspot

Configure the widget

Display appliance resource use Platform-wide or queue manager CPU, Disk, memory, etc

Select: Resource class/type/element Queue manager(s) to monitor

Choose Resource class CPU Data stores API Usage stats

Monitoring System Resources Chart ‘widgets’ and new API

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Monitoring applications

Classic use cases for dedicated/specialised exit code is addressed by enhanced application ‘activity trace’ – dynamic publish subscribe API for inspection of application MQ activity.

Which applications make use of which resources (e.g. queues)

What is coming in off this set of channels right now?

How can I keep an audit log of all messages put by a particular

application?

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Find out more

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The IBM MQ Appliance is available in two models, to suit a range of performance and capacity requirements

– They’re not sold on a PVU basis – but approximately 420 & 1400 PVU

• Appliance is dedicated to running messaging server workload – No other workload (applications or middleware) – Performance should be predictable – Capacity planning should be easier

• Firmware comes pre-tuned for maximum messaging performance – Placement of workload, resource utilisation, etc.

• Performance report MPA1 now available – Based on firmware level 8.0.0.3, – Includes scenario driven examples and M2000A/B comparisons.

• Performance report MPA2 now available – HA and DR, including over increased latency connections

Performance and capacity reports

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Dedicated appliance KnowledgeCenter – particularly covers differences from software MQ installations http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5K6E/welcome GitHub community with example remote configuration scripts https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-appliance RedBook (draft at time of writing), particularly useful for first time setup and hardware configuration http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg248283.html

Online

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http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5K6E/welcome





https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-appliance





http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg248283.html

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg248283.html

Monday 10:30-11:30 3592 New MQ features

3452 Managing applications

12:00-13:00 2835 MQ on z/OS and Distributed

15:00-16:00 3470 Latest MQ z/OS features 2833 Where is my message? 3544 MQ Light in an MQ infrastructure

16:30-17:30 3573 Hybrid cloud messaging 2941 MQ Advanced

Tuesday 08:30-09:30 3540 The MQ Light API

12:00-13:00 3456 The IBM MQ Appliance

13:15-14:15 3499 Introducing Message Hub 3458 MQ Appliance administration

14:30-15:30 6432 MQ updates and futures (InnerCircle) 2849 Messaging feedback roundtable

16:00-17:00 3544 MQ Light in an MQ infrastructure 3513 MQ hands on lab

Wednesday 08:30-09:30 3602 Managing your MQ environment

12:00-13:00 3613 Designing MQ self service 6408 Hybrid messaging roadmap (InnerCircle)

13:15-14:00 3416 HA and DR with MQ 3433 Why secure your messaging?

15:45-16:30 3429 Securing MQ 2847 Meet the messaging experts

16:00-17:00 3508 MQ Light hands on lab

16:45-17:30 2275 Migrating to the IBM MQ Appliance

Thursday 08:30-09:15 3420 MQ Clustering

2931 Business agility with self service MQ

09:30-10:15 3479 MQ z/OS clusters and shared queue 3450 Optimising MQ applications 2849 Messaging feedback roundtable

10:30-11:15 3465 MQ Appliance high availability 3481 MQ z/OS messaging connectivity

11:30-12:15 3474 Active-active messaging 3537 Monitoring and managing MQ 3425 MQ publish/subscribe

Find us at the EXPO: Hybrid Integration peds 65-68

Check out the Hybrid Messaging sub topic under the Hybrid Integration topic for further customer and business

partner sessions

Hybrid Messaging from the IBM experts at InterConnect 2016 Sunday

14:30-15:30 6408 Hybrid messaging roadmap (InnerCircle)

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