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POWER7 Tech TalkPOWER7 Tech Talk

by

Domenic SimonettiSolutions Architect

May2010

Presented to

Central PA Power Users Group


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POWER7 Processor

POWER7 Servers POWER 750

POWER 755

POWER 770

POWER 780

POWER Blades

Performance/Competition

Active Memory Expansion

Related Announcements

Upgrades

Q&A

Agenda


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Source: IDC Quarterly Server Tracker Q309 release, November 2009

UNIX Server Rolling Four Quarter Average Revenue Share

POWER4™Dynamic LPARsDynamic LPARs

POWER6Live Partition Live Partition

MobilityMobilityPOWER5™Micro-PartitioningMicro-Partitioning

Customers are Moving to Higher Value

…as shown by the largest shift of customer spending in UNIX History


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Balance System Design Cache, Memory, and IO

POWER7 Processor Technology 6th Implementation of multi-core design On chip L2 & L3 caches

POWER7 System Architecture Blades to High End offerings Enhances memory implementation PCIe, SAS / SATA

Built in Virtualization Memory Expansion VM Control

Green Technologies Processor Nap & Sleep Mode Memory Power Down support Aggressive Power Save / Capping Modes

Availability Processor Instruction Retry Alternate Process Recovery Concurrent Add & Services

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Virtualization without Limits Drive over 90% utilization Dynamically scale per demand

Dynamic Energy Optimization 70-90% energy cost reduction EnergyScale™ technologies

Resiliency without Downtime Roadmap to continuous availability High availability systems & scaling

Management with Automation VMControl to manage virtualization Automation to reduce task time

Workload-Optimizing Systems

AIX - the future of UNIX

Total integration with i

Scalable Linux ready for x86 consolidation

Power your Planet

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Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet.


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POWER7POWER7ProcessorProcessor

POWER7 Processor


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IBM POWER Processor Roadmap

2004 2001 2007 2010

POWER4/4+

Dual Core Chip Multi Processing Distributed Switch Shared L2 Dynamic LPARs (32)180nm,

POWER5/5+

Dual Core & Quad Core MdEnhanced Scaling2 Thread SMTDistributed Switch +Core Parallelism +FP Performance +Memory bandwidth +130nm, 90nm

POWER6/6+

Dual Core High Frequencies Virtualization + Memory Subsystem + Altivec Instruction Retry Dyn Energy Mgmt 2 Thread SMT + Protection Keys 65nm

POWER7/7+

4,6,8 Core 32MB On-Chip eDRAM Power Optimized Cores Mem Subsystem ++ 4 Thread SMT++ Reliability + VSM & VSX Protection Keys+ 45nm, 32nm

POWER8

Future

First Dual Corein Industry

HardwareVirtualizationfor Unix & Linux

FastestProcessorIn Industry

MostPOWERful &ScalableProcessor inIndustry

IBM is the leaderin Processorand Serverdesign

3 Year Revolution18 month “+” evolution


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Transition from POWER6

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ory Interface

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Memory++

L3 CacheeDRAM

Cores: 8 Intelligent Cores / chip (socket) 4 and 6 Intelligent Cores available on some models 12 execution units per core Out of order execution 4 Way SMT per core 32 threads per chip L1 – 32 KB I Cache / 32 KB D Cache per core L2 – 256 KB per core

Chip: 32MB Intelligent L3 Cache on chip

Memory: Dual DDR3 Controllers 100 GB/s sustained Memory bandwidth / chip

Scalability: Up to 32 Sockets 360 GB/s peak SMP bandwidth / chip 590 GB/s peak I/O bandwidth / chip Up to 20,000 coherent operations in flight

Energy: Aggressive processor Nap & Sleep modes 10% “Over clock” when thermals are good


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Memory Channel Bandwidth Evolution

DDR2 @ 553 / 667 MHzEffective Bandwidth:

2.6 GB/sec

DDR3 @ 1066 MHzEffective Bandwidth:

6.4 GB/sec

DDR2 @ 553 MHzEffective Bandwidth:

1.1 GB/s

POWER5 POWER6 POWER7

Memory Performance: 2x DIMM



DDR3

DDR3

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Multi-Threading Evolution

Thread 1 Executing

Thread 0 Executing

No Thread Executing

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Single thread Out of Order


S80 HW Multi-thread


POWER5 2 Way SMT


POWER7 4 Way SMT

Thread 3 Executing

Thread 2 Executing


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32 MB L3 Cache

POWER7 TurboCore Mode

TurboCore Chips: 4 available cores Aggregation of L3 Caches of unused cores.TurboCore chips have a 2X the L3 Cache per Chip available4 TurboCore Chips L3 = 32 MB

Performance gain over POWER6.Provides up to 1.5X per core to core

Chips run at higher frequency:Power reduction of unused cores.

With “Reboot”, System can be reconfigured to 8 core mode.ASM Menus

Unused CoreTurboCores

POWER7 ChipPower 780 TurboCore Chip


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POWER7 Multi-Threading Options

TurboCore Option50% of the available cores active

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Power Systems Portfolio

Power 755JS Blades

Power 770

Power 750

Power 780

HPCHPC

Consistency Binary compatibility Mainframe-inspired reliability Advanced Virtualization AIX, Linux and IBM i OS

Complete flexibility for workload deployment

Power 700701 & 702


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Industry leading performance with POWER7 processorsPower 750 Express: 1- to 4-socket; 6- or 8-cores per socket

ENERGY STAR-qualifiedMeets EPA guidelines for energy efficiency

Workload-optimizing capabilities improve performance Intelligent Threads optimization, Intelligent Cache sharing, Active Memory Expansion and 320 virtual machines in 2010

Intelligent Energy capabilities that balances performance and efficiency: Frequency boost for increased performance or reduction during low demand for energy reduction >3X increased performance per watt

Ease of OwnershipPopular, ready to run ‘Edition’ configurationsLight Path DiagnosticsCustomer Setup

Power is the Innovation that will Deliver Business AdvantagesLeadership Performance and Energy Efficiency

Power 750 Express


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Power 750 System

8233-E8B

POWER7 Architecture6 Cores @ 3.3 GHz8 Cores @ 3. 0, 3.3, 3.55 GHz Max: 4 Sockets

DDR3 Memory Up to 512 GB

System Unit SAS SFF Bays

Up to 8 Drives (HDD or SSD)73 / 146 / 300GB @ 15k (2.4 TB)(Opt: cache & RAID-5/6)

System Unit IO Expansion Slots

PCIe x8: 3 Slots (2 shared)PCI-X DDR: 2 Slots 1 GX+ & Opt 1 GX++ 12X cards

Integrated SAS / SATA Yes

System Unit Integrated Ports 3 USB, 2 Serial, 2 HMC

Integrated Virtual Ethernet Quad 10/100/1000 Optional: Dual 10 Gb

System Unit Media Bays 1 Slim-line DVD & 1 Half Height

IO Drawers w/ PCI slots PCIe = 4 Max: PCI-X = Max 8

Cluster 12X SDR / DDR (IB technology)

Redundant Power andCooling

Yes (AC or DC Power)Single phase 240 VAC or -48 VDC

Certification (SoD) NEBS / ETSI for harsh environments

EnergyScale Active Thermal Power ManagementDynamic Energy Save & Capping

4UDepth: 28.8”


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750 CPW & rPerf Details

6-core 3.3 GHz #8335 CPW rPerf

6-core 37200 70.07

12-core 69200 134.54

18-core 94900 193.40

24-core 135300 252.26

8-core 3.0 GHz #8334

8-core 44600 81.24

16-core 82600 155.99

24-core 122500 224.23

32-core 158300 292.47

8-core 3.3 GHz #8332

8-core 47800 86.99

16-core 88700 167.01

24-core 129700 140.08

32-core 168800 313.15

8-core 3.55 GHz #8336

32-core 181000 331.06

POWER6 rPerf

550 (8) 4.7Ghz 68.20

550 (8) 5.0GHz 78.60

560 (16) 3.6GHz 100.30

570 (16) 4.4GHz 127.32

570 (16) 5.0GHz 141.21

595 (32) 4.2GHz 266.51

595 (64) 4.2GHz 479.89

595 (32) 5.0GHz 307.12

595 (64) 5.0GHz 553.01


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5.3 / 6.1 RHEL / SLES

Power 755 4-Socket HPC System

Power 755

POWER7 Architecture 4 Processor Sockets = 32 Cores8 Core @ 3.3 GHz

DDR3 Memory 128 GB / 256 GB, 32 DIMM Slots

System Unit SAS SFF Bays

Up to 8 disk or SSD 73 / 146 / 300GB @ 15K (up to 2.4TB)

System Unit Expansion

PCIe x8: 3 Slots (1 shared)PCI-X DDR: 2 Slots GX++ Bus

Integrated Ports 3 USB, 2 Serial, 2 HMC

Integrated Ethernet Quad 1Gb Copper(Opt: Dual 10Gb Copper or Fiber)

System Unit Media Bay 1 DVD-RAM ( No supported tape bay )

Cluster Up to 64 nodesEthernet or IB-DDR

Redundant Power Yes (AC or DC Power)Single phase 240vac or -48 VDC

Certifications (SoD) NEBS / ETSI for harsh environments


Up to 8.4 TFlops per Rack( 10 nodes per Rack )

4U x 28.8” depth


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Feature 755 750

Processors 32-core @ 3.3 GHz8 / 16 / 24 / 32-core @ 3.55 GHz 6 / 12 / 18 / 24-core @ 3.3 GHz 8 / 16 / 24 / 32-core @ 3.0 GHz

Memory 128GB - 256GB 4GB & 8GB DIMMS

8 - 512GB 4GB, 8GB, 16GB DIMMS

GX slot support Yes – IB clustering Yes

I/O Drawer support No Yes

DASD Backplane No Split Backplane Split Backplane support

Integrated Ethernet Quad GbE or Dual 10GbE Quad GbE or Dual 10GbE

Virtualization No PowerVM support PowerVM Std and Ent

System unit SFF Bays and drives

8 SFF SAS HDD / SDD10k and 15K SFF drives

8 SFF SAS HDD / SDD10k and 15K SFF drives Optional Integrated RAID

Internal Tape No Yes

Performance Metric TFLOPS rPerf

Operating System AIX, Linux No H/W Raid Cards

AIX, IBM i, LinuxH/W Raid Cards

Power 755 vs. 750 Offering Structures


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Power 770

Power 770

Processor Technology 6 Cores @ 3.55 GHz8 Cores @ 3.1 GHz

L3 Cache On Chip

Redundant Power & Cooling Yes

Redundant Server Processor Yes / Two Enclosure minimum

Redundant Clock Yes / Two Enclosure minimum

Concurrent Add Support Yes

Concurrent Service Yes

System Unit Single Enclosure 4 Enclosures

Processors Up to 2 Sockets 8 Sockets

DDR3 Memory (Buffered) Up to 512 GB Up to 2 TB

SAS/SSD SFF Bays 6 24

DVD-RAM Media Bays 1 Slim-line 4 Slim-line

SAS / SATA Controller 2 / 1 8 / 4

PCIe bays 6 PCIe 24 PCIe

GX++ Slots (12X DDR) 2 8

Integrated EthernetStd: Quad 1GbOpt: Dual 10Gb + Dual 1 Gb

Std: Four Quad 1Gb Opt: Four x Dual 10Gb +

Dual 1 Gb

USB 3 12

12X I/O Drawers w/ PCI slots

Max: 4 PCIe, 8 PCI-X

Max: 16 PCIe, 32 PCI-X

Maint Coverage: 9 x 5

4U x 32 inches Depth


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Power 780

Power 780Processor Technology 4 Cores @ 4.14 GHz TurboCore

8 Cores @ 3.86 GHz

L3 Cache On Chip

Redundant Power & Cooling Yes

Redundant Server Processor Yes / Two Enclosure minimum

Redundant Clock Yes / Two Enclosure minimum

Concurrent Add Support Yes

Concurrent Service Yes

System Unit Single Enclosure 4 Enclosures

Processors 2 Sockets 8 Sockets

DDR3 Memory (Buffered) Up to 512 GB Up to 2 TB

SAS/SSD SFF Bays (CEC) 6 24

DVD-RAM Media Bays 1 Slim-line 4 Slim-line

SAS / SATA Controller 2 / 1 8 / 4

PCIe (CEC) 6 PCIe 24 PCIe

GX++ Slots (12X DDR) 2 8

Integrated EthernetStd: Quad 1Gb Opt: Dual 10Gb + Dual 1 Gb

Std: Four Quad 1Gb Opt: Four x Dual 10Gb +

Dual 1 Gb

USB 3 12

12X I/O Drawers w/ PCI slots Max: 4 PCIe, 8 PCI-X Max: 16 PCIe, 32 PCI-X

Maint Coverage 24 X 7

PowerCare Support


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770 and 780 CPW & rPerf Details

12-core 3.5 GHz #4980

CPW rPerf

12-core 73100 140.75

24-core 99000 261.19

36-core 131050 377.28

48-core 248550 493.37

16-core 3.1 GHz #4981

16-core 88800 165.30

32-core 155850 306.74

48-core 229800 443.06

64-core 292700 579.39

8-core 3.86 GHz #4982 CPW rPerf

16-core 105200 195.45

32-core 177400 362.70

48-core 265200 523.89

64-core 343050 685.09

780 TurboCore mode values not shown

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780

POWER6 rPerf

550 (8) 4.7Ghz 68.20

550 (8) 5.0GHz 78.60

560 (16) 3.6GHz 100.30

570 (16) 4.4GHz 127.32

570 (16) 5.0GHz 141.21

595 (32) 4.2GHz 266.51

595 (64) 4.2GHz 479.89

595 (32) 5.0GHz 307.12

595 (64) 5.0GHz 553.01


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Power 770 & 780 vs Power 570 Differences

Power 570 Power 770 & 780Up to 8 sockets, Up to 32 Cores Up to 8 Sockets, Up to 64 cores

Up to 768 GB Memory Up to 2 TB Memory ( Initial GA will be 1 TB)

DDR2 DIMMS DDR3 DIMMS

Six 3.5” SAS Bays / Enclosure Six SFF SAS Bays / Enclosure

4 PCIe & 2 PCI-X slots per Enclosure 6 PCIe slots per Enclosure

No write cache or RAID-5/6 support Write cache & RAID-5/6 support

Single integrated DASD / Media Cntlr Three integrated DASD / Media Controllers

Optional Split Backplane Standard Split backplaneOptional Tri-Split Backplane

No Power & Management Thermal Power & Thermal management TPMD support

Clock Cold FailoverECC with bit steerConcurrent Drawer Maint restrictionsConcurrent Drawer Add cable restrictions

Clock Hot FailoverECC with DRAM sparingNo Restrictions ( 4Q / 2010 )No Restrictions


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IBM Power Systems Comparisons

Power 750 Power 770 Power 780 Power 595Nodes One Up to four Up to four Up to eight

Cores (single system image)

6, 12, 18, 24 or8, 16, 24, 32 4 – 64 4 – 64 8 – 64

Upgradeable to 256

Frequency 3.0, 3.3, 3.55 GHz 3.1, 3.5 GHz 3.8, 4.1 GHz 4.2, 5.0 GHz

SMP buses 4 byte 8 byte 8 byte 8 byte

System memory Up to 512 GB Up to 2 TB* Up to 2 TB* Up to 4 TB

Memory per core 16 or 21 GB 32 or 42 GB 32 or 64 GB 64 GB

Memory Bandwidth (peak) 273 GB/s 1088 GB/s 1088 GB/s 1376 GB/s

Memory Bandwidth per core (peak) 8.5 GB/s 17 or 22 GB/s 17 or 34 GB/s 21.5 GB/s

Memory controllers 1 per processor 2 per processor 2 per processor 2 per processor

I/O Bandwidth (peak) 30 GB/s 236 GB/s 236 GB/s 640 GB/s

I/O Bandwidth per core (peak) 0.9GB/s 3.6 or 4.9 GB/s 3.6 or 7.3 GB/s 10 GB/s

I/O loops Up to 2 Up to 8 Up to 8 Up to 32

Total disk drives Up to 576 Up to 1200 Up to 1200 Up to 2640

rPerf per core Up to 11 Up to 11 Up to 13 Up to 10.8

Maximum LPARs Up to 320* Up to 640* Up to 640* Up to 254

RAS StandardEnhanced Memory

Dynamic FSP & clocks

Enhanced MemoryDynamic FSP &

clocks

Enhanced MemoryDynamic FSP &

clocks

Warranty 9 x 5 9 x 5 24 x 7 24 x 7

PowerCare No No Yes Yes

* Planned availability in 4Q 2010


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RAS Item Power 750 Power 770 Power 780

Redundant / Hot Swap Fans & Blowers

Hot Swap DASD / Media / PCI Adapters

Concurrent Firmware Update

Redundant / Hot Swap Power Supplies

Dual disk controllers (split backplane)

Processor Instruction Retry

Alternate Processor Recovery

Storage Keys

PowerVM™/Live Partition Mobility/Live Application Mobility

Redundant Service Processors * *

Redundant System Clocks * *

Redundant / Hot Swap Power Regulators

Dynamic Processor Sparing

Memory Sparing

Hot GX Adapter Add and Cold Repair

Hot-node Add / Cold-node Repair * *

Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add * *

POWER7 Enhanced Memory

Dynamic Service Processor and System Clock Failover * *

Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add for all nodes** * *

Hot GX Adapter Repair

Move Up to Enterprise Class RAS OptionalStandard

Not available

* Requires two or more nodes** Planned for 4Q 2010


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POWER7 systems are over twice as good as POWER6 systems!

Twice the performance: Power 780 32-core performance per core is over twice the Power 570 32-core

Twice the scaling: Power 770 and 780 both offer twice the number of cores as the largest Power 570

Twice the capacity: Power 770 and 780 offer more than twice (~3 times) the throughput of the largest Power 570

Twice the memory: - Over twice the physical memory of the Power 570 - Active Memory ExpansionTM enables up to twice the effective memory compared to what is physically

installed

Twice the energy efficiency: Power 770 & 780 offer over twice the performance per watt (up to 3 times) than the most efficient Power 570

Twice the cores for the same price: Buy twice the cores with the Power 770 and pay less than a comparable POWER6 based Power 570


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POWER7POWER7BladesBlades


IBM Power Systems Power System BladesPS700/701/702

POWER7 Architecture4 Cores @ 3.0 GHz PS7008 Cores @ 3.0GHz PS70116 Cores @ 3.0GHz PS702

DDR3 Memory 64GB/128GB/256GBPS700/PS701/PS702

Internal Disk 0-2 SFF DASD

PCIe Slots 2/2/4

Integrated SAS / SATA Yes

System Unit Integrated Ports 3 USB, 2 Serial, 2 HMC

Integrated Virtual Ethernet Quad GigabitOptional: Dual 10 Gb


Description rPerf CPW

8406-70Y PS700 4-cores 3.0GHz 45.13 21,000

8406-71Y PS701 8-cores 3.0GHz 81.24 42,000

8406-72Y PS702 16-cores 3.0GHz 154.36 76,300


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• Performance and Energy Efficiency• Smart choices to minimize complexity, improve efficiency and scale easily

• Single-wide 4 or 8-core or Double-wide 16-core • Elegantly simple scalability

• Intelligent Threads• Utilizes more threads when workloads benefit

• Intelligent energy optimization with EnergyScale Technology• Boosts frequency for more performance

• High Performance Computing acceleration (AltiVec SIMD acceleration)• Execute up to eight single-precision or double-precision floating point operations

per clock cycle per core

• Flexibility and Choice• Supports AIX, i and Linux operating systems

• Consolidate all three on a single platform• Supports multiple BladeCenter chassis

• Investment Protection• IBM BladeCenter's innovative, open design with support for Open Fabric Manager

IBM BladeCenter PS700/701/702 Express

Smart BladeCenter Solutions with Power Blades

Highly Virtualized environments with demanding Commercial workload performance

Infrastructure Consolidation and Application Serving

Replace traditional rack & tower based servers with blades

What’s yourrequirement?

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4, 8 or 16 cores Single or Double Wide 3.0GHz POWER7 Up to 256GB of Memory

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New Power Blades are better than Sun CMT blades in every important performance category 2.4x to >3.0x better performance per blade, per

core, and per socket

2.2x to >3.9x better performance per rack unit

1.6x to 3.0x better performance per Watt

See substantiation chart for sources & benchmark detail

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Comparison to HP BL860c i2

– PS702 has > 3X performance

– PS702 P/P is even better

See substantiation chart for sources & benchmark detail

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PS702 BL660c i2

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The Intel Itanium is tottering towards death, analyst reckonsC Shanti | Thu 26th Nov 2009, 10:56 am

http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/44828-the-intel-itanium-is-tottering-towards-death-analyst-reckons

A report from senior analyst Jon Peddie suggests that Intel's 64 bit flagship microprocessor, the Itanium, is dead in the water.

So is it a turkey?


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US$347,271

At equal capacity for a full BladeCenter H Chassis with 7 two socket (16-core) PS702 blades compared to a full HP C7000 Blade Chassis with 16 two socket (12-core) HP BL460c G6 blades leveraging the higher utilization and virtualization efficiency capabilities of Power Blades.

IBM Power Blades Deliver Lower TCA than HP x86 blade solution

See Lower TCA chart for sources and substantiation

US$213,053

HP Solution IBM Solution

39% lower TCA with 56% less blades


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BladeCenter PS Blade Overview

IBM BladeCenter PS700 Express IBM BladeCenter PS701 Express IBM BladeCenter PS702 Express

ArchitecturePOWER7 4-Core (1 Socket x 4 Cores per blade)Single Wide

POWER7 8-core (1 Socket x 8 Cores per blade)Single Wide

POWER716-core (1 Socket x 8 Cores per blade)Double Wide

Memory4GB to 64GB DDR3 (Chipkill)4GB@1066MHz, 8GB@800MHz

4GB to 128GB DDR3 (Chipkill)4GB@1066MHz, 8GB@800MHz

4GB to 256GB DDR3 (Chipkill)4GB@1066MHz, 8GB@800MHz

DASD / Bays 0-2 SAS disk 0-1 SAS disk 0-2 SAS disk

Expansion Card Slots1 PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card1 PCI-E CFFh ExpansionCard

1 PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card1 PCI-E CFFh ExpansionCard

2 PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card2 PCI-E CFFh ExpansionCard

Integrated Features

Keyboard, Video and MouseDual Port 1Gb EthernetSAS ControllerUSB

Keyboard, Video and MouseDual Port 1Gb EthernetSAS ControllerUSB

Keyboard, Video and MouseQuad Port 1Gb EthernetSAS ControllerUSB

Scalability Support No Yes – Factory or Customer Upgrade Yes – Factory or Customer Upgrade

Fibre Support Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis) Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis) Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis)

Redundant Power Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis) Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis) Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis)

Redundant Cooling Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis) Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis) Yes (via BladeCenter Chassis)

Service Processor FSP1 (IPMI, SOL) FSP1 (IPMI, SOL) FSP1 (IPMI, SOL)

Virtualization IBM PowerVM (optional Editions) IBM PowerVM (optional Editions) IBM PowerVM (optional Editions)

Systems ManagementIBM Director and CSMIBM EnergyScale Technology

IBM Director and CSMIBM EnergyScale Technology

IBM Director and CSMIBM EnergyScale Technology

OS Support AIX, i, Linux AIX, i, Linux AIX, i, Linux

BladeCenter Chassis Support

BCE, BCH*, BCHT, BCT, BCS*

* In Power Systems Channel

BCH*, BCHT, BCS*


BCH*, BCHT, BCS*


Enhances most popular blades for UNIX* with 3 New Offerings!

* IDC 4Q2009 Server Tracker RISC/Itanium blades


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Performance & Performance & Virtualization Virtualization

versus the versus the competitioncompetition


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Linux

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Power Systems Virtualization for Oracle – Tier Consolidation & Virtualization –

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AIX Kernel AIX Kernel AIX Kernel AIX Kernel AIX Kernel AIX Kernel AIX Kernel AIX Kernel

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EthernetPartition Mobility Requires:• POWER6• AIX 5.3 / 6.1 or Linux • All resources must be “Virtualized”

•No real resources• SAN storage environment

•SAN Boot, temp space, same network

Partition Mobility StepsValidationCopy memory pages

Host to target systemsTransfer

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Live Partition Mobility On Oracle Workloads


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Customer Shared Pool


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4-sockets 8-sockets 32-sockets

24-coreHP DL585AMD

32-coreSun T5440

32-corePower 750

48-core Sun x4640AMD

128-coreSun M9000

48-core HP DL785AMD

2-sockets

8-coreSun Fire X4270Xeon 5500

More SAP performance than any 8-socket system in the industry

Comparable to a 128-core, 32-socket Sun M9000

15,600SAP users on SAP SD 2 Tier

Power 750 Express with DB2

Best SAP 2-Tier Results for 2, 4 , 8 and 16 sockets. See SAP Benchmarks chart for detail or SAP websitehttp://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx


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The most energy efficient 4-socket system on the planetThe first Energy Star certified RISC system

Performance Per Watt

Most energy efficient systemsPower 750

ItaniumHP rx6600

SPARC Sun T5440

x86HP DL585

POWER7Power 750with PowerVM


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Power 750 Delivers Superior Performance than HP Integrity Entry, Midrange and High End Servers

Power 750 HP rx6600 HP rx7640 HP rx8640 HPSuperdome

Performance

• More than 10X performance than 4-socket HP Integrity rx6600 server

• 28% better performance than 64-core HP Integrity Superdome

32 cores

32 cores

8 cores16 cores

64 cores

IBM Power 750 Express

See See Power 750 Performance and Efficiency compared to HP Integrity servers for substantiation detail.Source: SPECiint_rate2006. For the latest SPEC benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org.


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POWER7 means more SAP Throughput


3900

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11660

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15002000

250030003500

4000

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Users per processor/socketPow er 750 SUN M9000 SUN T5440

SUN x4270 HP DL585 G6

*IBM Power 750 certification number not available at press time and can be found at sap.com/benchmarks. IBM Power System 750, 4p / 32–c / 128 – t, POWER7, 3.55 GHz, 256 GB memory, 15,600 SD users, dialog resp.: 0.98s, line items/hour: 1,704,330, Dialog steps/hour: 5,113,000, SAPS: 85,220, DB time (dialog/ update):0.015s / 0.028s, CPU utilization: 99%, OS: AIX 6.1, DB2 9.7: SUN M9000 32p / 128-c / 256-t, 1024 GB memory, 17430 SD users, SPARC VII QC, 2.88 GHz, Solaris 10, Oracle 10g, cert#: 2009038; SUN T5540, 4p / 32-c / 256 –t, 256 GB memory, 4720 SD users, UltraSPARC T2 plus OC, 1.6 GHz, Solaris 10, Oracle 10g , cert# 2009026-1; SUN X4270, 2p / 8-c / 16-t, 256 GB memory, 3800 SD users, Xeon X5570 QC, 2.93 GHz, Solaris 10, Oracle 10g, cert#: 2009033, HP DL585 G6, 4p / 24-c / 24-t, 64 GB memory, 4665 SD users, AMD Opteron 8439 SE, 2.8 GHz, Windows Server 2008 EE, , SQL Server 2008, cert#: 2009025. All results are 2-tier, SAP EHP 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode) and valid as of 2/9/2010.

SD 2-Tier ERP tests* show on Power 750 show new levels of throughput

– Over 7X better per processor throughput than Sun SPARC M9000– Over 3X better per processor throughput than Sun SPARC T5440– Over 3X better per processor throughput than HP ProLiant DL585 G6

– Over 2X better per processor throughput than Sun X4270

Benchmark

3900


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Consolidate HP Integrity rx7640 and 71 Proliant DL380 G5Linux Servers onto One Power 750 server

3.55 GHz; 4U 1,950W SPECint_rate2006: 1060

Utilize 3% of the previous energy 97% less space – 3+ racks to one Power 750 552 fewer cores reducing per core s/w licensing Dramatically reduce network and power cabling complexity


HP Integrity rx7640• 1.6GHz; 10U• 2,128W• SPECint_rate2006: 201

71 X HP Proliant DL380 G5• 3.0Ghz; 2U X 62 servers• 1,193W; Total = 110,949W• SPECint_rate2006: 36.2


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IBM Power 780 Delivers Performance with Efficiency

780 delivers over 3X the performance per core of HP Superdome and Sun M9000780 delivers over 5.8X the performance per watt of HP Superdome and Sun

M9000

System Chip/Core/Thread Date SPECint_rate2006 Per coreMaximum energy

requirement (WATTs)

Per KWatt

IBM Power 780 (3.8 GHz POWER7) 8/64/256 February 2010 2530 39.5 6,400 395

IBM Power 570 (4.2 GHz POWER6) 16/32/64 October 2008 832 26 5,600 148

Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 64/256/512 October 2009 2586 10.1 44,800 58

HP Integrity Superdome (1.6 GHz Itanium 2) 64/128/128 September 2006 1648 12.875 24,392 68

Performance Per Core Performance Per Watt

Source: http://www.spec.org IBM results available at announcement. All other results as of 01/27/10. Not all results listed. Performance per KWatt is calculated by dividing the performance by the recommended maximum power usage for site planning. This defines the requirement for the power infrastructure. Actual power used by the systems will be less than this value for all of the systems. For HP systems, this information is contained in the QuickSpecs available through www.hp.com. For Sun systems, this information is available through the respective Site Planning Guides available through www.sun.com.

POWER6HPSuperdome

SunM9000

POWER7 POWER6HPSuperdome

SunM9000

POWER7


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Power 750 Express delivers Best of Breed eBS R12 Order To Cash performance

Delivers the best eBS R12 Order to Cash Medium 2-tier result. Surpasses 55XX per system, per processor and per core results

64% higher per core and 23% overall against Nehalem 55XX 8-core system.


All results use Oracle eBS R12 RUP 4 Payroll Batch Medium Kit and are current as of 2/8/2010. For more information go to http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/html/results.html


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Power 750 Express delivers Best of Breed eBS R12 Payroll performance

Delivers the best eBS R12 Payroll Medium 2-tier result - Surpasses HP per system, per processor and per core

6 core Power 750 out performs HP’s 8 core DL380 G6- 49% higher per core and 12% overall


All results use Oracle eBS R12 RUP 4 Payroll Batch Medium Kit and are current as of 2/8/2010. For more information go to http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/html/results.html


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POWER Runs Virtualized Every Time, All the Time

• All Power systems run virtualized all the time

• VMWare overhead is up to 20% running OLTP applications

Run in a virtualized environment & the POWER advantage grows!

Source: Virtualizing Performance-Critical Database Applications in VMware® vSphere™ a vailable at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_ESX40_Oracle-TPC-C-

eval.pdf as of August 21, 2009

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OverPOWERing Nehalem

More scalabilityUp to 64 lightning fast coresAvoid scaleout overhead

More performance per socketUp to eight lightning fast cores

More performance per coreLightning fast cores

More systems infrastructure – especially in TurboCore modeUp to 3.5 X the memory per core Up to 7 X the memory bandwidth per coreUp to 3.5 X the L2 + L3 cache per core

Less virtualization overhead


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TPC-C POWER7 vs. Competition (per core results)

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www.tpc.org


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Active MemoryActive MemoryExpansionExpansion


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With HMC, check Active Memory Expansion box and entertrue and max memory

memory expansion factorTo turn off expansion, unclick boxPartition IPL required to turn on or

off

Active Memory Expansion Modeled Statistics:-----------------------

Modeled Expanded Memory Size : 8.00 GB

Expansion True Memory Modeled Memory CPU Usage Factor Modeled Size Gain Estimate--------- -------------- ----------------- ----------- 1.21 6.75 GB 1.25 GB [ 19%] 0.00 1.31 6.25 GB 1.75 GB [ 28%] 0.20 1.41 5.75 GB 2.25 GB [ 39%] 0.35 1.51 5.50 GB 2.50 GB [ 45%] 0.58 1.61 5.00 GB 3.00 GB [ 60%] 1.46

Active Memory Expansion Recommendation:---------------------

The recommended AME configuration for this workload is to configure the LPAR with a memory size of 5.50 GB and to configure a memory expansion factor of 1.51. This will result in a memory expansion of 45% from the LPAR's current memory size. With this

configuration, the estimated CPU usage due to Active Memory Expansion is approximately 0.58 physical processors, and the

estimated overall peak CPU resource required for the LPAR is 3.72 physical processors.

5.5 true8.0 max

Sample output

Act Mem Exp – Turning a Partition On or Off


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memory. Number cores constant at 4 cores.

No Impact on throughput at 111% memory expansion

Minimal impact to response time at 111% expansion

111% more memory for 15% additional CPU

75% more memory for 1% additional CPU

CPU Utilization

Response Time

Throughput

Your results will vary depending on compressibility of the data and available CPU resource

% Expand 0% 12% 27% 46% 73% 111%

171%

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Gained GB

0 1.55 3.0 4.50 6.0 7.50 9.0

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Sample SAP ERP Workload Test Results Details at Constant Throughput: Single Partition (DB + AppServer)


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represents measured results in a controlled lab environment. Your results may vary.

Max Partition throughput: 99 tps Max Partition Throughput: 166 tps

Without Active Memory Expansion

Partition utilization Memory: 100% (18 GB)

CPU: 46% (12 cores in LPAR)Memory capacity is the bottle-neck

CPU is under-utilized Handles 1000 simulated users

With Active Memory Expansion

Partition utilization Memory: 100% (18 GB true)

CPU: 88% (12 cores in LPAR) Note: Most of the CPU increase is due to additional work done on

server

Higher throughput enabled with the same amount of physical memory Gain 37% memory capacity

Handles 1700 simulated users

+ 65%

12-core POWER7 partition18 GB Memory

18 GB true . 0 GB expanded

Expanded Memory

12-core POWER7 partition24.7 GB Memory

18 GB true . 6.7 GB expanded

Sample SAP ERP Workload, Single Partition(DataBase + AppServer)


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1Planning Tool

A. Part of AIX 6.1 TL4B. Calculates data

compressibility & estimates CPU

overhead due to Active Memory

ExpansionC. Provides initial

recommendations

260-Day Trial

A. One-time, temporarily enablement

B. Config LPAR based on planning tool

C. Use AIX tools to monitor Act Mem Exp environment

D. Tune based on actual results

3Deploy into Production

A. Permanently enable Active Memory

ExpansionB. Deploy workload into

productionC. Continue to monitor

workload using AIX performance tools

Memory Expansion

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Active Memory Expansion – Client Deployment Steps


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POWER7POWER7Related Related

AnnouncementsAnnouncements


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POWER7 Virtualization Support

Maintain 1 to 10 ratio for Physical cores to LPARs Power 750 Up to 160 (320) LPARS Power 755 Not Supported Power 770 / 78: Up to 160 (640) LPARs

Active Memory Expansion Active Memory Expansion compresses in-memory data to fit more data

into memory Increases the effective amount of memory capacity for AIX partitions

Managed by the OS and hypervisor OS compresses and decompress data based on memory accesses

Is transparent to applications


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AIX 6 Editions

AIX 6 is available in three different editions:AIX 6 Standard Edition

Suitable for most UNIX workloadsVertical scalability up to 64 cores

AIX 6 Enterprise EditionAIX plus enterprise management Includes AIX 6 Standard Edition plus Systems Director Enterprise Edition and the Workload Partitions Manager for AIXVertical scalability up to 64 cores

AIX 6 Express EditionLower priced edition targeted a low end servers andconsolidation of smaller workloads on larger servers Includes all the functionality of AIX 6 Standard EditionVertical scalability is limited to 4 cores and 8GB of memory per core in a single partitionClients can use multiple AIX Express Edition partitions in a single larger server

Clients can mix multiple AIX editions in the same server

Capab

ility

AIX StandardEdition

AIX EnterpriseEdition

AIX ExpressEdition

Note: AIX V5.3 is only available in a Standard Edition


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AIX Enterprise Edition

AIX Enterprise Edition includes:– AIX 6– WPAR Manager V2.1– Systems Director Enterprise Edition

• IBM System Director 6.1.2• Active Energy Manager 4.2• VMControl 2.2 (including Image Management & System Pools)• Network Control 1.1 • Transition Manager for HP® SIM• Service and Support Manager 6.1.2• IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.2• Agents: ITM for Energy Mgmt v6.2; VMControl Agent v2.2; Power System

Agents (CEC, AIX Premium, VIOS, HMC) v6.2.1; Systems Director Agent • TADDM v7.2

AIX Enterprise Edition is a single offering that brings together AIX 6 with key service management capabilities that are designed to:

Improve availability through access to relevant real-time information and predictive monitoring to avoid future problems

Enhance operational efficiency through visualization of resources and centralized deployment and management of virtualized AIX environments

Provide accurate assessment of system resource usage


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Monitor resources to maintain system availability

Platform and enterprise system monitoringPlatform and enterprise system monitoringProactive alertsProactive alertsSystem pool monitoringSystem pool monitoring

Analyze system status to find the root cause of problems more quickly

At-a-glance status of critical systemsAt-a-glance status of critical systemsRoot cause analysisRoot cause analysisEnhanced correlationEnhanced correlation

Repair or prevent system faults to reduce service downtime

Automated response and updatesAutomated response and updatesWorkload migrationWorkload migrationProactive notificationProactive notification

AIX Enterprise Edition Helps you Monitor and RepairPower Server Systems


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VMControl Editions: Added Value for PowerVM Clients

VMControl VMControl Express Edition

VMControl Standard Edition

VMControl Enterprise Edition

Virtualization Capabilities Manage resources Automate virtual images Optimize system pools

PowerVM

Create/manage virtual machines (x86, PowerVM and z/VM)

Virtual machine relocation

Capture/import, create/remove standardized virtual images

Deploy standard virtual images

Maintain virtual images in a centralized library

Create/remove system pools and manage resources in system pools

Add/remove physical servers within system pools


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Run x86 Linux applications on Power alongside your AIX, i and Linux on Power applications

Simplifies migration of Linux x86 applications enabling customers to realize the energy and administration savings of consolidation

Run most existing 32-bit x86 Linux applications with no application changes Included with the purchase of PowerVM Editions POWER6 blades through Power 595; POWER7 servers – outlook 2Q2010 developerWorks download: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/pave/

x86 Platforms

x86 Linux App

Linux

x86 Platforms

x86 Linux

App

Linux

Power Systems Platform

Linux

PowerVM Lx86

x86 Linux

App

AIX

AIX Application

POWER Linux

Application

PowerVM

x86 Platforms

x86 Linux

App

Linux

Install and Run

No Porting

No Recompile

No changes

IBM i

iApplication

More Easily Migrate Linux x86 Applications to Power

PowerVM™ Lx86


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POWER7 Hardware Support

TL9TL8

TL10TL11

TL12

2009 – 2011 AIX TL Roadmap

04/2010 10/2010

AIX 6.1

AIX 5.3

04/2011 10/201110/2009

AIX 7.1

TL0TL1

TL2SP

Service PackPOWER7 Support

TL2TL1

TL3TL4

TL5TL6

TL7TL8

TL12

TL5

TL9TL10

TL2TL3

TL11

TL4

SPSP

SP

SPSP

SP


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Source for full survey on : http://itic-corp.com/blog/2009/07/itic-2009-global-server-hardware-server-os-reliability-survey-results/


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IBM i Roadmap

2008 2010

IBM i 7.1 IBM i 6.1.1

2009

IBM i 6.1

2011 2012

IBM i Next

Strategy of a major new release of IBM i every two yearsSOD

IBM i ‘06 ‘07 ‘08 ‘09 ‘10 ‘11 ‘12 ‘13 ‘14 ‘15 ‘16

V5R2

V5R3

5.4*

6.1*

7.1* Service

*The projected date for the service of IBM i releases is based on current IBM planning assumptions. Note that it is IBM’s current practice to support an IBM i release until the next two releases have been made available, plus twenty four months. This slide contains information about IBM’s plans and directions. Such plans are subject to change without notice.

IBM i Upgrade paths


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Partition Mobility

POWER6POWER6+

POWER7

Binary CompatibilityBinary Compatibility between POWER6 and POWER7 between POWER6 and POWER7

Leverage POWER6 / POWER6+ Compatibility ModeLeverage POWER6 / POWER6+ Compatibility Mode

Migrate partitions between POWER6 and POWER7 ServersMigrate partitions between POWER6 and POWER7 Servers Forward and BackwardForward and Backward


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New DAT320 Tape Drive

Placed in POWER7 750 (or POWER6 520/550) CEC HH bayAvailable 19 Feb for Power 750, and 16 March for Power 520/550

Reads/writes DAT160, but does not read/write DAT72

Requires AIX 5.3, IBM i 6.1, SUSE 10, Red Hat 4.8 (or later)

Up to 100% more

DAT160 baseline

DAT320 Capacity

DAT320 Speed

DAT320 Energy

Up to 70% faster

Up to 50% less

DAT320 Price

Price ratio based on USA actual and projected suggested list prices as of Jan 2010 and are subject to change without notice; reseller prices may vary.

Only 30% more


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POWER7POWER7UpgradesUpgrades


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POWER7 System Upgrades – You Can Get there.Upgrades from POWER6 and POWER6+

Power 7803.8 GHz / 4.1 GHz

POWER6+ 570/324.2 GHz

POWER6 5703.5, 4,2, 4.7 GHz

9117-MMA9117-MMB

All existing Power 570 systems can upgrade to POWER7

Power 7703.5 GHz

POWER6+ 5704.4, 5.0 GHz

9179-MHB

POWER6 upgrades to POWER7 POWER6+ upgrades to POWER7 Power 570/32 upgrades to POWER7


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I/O Upgrade Considerations

All the newer IBM I/O drawers (12X), disk, SSD and PCI adapters used on POWER6 supported on POWER7 serversMay need to move 3.5-inch SAS drives and PCI-X adapters

Older I/O on POWER6 servers, but not on POWER7 serversRIO/HSL I/O drawersSCSI disk smaller than 69GB or SCSI drives slower than 15k rpmQIC tape drivesIOPs and IOP-based PCI adapters (IBM i)

2749, 5702, 5712, 2757, 5581, 5591, 2790, 5580, 5590, 5704, 5761, 2787, 5760, 4801, 4805, 3709, 4746, 4812, 4813

Older LAN adapters: #5707, 1984, 5718, 1981, 5719, 1982Older SCSI adapters: #5776, 5583, 5777Telephony adapter: #6412

See planning web page www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/sod2.html


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Power SODs for Upgrades

Power 595 SOD issued in 2009 & augmented 2010

Power 570SOD issued in 2009 Upgrades announced Feb 2010, shipping June 2010Built on unified structure, 9406-MMA must first convert to 9117-MMA

Power 575 and 560 and 550 SODs not issued

Power 520 SOD issued February 2010 with plans to be delivered in 2010For Power 520 (8203-E4A) 2-core or 4-core servers Insight: POWER5 520 to POWER6 520 upgrades did not have savings in the

hardware. Client savings were in easy license transfer (including IBM i), documented upgrade procedures for upgrading, and perhaps easier leasing/depreciation structure continuation

Definition “upgrade” as a model change keeping same serial number

All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.


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POWER7 High-End Statement of Direction

IBM plans to deliver a new high-end server in 2010 with up to 256 POWER7 processor cores

Designed to operate within the same physical footprint and energy envelope of the current 64-core Power 595 server.

High-Voltage DC Power option

IBM also plans to provide an upgrade path from the current IBM Power 595 server with 12X I/O to the new POWER7 high-end server.

Enterprises with multiple systems leveraging PowerVM Live Partition Mobility may use this function to maintain application availability during the upgrade process.

All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.


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Power Solid State Drives (SSD) Update

Feb 2010 SSD support in Power 750, 755, 770, 780 system units

Dec 2009 HUGE price action48% price reduction (plus 30% maintenance reduction)Aligned SSD with memory price reduction Some countries deferred price action to 2010

Oct/Nov 2009 “Enterprise class vs. consumer SSD” white paperIBM i analysis toolSSD configuration & performance enhancementsAIX analysis paper by Dan Braden#1 SCP-1 benchmark - 595 + 84 SSD

48%

Price is USA suggested list price and is subject to change without notice; reseller prices may vary.


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