IBM PowerLinux 7R4 server

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IBM PowerLinux 7R4 server High Performance, Open Technology Server for Data Intense Workload

Highlights The Power behind IBM® Watson™

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A high-performance, open technology server for data intense workload solution in a 5U package. With IBM POWER7+™ workload-optimizing technologies

Cloud ready data intense workloads consolidation server for applications, industry solutions, departmental OLTP and emerging workloads like big data, analytics

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Virtualized from within for better integration with compact, economically efficient design

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The way the world works is changing. Consumers want instant answers and ubiquitous access from smart devices. They are having billions of conversations on global social networks. Businesses selling goods and services to these consumers are utilizing newly available information and instantaneous communication capabilities to more effectively market. Born-on-the-web companies are delivering massive amounts of information to millions of users. These smart companies have one thing in common—they are exploiting Linux and emerging solutions to deliver the right services at the right time to the right clients. The new IBM PowerLinux™ 7R4 has been designed to leverage the leadership performance of the POWER7+ processor. The resulting combination of secure, reliable computing and energy efficient virtualization make it an ideal server for data intense workload applications. The PowerLinux 7R4 is a two- or four-socket server that supports 16 or 32 cores with outstanding energy efficiency and diagnostic features in a 5U (EIA Units) package. The PowerLinux 7R4 with POWER7+ Intelligent Energy management features is designed to help clients become more energy efficient. And the PowerLinux 7R4 also implements Light Path diagnostics, which provide an obvious and intuitive means to positively identify failing components.

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Power is leadership performance The POWER7+ processor serves up several new and unique innovations to continue the long history of leadership performance that now serves as the standard for the industry. New with POWER7+ are a larger L3 cache and two built-in accelerators for additional performance. In addition, a single system can now run more applications, which can drive utilization even higher and result in infrastructure cost savings. The improved performance with POWER7+ also enables you to get more processing power with fewer processors, resulting in lower per-core software licensing costs.

Power is a consolidation platform for cloud ready, data intense workloads

processor featuring Intelligent Threads and Intelligent Cache make it possible for applications to run faster with fewer processors, resulting in lower per core software licensing costs.

Power Systems is at the heart of IBM Watson. Power Systems’ unique design provides the ultimate platform for analytics and cognitive computing enabling natural language learning supported by continuous data load, massive IO bandwidth and real-time analytic capabilities, among others. A Watson-based system can now be run on a single IBM 32-core Power System running Linux.

Take advantage of the PowerLinux server’s scalability and capacity by leveraging our industrial-strength PowerVM technology to fully utilize the system. PowerVM allows any individual LPAR to access the maximum amount of memory and CPU cores that are available in the server. PowerVM offers this capability to dynamically adjust system resources to partitions based on workload demands-across up to 640 (20 micropartition per core) virtual machines (VMs)— enabling a dynamic infrastructure that dramatically reduces server sprawl via massive consolidation of applications and servers. In addition, features in PowerVM for Linux are designed to provide advanced virtualization technologies, resulting in efficiencies in resource utilization and cost savings.

As a data intense workload consolidation server, the PowerLinux 7R4 offers tremendous configuration flexibility to meet demanding capacity and growth requirements. Utilize the full capability of the system by leveraging industrial-strength PowerVM® virtualization for Linux. PowerVM offers the capability to dynamically adjust system resources based on workload demands so that each partition gets the resources it needs. The leadership performance of the POWER7+

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Power is reliability you can count on

IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager exploits EnergyScale™ technology enabling advanced energy management features to dramatically and dynamically conserve power and improve energy efficiency.

The PowerLinux 7R4 is designed with capabilities to deliver leading edge application availability and allow more work to be processed with less operational disruption. RAS capabilities include recovery from intermittent errors or failover to redundant components, detection and reporting of failures and impending failures, and self-healing hardware that automatically initiates actions to effect error correction, repair or component replacement. In addition, the Processor Instruction Retry feature provides for the continuous monitoring of processor status with the capability to restart a processor if certain errors are detected. If required, workloads can be redirected to alternate processors, all without disruption to application execution. The PowerLinux 7R4 implements Light Path diagnostics, which provide an obvious and intuitive means to positively identify failing components. This allows system engineers and administrators to easily and quickly diagnose hardware problems. Hardware failures that may have taken hours to locate and diagnose can now be detected in minutes, avoiding or significantly reducing costly downtime. IBM Systems Director “Call-home” capability enables proactive service that may result in higher system availability and performance.

EnergyScale Technology offers management features, which can dramatically and dynamically conserve power and further improve energy efficiency. These features enable the POWER7+ processor to operate at a higher frequency if environmental conditions permit, for increased performance and performance per watt; or alternatively operate at a reduced frequency if user settings permit, for significant energy savings.

Power is ideal for open technology The Red Hat and SUSE Linux for Power operating systems may be ordered from IBM and select Linux distributors and include many open source applications, tools and utilities. IBM is firmly committed to Linux and has enabled many of the unique Power Architecture® technologies into the Linux kernel. The PowerLinux 7R4 platform offers the flexibility and performance to consolidate x86 servers running a mix of web, application and database workloads, helping clients to better manage growth without adding complexity.

Power is enhanced energy efficiency Combine POWER7+ leadership performance with PowerVM Editions to virtualize your infrastructure and improve server utilization and energy efficiency. PowerVM provides an innovative set of system technologies that are designed to easily aggregate and manage virtualized resources on Linux operating systems.

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Benefits

Leadership POWER7+ performance

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PowerVM virtualization

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Light Path diagnostics

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EnergyScale technology

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Do more work with smaller systems which reduces the cost of software licenses Improve efficiency in operations from consolidating more work onto fewer systems Access data faster and improve response time Easily add workloads as your business grows Utilize the full capability of the system to improve efficiency and reduce costs Provides ability to handle unexpected workload peaks by sharing resources Keep applications up and running so you can focus on growing your business Improves customer satisfaction Easily and quickly diagnose hardware problems Dynamically improve energy efficiency and lower energy costs with innovative energy management capabilities Enables business to continue operations when energy is limited

PowerLinux 7R4 at a glance Configuration options POWER7+ processor options

8 x 3.5 GHz POWER7+ processor cores or 8 x 4.0 GHz POWER7+ processor cores

Sockets

2 or 4 (16 or 32 cores)

Level 2 (L2) cache

256 KB L2 cache per core

Level 3 (L3) cache

10 MB L3 cache per core (eDRAM)

Memory

Up to 1 TB of 1066 MHz DDR3 Active Memory Sharing

Integrated SAS bays for Solid State Drives (SSD) or Hard Disk Drives

Six SFF SAS drive bays

Integrated media bays

One slimline for SATA DVD-RAM

Integrated PCI adapter slots

Six PCIe (8x) Gen2 slots

Standard Ethernet ports

Dual 10 Gb plus a choice of two additional 10 Gb or two additional 1 Gb

Integrated SAS controller

Two SAS DASD/SSD controllers

Other integrated ports

Three USB, two HMC, two SPCN, one serial port

GX slots(12X)

Two

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PowerLinux 7R4 at a glance Expansion features (optional) I/O expansion

Up to 4 PCIe 12X I/O drawers

Comprehensive set of PCI adapters, including

6 Gb and 3 Gb SAS RAID 16 Gb, 8 Gb, and 4 Gb Fibre Channel 10 Gb and 1 Gb Ethernet 10 Gigabit Converged Network (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) 40 Gb QDR IB WAN/Async, USB, Cryptographic, SSD

I/O expansion: SAS SFF bays for HDD/SSD

Up to 1334 bays in storage drawers (max 56 drawers) Up to 72 bays in PCIe 12X I/O drawers

I/O expansion: EXP30 Ultra SSD Drawers

Up to 2 drawers (up to 960k IOPS read only) Up to 60 SSD (up to 23.2 TB capacity)

PowerVM technologies POWER Hypervisor™

LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN (Memory-to-memory interpartition communication)

PowerVM Edition

PowerVM for Linux

RAS features

Processor Instruction Retry Alternate Processor Recovery Selective dynamic firmware updates Chipkill memory ECC L2 cache, L3 cache Service processor with fault monitoring Hot-swappable disk bays Hot-plug/blind swap PCI slots Hot-plug and redundant power supplies and cooling fans Dynamic Processor deallocation Extended error handling on PCI slots

Operating systems*

SLES 11 SP2 and RHEL 6.4 or later

High availability

IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatform (ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/sys-auto-multi) SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension (http://www.suse.com/products/highavailability)

Power requirements

200 V to 240 V ac, single phase

System dimensions

Rack Drawer: 8.55″ H x 17.6″ W x 33.78″ D (217 mm x 447 mm x 858 mm); weight: 155 lb (70.3 kg)†

Warranty and service (limited)

9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next business day for one year; on site for selected components; CRU (customer-replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country); two additional years of service included at no additional charge (varies by country); warranty service upgrade to 24x7 at additional charge (varies by country).

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For more information To learn more about the IBM PowerLinux 7R4 server, please contact your IBM marketing representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit the following website: ibm.com/power/powerlinux

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Weight will vary based on configuration.

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