IBM Power 770 and 780 (9117-MMB, 9179-MHB) Technical Overview and IntroductionThis IBM® RedpaperTM publication is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM Power 770 and Power 780 servers supporting IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems. The goal of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power 770 and 780 offerings and their prominent functions, including:
Professionals who want to acquire a better understanding of IBM Power SystemsTM products should read this paper. This paper expands the current set of IBM Power Systems documentation by providing a desktop reference that offers a detailed technical description of the 770 and 780 systems. This paper does not replace the latest marketing materials and configuration tools. It is intended as an additional source of information that, together with existing sources, may be used to enhance your knowledge of IBM server solutions. |
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12X I/O Drawer 19-inch rack Active Memory Expansion ASMI backplane buffer cables Capacity on Demand CEC enclosure chip Chipkill client components configuration connection DDR3 DDR3 memory deallocation devices DIMM-quad Dual DVD-RAM Dynamic eDRAM EIA units enablement error Ethernet ports Expansion Drawer Feature code Fibre Channel Fibre Channel adapters Figure Gbps GX++ Hardware Management Console IBM Power Systems IBM System Storage installed interface iSCSI L3 cache Linux Live Partition Mobility logical partition LPAR maximum MB of L3 Memory Controller micro-partitions On/Off operating system options PCI Express PCI-X PCIe performance physical processor POWER Hypervisor POWER processor-based systems POWER7 processor POWER7 processor-based servers processor capacity processor card processor pool provides rack reboot redundant Service Pack service processor simultaneous multithreading subsystem system enclosure Table upgrade Virtual Ethernet adapter Virtual I/O Server virtual SCSI VLAN workload Yes Yes Yes