IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction

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IBM Redbooks, Jun 6, 2013 - Computers - 218 pages

This IBM® RedpaperTM publication is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM Power 770 (9117-MMD) and Power 780 (9179-MHD) servers that support 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:


  • The IBM POWER7+TM processor, available at frequencies of 3.8 GHz and 4.2 GHz for the Power 770 and 3.7 GHz and 4.4 GHz for the Power 780
  • The specialized IBM POWER7+ Level 3 cache that provides greater bandwidth, capacity, and reliability
  • The 1 Gb or 10 Gb Integrated Multifunction Card that provides two USB ports, one serial port, and four Ethernet connectors for a processor enclosure and does not require a PCI slot
  • The Active MemoryTM Mirroring (AMM) for Hypervisor feature that mirrors the main memory used by the firmware
  • IBM PowerVM® virtualization, including PowerVM Live Partition Mobility and PowerVM Active Memory Sharing
  • Active Memory Expansion that provides more usable memory than what is physically installed on the system
  • IBM EnergyScaleTM technology that provides features such as power trending, power-saving, capping of power, and thermal measurement
  • Enterprise-ready reliability, serviceability, and availability
  • Dynamic Platform Optimizer
  • High-performance SSD drawer

Professionals who want to acquire a better understanding of IBM Power SystemsTM products can benefit from reading this paper.

 

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12X I/O Drawer 19-inch rack 770 and Power Active Memory Expansion Active Memory Sharing backplane cables Card FC CCIN CEC enclosure chip client components configuration connected Deduplication devices Drawer FC Dual DVD-RAM Dynamic eDRAM enabled Ethernet Adapter Expansion Drawer Feature code feature FC Fibre Channel Figure firmware GBps Gen2 GX++ Hardware Management Console IBM Power IBM Power 770 IBM Power Systems IBM System Storage installed interface L3 cache Linux Live Partition Mobility logical partition LPAR maximum Memory controller Memory Mirroring micropartitions mode On/Off Processor operating system options PCI Express PCI-X PCIe PCle PDUs port POWER Hypervisor POWER7+ processor POWER7+ processor-based servers PowerVM processor core processor-based systems provides Quantity 150 rack RAID redundant SAS adapter SCSI service processor shared processor pool SN DDR3 DIMM System firmware upgrade Virtual I/O Server workload Yes Yes Yes

Bibliographic information

TitleIBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction
AuthorsScott Vetter, An Ding Chen, Dave Freeman, Breno Henrique Leitao, IBM Redbooks
PublisherIBM Redbooks, 2013
ISBN0738451215, 9780738451213
Length218 pages
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