Power Systems E870C and E880C Technical …

1 RedpaperFront coverIBM Power SystemsE870C and E880 CTechnical overview and IntroductionScott VetterAlexandre Bicas CaldeiraVolker HaugInternational Technical Support OrganizationIBM Power Systems E870C and E880C Technical overview and IntroductionOctober 2016 REDP-5413-00 Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2016. All rights to Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP ScheduleContract with IBM Edition (October 2016)This edition applies to the IBM Power E870C (9080-MME) and Power E880C (9080-MHE) Power document was created or updated on November 14, : Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in Notices on page vii. Copyright IBM Corp. 2016. All rights .. viiTrademarks .. viiiPreface.

2 IxAuthors ..xNow you can become a published author, too! .. xiComments welcome.. xiStay connected to IBM Redbooks .. xiChapter 1. General description .. Systems overview .. Power E870C server .. Power E880C server .. system control unit .. system nodes .. I/O drawers .. Operating environment .. Physical package .. system features .. Power E870C system features .. Power E880C system features .. Minimum features .. Power supply features .. Processor card features .. Disk and media features .. I/O drawers .. PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer .. I/O drawers and usable PCI slot .. EXP24S SFF Gen2-bay Drawer .. Model comparison .. Build to order .. Model upgrades .. Power E870C .. Power E880C .. Upgrade considerations.

3 Management consoles .. system racks.. IBM 7014 model T00 rack .. IBM 7014 model T42 rack .. Feature code #0551 rack .. Feature code #0553 rack .. AC Power distribution unit and rack content .. Rack-mounting rules .. 31 Chapter 2. Architecture and Technical overview .. Logical diagrams .. IBM POWER8 processor .. Memory subsystem .. Custom DIMM .. 41iv IBM Power Systems E870C and E880C Technical overview and Memory placement rules.. Memory activation .. Memory throughput .. Active Memory Mirroring .. Memory Error Correction and Recovery .. Special Uncorrectable Error handling .. Capacity on Demand.. Capacity Upgrade on Demand .. Power enterprise pools and Mobile Capacity on Demand .. Elastic Capacity on Demand .. Utility Capacity on Demand.

4 Trial Capacity on Demand.. Software licensing and CoD .. system bus .. PCI Express Gen3 .. Service Processor Bus .. Internal I/O subsystem .. Blind-swap cassettes .. system ports .. PCI adapters .. PCI Express .. LAN adapters .. Graphics accelerator adapters .. SAS adapters .. Fibre Channel adapter .. Fibre Channel over Ethernet .. USB adapters .. InfiniBand host channel adapter .. Cryptographic Coprocessor .. CAPI adapters.. Internal storage .. Media features .. External I/O subsystems .. PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer .. PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer optical cabling .. PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer SPCN cabling .. External disk subsystems .. EXP24S SFF Gen2-bay Drawer .. EXP24S common usage scenarios.

5 IBM system Storage .. Hardware Management Console .. Hardware appliance HMC .. Virtual appliance HMC .. HMC code level.. HMC connectivity to the POWER8 processor-based Systems .. High availability HMC configuration .. Operating system support .. Virtual I/O Server .. IBM AIX operating system .. IBM i operating system .. Linux operating Systems .. Supported Java versions .. Energy management .. 99 Contents IBM EnergyScale technology .. On Chip Controller .. Energy consumption estimation .. 102 Chapter 3. Private and Hybrid Cloud features .. Private cloud software .. IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager .. Cloud-based HMC Apps as a Service.. Open source cloud automation and configuration tooling for AIX .. Hybrid cloud support.

6 Hybrid infrastructure management tools .. Securely connecting system of record workloads to cloud native applications.. IBM Cloud Starter Pack .. Flexible capacity on-demand .. Geographically Dispersed Resiliency for Power .. IBM Power to Cloud Rewards Program .. 113 Chapter 4. Reliability, availability, serviceability, and manageability.. RAS enhancements of POWER8 processor-based servers .. POWER8 overview .. Reliability .. Designed for reliability.. Component placement .. Processor/Memory availability .. Correctable errors .. Uncorrectable errors .. Processor core/cache correctable error handling .. Processor instruction retry and other try again techniques .. Alternative processor recovery and partition availability priority .. Core contained checkstops and other PowerVM error recovery.

7 Cache uncorrectable error handling .. Other processor chip functions .. Other fault error handling .. Memory protection .. I/O subsystem availability and Enhanced Error Handling .. Enterprise Systems availability .. Availability effects of a solution architecture .. Clustering .. Virtual I/O redundancy configurations .. PowerVM Live Partition Mobility .. Serviceability .. Detecting errors .. Error checkers, fault isolation registers, and First-Failure Data Capture .. Service processor .. Diagnosing .. Reporting .. Notifying .. Locating and servicing .. Manageability .. Service user interfaces .. IBM Power Systems Firmware maintenance .. Concurrent firmware maintenance improvements .. Electronic Services and Electronic Service Agent.

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