IBM Power E1080 Technical Overview and Introduction

✍ Scribed by Scott Vetter; Giuliano Anselmi; Manish Arora; Ivaylo Bozhinov; Dinil Das; Turgut Genc; Bartlomiej Grabowski; Madison Lee; Armin Röll; IBM Redbooks

• Publisher: IBM Redbooks
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This IBM® Redpaper® publication provides a broad understanding of a new architecture of the IBM Power® E1080 (also known as the Power E1080) server that supports IBM AIX®, IBM i, and selected distributions of Linux operating systems. The objective of this paper is to introduce the Power E1080, the most powerful and scalable server of the IBM Power portfolio, and its offerings and relevant functions: Designed to support up to four system nodes and up to 240 IBM Power10TM processor cores The Power E1080 can be initially ordered with a single system node or two system nodes configuration, which provides up to 60 Power10 processor cores with a single node configuration or up to 120 Power10 processor cores with a two system nodes configuration. More support for a three or four system nodes configuration is to be added on December 10, 2021, which provides support for up to 240 Power10 processor cores with a full combined four system nodes server. Designed to supports up to 64 TB memory The Power E1080 can be initially ordered with the total memory RAM capacity up to 8 TB. More support is to be added on December 10, 2021 to support up to 64 TB in a full combined four system nodes server. Designed to support up to 32 Peripheral Component Interconnect® (PCIe) Gen 5 slots in a full combined four system nodes server and up to 192 PCIe Gen 3 slots with expansion I/O drawers The Power E1080 supports initially a maximum of two system nodes; therefore, up to 16 PCIe Gen 5 slots, and up to 96 PCIe Gen 3 slots with expansion I/O drawer. More support is to be added on December 10, 2021, to support up to 192 PCIe Gen 3 slots with expansion I/O drawers. Up to over 4,000 directly attached serial-attached SCSI (SAS) disks or solid-state drives (SSDs) Up to 1,000 virtual machines (VMs) with logical partitions (LPARs) per system System control unit, providing redundant system master Flexible Service Processor (FSP) Supports IBM Power System Private Cloud Solution with Dynamic Capacity This publication is for professionals who want to acquire a better understanding of Power servers. The intended audience includes the following roles: Customers Sales and marketing professionals Technical support professionals IBM Business Partners Independent software vendors (ISVs) This paper does not replace the current marketing materials and configuration tools. It is intended as an extra source of information that, together with existing sources, can be used to enhance your knowledge of IBM server solutions.

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Chapter 1. Introduction to Power E1080
1.1 System overview
1.1.1 System nodes, processors, and memory
1.1.2 Expansion drawers and storage enclosures
1.1.3 Hardware at-a-glance
1.1.4 System capacities and features
1.2 System nodes
1.3 System control unit
1.4 Server specifications
1.4.1 Physical dimensions
1.4.2 Electrical characteristics
1.4.3 Environment requirements and noise emission
1.5 System features
1.5.1 Minimum configuration
1.5.2 Processor features
1.5.3 Memory features
1.5.4 System node PCIe features
1.5.5 System node disk and media features
1.5.6 System node USB features
1.5.7 Power supply features
1.5.8 System node PCIe interconnect features
1.6 I/O drawers
1.6.1 PCIe Gen 3 I/O Expansion Drawer
1.6.2 I/O drawers and usable PCIe slots
1.6.3 EXP24SX SAS Storage Enclosures
1.6.4 IBM System Storage
1.7 System racks
1.7.1 New rack considerations
1.7.2 IBM Enterprise 42U Slim Rack 7965-S42
1.7.3 AC power distribution unit and rack content
1.7.4 PDU connection limits
1.7.5 Rack-mounting rules
1.7.6 Useful rack additions
1.7.7 Original equipment manufacturer racks
1.8 Hardware management console overview
1.8.1 HMC 7063-CR2
1.8.2 Virtual HMC
1.8.3 Baseboard management controller network connectivity rules for 7063-CR2
1.8.4 High availability HMC configuration
1.8.5 HMC code level requirements for the Power E1080
1.8.6 HMC currency
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview
2.1 IBM Power10 processor
2.1.1 Power10 processor overview
2.1.2 Power10 processor core
2.1.3 Simultaneous multithreading
2.1.4 Matrix-multiply assist AI workload acceleration
2.1.5 Power10 compatibility modes
2.1.6 Processor feature codes
2.1.7 On-chip L3 cache and intelligent caching
2.1.8 Open memory interface
2.1.9 Pervasive memory encryption
2.1.10 Nest accelerator
2.1.11 SMP interconnect and accelerator interface
2.1.12 Power and performance management
2.1.13 Comparing Power10, POWER9, and POWER8 processors
2.2 SMP interconnection
2.2.1 Two-system node drawers OP-bus connection
2.2.2 SMP cable RAS attribute
2.3 Memory subsystem
2.3.1 Memory bandwidth
2.3.2 Memory placement rules
2.4 Capacity on-demand
2.4.1 New Capacity on Demand features
2.4.2 IBM Power Systems Private Cloud with Shared Utility Capacity
2.4.3 Static, Mobile, and Base activations
2.4.4 Capacity Upgrade on-Demand
2.4.5 Elastic Capacity on-Demand (Temporary)
2.4.6 IBM Power Enterprise Pools 1.0 and Mobile Capacity on-Demand
2.4.7 Utility Capacity on-Demand
2.4.8 Trial Capacity on-Demand
2.4.9 Software licensing and CoD
2.5 Internal I/O subsystem
2.5.1 Internal PCIe Gen 5 subsystem and slot properties
2.5.2 Internal NVMe storage subsystem
2.5.3 USB subsystem
2.5.4 PCIe slots features
2.6 Supported PCIe adapters
2.6.1 LAN adapters
2.6.2 Fibre Channel adapters
2.6.3 SAS adapters
2.6.4 Crypto adapter
2.6.5 USB adapter
2.6.6 I/O expansion drawers
2.6.7 Disk drawer
2.6.8 SFP transceiver
2.7 External I/O subsystems
2.7.1 PCIe Gen 4 cable adapter
2.7.2 PCIe Gen3 I/O Expansion Drawer
2.7.3 PCIe Gen3 I/O Expansion Drawer optical cabling
2.7.4 PCIe Gen3 I/O Expansion Drawer SPCN cabling
2.8 External disk subsystems
2.8.1 IBM EXP24SX SAS Storage Enclosure
2.9 System control and clock distribution
2.10 Operating system support
2.10.1 Power E1080 prerequisites
2.10.2 AIX operating system
2.10.3 IBM i
2.10.4 Linux
2.10.5 Virtual I/O Server
2.10.6 Entitled System Support
2.10.7 Update Access Keys
2.11 Manageability
2.11.1 Service user interface
2.11.2 System firmware maintenance
2.11.3 I/O firmware update
2.12 Serviceability
2.12.1 Error detection
2.12.2 Diagnostics
2.12.3 Reporting
2.12.4 Notification
2.12.5 Ease of location and service
Chapter 3. Enterprise solutions
3.1 PowerVM
3.1.1 IBM POWER Hypervisor
3.1.2 Multiple shared processor pools
3.1.3 Virtual I/O Server
3.1.4 Live Partition Mobility
3.1.5 Active Memory Expansion
3.1.6 Remote Restart
3.1.7 POWER processor modes
3.1.8 Single Root I/O Virtualization
3.1.9 More information about virtualization features
3.2 IBM PowerVC overview
3.2.1 IBM PowerVC functions and advantages
3.3 System automation with Ansible
3.3.1 Ansible Automation Platform
3.3.2 Power Systems in the Ansible ecosystem
3.3.3 Ansible modules for AIX
3.3.4 Ansible modules for IBM i
3.3.5 Ansible modules for HMC
3.3.6 Ansible modules for VIOS
3.4 Protect trust from core to cloud
3.4.1 Crypto engines and transparent memory encryption
3.4.2 Quantum-safe cryptography support
3.4.3 IBM PowerSC support
3.5 Running artificial intelligence where operational data is stored
3.5.1 Train anywhere, deploy on Power E1080
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