Power System E880
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IBM Systems Data Sheet IBM Power System E880 POWER8 enterprise-class server that’s been designed to support the most mission-critical applications Highlights Delivers twice the performance per core versus the competition1, with enterprise scalability for the most demanding data centric applications Manages fluctuating business demands with dynamic, on-demand private cloud capacity Minimizes risk with secure delivery of data and services on a proven, reliable platform Enables open innovation and choice for AIX®, IBM i and Linux Data is emerging as the world’s newest natural resource and the basis for a new kind of competitive advantage. Yet, for many organizations, the increasing volume, variety and influx of data is straining their traditional IT infrastructures that were never designed to handle the magnitude of complexity in these new workloads. To keep up with the fast pace of today’s business climate, it is essential for organizations to capitalize on next-generation infrastructures that integrates analytics-optimized systems and technologies to dynamically meet the demands of a data driven world. The IBM® Power® E880 enterprise server is designed to provide the highest levels of reliability, availability, flexibility and performance in order to provide clients with a world-class enterprise private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Through enterprise-class security, efficient built-in virtualization that drives industry-leading workload density, and dynamic resource allocation and management, the Power E880 server consistently delivers the highest levels of service across hundreds of virtual workloads on a single system. Industry-leading IBM POWER8 performance Built with innovation that puts data to work, IBM Power Systems™ provides the foundation for organizations to bring insight to the point of impact quickly. The Power E880 is a large-scale, symmetric multiprocessing system that delivers its exceptional performance using enterprise IBM POWER8™ processors, each a single chip module (SCM) with a choice of either eight or twelve cores running at greater than 4 GHz

IBM Systems Data Sheet and simultaneous multithreading executing up to eight threads per core. Each SCM has dual memory controllers to support up to 1 TB of memory and utilize up to 128 GB off-chip eDRAM L4 cache to deliver 230 GBps of sustained memory bandwidth. Input/output (I/O) bandwidth is also dramatically increased using dual PCIe Gen3 I/O controllers, which are also integrated onto each SCM to further reduce latency. A single 4-, 8-, 12 or 16-socket Power E880 system can deliver over twice the performance per-core of competitors, enabling applications to run faster and be more...

IBM Systems Data Sheet In addition, all new Power E880 servers are shipped with a number of Elastic CoD processor and memory days bundled in for no charge. The number of Elastic CoD processor and memory days are dependent on the number of processor cores initially ordered with the system. These Elastic processor and memory days can be used for any purpose the client desires, including application workload spikes, system maintenance or testing new applications. also provided in addition to memory Chipkill correction. The Power E880 server comes standard with Processor Instruction Retry and...

IBM Systems Data Sheet Finally, in order to provide enhanced availability on the Power E880 server, all systems include Live Partition Mobility (LPM) which supports the movement of a running AIX or Linux or IBM i VM from one Power Systems server to another without application downtime, helping avoid application interruption for planned system maintenance, provisioning, and workload management. LPM can be used to simplify migration of operating environments to new servers temporarily or permanently. In addition, PowerVM technology on the Power E880 server provides Active Memory™ Sharing, a...

IBM Systems Data Sheet The Power System E880 at a glance Expansion features (optional and depending on the operating systems) DVD bay Max PCIe Gen3 I/O drawers (12 PCIe Gen3 slots each) Max DASD/SSD I/O drawers (24 SFF bays each) Standard features System control unit Flexible service processors 2 in system control unit LPAR, Dynamic LPAR; Virtual LAN (Memory to memory interpartition communication) PowerVM Enterprise Edition (included) Micropartitioning (up to 20 micropartitions per processor); Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Virtual I/O Server; Shared Dedicated Capacity; Live Partition...

The IBM i is the integrated operating system for Power Systems that is built for efficiently deploying business process- ing applications. IBM i integrates a trusted combination of relational database, security, web services, networking and management capabilities. It is a highly scalable operating system, delivering the capability to run multiple applications on a single instance of the operating environment. The Red Hat and Novell/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...