August 17. 2010
Power Systems Hardware Announce Details
Erik Rex
Cert. IT Specialist Power IBM i
rex@dk.ibm.com
© 2010 IBM Corporation
IBM Power Systems
Announcing AS/400 Model 7xx
One CPU 200 MHz – 4 MB L2
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Annouced Feb.
1999
Four CPU 255 MHz – 4 MB L2
© 2010 IBM Corporation
IBM Power Systems
Announcing Power 720 Express
 3.0 GHz
 4 - 8 Cores
 128 Internal Memory
 Max Storage 2.4 TB
 CPW 46.300
 P05 + P10
POWER7 Core
Cores : 8 ( 4 / 6 core options )
567mm2 Technology:
45nm lithography, Cu, SOI, eDRAM
Transistors: 1.2 B
Equivalent function of 2.7B
eDRAM efficiency
Eight processor cores
12 execution units per core
4 Way SMT per core – up to 4 threads per core
32 Threads per chip
L1: 32 KB I Cache / 32 KB D Cache
L2: 256 KB per core
L3: Shared 32MB on chip eDRAM
Dual DDR3 Memory Controllers
100 GB/s Memory bandwidth per chip
Scalability up to 32 Sockets
360 GB/s SMP bandwidth/chip
20,000 coherent operations in flight
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IBM Power Systems
Power 795
✓New High-end
✓24 to 256 Cores
✓TurboCore
✓1024 Partitions
✓3.7, 4.0 or 4.25 GHz
✓Capacity on Demand
✓Enterprise RAS
✓24x7 Warranty
✓PowerCare
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POWER7 RAS Feature Overview
IBM Power Systems
RAS Item
Power 750
Power 770
Power 780
Standard
Optional
Not available
Power 595
Power 795
Redundant / Hot Swap Fans & Blowers
Hot Swap DASD / Media / PCI Adapters
Concurrent Firmware Update
Redundant / Hot Swap Power Supplies
Dual disk controllers (split backplane)
Processor Instruction Retry
Alternate Processor Recovery
Storage Keys
PowerVM™/Live Partition Mobility/Live Appl. Mobility
Redundant Service Processors
*
*
Redundant System Clocks
*
*
Redundant / Hot Swap Power Regulators
Dynamic Processor Sparing
Memory Sparing
Hot GX Adapter Add and Cold Repair
*
Hot-node Add / Cold-node Repair
*
Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add
*
*
Dynamic Service Processor and System Clock Failover
*
*
Hot-node Repair / Hot-memory Add for all nodes**
*
*
*
*
*
Enterprise Memory
Hot GX Adapter Repair
Midplane connection for inter-nodal communication
Active Memory Mirroring for Hypervisor
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* Requires two or more nodes
** Planned for 2H10 on 780, 1H11 on 795
IBM Corporation
All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change©or2010
withdrawal
without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.
IBM Power Systems
IBM i strategy and roadmap
Ross Mauri General Manager, IBM Power Systems
“Our commitment to our IBM i clients, ISVs and
business partners is solid and unchanged. With
our clearly defined processor and software
roadmap, we are making substantial investments
in the future of IBM i as an important, strategic
element in the IBM systems portfolio.”
IBM white paper
Includes information about the IBM i market, Power
Systems and IBM i roadmaps, plus the latest
information on POWER7 and IBM i 7.1
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/rossmauri/index.html
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IBM Power Systems
IBM Technical University
IBM Power Systems and Storage Technical University
 Las Vegas, 18 - 22 October, 2010
 Register at http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=page&c=M387632K48848U54
IBM Systems Technical University
 Lyon, France, 25 - 29 October, 2010
 Register at http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss?pageType=page&c=M680996O79065K05
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IBM Power Systems
Power Systems
Power 795
Power 780
Power 770
Power 750
Power 740
Power 720
PS Blades
Power 730
Power 710
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© 2010 IBM Corporation
IBM Power Systems
IBM i Roadmap
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
IBM i Next
IBM i 7.1
IBM i 6.1.1
IBM i 6.1
Delivering a major new Version of IBM i every two years
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IBM Power Systems
IBM i Life Cycle
IBM i
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
IBM i
Upgrade
paths
V5R2
V5R3
5.4*
6.1*
7.1*
Service
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*The projected date for the service of IBM i releases is based on current IBM planning assumptions. Note that it is
IBM’s current practice to support an IBM i release until the next two releases have been made available, plus
twenty four months. This presentation contains information about IBM’s plans and directions. Such plans are
subject to change without notice.
© 2010 IBM Corporation
IBM Power Systems
POWER7 Operating System Release Support
GA
9/30
AIX V5.3 TL10 SP 5, or later
AIX V5.3 TL11 SP 5, or later
AIX V5.3 TL12 SP 1, or later
AIX
AIX V7.1
AIX V6.1 TL06
IBM i
IBM i 7.1
IBM i with 6.1.1 MC, or later
Red Hat
SOD
AIX V6.1 TL03 SP 7, or later
AIX V6.1 TL04 SP 7, or later
AIX V6.1 TL05 SP 3, or later
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AP 5 Update 5 for POWER, or later
SUSE
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP 3, or later
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP 1, or later
VIOS
VIOS 2.2, or later
HMC
V7R720
Firmware eFW 7.2e
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IBM Power Systems
IBM i Supports POWER7 Processor-Based Servers
 IBM i supports Power 750, 770, and 780 with
POWER7 Processors offering more
performance, energy efficiency and scalability
– IBM i Express Edition offers IBM i without DB2 for
application and infrastructure serving
– IBM i Standard Edition offers an integrated operating
environment for business processing
– IBM i Enterprise Edition offers IBM i plus Enterprise
Enablement which provides 5250 transaction processing
support
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IBM Power Systems
IBM i 7.1 Announcement Highlights
 DB2
– Support for XML and column level encryption
PO #
Customer
#
Date
123
2468
5/27/09
Credit
Card
Purchase
Order
~
XML
~
&#^$&$^
 PowerHA
– Async Geographic Mirroring & LUN-level switching
 Virtualization
– IBM i 6.1 virtualization for i 7.1 partitions
IBM i
PowerHA
IBM i
PowerHA
 Solid State Drives
– Automatic movement of hot data to SSDs
IASP
IASP
 Workload Capping
– Limit # of cores used by middleware within a partition
 Open Access for RPG
– Extend application reach to pervasive devices
 Zend Server Community Edition
– PHP environment preloaded with IBM i
VIOS
IBM i 6.1
IBM i 7.1
Power Systems
 Systems Director
– Richer management of IBM i via Systems Director
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IBM Power Systems
POWER7 delivers outstanding performance
CPW
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
525
POWER5
Single core CPW
15
3800
550
POWER5
520
POWER6
550
POWER6
4300
720
POWER7
740
POWER7
5950
© 2010 IBM Corporation
IBM Power Systems
IBM i CPW compares
520 4-core
# Cores
CPW
1
4,700
2
9,500
# Cores
CPW
%
4
18,300
1
5950
27%
2
11,900
24%
4
23,800
30%
520 2-core
720 6 or 8-core
# Cores
CPW
6
34,900
1
4,700
8
46,300
2
9,500
720 4-core
520 1-core
# Cores
CPW
# Cores
(Unconstrained)
1
16
4,300
CPW
(Unconstrained)
1
5950
4
23,800
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IBM Power Systems
IBM i CPW compares
750
# Cores
CPW
%
8
47,800
26%
32
181,000
550 POWER6+
# Cores
CPW
4
20,550
8
37,950
740
# Cores
CPW
%
4
25,500
24%
8
47,800
26%
* 4 & 8 core at 3.3 Ghz
16
97,700
* 16 core at 3.55 Ghz
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© 2010 IBM Corporation
IBM Power Systems
Preliminary Power 795 CPW Estimates*
…over 1 Million CPW in a single system !
3.7 GHz (6-core SCM)
LPAR
CPW
4.0 GHz MaxCore (8-core SCM)
LPAR
CPW
6w
39,300
8w
55,100
12w
77,600
16w
107,500
24w
149,100
32w
204,300
48w (2 x 24)
288,500
64w (2 x 32)
399,200
4.25 GHz TurboCore (8-core SCM)
LPAR
8w
CPW
59,600
16w
115,800
32w (2 x 16)
218,400
* These estimates are preliminary and are subject to change without notice
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IBM Power Systems
IBM i and Multi-core
 IBM i Automated license management
– IBM i only accesses number of cores entitled to
– When additional license keys installed, IBM i provided access to additional cores
– Offered today on POWER6 multi-core systems
 PowerVM
– PowerVM Express defaulted on 710, 720, 730 and 740 orders for all active cores
– PowerVM Express may be removed from order
– With IBM i, PowerVM core licenses may be reduced to the number of IBM i licenses
• No need for active core deconfguration
Virtual Partition
Manager
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LINUX
LINUX
LINUX
720 4-core
Small p05
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IBM Power Systems
Virtual Partition Manager
VIOS
Virtual Partition Manager
For IBM i Customers to get started with Linux
Linux
IBM i
Virtual SCSI
Virtual Ethernet
 IBM i tool to create simple Linux partitions (HMC not
required or present)
 Max one IBM i partition with up to 4 Linux partitions and 4
virtual ethernets
 Linux partitions must use all virtual I/O
 SST menu-type interface to create/manage
 Dynamic LPAR not supported
 Uncapped partitions supported
No-charge, included
with IBM i
Redpaper redp4013.pdf
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IBM Power Systems
Power 710 or 720 or 730 or 740 Models
2U - 1 Socket
Power 710
Power 720
4-core P05 Tier
6- or 8- cores P10 Tier
Max memory: 64 GB
PCIe = 4 low profile
Zero 12X I/O loops
IBM i 6.1 or later
4-core P05 Tier
6- or 8-cores P10 Tier
Max memory: 128 GB
CEC PCIe = 4 + 4
Up to 1* 12X I/O loop
* if 6- or 8-core
IBM i 6.1 or later
2U - 2 Sockets
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4U - 1 Socket
4U - 2 Sockets
Power 730
Power 740
8, 12 or 16 cores
P20 Tier
Max memory: 128 GB
CEC PCIe = 4 low profile
Zero 12X I/O loops
IBM i 6.1 or later
4, 6, 8, 12, or 16 cores
P20 Tier
Max memory: 256 GB
CEC PCIe = 4 + 4
Up to 2 12X I/O loops
IBM i 6.1 or later
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IBM Power Systems
Why 720/740 Probably Best for IBM i Clients
You can run IBM i on the 710/730,
but the 720/740 is probably a much
better fit for most IBM i
environments.
Power
710 / 730
Power
720 / 740
Footprint
2U rack
4U rack +
tower
SW tiers
same
same
6
8
No
Yes*
Internal drives
12X I/O drawers
Similar pricing 710 vs 720
Rack density not that important
Disk only drawers
Yes**
Max. GB memory
64 / 128
128 / 256
(Most i clients have one or two
servers, not dozens)
720/740 more “balanced” for typical
IBM i workload
see table on the right   
Internal tape
No
Yes
PCIe slots CEC max
4 LP
4FH + 4LP
PCIe slots max
4 LP
24* / 44
PCI-X slots max
0
24* / 48
Upgrades
No
Yes 720
CBU
No
Yes
IBM i Editions
No
Yes 720
Solution Editions
No
Yes
* 4-core does supports zero 12X I/O drawer
** 710 4-core and 720 4-core support zero disk-only drawer
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Yes**
w/ more write cache options
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IBM Power Systems
Configuring
Power CBU
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IBM Power Systems
CBU for i
Power 710/730
This slide deliberately left blank
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IBM Power Systems
CBU for i Power 720 / Power 740
Offering essentially provides the same benefits and has the same
requirements as CBU for i offerings have provided for some time
for High Availability/Disaster Recovery environments.
IBM i processor license
entitlement
Power 720
Temporary transfers
4-core (P05)
6/8-core (P10)
IBM i user entitlements
CBU Power 720
Primary for 4-core = Power 720 or
520*
----------------------------------------Primary for 6/8-core = Power
720, 740, 750, 520* 550* or 560
#0444
IBM i processor license
entitlement
Power 740
Temporary transfers
(P20)
5250 Enterprise Enablements
Primary = Power 740, 750,
770, 550**, 560 or 570
CBU Power 740
#0444
* POWER6 520/550, NOT POWER5 520/525/550.
** POWER5 or POWER6 550
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IBM Power Systems
Memory
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IBM Power Systems
8Terabytes
Amount of DDR3 memory supported on the Power 795
4TB/sec
Aggregate memory bandwidth of the Power 795
Serious recall.
DIMM
Size
8 GB
16GB
32 GB
Memory
Speed
1066
MHz
1066
MHz
1066
MHz
Feature
Size
Minimu
m
Active
Server
Max
Memory
0/32GB
50%
2 TB
0/64 GB
50%
4 TB
0/128
GB
50%
8 TB
Run demanding applications faster for competitive advantage
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IBM Power Systems
Power 720/740 – Memory
• Up to 64GB for 720 4-core & Up to 128 GB for 720 6-core/8-core
• Up to 256 GB for 2 socket 740
• Memory price performance improvement
1-2 cards per 720
1-4 cards per 740
8 Memory
DIMM slots
Memory riser card or
Memory card
st
1 has no feature
2nd-4th use #5604
DDR3 1066 MHz DIMMs
4 GB or 8 GB DIMMs
8 GB features or 16 GB features
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IBM Power Systems
Power Express 710/720/730/740 Memory Pricing
About 50% lower price/GB than Power 520 (+ risers)
Memory Feat
Code
Models
Feature
GB
USA List
Price
$ / GB
#4526
710/730/72
0/740
8
$ 1065
$133
#4527
710/730
16
$2130
$133
#4529
720/740
16
$2130
$133
Riser card
710/730
8-32 GB
$800*
$100-25
Riser card
720/740
8-64 GB
$800*
$100-13
1066 MHz
DDR3
* first riser card no charge
520 Feat Featur
Code
e GB
#4532
4
#4523
8
#4524
16
USA List
Price $
1038
2075
4150
$ / GB
$260
$260
$260
667 or 400 MHz
DDR2
Prices are USA planned suggested list prices as of August 2010. Prices and are subject to change without notice. Reseller prices may vary.
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IBM Power Systems
PCIe Slots
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IBM Power Systems
Power 720/740 PCIe Slots in System Unit
POWER7
socket
POWER7
socket
4 Optional PCIe slots
Low profile, short
#5610 PCIe Riser Card (Gen 1)
Plugs into GX slot instead of GX
adapter
Like a VERY cost effective “mini
I/O” drawer
Not hot plug
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4 PCIe slots in base
Full high, short, Gen 1
Not hot plug
© 2010 IBM Corporation
IBM Power Systems
PCIe Low Profile Adapters August 2010
Low Profile
Eleven LP (Low Profile) adapters announced
#2053 PCIe LP RAID & SSD SAS Adapter 3Gb (#2054/2055)
#5269 PCIe LP POWER GXT145 Graphics Accelerator (#5748)
#5270 PCIe LP 10Gb FCoE 2-port Adapter (#5708)
#5271 PCIe LP 4-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet Adapter (#5717)
#5272 PCIe LP 10GbE CX4 1-port Adapter (#5732)
#5273 PCIe LP 8Gb 2-Port Fibre Channel Adapter (#5735)
#5274 PCIe LP 2-Port 1GbE SX Adapter (#5768)
#5275 PCIe LP 10GbE SR 1-port Adapter (#5769)
#5276 PCIe LP 4Gb 2-Port Fibre Channel Adapter (#5774)
#5277 PCIe LP 4-Port Async EIA-232 Adapter (#5785)
#5278 PCIe LP 2-x4-port SAS Adapter 3Gb (#5901)
NOTE: ALL above adapters have Full High equivalents (#xxxx) which
are electronically identical in function and even have the same CCIN as
the LP adapter being announced. The only difference is the tailstock
attached to the adapter.
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IBM Power Systems
720/740 Media Bays
HH media bay
DVD-RAM
HH Media Bay Options
#1103 USB Removable Disk Drive (RDX) – not IBM i unless VIOS
#5619 80/160GB DAT160 Tape drive SAS
#5661 160/320GB DAT320 Tape drive SAS
#5673 160/320GB DAT320 Tape drive USB – not IBM i unless VIOS
#5746 800GB/1.6TB LTO4 tape drive SAS
#5638 1.5TB/3TB LTO5 tape drive SAS
New Aug 2010
DVD-RAM #5762
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IBM Power Systems
Power 720/740 I/O Loop Attachment
SAS port can
attach one #5886
EXP12S SAS
Disk Drawer
1st GX++ slot
Optionally use for either a
GX adapter or PCIe riser
12X I/O drawers
PCIe -- #5802 (with disk)
PCIe -- #5877 (no disk)
PCI-X -- #5796
EXP12S SAS Disk Drawer
EXP24 SCSI Disk Drawer.
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2nd GX++ slot
740 only with 2 sockets
Not 720, not 740 w/ 1 socket
Model
Max I/O
loops
710 or 730
0
720
4-core
0
720
6/8-core
1
740
2
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IBM Power Systems
Upgrades
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IBM Power Systems
Model Upgrades (Same Serial Number)
795
780
595
595
770
570
570
40
750
560
N/A
740
550
550
POWER5
POWER6
Power your planet.
(4 to16 core)
N/A
POWER7
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IBM Power Systems
520 Upgrade Paths
No upgrade paths
into 2S/4U
740
4/6/8/12/16 core
POWER7
No upgrade paths into 4-core
POWER6
520 4-core
8203-E4A
720
6/8-core
POWER6
POWER7
withdrawn
525
9406-525
withdrawn
POWER5
520 2-core
9408-M25
*
POWER6
520 2-core
8203-E4A
POWER6
520
9406-520
No upgrade paths
into 1S/4U
POWER5
withdrawn
520 1-core
9407-M15
515
9407-515
POWER5
*
No upgrade
paths
520
9405-520
POWER6
720
4-core
POWER7
520 1-core
8203-E4A
No upgrade
paths
POWER6
* conversion to 8203
POWER5
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IBM Power Systems
New I/O:
S S D
SAS S F F HDD
olid
tate
isk
mall
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orm
actor
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IBM Power Systems
Basic Problem --- Disk “Slowing” Down
(Relatively)
Seagate 15k RPM/3.5" Drive Specifications
+35%
450
Capacity (GB)
+15%171
Max Sustained
DR (MB/s)
Read Seek (ms)
73
75
3,6
2002
-1%
3,4
2008
Capacity growing ok (35% per year), but Read/Seek -1% & Data Rate
only 15% per year
While processors & memory speed up and add threads and cache
Net … a growing imbalanced between disk and processor/memory
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IBM Power Systems
Power Solid State Drive - Review
Processors
Memory
Very, very,
very, very,
very fast
Very, very,
very fast
< 10’s ns
~100 ns
~200,000 ns
1,000,000 8,000,000 ns
1 sec
70 sec
Access Speed
>17 days 8 hours
SSD
Disk
Very, very slow
comparatively
Fast
Sweet spots
1. Batch window reduction for disk bound applications
You can cut up to 40-50% off window
2. Response time - transaction/data base for disk bound applications
Internal drives or perhaps even SAN drives
Key points
-- A modest
quantity of SSD can make a big difference
-- Both write-heavy and read-heavy work is fine for today’s
SSD – biggest performance boost for random read
workload
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IBM Power Systems
SSD Client - Batch Window Reduction Example 1
Associated Bank needed to reduce month
end batch run time from 4+ hours to
under 3 hours
40% Reduction
SSDs cut 1.5 hours from batch run time
Plus a 16% reduction in # of disk drives
# of
SSDs
Batch Run
Time
5
4
Hours
# of SAS
Disk Drives
Batch Performance Runs
3
Base run
72
0
4:22
SSD run 1
72
8
2:43
1
SSD run 2
60
4
2:48
0
2
72 HDD
72 HDD + 8 SSD
60 HDD + 4 SSD
Placed eight DB2 Objects (table, index,
view) on SSD
Source: IBM Power Systems Performance and Benchmark Center 5-23-09
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IBM Power Systems
SSD Client - Batch Window Reduction Example 2
50% Reduction
with SSD
Customer in health care industry
needed to reduce batch windows
significantly
Added 12 SSDs to 168 HDDs
Hours
Daily batch running 10+ hours
Monthly batch running 30+ hours
Batch Windows
Cut 50% from daily run time
Cut 50% from monthly run time
.
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Daily
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IBM Power Systems
SSD Client Example – IPL Reduction
Less downtime
IBM Development has projected
modest improvement for IBM i
and for AIX, but …..
An IBM i POWER6 520 client with
16 drives (4 SSD and 12 HDD)
Client put load source on SSD
Now reporting 3 minute IPLs
What is your cost per minute or cost per hour for
down time? How long is your typical IPL?
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IBM Power Systems
Mixed SSD + HDD Can be Great Solution
It is typical for data bases to have a large percentage of data which is infrequently
used (“cold”) and a small percentage of data which is frequently used (“hot”)
Hot data may be only 10-20% capacity, but represent 80-90% activity
SSD offers best price performance when focused on “hot” data
HDD offers best storage cost, so focus it on “cold” data …. a hierarchal
approach
Cold
Hot
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May be able to use larger HDD and/or a larger % capacity used
Can run SSD closer
to 100% capacity
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IBM Power Systems
Power Systems SSD Configuration Options
SAS-bay-based
Option introduced 2009
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
Can include imbedded SAS controller
SSD
SAS Bays
PCI SAS
controller
69 GB SSD
PCIe-based
PCIe SAS
controller
SSD
SSD
SSD
SSD
Introduction 2H 2010
“Additional” Does
not replace SASbay-based in all
situations
177 GB SSD
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IBM Power Systems
SDD PCIe SAS RAID Adapter
177GB
SSD
177GB
SSD
177GB
SSD
177GB
SSD
SAS
Cntrl
 PCIe SAS Adapter / Double-wide card
 4 SSD bays on card / 1, 2 or 4 SSD modules per adapter
 177 GB per SSD module / Up to 708 GB per card
 Supported OS: AIX 5.3 or later, IBM i 7.1, REHL 5.5 or later,
SLES 10 or later
 Supported servers: 710/720/730/740/750/770/780 (not 795)
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IBM Power Systems
PCIe-SSD-based Protection
SSD modules extremely reliable, but protecting against drive
failure (just like disk drives) is HIGHLY recommended
Option 1: Operating system mirror
 Redundant controller PLUS redundant SSD modules
 can hot plug … thus this is THE preferred option for most situations
 50% SSD capacity for protection
Option 2: RAID-5
 Controller is not redundant .. no hot plug of SSD modules
 25% SSD capacity for protection
 Option 2A: Add hot spare (50% capacity for protection)
Option 3: RAID-6
 Controller is not redundant .. no hot plug of SSD modules
 50% SSD capacity for protection
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IBM Power Systems
SSD-to-SSD Comparisons
2H 2010
SAS-bay- based
Prices very subject to change
PCIe-based
$6,811
(69.7 GB)
$97.72/GB
(69.7 GB)
$108.05/GB
(557.6 GB)
$4400
(177 GB)
$32.56/GB
(177 GB)
$38.21/GB
(708 GB)
$120.85/GB
(1115 GB)
$41.87/GB
(3540 GB)
GB in 4U I/O drawer
1115 GB
3540 GB
AIX support
5.3 or later
5.3 or later
IBM i support
IBM i 5.4 or later
IBM i 7.1
Linux support
SUSE xx, RHEL xx
SUSE 10, RHEL 5.5
Model supported
POWER6/7
POWER7 (selected)
Performance
yes
TBD (no write cache)
1 SSD (ignore capacity)
($ for 1 SSD) / GB
($ for PCI adapter + all
SSD controlled) / GB
($ for PCIe I/O drawer +
PCIe adapters + all SSD
controlled) / GB
Prices are USA suggested list prices as of July 2010 with a 9117-MMB . Prices and are subject to change without notice. Reseller prices may vary.
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SSD Analyzer Tool for IBM i Enhanced
• Quick, easy, no-charge analysis looks at standard performance report output
• Provides “probably yes”, “probably no”, or “maybe
• NEW - rough estimate of quantity of SSD to recommend
SSD ANALYSIS TOOL (ANZSSDDTA)
Type choices, press Enter.
PERFORMANCE MEMBER . . . . . . .
LIBRARY . . . . . . . . . . .
*DEFAULT__
__________
Name, *DEFAULT
Name
Additional Parameters
REPORT TYPE . . . . . . . .
TIME PERIOD::
START TIME AND DATE::
BEGINNING TIME . . . . . .
BEGINNING DATE . . . . . .
END TIME AND DATE::
ENDING TIME . . . . . . .
ENDING DATE . . . . . . .
NUMBER OF RECORDS IN REPORT
F3=Exit
F4=Prompt
F24=More keys
. .
*SUMMARY
*DETAIL, *SUMMARY, *BOTH
. .
. .
*AVAIL__
*BEGIN__
Time, *AVAIL
Date, *BEGIN
. .
. .
. .
*AVAIL__
*END____
50__
Time, *AVAIL
Date, *END
0 - 9999
F5=Refresh
F12=Cancel
Bottom
F13=How to use this display
Available via www.ibm.com/support/techdocs in “Presentations & Tools”. Search
using keyword SSD
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SAS SFF HDD Options – August 2010
New RAID formatted drive for IBM i
First SFF 10k drive for IBM i
HDD
10k
10k
15k
•
•
•
AIX/Linux
formatted
IBM i formatted
146 GB #1882 n/a
300 GB #1885 283 GB
#1911
SFF HDD
(front/back)
Price*
650
1050
73 GB
#1883 69 GB
498
#1884
IBM15k
i 6.1 or later
146 GB #1886 139 GB
798
For Power 710/720/730/740/750/770/780/795 or their #5802/5803 I/O drawers
#1888
Also supported as load source drives
Prices are USA suggested list prices as of August 2010 when ordered with the 8024 server. Prices and are subject to change without notice. Reseller prices may vary.
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Misc
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7216-1U2 Multi-Media Storage Enclosure
1U 19-inch rack mount drawer
Holds 1 or 2 HH removable media drives
Holds max 3 drives (1 tape + 2 DVD)
Announce 17 Aug 2010
GA 10 Sept 2010
AIX 5.3 or later, IBM i 6.1 or later, SUSE 10 or later, RHEL 5.5 or later
On POWER7 servers (not POWER6 servers)
Drives supported:
• DAT320 (SAS & USB*),
• DVD,
• USB Removable Disk (RDX)*,
• LTO-5
* USB interface not supported by IBM i
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New Product: IBM 7042-CR6 Rack-Mounted HMC
1U rack-mount HMC
2.53 GHz quad-core Xeon CPU
4 GB memory
500GB hard drive
4 built-in Ethernet ports
1 PCIe & 1 PCI-X slot
DVD-RAM
Supports all POWER5, POWER6 and POWER7 servers
Except Blades
Available September 2010
Shipped with MLC V7R720
Normal refresh of HMC technology – follow on to 7042-CR5
Pricing of CR6 same USA list price
Can provide more performance over previous models, especially under
heavy HMC workloads
Note: No new deskside HMC models are planned to be announced. Will focus on the much more popular rack-mount HMC
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PCIe Cryptographic Coprocessor 4765-001
Announced April 2010 for AIX
IBM i support announced August 2010
 IBM i 7.1 announced.
IBM i 6.1 not announced
PCIe follow on to PCI-X Crypto adapter
Faster, more reliable, more function than PCI-X 4764
 Up to 7x faster for PKCS#11 (AIX)
 Up to 2X faster for CCA (IBM i and AIX) RSA functions than PCI-X 4764
 Runs two processors in parallel to help guarantee accurate results
AIX support: 6.1 with TL 6100-05 or later or 5.3
with TL 5300-12 or later
 No Linux support,
Can mix PCIe and PCI-X Crypto adapter in
same IBM i partition
Can not mix PCIe and PCI-X Crypto adapters in
same AIX partition (Can mix on same system)
For clients with banking, credit card, or finance
applications – especially those who want
hardware designed to meet FIPS 140-2 level 4
security
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Feat codes: #4807/4808/4809
3 feats for same adapter denote
different BSC (blind swap cassette)
usages
CCIN = 4765
Pricing in USA is higher for PCIe
vs PCI-X, but justified by higher
performance and potential for
using fewer PCIe adapters
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ProtecTIER IBM TS7610 Deduplication
IOP-less ProtecTIER support
Available now with PTF IBM i 6.1 or later
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Notes on benchmarks and values
The IBM benchmarks results shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level and generally-available computer systems. Buyers should
consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems they are considering buying and should consider conducting application oriented testing. For
additional information about the benchmarks, values and systems tested, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller or access the Web site of the benchmark
consortium or benchmark vendor.
IBM benchmark results can be found in the IBM Power Systems Performance Report at http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html.
All performance measurements were made with AIX or AIX 5L operating systems unless otherwise indicated to have used Linux. For new and upgraded systems, AIX
Version 4.3, AIX 5L or AIX 6 were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2006, SPEC2000, LINPACK, and Technical Computing
benchmarks were compiled using IBM's high performance C, C++, and FORTRAN compilers for AIX 5L and Linux. For new and upgraded systems, the latest versions of
these compilers were used: XL C Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL FORTRAN Enterprise Edition V9.1 for AIX, XL C/C++
Advanced Edition V7.0 for Linux, and XL FORTRAN Advanced Edition V9.1 for Linux. The SPEC CPU95 (retired in 2000) tests used preprocessors, KAP 3.2 for FORTRAN
and KAP/C 1.4.2 from Kuck & Associates and VAST-2 v4.01X8 from Pacific-Sierra Research. The preprocessors were purchased separately from these vendors. Other
software packages like IBM ESSL for AIX, MASS for AIX and Kazushige Goto’s BLAS Library for Linux were also used in some benchmarks.
For a definition/explanation of each benchmark and the full list of detailed results, visit the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.
TPC
http://www.tpc.org
SPEC
http://www.spec.org
LINPACK
http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf
Pro/E
http://www.proe.com
GPC
http://www.spec.org/gpc
NotesBench
http://www.notesbench.org
VolanoMark
http://www.volano.com
STREAM
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/
SAP
http://www.sap.com/benchmark/
Oracle Applications
http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/
PeopleSoft - To get information on PeopleSoft benchmarks, contact PeopleSoft directly
Siebel
http://www.siebel.com/crm/performance_benchmark/index.shtm
Baan
http://www.ssaglobal.com
Microsoft Exchange
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/performance/default.asp
Veritest
http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports
Fluent
http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htm
TOP500 Supercomputers
http://www.top500.org/
Ideas International
http://www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/bench.html
Storage Performance Council http://www.storageperformance.org/results
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Notes on HPC benchmarks and values
The IBM benchmarks results shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level and generally-available computer systems. Buyers should
consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems they are considering buying and should consider conducting application oriented testing. For
additional information about the benchmarks, values and systems tested, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller or access the Web site of the benchmark
consortium or benchmark vendor.
IBM benchmark results can be found in the IBM Power Systems Performance Report at http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html.
All performance measurements were made with AIX or AIX 5L operating systems unless otherwise indicated to have used Linux. For new and upgraded systems, AIX
Version 4.3 or AIX 5L were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2000, LINPACK, and Technical Computing benchmarks were compiled
using IBM's high performance C, C++, and FORTRAN compilers for AIX 5L and Linux. For new and upgraded systems, the latest versions of these compilers were used: XL
C Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL FORTRAN Enterprise Edition V9.1 for AIX, XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V7.0 for Linux, and
XL FORTRAN Advanced Edition V9.1 for Linux. The SPEC CPU95 (retired in 2000) tests used preprocessors, KAP 3.2 for FORTRAN and KAP/C 1.4.2 from Kuck &
Associates and VAST-2 v4.01X8 from Pacific-Sierra Research. The preprocessors were purchased separately from these vendors. Other software packages like IBM ESSL
for AIX, MASS for AIX and Kazushige Goto’s BLAS Library for Linux were also used in some benchmarks.
For a definition/explanation of each benchmark and the full list of detailed results, visit the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.
SPEC
http://www.spec.org
LINPACK
http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf
Pro/E
http://www.proe.com
GPC
http://www.spec.org/gpc
STREAM
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/
Veritest
http://www.veritest.com/clients/reports
Fluent
http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htm
TOP500 Supercomputers
http://www.top500.org/
AMBER
http://amber.scripps.edu/
FLUENT
http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/fl5bench/index.htm
GAMESS
http://www.msg.chem.iastate.edu/gamess
GAUSSIAN
http://www.gaussian.com
ABAQUS
http://www.abaqus.com/support/sup_tech_notes64.html
select Abaqus v6.4 Performance Data
ANSYS
http://www.ansys.com/services/hardware_support/index.htm
select “Hardware Support Database”, then benchmarks.
ECLIPSE
http://www.sis.slb.com/content/software/simulation/index.asp?seg=geoquest&
MM5
http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/
MSC.NASTRAN
http://www.mscsoftware.com/support/prod%5Fsupport/nastran/performance/v04_sngl.cfm
STAR-CD
www.cd-adapco.com/products/STAR-CD/performance/320/index/html
NAMD
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd
HMMER
http://hmmer.janelia.org/
Revised January 15, 2008
http://powerdev.osuosl.org/project/hmmerAltivecGen 2mod
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Notes on performance estimates
rPerf for AIX
rPerf (Relative Performance) is an estimate of commercial processing performance relative to other IBM UNIX systems. It is derived from an
IBM analytical model which uses characteristics from IBM internal workloads, TPC and SPEC benchmarks. The rPerf model is not
intended to represent any specific public benchmark results and should not be reasonably used in that way. The model simulates some of
the system operations such as CPU, cache and memory. However, the model does not simulate disk or network I/O operations.
 rPerf estimates are calculated based on systems with the latest levels of AIX and other pertinent software at the time of system
announcement. Actual performance will vary based on application and configuration specifics. The IBM eServer pSeries 640 is the
baseline reference system and has a value of 1.0. Although rPerf may be used to approximate relative IBM UNIX commercial processing
performance, actual system performance may vary and is dependent upon many factors including system hardware configuration and
software design and configuration. Note that the rPerf methodology used for the POWER6 systems is identical to that used for the
POWER5 systems. Variations in incremental system performance may be observed in commercial workloads due to changes in the
underlying system architecture.
All performance estimates are provided "AS IS" and no warranties or guarantees are expressed or implied by IBM. Buyers should consult
other sources of information, including system benchmarks, and application sizing guides to evaluate the performance of a system they are
considering buying. For additional information about rPerf, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller.
========================================================================
CPW for IBM i
Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) is a relative measure of performance of processors running the IBM i operating system.
Performance in customer environments may vary. The value is based on maximum configurations. More performance information is
available in the Performance Capabilities Reference at: www.ibm.com/systems/i/solutions/perfmgmt/resource.html
Revised April 2, 2007
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