Power System
April 24 Power Announcements
Overview
Jeff Elmore
jdelmore@us.ibm.com
Power Systems Technical Sales
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Refresh/Expansion of Power SSD Product Offering
New SSD
2X performance & 2X capacity
  Better $ per performance
  Better $ per GB capacity
  Can allow smaller configurations – fewer slots, fewer I/O drawers
Plus New configuration options
  Ultra high density, Ultra high performance SSD Drawer
  1U for 30 SSD
  Zero PCIe slots used
  High-performance, low-profile-capable SAS SSD Adapter
  First Power 710/730 SAS SSD Adapter
  First option for RAID with one PCIe slot
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Refreshed SFF eMLC SSD
New 387GB eMLC SSD --- 2X performance &
2X capacity of existing 177GB SSD
Improved price performance
 33 - 68% better $ per IOPS
 25% better $ per GB
Existing 177GB SSD
$3588**
New 387GB SSD
$6200**
300GB 15k rpm HDD
$950**
$ / IOPS*
$ / GB
0.24 to
0.90
20.27
0.16 to
0.28
16.02
2.38 to 7.92
3.17
PLUS for the same GB …use ½ quantity of SSD
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Save SAS bays & I/O drawers
Save SAS adapters
Save rack footprint
Save energy & cooling
Leave room for future growth
387GB SFF SSD
Throughput
IOPS: 22k - 39k
Bandwidth: 340 – 375 MB
Latency: 0.2 milliseconds
These are drive-specific values. Overall system
performance impacted by many other factors such
as controllers, caches, buses, system memory,
applications, etc
** IBM USA suggested list prices as of April, 2012 for Power 720. Reseller prices may vary. Prices subject to change without notice.
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It All Stacks Up
Comparing on performance (not
capacity):
Depending on the workload, the HDD
stack may be much higher on the left.
This shows a fairly conservative HDD
vs SSD performance comparison
1/10th Qty HDD
1/20th Qty HDD
15k rpm HDD
(SFF)
4
177 GB SSD
(SFF)
387 GB SSD
(SFF)
1/20th Qty HDD
387 GB SSD
(1.8 )
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New #5888 EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer
1U drawer … Up to 30 SSD
30 x 387 GB drives = up to 11.6 TB
Great performance
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Up to 400,000 IOPS (100% read)
Up to 340,000 IOPS (60/40% read/write)
Up to 270,000 IOPS (100% write)
Up to 4.5 GB/s bandwidth
May 2012:
Power 710/730/720/740
AIX and Linux
WORLD CLASS !!!
Two built-in, large-cache SAS adapters, more powerful than
the #5913 which was announced Oct 2011
  Connected to GX++ slot of Power 710/720/730/740
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#5888 EXP30 Ultra Drawer SOD Summary
(April 2012)
1.  More POWER7 Models supported in the future
2.  Down stream HDD drawers
POWER7
Server
3.  Easy Tier capability for HDD drawers
Hot  Cold
4.  DS8000 integration --
DAS performance + SAN functionality
POWER7
Server
+
DS8800
5.  More operating systems
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New SSD-only Gen2 SAS Adapter
#ESA1
Much higher performance than Gen1 Adapters
  Up to 4.4 GB/s sustained throughput (2.2 GB per port)
  Up to 6-7X more SSD workload vs #5805
#ESA2 = low profile version
Low profile capable
 No other SAS SSD adapter supported in Power 710/730 low profile PCIe slots or
in PCIe Riser Card for Power 720/740
 Also available for full high PCIe slots
Footprint savings
 RAID-5 capable with only one PCIe slot (vs minimum of two PCI slots)
Improved price performance compared to pair of #5805 380MB SAS
adapters
 Up to one less PCIe slot used
 Supports many more SSD per adapter
 Plus potentially saving a #5887 EXP24S I/O drawer
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World Class eMLC SSD Performance
IO OPERATIONS PER SECOND
(IOPS)
SSD
Random
Read
Random
Write
177GB 1.8 SSD in
PCIe-based
Adapter
(#1995/1996)
19 k
5k
387GB 1.8 SSD in
#5888 Ultra SSD
Drawer
35 k
177GB 2.5 SSD in
SAS SFF bays
387GB 2.5 SSD in
SAS SFF bays
For grins …
15k rpm HDD
Random
Mixed
Throughput (MB/s)
Latency Response
Time (ms)
Read
Write
Single
Read
12 k
186 MB
57 MB
.25 ms
10 k
21 k
320 MB
180 MB
.26 ms
15 k
4k
11 k
170 MB
64 MB
.25 ms
39 k
22 k
24 k
340 MB
375 MB
.20 ms
0.12 - 0.4 k
0.12 - 0.4 k
0.12 - 0.4 k
~175 MB
~175 MB
8.3 – 2.5 ms
70% Read /
30% Write
(21-166)
(150-400)
(24-123)
Note these are drive specific measurements and projections which can vary from what you might experience. The values assume 528 byte sectors running RAID-0 with no
protection. Hypothetically if measured with unsupported 512 byte sectors, values would be higher. The values are highly workload dependent. Factors such as read/write mix,
random/non-random data, drive cache hits/misses, data compressibility in the drive controller, large/small block, type of RAID or mirroring protection, etc will change these
values. These values produced by a server with plenty of processor, memory and controller resources to push this much I/O into the SSD. Most client system applications don t
push SSD nearly this hard.
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Price Performance 4-Port 1Gb Ethernet Adapter
4-port 1Gb Ethernet PCIe Adapter
  4 RJ45 ports (ports independent of each other)
 Full or half duplex (1Gb not supported with half-duplex)
  Cabling: 4-pair CAT-5 Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP)
cables up to 100 meters long
  CCIN of 576F
  PCIe Gen2 x4 … supported in Gen1 + Gen2 slots
#5899 - full high
#5260 - low profile
Supported in
  Power 710/720/730/740/750/755/770/780 (B&C models)
  #5802/5877 I/O drawers on POWER7 servers
  Not tested/supported as of May 2012 on Power 795
  Not tested/supported on POWER6 servers
Supported with
  AIX 5.3 and later, IBM i 6.1 and later, RHEL 5.8 and later, SLES 11 or later, VIOS
  See sales manual or pre-req tools for specific TL, service level, etc
Additional detail:
  conforms to the IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-T standard
  4 ports - each independent of each other --- 4-Port MAC
  High performance IPV4/IPV6 checksum offload
  Large Send and Large Receive Support
  Multiple Queues
  MSI-X
  Supports jumbo frames when running 1 Gbps.
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Low Profile 8Gb 4-Port FC Adapter
Better price performance, Enable more virtualization, Smaller footprint
PCIe LP Gen2 8Gb 4-port Fibre Channel Adapter (HBA)
  Feat code #EN0Y & CCIN of 576F
  PCIe Gen2 x8
#EN0Y - low profile
8 Gb
Supported in LP Gen2 slots of
8 Gb
  Power 710/720 (C models) system unit
  Power 720/740 (C models) PCIe Riser Card #5685
  Not tested/supported in Gen1 low profile slots
8 Gb
8 Gb
Supported with
  AIX 5.3 and later, RHEL 5.8 and later, SLES 10 or later, VIOS 2.2.1.4 or later
  IBM i 6.1 and later through VIOS
  See sales manual or pre-req tools for specific TL, service level, etc
  VIOS required for NPIV
Adapter uses fiber optics with LC type connectors running at 2, 4, or
8 Gbps over multimode fiber optic cables. Cable selection of OM1,
OM2, OM3 multimode cable impacts speed and distance.
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IBM PowerLinuxTM 7R2
Target workloads not addressable by AIX and i
 New workloads emerging from Open Source projects
 Scale-out Big Data Analytics built on Apache Hadoop
 Existing industry applications transitioning to Linux
 Country specific ISVs and local industry OEMs
• Workloads standardizing on Linux and x86 servers
 Open Source web applications, e-mail, file/print, networking
 100% of these apps included in Red Hat or SUSE distributions
Deliver smarter solutions built on Watson
inspired Linux and Open Source innovation
• Big Data Analytics, Industry Application Solutions, Open
Source Infrastructure Services
Provide compelling value vs. VMware and x86
• Solutions with superior economics, faster services delivery
• Comparable pricing to x86 Linux
• 33% lower solution cost for virtualized infrastructure
Expand Power ecosystem
• Resellers, select ISVs and OEMs focused on growth of
Linux - $9.8B spend on Linux servers in 2012
• Linux community leaders and Open Source developers
Virtualization & Management
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IBM PowerLinuxTM 7R2
✓ PowerLinux 7R2
Linux only POWER7
 8246-L2C (new MTM)
  Without external I/O drawer support
  Available starting May 4
 8246-L2S
(new MTM)
  With EXP24S support
 Available starting June 15
✓ 16-core, 2-socket POWER7
 3.55GHz or 3.3GHz
✓ 2U Form Factor
✓ Up to 256 GB Memory
✓ 5 PCIe Gen2 Slots
 Plus 6th slot for Ethernet adapter
✓ Up to 6 SFF Bays
 SAS HDD or SSD
Operating Systems
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2012 Withdrawals from Marketing (not support)
New April announcement
 SDMC feat of 7042-CR6 withdrawal
Announced Feb 2012
 “B” models of Power 710/720/730/740
 Withdrawal effective May 2012
 Already shipping “C” models
 #5796 12X PCI-X I/O drawer - Last orderable drawer for PCI-X slots
 Withdrawal effective May 2012
 7216-1U2 Storage drawer
 Replaced by 7226-1U3 available March
 Withdrawal effective 27 April 2012
Be alert, change coming
Reminder: Announced 2011
 #5886 EXP12S SAS storage drawer
 Effective Jan 2012
 Last drawer providing 3.5-inch SAS bays
 3.5-inch SAS drives still available – no withdrawal announcements made “yet”
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IBM i Hardware Enhancements
i 6.1.1
TR 1 TR 2 TR 3 TR 4
Number of enhancements touching hardware
  Live Partition Mobility with VIOS-attached SAN (IBM i 7.1 TR4 only)
  Expand PowerHA support of Metro Mirror, Global Mirror and FashCopy to
Storwize V7000 and to San Volume Controller (SVC)
  387GB SSD in SFF bays
  SSD-only SAS adapter #ESA1/ESA2
  4-port 1Gb LAN adapter
  USB-attached DAT160 tape (through VIOS)
See IBM i material for more information, including non-hardware enhancements
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Agenda
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  387GB SFF #ES0A/ES0B/ES0C/ES0D
  Ultra Drawer - EXP30 - 1U SSD I/O drawer #5888 & #ES02
  Low profile capable SSD-only SAS Adapter #ESA1/ESA2
Lower-price 4-port 1Gb Ethernet Adapter (#5260/5899)
Change to Power 710/720/730/740 base config
Low-profile 4-port 8Gb Fibre Channel Adapter (#ENOY)
RDX 320GB Removable Disk Drive (#EU08)
USB DAT160 Tape Drive (#EU16)
RoCE Adapter (#EC27/EC28)
Updated PCIe spreadsheet
Performance Cabling (#EUC5)
Config enhancements for #5887 EXP24S
Config enhancements for #5913 SAS Adapter
Virtualizing DAS for IBM i
HDD usage flexibility – AIX/Linux/VIOS & IBM i
PowerLinux 7R2 (8246-L2C/8246-L2S)
AIX Solution Edition features
IBM i hardware enhancements
Announce 24 April
Recent (Apr) PowerSC
Planned GA 25 May
Recent (Feb) 7226-1U3 Storage Drawer
Except for GA of:
 AIX Solution Edition - May 4
Recent (Apr) 7953-94X 19-inch rack
 PowerLinux 7R2 8246-L2C –
IBM BNT RackSwitch update
May 4 (with a few exceptions)
SODs, Planning Stmts, Product Withdrawals
  Partial #5887 eConfig
Shipping & Handling features
Specifies – June 12
SDMC/HMC news
 PowerLinux 7R2 8246-L2S –
June 15
 Shipping &Handling - July
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