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by Scott Vetter, Giuliano Anselmi, Manish Arora, Ivaylo Bozhinov, Dinil Das, Turgut
IBM Power E1080 Technical Overview and Introduction
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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 Planned availability dates of 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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