IBM Power E870 Servers
The emerging measures of IT performance focus on agility to enable growth and respond to change, while effectively managing risk and resources. Expectations continue to rise for increased service levels and secure application access, as data explodes and budgets are squeezed. At the same time, more complex application architectures and the current rate of change create unforeseen challenges that strain even the most talented IT teams in the industry.
The IBM® Power® E870 is a high-performance, secure, enterprise system optimized for the compute-intensive performance demands of large-scale, mission-critical transaction, database and analytics applications. With up to 80 IBM POWER8® processor cores, up to 16 TB of memory, an efficient modular design, built-in IBM PowerVM® virtualization technologies and Capacity on Demand innovation, the Power E870 server can consistently sustain high service levels across hundreds of virtual workloads on a single system.
Highlights
- Industry-leading performance and scale for the most demanding data-centric applications
- Manage fluctuating business demands with dynamic, private cloud capacity
- Minimize risk with secure delivery of data and services on a proven, reliable platform
- Streamline deployment and increase responsiveness with built-in virtualization and innovative resource sharing
- Increase energy efficiency with more performance-per-watt
- Open innovation for Linux, AIX® and IBM i
Specifications
| Configuration options | Per building block | System maximum |
|---|---|---|
| Processor cores | 32 x 4.02 GHz POWER8 40 x 4.19 GHz POWER8 |
64 x 4.02 GHz POWER8 80 x 4.19 GHz POWER8 |
| Sockets | Four | Eight |
| Level 2 (L2) cache per core | 512 KB | |
| Level 3 (L3) cache per core | 8 MB eDRAM shared L3 | |
| Level 4 (L4) cache | Up to 128 MB eDRAM L4 (off-chip) per socket | |
| Enterprise memory | 32 CDIMMs Up to 4 TB of 1600 MHz DDR3 Up to 8 TB of 1600 MHz DDR4 |
64 CDIMMs Up to 8 TB of 1600 MHz DDR3 Up to 16 TB of 1600 MHz DDR4 |
| Integrated PCIe adapter slots | 8 PCIe Gen3 x16 | 16 PCIe Gen3 x16 |
| Expansion features (optional – operating system dependencies) | ||
| DVD bay | One | |
| Max PCIe Gen3 I/O Drawers (12 PCIe Gen3 slots each) | 4 | 8 |
| Max DASD/SSD I/O Drawers (24 SFF bays each) | 64 | 64 |
| Standard features | ||
| System control unit | One | |
| Flexible Service Processors | Two in system control unit | |
| IBM POWER Hypervisor™ | LPAR, Dynamic LPAR; Virtual LAN (Memory to memory interpartition communication) | |
| PowerVM Enterprise Edition (included) | Micro-partitioning (up to 20 micro-partitions per processor); Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Virtual I/ O Server; Shared Dedicated Capacity; Live Partition Mobility (LPM) and Active Memory Sharing* (AMS) | |
| RAS features | Processor Instruction Retry Alternate Processor Recovery Selective dynamic firmware updates Chipkill memory with DRAM sparing Dynamic L2 and L3 cache column repair Memory controller replay buffer L4 bank delete Dynamic inter-node bus repair Redundant service processors with automatic failover Redundant system clocks with dynamic failover Redundant, hot swappable power supplies and cooling fans Concurrent add/repair of I/O drawers Hot- swappable disk bays in EXP24S Hot-plug/blind-swap PCIe slots Dynamic processor deallocation Extended error handling on PCIe slots Active Memory Mirroring for Hypervisor |
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| Capacity on Demand features (optional) | Processor and/or Memory Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) Elastic Processor and/or Memory Capacity on Demand (CoD) Trial Processor and/or Memory CoD Utility CoD Power Enterprise Pools |
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| Operating systems | AIX, IBM i and Linux for Power† | |
| High availability | Power HA Editions | |
| Power requirements | Operating voltage: 200 to 240 V ac | |
| System dimensions | 7 EIA (12U) space in a 19-inch rack | 12 EIA (12U) space in a 19-inch rack |
| Warranty | 24×7, same day response for one year; on-site (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available. | |
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- Provided with 90 Day warranty
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