IBM Power E880 Servers
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.
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
- Built-in virtualization and innovative resource sharing to streamline deployment and increase responsiveness
- Built for your most complex, mission-critical business priorities
- Bring insights to the point of impact faster through a data-centric design
- Process big data in memory with 32 TB1 memory
- Improve IT economics and efficiently deliver business services with scalable, open private and hybrid cloud
- Manage fluctuating business demands with dynamic resource sharing through Power Enterprise Pools
- Simplify management of Linux applications using new, faster Power IFLs
Specifications
| Configuration options | Per building block | System maximum |
|---|---|---|
| Processor cores | 32 x 4.35 GHz POWER8 processor cores 40 x 4.19 GHz POWER8 processor cores 48 x 4.0 GHz POWER8 processor cores |
128 x 4.35 GHz POWER8 processor cores 160 x 4.19 GHz POWER8 processor cores 192 x 4.02 GHz POWER8 processor cores |
| Sockets | 4 | Up to 16 |
| 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 DIMMs Up to 8 TB of 1600 MHz DDR4 |
Up to 128 DIMMs Up to 32 TBs of 1600 MHz DDR4 |
| Integrated PCIe adapter slots | 8 PCIe Gen3 x16 | Up to 32 PCIe Gen3 x16 |
| Expansion features (optional and depending on the operating systems) | ||
| DVD bay | 1 | |
| Max PCIe Gen3 I/O drawers (12 PCIe Gen3 slots each) |
Up to 4 | Up to 16 |
| Max DASD/SSD I/O drawers (24 SFF bays each) |
Up to 128 | Up to 168 |
| Standard features | ||
| System control unit | 1 | |
| Flexible service processors | 2 in system control unit | |
| IBM POWER Hypervisor™ | 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 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 Dynamic L3 cache column repair 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 | 17 EIA (7U) space in a 19-inch rack | 29 EIA (22U) 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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