IBM Power E850 Servers
Businesses today are demanding faster insights that analyze more data in new ways. They need to implement applications in days versus months, and they need to achieve all these goals while reducing IT costs. This is creating new demands on IT infrastructures, requiring new levels of performance and the flexibility to respond to new business opportunities, all at an affordable price.
The IBM(R) Power(R) System E850 server offers a unique blend of enterprise-class capabilities in a space-efficient, 4-socket system with excellent price performance. With up to 48 IBM POWER8(TM) processor cores, advanced IBM PowerVM(R) virtualization that can yield over 70 percent system utilization and Capacity on Demand (CoD), no other 4-socket system in the industry delivers this combination of performance, efficiency and business agility. These capabilities make the Power E850 server an ideal platform for medium-size businesses and as a departmental server or data center building block for large enterprises.
The Power E850 server delivers exceptional throughput, using POWER8 processors up to 3.7 GHz that support simultaneous multi-threading of up to eight threads per core (SMT8). Each Dual Chip Module has on-chip memory controllers and may utilize up to128 GB off-chip eDRAM L4 cache to deliver 192 GB/sec of memory bandwidth per socket. I/O bandwidth is also dramatically increased by way of PCIe Gen3 I/O controllers, directly integrated into the processors to further reduce latency. The Power E850 server offers over 70 percent more system performance than an IBM POWER7+™ Power 750 server, enabling increased throughput and data center efficiency.
Highlights
- Designed for data and analytics, delivers secure, reliable performance in a compact, 4-socket system
- Can flexibly scale to rapidly respond to changing business needs
- Can reduce IT costs through application consolidation, higher availability and virtualization to yield over 70 percent utilization
Specifications
| System Configurations | Model 8408-E8E |
|---|---|
| Processor and Memory | |
| Processor cores | 48 at 3.02 GHz POWER8 40 at 3.35 GHz POWER8 32 at 3.72 GHz POWER8 |
| Sockets | 2 – 4 |
| 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 | Up to 32 CDIMMs 128 GB to 4 TB |
| Processor-to-Memory bandwidth | 192 GBps per socket |
| Storage and IO | |
| Integrated PCIe adapter slots | Up to 11 hot-swap PCIe Gen3 slots x16: 4 – 8 (2 per socket) x8: 3 (one defaults to 2 x 10 Gb LAN) |
| Integrated SAS Controllers | Two in storage backplane, supporting standard RAID 0,5,6,10, 5T2, 6T2 and 10T2
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| Integrated SAS bays for solid-state drives (SSD) or hard-disk drives | 8 hot-swap SFF SAS drive bays (2.5”) + 4 SSD bays (1.8”) |
| Expansion features (optional – operating system dependencies) | |
| DVD bay | One |
| Max PCIe Gen3 I/O Drawers (12 PCIe Gen3 slots each) | 4 |
| Max DASD/SSD I/O Drawers (24 SFF bays each) | 64 EXP24S I/O drawers |
| Standard features | |
| Flexible Service Processor | 1 |
| IBM POWER Hypervisor™ | LPAR, Dynamic LPAR; Virtual LAN (Memory to memory inter-partition communication) |
| PowerVM Standard Edition (optional) | 20 Micro-Partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Shared Dedicated Capacity; Virtual I/O Server |
| PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional) | 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 Memory DRAM sparing Dynamic L3 cache column repair Dynamic Processor de-allocation Phase redundant, integrated sparing voltage regulator modules for processors, memory and I/O Second generation service processor Hot swappable Time-of-Day battery Redundant, hot swappable power supplies Redundant fans for SAS controllers and drive bays Redundant, hot swappable fans for processor, memory and PCIe slots Hot-swappable SAS bays Hot-swappable PCIe slots Dynamic de-allocation of logical partitions and PCIe bus slots Extended error handling on PCIe slots Active Memory Mirroring for Hypervisor (optional) |
| 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 |
| Operating systems | AIX and Linux for Power† |
| High availability | Power HA Editions |
| Power requirements | Operating voltage: 200 to 240 V AC |
| System dimensions | Four EIA (4U) space in a 19-inch rack Width: 449 mm (17.6 in.) Depth: 776 mm (30.6 in.) Height: 175 mm (6.9 in.) |
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