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ibm.com/redbooksRedpaperFront coverIBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionAlexandre Bicas CaldeiraCarlo CostantiniSteve HarnettVolke

viii IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionTrademarksIBM, the IBM logo, and ibm.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of Int

86 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 2-26 shows the back view of the expansion unit.Figure 2-26 PCI-X DDR 12X Expansi

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 87Figure 2-27 shows the front view of the 12X I/O Drawer PCIe (#5802).Figure 2-27 Front view of the

88 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 2-29 indicates the mode switch in the rear view of the #5802 I/O Drawer.Figure 2-2

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 89The location codes for the front and rear views of the #5802 I/O drawer are provided in Figure 2-30

90 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionEach disk bay set can be attached to its own controller or adapter. The feature #5802 PCI

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 91General rule for the 12X IO Drawer configurationTo optimize performance and distribute workload, use

92 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction3. From J16 (T2) of the final expansion unit, connect to the second CEC enclosure, SPCN 1

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 93򐂰 IBM 7031 TotalStorage EXP24 Ultra320 SCSI Expandable Storage Disk Enclosure (no longer orderable)򐂰

94 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe following SAS X cables are available for usage with a PCIe2 1.8 GB Cache RAID SAS ada

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 952.11.2 EXP24S SFF Gen2-bay DrawerThe EXP24S SFF Gen2-bay Drawer (#5887) is an expansion drawer supp

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. ixPrefaceThis IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM Power® 770 (9117-M

96 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introductioncontrollers is now running 30 SAS bays (six SFF bays in the system unit and twenty-four 2

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 97Include the EXP24S SFF Gen2-bay Drawer no-charge specify codes with EXP24S orders to indicate to IBM

98 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFor detailed information about the SAS cabling, see the serial-attached SCSI cable planni

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 992.11.5 IBM System StorageThe IBM System Storage Disk Systems products and offerings provide compell

100 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introductionsupporting a greater potential return on investment (ROI). For more information about St

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 101At the time of writing, the HMC must be running V7R7.4.0. It can also support up to 48 Power7 syste

102 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionHMC Console managementThe last group relates to the management of the HMC itself, its ma

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 103For the HMC to communicate properly with the managed server, eth0 of the HMC must be connected to e

104 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction2.12.3 High availability using the HMCThe HMC is an important hardware component. When

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 105Figure 2-37 shows one possible highly available HMC configuration managing two servers. These serve

x IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionBusiness Partners on Power Systems hardware, AIX, and PowerVM virtualization products. He

106 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 2-38 shows a redundant HMC and redundant service processor connectivity configura

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 107Figure 2-39 describes the four possible Ethernet connectivity options between the HMC and service p

108 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionIf you want to migrate an LPAR from a POWER6 processor-based server onto a POWER7 proces

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 109or later), and KVM (Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5). The virtual appliance is only supported o

110 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe IBM SDMC Virtual Appliance requires an IBM Systems Director Management Console V6.7.

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 111IBM periodically releases maintenance packages (service packs or technology levels) for the AIX ope

112 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction2.14.4 Linux operating systemLinux is an open source operating system that runs on nume

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 113through to the POWER4+, POWER5, POWER5+, and POWER6 processors, and now including the new POWER7 pr

114 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction2.15 Energy managementThe Power 770 and 780 servers are designed with features to help

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 115When a system is idle, the system firmware will lower the frequency and voltage to power energy sav

Preface xiThanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:Larry Amy, Gary Anderson, Sue Beck, Terry Brennan, Pat Buckland, Pa

116 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introductiontemperature and assumes a high-altitude environment. When a power savings setting is enf

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 117A new power savings mode, called inherit host setting, is available and is only applicable to parti

118 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 119Chapter 3. VirtualizationAs you look for ways to maximize the return on your IT infrastructure inv

120 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction3.1 POWER HypervisorCombined with features designed into the POWER7 processors, the POW

Chapter 3. Virtualization 121Virtual SCSIThe POWER Hypervisor provides a virtual SCSI mechanism for virtualization of storage devices. The storage vi

122 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionVirtual Fibre ChannelA virtual Fibre Channel adapter is a virtual adapter that provides

Chapter 3. Virtualization 123On Power System servers, partitions can be configured to run in several modes, including:򐂰 POWER6 compatibility modeThis

124 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionTable 3-2 lists the differences between these modes.Table 3-2 Differences between POWE

Chapter 3. Virtualization 125sample work loads, showed excellent results for many workloads in terms of memory expansion per additional CPU utilized.

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126 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionTo help you perform this study, a planning tool is included with AIX 6.1 Technology Leve

Chapter 3. Virtualization 127After you select the value of the memory expansion factor that you want to achieve, you can use this value to configure

128 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionhypervisorFrom the HMC, you can view whether the Active Memory Expansion feature has bee

Chapter 3. Virtualization 1293.4.1 PowerVM editionsThis section provides information about the virtualization capabilities of the PowerVM. The three

130 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionMicro-PartitioningMicro-Partitioning technology allows you to allocate fractions of proc

Chapter 3. Virtualization 131The Power 780 allows up to 96 cores in a single system, supporting the following maximums:򐂰 Up to 96 dedicated partition

132 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionDedicated modeIn dedicated mode, physical processors are assigned as a whole to partitio

Chapter 3. Virtualization 133To implement MSPPs, there is a set of underlying techniques and technologies. Figure 3-8 shows an overview of the archit

134 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionDefault Shared Processor Pool (SPP0)On any Power Systems server supporting Multiple Shar

Chapter 3. Virtualization 135Figure 3-9 shows the levels of unused capacity redistribution implemented by the POWER Hypervisor.Figure 3-9 The level

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 1Chapter 1. General descriptionThe IBM Power 770 (9117-MMC) and IBM Power 780 servers (9179-MHC) util

136 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionWhere there is unused processor capacity in under-utilized Shared Processor Pools, the m

Chapter 3. Virtualization 137Live Partition Mobility and Multiple Shared Processor PoolsA micro-partition can leave a Shared Processor Pool because o

138 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe Virtual Fibre Channel adapter is used with the NPIV feature, described in 3.4.8, “N_

Chapter 3. Virtualization 139A single SEA setup can have up to 16 Virtual Ethernet trunk adapters and each virtual Ethernet trunk adapter can support

140 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 3-12 shows an example where one physical disk is divided into two logical volumes

Chapter 3. Virtualization 141򐂰 Includes IBM Systems Director agent and a number of pre-installed Tivoli agents, such as:– Tivoli Identity Manager (TI

142 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionAn N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV) device is considered virtual and is compatible with p

Chapter 3. Virtualization 143migration to fail. During the migration, the managed console controls all phases of the process.Improved Live Partition

144 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction3.4.7 Active Memory Deduplication In a virtualized environment, the systems might have

Chapter 3. Virtualization 145Figure 3-14 shows the behavior of a system with Active Memory Deduplication enabled on its AMS shared memory pool. Dupli

2 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction1.1 Systems overviewYou can find detailed information about the Power 770 and Power 780 s

146 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 3-15 shows two pages being written in the AMS memory pool and having their signat

Chapter 3. Virtualization 147Figure 3-16 shows the Active Memory Deduplication being enabled to a shared memory pool.Figure 3-16 Enabling the Activ

148 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction3.4.9 Operating system support for PowerVMTable 3-5 summarizes the PowerVM features sup

Chapter 3. Virtualization 1493.4.10 POWER7 Linux programming supportIBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) contributes to the development of Linux by pro

150 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFor information regarding Advance Toolchain, see the following website:http://www.ibm.co

Chapter 3. Virtualization 151You can use the SPT before you order a system to determine what you must order to support your workload. You can also us

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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 153Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageabilityThis chapter provides information about IBM re

154 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionIBM is the only vendor that designs, manufactures, and integrates its most critical serv

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 1554.1 ReliabilityHighly reliable systems are built with highly reliable components. On IBM POW

Chapter 1. General description 3Figure 1-1 shows a Power 770 with the maximum four enclosures, and the front and rear views of a single-enclosure Pow

156 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction4.1.2 Placement of componentsPackaging is designed to deliver both high performance and

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 157The POWER7 family of systems continues to introduce significant enhancements that are designe

158 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionPersistent deallocationTo enhance system availability, a component that is identified fo

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 159If there are no CoD processor cores available system-wide, total processor capacity is lowere

160 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction򐂰 CRCThe bus that is transferring data between the processor and the memory uses CRC err

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 161Figure 4-3 shows a POWER7 chip, with its memory interface, consisting of two controllers and

162 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFinally, if an uncorrectable error in memory is discovered, the logical memory block ass

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 163򐂰 Hypervisor data that is not mirrored– Advanced Memory Sharing (AMS) pool– Memory used to ho

164 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe Active Memory Mirroring can be disabled or enabled on the management console using t

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 165Mirroring optimizationHypervisor mirroring requires specific memory locations. Those location

4 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe Power 780 has two new integrated POWER7 I/O controllers that enhance I/O performance w

166 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionAdvanced memory mirroring featuresOn the Power 770 server, the Advanced Memory Mirroring

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 167Sometimes an uncorrectable error is temporary in nature and occurs in data that can be recove

168 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe traditional means of handling these problems is through adapter internal-error repor

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 1694.3 ServiceabilityIBM Power Systems design considers both IBM and client needs. The IBM Serv

170 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introductionproblems so that the system administrator can take appropriate corrective actions before

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 171Figure 4-8 ASMI Auto Power Restart setting panel 򐂰 Fault monitoringBuilt-in self-test (BIST

172 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction򐂰 Concurrent access to the service processors menus of the Advanced System Management In

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 173Figure 4-9 shows a schematic of a fault isolation register implementation.Figure 4-9 Schema

174 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionBoot timeWhen an IBM Power Systems server powers up, the service processor initializes t

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 175result is stored in system NVRAM. Error log analysis (ELA) can be used to display the failure

Chapter 1. General description 51.3 Physical packageTable 1-2 lists the physical dimensions of an individual enclosure. Both servers are available o

176 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionWhen a local or globally reported service request is made to the operating system, the o

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 177Client Notify events are serviceable events, by definition, because they indicate that someth

178 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introductionconnection. Positive retention mechanisms such as latches, levers, thumb-screws, pop Nyl

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 179Service labelsService providers use these labels to assist them in performing maintenance act

180 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionHot-node add, hot-node repair, and memory upgradeWith the proper configuration and requi

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 181If the system is managed by a management console, you will use the management console for fir

182 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionClients can subscribe through the subscription services to obtain the notifications abou

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 183With two CEC enclosures and more, there are two redundant FSP, one in each of the first CECs.

184 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionYou might be able to use the service processor’s default settings. In that case, accessi

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 185The operator panel can be accessed in two ways:򐂰 By using the normal operational front view.򐂰

6 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 1-2 shows the front and rear views of the Power 770 and Power 780. Figure 1-2 Fro

186 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introductionerror log and the AIX configuration data. IBM i has a service tools problem log, IBM i h

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 187Depending on the operating system, these are the service-level functions that you typically s

188 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFor access to the initial web pages that address this capability, see the Support for IB

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 189If there is a management console to manage the server, the management console interface can b

190 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionAn installation is disruptive if the following statements are true:򐂰 The release levels

Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability 191Processor Instruction Retry X X X X X X XAlternate Processor Recovery X X X X X X XPartition

192 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionComponent initialization X X X X X X XServiceabilityBoot-time progress indicators X X X

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 193Related publicationsThe publications listed in this section are considered particularly suitable f

194 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction򐂰 IBM Power 710 server Data Sheethttp://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/pod03048use

Related publications 195򐂰 Support for IBM Systems websitehttp://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview?brandind=Hardware~Systems~Power򐂰 IBM Power

Chapter 1. General description 7򐂰 One hot-plug, slim-line, SATA media bay per enclosure (optional)򐂰 Redundant hot-swap AC power supplies in each encl

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8 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction򐂰 Disk-only I/O drawers– Up to 56 EXP24S SFF SAS I/O drawers on external SAS controller (#

Chapter 1. General description 9򐂰 Two HMC ports per enclosure (maximum four per system)򐂰 Eight I/O expansion slots per enclosure (maximum 32 per syst

10 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction1.4.3 Minimum featuresEach system has a minimum feature set in order to be valid. Table

Chapter 1. General description 11Table 1-4 shows the minimum system configuration for a Power 780 system.Table 1-4 Minimum features for Power 780

12 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction1.4.4 Power supply featuresTwo system AC power supplies are required for each CEC enclos

Chapter 1. General description 13The processor card houses the two or four POWER7 SCMs and the system memory. The Power 780 processor card offers the

14 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 1-4 shows the top view of the Power 780 system having four SCMs installed. The fou

Chapter 1. General description 151.4.6 Summary of processor featuresTable 1-5 summarizes the processor feature codes for the Power 770.Table 1-5 S

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16 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction#4984 0/16-core 3.3 GHz POWER7 processor card:16-core 3.3 GHz POWER7 CUoD processor plana

Chapter 1. General description 17Table 1-6 summarizes the processor feature codes for the Power 780.Table 1-6 Summary of processor features for the

18 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction#EP24 0/24 core 3.44 GHz POWER7 processor card:24-core 3.44 GHz POWER7 CUoD processor pla

Chapter 1. General description 191.4.7 Memory featuresIn POWER7 systems, DDR3 memory is used throughout. The POWER7 DDR3 memory uses a memory archit

20 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe Power 770 and Power 780 have memory features in 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB capa

Chapter 1. General description 211.5 Disk and media featuresEach system building block features two SAS DASD controllers with six hot-swappable 2.5-

22 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionCertain adapters are available for order in large quantities. Table 1-10 lists the disk d

Chapter 1. General description 23The Power 770 and Power 780 support both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch SAS SFF hard disks. The 3.5-inch DASD hard disk can b

24 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe I/O drawer has the following attributes:򐂰 A 4U (EIA units) rack-mount enclosure (#731

Chapter 1. General description 25Table 1-11 summarizes the maximum number of I/O drawers supported and the total number of PCI slots available when e

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26 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionTable 1-13 summarizes the processor core options and frequencies and matches them to the

Chapter 1. General description 27used to obtain a new part must be returned to IBM also. Clients can keep and reuse any features from the CEC enclosu

28 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introductionthe new configuration report in a quantity that equals feature #8018. Additional #7942 fe

Chapter 1. General description 291.12 System racksThe Power 770 and its I/O drawers are designed to be mounted in the 7014-T00, 7014-T42, 7014-B42,

30 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction1.12.2 IBM 7014 model T42 rackThe 2.0-meter (79.3-inch) Model T42 addresses the client r

Chapter 1. General description 311.12.7 The AC power distribution unit and rack contentFor rack models T00 and T42, 12-outlet PDUs are available. Th

32 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe Base/Side Mount Universal PDU (#9188) and the optional, additional, Universal PDU (#7

Chapter 1. General description 33򐂰 The design of the Power 770 and Power 780 is optimized for use in a 7014-T00, -T42, -B42, -S25, #0551, or #0553 ra

34 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe following optional drive technologies are available for the 7216-1U2:򐂰 DAT160 80 GB S

Chapter 1. General description 35Figure 1-7 shows the 7216 Multi-Media Enclosure.Figure 1-7 7216 Multi-Media EnclosureIn general, the 7216-1U2 is s

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. iiiContentsNotices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. 37Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overviewThe IBM Power 780 offers two versions of CEC enclosur

38 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 2-1 shows the logical system diagram of the 2-socket Power 770 and Power 780.Figur

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 39Figure 2-2 shows the logical system diagram of the 4-socket Power 780.Figure 2-2 Four-socket IBM P

40 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction2.1 The IBM POWER7 processorThe IBM POWER7 processor represents a leap forward in techno

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 41Figure 2-3 shows the POWER7 processor die layout with the major areas identified:򐂰 Processor cores򐂰

42 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionTable 2-1 summarizes the technology characteristics of the POWER7 processor.Table 2-1 S

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 432.1.3 Simultaneous multithreadingAn enhancement in the POWER7 processor is the addition of the SMT4

44 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction2.1.4 Memory accessEach POWER7 processor chip has two DDR3 memory controllers, each with

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 45MaxCore modeMaxCore mode is for workloads that benefit from a higher number of cores and threads han

iv IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction2.1.2 POWER7 processor core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

46 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction2.1.6 On-chip L3 cache innovation and Intelligent CacheA breakthrough in material engine

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 47򐂰 No off-chip driver or receiversRemoving drivers or receivers from the L3 access path lowers interf

48 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction2.2 POWER7 processor cardsIBM Power 770 and Power 780 servers are modular systems built

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 49Power 770 systemsIBM Power 770 systems support two POWER7 processor options of varying clock speed a

50 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionWith two POWER7 processors in each enclosure, systems can be equipped as follows:򐂰 MaxCor

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 512.2.3 Processor comparisonThe 2-socket and 4-socket processor cards available for the Power 780 uti

52 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe POWER7 processor used on the 4-socket processor card also has two memory controllers,

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 53All the memory DIMMs for the Power 770 and Power 780 are Capacity Upgrade on Demand capable and must

54 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFigure 2-13 shows the physical memory DIMM topology for the Power 780 with four single-ch

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 55– Quad 2: J3A, J4A, J7A, J8A (mandatory minimum for each enclosure)– Quad 3: J1B, J2B, J5B, J6B– Qua

Contents v2.11 External disk subsystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922.11.1 EXP

56 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionTable 2-9 shows the optimal placement of each DIMM-quad within a three-enclosure system.

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 57Table 2-10 shows the optimal placement of each DIMM-quad within a four-enclosure system. Each enclos

58 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction2.3.3 Memory throughputPOWER7 has exceptional cache, memory, and interconnect bandwidths

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 592.3.4 Active Memory MirroringPower 770 and Power 780 servers have the ability to provide mirroring

60 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionIt is possible to check whether the Memory Mirroring option is enabled and change its cur

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 61On the post-pay options, charges are based on usage reporting collected monthly. Processors and memo

62 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFor more information regarding registration, enablement, and usage of On/Off CoD, visit:h

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 632.4.5 Software licensing and CoDFor software licensing considerations with the various CoD offering

64 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionThe cables are also designed to allow the concurrent maintenance of the Power 770 or Powe

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 65Table 2-16 reports the SMP cable usage for the four-enclosure scenario.Table 2-16 SMP cable four-e

vi IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction4.3 Serviceability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

66 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionSimilarly, the Flexible Service Processor (FSP) flex cables must be installed in the corr

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 67The total width of the server, with cables installed, is 21 inches (Figure 2-18).Figure 2-18 Front

68 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionIn the rear of the rack, the FSP cables require only some room in the left side of the ra

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 69Table 2-17 shows the I/O bandwidth for available processors cards.Table 2-17 I/O bandwidth2.6.2 F

70 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionTable 2-18 lists the slot configuration of the Power 770 and Power 780.Table 2-18 Slot

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 712.8 PCI adaptersThis section covers the different types and functionalities of the PCI cards suppor

72 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionIf you are installing a new feature, ensure that you have the software required to suppor

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 73Table 2-19 is a list of low-profile adapter cards and their equivalent in full height.Table 2-19 E

74 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionOther LAN adapters are supported in the CEC enclosure PCIe slots or in I/O enclosures tha

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 752.8.6 Graphics accelerator adaptersThe IBM Power 770 and Power 780 support up to eight graphics ada

© Copyright IBM Corp. 2011. All rights reserved. viiNoticesThis information was developed for products and services offered in the U.S.A. IBM may not

76 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionTable 2-23 compares Parallel SCSI to SAS attributes.Table 2-23 Comparing Parallel SCSI

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 772.8.9 Fibre Channel adapterThe IBM Power 770 and Power 780 servers support direct or SAN connection

78 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionFor more information about FCoE, read An Introduction to Fibre Channel over Ethernet, and

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 79Table 2-27 lists the available InfiniBand adapters.Table 2-27 Available asynchronous adapters2.9

80 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and IntroductionYou can configure the two embedded controllers together as a pair for higher redundancy o

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 81(2/2/2) without feature 5662. With feature #5662, they support dual controllers running one set of s

82 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction2.9.1 Dual split backplane modeDual split backplane mode offers two set of three disks a

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 832.9.2 Triple split backplaneThe triple split backplane mode offers three sets of two disk drives ea

84 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction򐂰 The disk drives are required to be in RAID arrays.򐂰 There are no separate SAS cables re

Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview 852.10 External I/O subsystemsThis section describes the external 12X I/O subsystems that can be atta