Modular and scalable systems for business flexibility and IT efficiency

IBM Power 570 server

For mid to large transaction processing workloads, the IBM Power™ 570 server delivers outstanding perform­ ance, mainframe-inspired reliability, modular non-disruptive growth and innovative virtualization technologies. These features are integrated to enable the simplified management of growth, complexity and risk.

Power 570 modular building blocks For mid to large database serving, the Power 570 provides a system designed for demanding, critical, back-end work­ Highlights loads. Demonstrating outstanding per­ formance across multiple database ■ For mid to large transaction ■ For server consolidation across solutions and multiple operating sys­ processing such as ERP and ®, IBM i (formerly known tems, the 570 shows its true heart and CRM applications as i5/OS®) and ® soul when challenged with a company’s workloads most treasured IT asset, the database. ■ For mid to large database serving ■ For a complete business system For server consolidation, the Power 570 combining all aspects of a com­ provides the flexibility to simultaneous pany’s IT infrastructure run any combination of AIX®, IBM i, Linux for Power and Linux applica­ tions, all on the same system. In addition, PowerVM™ virtualization enables dynamic resource adjustments keep your business running. In addition, includes the industry-leading across all these environments to opti­ PowerVM virtualization helps to maxi­ IBM POWER6™ technology and mize performance and efficiency while mize your efficiency and non-disruptive mainframe-inspired reliability, availability minimizing energy usage. Get control of growth options are designed to keep and serviceability (RAS) features as well your environment with the Power 570. your costs in line with your business. as innovations like EnergyScale™ and With all this coming together in one PowerVM virtualization technologies. For complete business system needs, integrated energy-saving package, the This innovative approach enables the Power 570 provides a unique com­ 570 makes a great business solution. secure, non-disruptive growth, while bination of performance across multiple maintaining outstanding performance workloads and availability features to The IBM Power 570 is a modular server and maximizing your investment. available in four building block, rack- mounted configurations. The system

Feature Benefits

Industry-leading POWER6 performance ● Better customer satisfaction due to improved response time to your customers ● Infrastructure cost savings from a reduction in the number of servers and software costs ● Improved efficiency in operations from consolidating multiple workloads on fewer systems

Exceptional PowerVM virtualization ● Improves system efficiency which lowers operational expense capability ● Provides flexibility in responding to changing business requirements ● Enables energy savings and maintains application availability ● Provides ability to handle unexpected workload peaks by sharing resources

Mainframe-inspired availability features ● Better customer satisfaction due to improved application availability ● Get more work done with less disruption to your business ● Faster repair when required due to sophisticated system diagnostics

Non-disruptive growth options ● Enables your system to change with your business without forcing everything to stop ● Aligns expense with usage without sacrificing performance or future growth options

Frugal EnergyScale energy-saving ● Helps lower energy costs without sacrificing performance or business flexibility technology ● Allows business to continue operations when energy is limited

Broad business application support ● Allows clients the flexibility to select the right application to meet their needs ● Helps keep you in the mainstream and off the bleeding edge Industry-leading POWER6 performance of financial transactions that occur daily PowerVM Standard Edition includes The leadership performance of the on today’s business computers. In Micro-Partitioning™ and Virtual I/O POWER6 processor—the world’s addition, the processor includes an Server (VIOS) capabilities, which are fastest chip—makes it possible for AltiVec™ SIMD accelerator, which helps designed to allow businesses to applications to run faster and be more to improve the performance of high increase system utilization, while help­ responsive which can result in competi­ performance computing workloads. ing to ensure applications continue to tive advantages or higher customer sat­ get the resources they need. VIOS isfaction. In addition, a single system Exceptional PowerVM virtualization allows for the sharing of disk and can now run more applications and can capability optical devices as well as communica­ reduce the number of required servers PowerVM is the family of technologies, tions and Fibre Channel adapters to which means cost savings in infrastruc­ capabilities and offerings that deliver help drive down complexity and ture costs. The improved performance industry-leading virtualization on systems/administrative expenses. Also with POWER6 also enables clients to IBM POWER processor-based systems. included is support for Multiple Shared get more processing power with fewer On the Power 570, PowerVM includes Processor Pools, which allows for auto­ processors resulting in lower per core base components provided with matic non-disruptive balancing of pro­ software licensing costs. IBM Power Systems firmware which cessing power between partitions includes logical partitioning (LPAR) tech­ assigned to the shared pools, and POWER6 processors feature simultane­ nologies. In addition, optional compo­ Shared Dedicated Capacity, which ous multithreading1, allowing two appli­ nents, PowerVM Editions, are designed helps optimize use of processor cycles. cation “threads” to be run at the same to provide advanced virtualization tech­ time, which can significantly reduce the nologies resulting in efficiencies in PowerVM Enterprise Edition3 includes time to complete tasks. Hardware resource utilization and cost savings. all the features of Standard Edition plus Decimal Floating-Point support is These are managed through use of a Live Partition Mobility (LPM), which designed into the POWER6 processor, hardware management console (HMC). allows a partition to be relocated from helping to improve the performance one server to another with virtually no of the basic mathematical calculations impact to the applications running inside the partition. LPM is designed to Additional RAS capabilities, Processor Non-disruptive growth options enable servers to work together to help Instruction Retry and Cold-node Repair, IBM’s modular design allows clients to optimize system utilization and energy are designed to enhance application start with what they need and grow by savings, improve application availability, availability and improve the quality of adding additional 4-core building balance critical workloads across multi­ the service provided. Processor blocks, all without disruption to the ple systems and respond to ever- Instruction Retry comes standard on base system. This is accomplished via changing business demands. the Power 570 and provides for the a new innovative feature for the continuous monitoring of processor sta­ 570 referred to as Hot-node Add. Mainframe-inspired availability features tus with the capability to restart a Among the world-class RAS capabilities processor if certain errors are detected. As enhanced growth options, several provided in the Power 570 are a If required, workloads can be redirected types of Capacity on Demand (CoD) are sophisticated service processor with a to alternate processors, all without dis­ optionally available. Clients can install second redundant service processor ruption to application execution. In cer­ processors or memory and activate for systems larger than one building tain select cases where the system has them on a 30-day trial (Trial CoD), a block; hot-plug, hot-swappable, blind- deactivated a module due to compo­ day-to-day basis (On/Off CoD) or per­ swap and redundant components; nent failure, Cold-node Repair is manently (Capacity Upgrade on IBM Chipkill™ ECC and bit-steering designed to enable repair and replace­ Demand (CUoD). Additionally, Utility memory; First Failure Data Capture ment of components within the inactive CoD allows clients to install processors mechanisms, and dynamic deallocation module without disruption to existing and activate them on a minute-to­ of system components. These capabili­ applications in the system. When the minute basis. Clients may start small ties help to increase system availability repair is complete, the module can be and grow with systems designed for and allow more work to be processed brought back online and the new continuous application availability. with less operational disruption. For resources made immediately available enhanced server availability, the Power for assignment to new or existing appli­ Frugal EnergyScale energy-saving 570 can be clustered with IBM high cation environments. technology availability software that is designed to As the price of energy increases and provide near-continuous availability. resources become limited, energy effi­ ciency through better utilization has become increasingly vital. Leveraging availability, security and open standards their data center operations. IBM Power Systems and virtualization for business-critical applications. New The IBM i integrates a technologies, corporations around the security features are designed to be trusted combination of relational data­ world have reduced energy consump­ compliant under the Common Criteria base, security, Web services, network­ tion by up to 70 – 80%5, better man­ of CAPP/EAL4+. The newest version of ing and management capabilities. It aged system growth, and achieved AIX delivers two new virtualization provides a broad and highly stable total operating cost reductions of features—Workload Partitions (WPAR) database and middleware foundation up to 72%6. which allows consolidation of multiple, for efficiently deploying business pro­ isolated workloads inside of a single AIX cessing applications. IBM’s PowerVM Editions can help sim­ instance; and Live Application Mobility, plify and optimize your IT infrastructure the capability to move Workload The Red Hat and Novell/SUSE Linux for by reducing energy and infrastructure Partitions between systems or partitions Power operating systems may be costs. IBM Systems Director Active without restarting the applications ordered from IBM and select Linux dis­ Energy Manager™ software exploits inside of the WPAR. IBM offers a binary tributors and include many open source EnergyScale technology by monitoring compatibility guarantee for AIX 67 to applications, tools and utilities. IBM is power/thermal utilization and conserv­ assure clients that applications created firmly committed to Linux and has ing energy through enablement of on previous versions of AIX will continue enabled many of the unique Power power management features for to run on AIX 6. Architecture® technologies into the improved system utilization and energy Linux kernel. When configured with a efficiency. The IBM i operating system is a highly PowerVM Editions feature, PowerVM scalable and virus resistant architecture Lx86, running on a Linux for Power dis­ Broad business application support with a proven reputation for exceptional tribution, the 570 platform offers the The Power 570 is designed to give business resiliency. Running applica­ flexibility and performance to consoli­ clients the flexibility to run the AIX, tions based on this platform has helped date x86 servers running a mix of Web, IBM i and Linux operating systems con­ companies over many years to focus LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and currently. The AIX operating system, on innovation and delivering new value PHP/Perl/Python) and database work­ IBM’s industrial-strength UNIX environ­ to their business, not just on managing loads, helping clients to better manage ment, is built on a tradition of reliability, growth without adding complexity. IBM Power 570 at a glance

Standard Per building block 570 (maximum) configurations Processor cores Two or four 3.5, 4.2 or 4.7 GHz POWER6 processor 16 3.5, 4.2 or 4.7 GHz POWER6 processor cores cores in the first building block; four cores in all others Cache 4 MB L2 cache per core 64 MB L2 cache per system 32 MB L3 cache shared per two cores 256 MB L3 cache per system RAM (memory)2 ● 2 GB to 48 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 or ● 192 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 or ● 16 GB to 96 GB of 533 MHz DDR2 or ● 384 GB of 533 MHz DDR2 or ● 32 GB to 192 GB of 400 MHz DDR2 ● 768 GB of 400 MHz DDR2 Internal disk drives (CEC) One to six SAS 24 SAS Media bays (CEC) One hot-plug slimline Four hot-plug slimline PCI adapter slots (CEC) Four PCI Express 8x slots; 16 PCI Express 8x slots; Two PCI-X DDR @ 266 MHz. Eight PCI-X DDR @ 266 MHz.

Standard I/O adapters Ethernet (CEC, excluding ● Standard: ● Standard: PCI slots) — One dual-port Gigabit Ethernet or — Four dual-port Gigabit Ethernet or ● Optional: ● Optional: — One quad-port Gigabit Ethernet or — Four quad-port Gigabit Ethernet or — One dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet — Four dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Integrated disk (CEC) One SAS controller Four SAS controllers Other ports (CEC) Two USB; two HMC; two SPCN Eight USB; two HMC; eight SPCN

Expansion features (optional) I/O expansion Up to 12 I/O drawers 48 I/O drawers High-performance 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity GX slots (I/O loops) Two (second slot shares space with one PCI Express Eight (four slots space with four PCI Express 8x slot) 8x slots) IBM Power 570 at a glance

PowerVM virtualization technologies POWER ™ Dynamic LPAR; Virtual LAN (Memory to memory inter-partition communication)1 PowerVM Standard Micro-Partitioning with up to 10 micro-partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Virtual I/O Edition1 (optional) Server; Shared Dedicated Capacity; PowerVM Lx86 PowerVM Enterprise PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility Edition3 (optional)

Capacity on Demand Processor and/or Memory CUoD features (optional) On/Off Processor and/or Memory CoD Trial Processor and/or Memory CoD Utility CoD

Operating systems AIX V5.2 or later IBM i 5.4 or later SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER (SLES10 SP1) or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 for POWER (RHEL4.5) or later RHEL5.1 or later

High availability IBM PowerHA™ family

Power requirements 200 v to 240 v AC

System dimensions 570 building block: 6.85"H (4U) x 19.0"W x 32.4"D (174 mm x 483 mm x 824 mm); weight 140.0 lb (63.6 kg)4

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