How Intel® Itanium®-Based Servers Are Changing the Economics of Mission-Critical Computing
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Mainframe Reliability on Industry-Standard Servers : How Intel® Itanium®-based Servers are Changing the Economics of Mission-Critical Computing Michael EISA Intel Strategic Initiatives Manager Europe, Middle East & Africa HP EMEA TSG 16th October, 2008 11 Business Challenges Mainframe Environment Costs – Lack of agility incurs cost in lost opportunity and business responsiveness – High cost levels for maintenance and support – Poor price/performance – Poor choice of software, high proprietary licensing cost – Lack of Open Systems severely restricts options – Limited skills availability with an ever shrinking pool of talent – Big server footprint with high power and cooling costs Recession fears hit IT budgets* CIO Agenda 2008: The challenges for the year ahead... “The state of the economy and its potential impact on IT budgets will be the key challenge for IT chiefs this year along with the ongoing war for tech talent, according to silicon.com's exclusive CIO Agenda 2008 survey” For notes and disclaimers, see legal information slide at end of this presentation. Source: (1) IDC QST Analysis, October 2006. (2,3) Supporting Performance Benchmarks, System Configurations, and System Pricing in backup. (4) IDC WW Unix Migration Model, 2006. (5) IDC Server Tracker Q4’07 022608. *http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/cio-agenda-2008/0,3800014530,39182131,00.htm 2 * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. Mainframe customers are moving to Itanium® HPHP AnnouncesAnnounces OverOver 5050 MainfrMainframeame CustomersCustomers SuccessfullySuccessfully CompleteComplete MiMigrationgration toto IntegrityIntegrity SysSystteemmss :: AprilApril 2008*2008* TheThe EndEnd ofof OneOne EraEra TheThe StartStart ofof AnotherAnother IBMIBM MainframeMainframe declinesdeclines HPHP IntegrityIntegrity ItaniumItanium®® 31%31% inin Q3Q3 andand 15%15% inin increasesincreases 71%71% inin Q3Q3 andand Q4Q4 20072007 59%59% inin Q4Q4 20072007 http://h50025.www5.hp.com/ENP5/Public/Content.aspx?contentID=24355&portalID=370&pageID=1 Source: (1) IDC Server Tracker Q4’07 022608. 3 * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. Intel: A Better Alternative Intel® Itanium® Processors 9000 Sequence Mainframe-class server For Your Most Critical Data Center Requirements Designed for Enterprise Agenda •Reliability and Security • Mainframe Class Reliability •Performance and Scalability • Mission Critical Performance •Cost Savings through Choice • Cutting TCO in half •Investment Protection • Intel Advantages 4 * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. Reliability and Security 5 * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. DeliveringDelivering Mainframe-ClassMainframe-Class ReliabilityReliability Reliability Intel® Typical IT Benefit ® Feature Itanium Mainframe High System Bad Data Containment Availability ; ; Data Error Cache Reliability Intel® Cache Protection ; Safe Technology ; Advanced Machine Data Integrity Soft Error Check Architecture ; Checking ; Memory Mirroring Data Protection & Hot Swap & On-line Repair ; ; Computational Processor Lockstep Core Level Accuracy ; Lockstep ; Memory Information Compartmentalization Security ; ; Depend on Itanium® Reliability When it Matters Most Current as of July, 2007. Source Intel Corp. Learn more at http://www.intel.com/business/bss/products/server/ras.pdf 6 * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. Intel® Itanium® CoreCore LevelLevel LockstepLockstep Socket • Two Lock-stepped Cores Act Core Core L3 0 1 As One Logical CPU Core L3 • Checking Function To Ensure Data Integrity Throughout Duplicate Arbiter ?ECC The Cores Arbiter Data The Cores Enabling Mainframe Reliability at non proprietary prices 7 All dates, product features and plans are subject to change without notice. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. Intel® Itanium® Advanced Reliability Partnership Extensive hardware error detection and 1 correction. Cache Safe Technology. 3 Operating System Processor Lockstep Support. Logs errors & initiates recovery 2 Well-defined flow for smooth platform error handling EFI Firmware 2 PAL & SAL Seamlessly handles errors HP-UX, Windows and Linux operating systems interacts with firmware to 3 correct and recover from complex 1 Hardware platform errors protecting the integrity CPU & chipset offer extensive of Oracle data ECC coverage & parity protection Itanium® 2–based platforms deliver Mainframe- class RAS—up to 99.99999 Uptime* 8 * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. Intel® Itanium® Advanced Error Handling Capability Error Handling Itanium RISC & x86 System reset: Non-recoverable 2-bit error in kernel OS recoverable: Execution 2-bit error in application Continues OS corrected: (Recoverable) Non-recoverable Translation errors Firmware corrected: Execution 1-bit error in write through cache Continues Hard error in L3 cache with Intel® Cache Safe Technology1 (Corrected) Hardware corrected: Execution Most 1-bit errors Continues 2 Increasing Error Severity (Corrected ) Maximizes uptime and lowers service costs 1 .Supported starting with Montecito processor. 2 .Intel Xeon Architecture implements Cache Safe Technology in Hardware 9 * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. Added Security built into Intel® Itanium® Architecture (1) Unique Itanium (1) Features Register Store Engine Root Trust(2) Protects against buffer overflow attacks At system boot, Itanium computes and authenticates a cryptographically strong digital signature over initial Hardware Access Rights FW image Assures that system boots with R/W/X virtual memory access control. correct and complete code and data Protects memory contents, prevents image insertion of code into a running system Hardware Protection Keys(1) Fast Data Encryption Locks memory pages with encrypted keys. Helps protect against unauthorized Enabled by architecture-level memory access by applications or parallelism. Helps protect malware confidential information throughout the system Stronger Protection For Mission Critical Operating Systems And Applications (2) Requires enabled chipset and TPM 10 * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. Virtualization on Intel® Itanium® Architecture • IDC White Paper : Virtualization on Itanium: Intel Enables Choice and Flexibility for Customers • Itanium-based servers with their extensive virtualization partitioning features are the premier platform for mainframe migration • Virtualization on Itanium-based servers is ideal looking beyond static consolidation today, toward policy-based resource allocation • Consolidate multiple instances of HP-UX*, Microsoft Windows* and Linux* on the same server. Intel VT-i Virtualization Technology enables consolidation and efficiency gains Intel® Virtualization Technology requires a computer system with an enabled Intel® processor, BIOS, virtual machine monitor (VMM) and, for some uses, certain computer system software enabled for it. Functionality, performance or other benefits will vary depending on hardware and software configurations and may require a BIOS update. Software applications may not be compatible with all operating systems. Please check with your application vendor. 11 * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. OnOn TrackTrack withwith TukwilaTukwila forfor 20082008 Enhanced Mainframe-level RAS features – New interconnect reliability features – Double Device Data Correction (memory RAS) New platform design for innovation – Virtualization enhancements – Common chipset with future Intel® Xeon® platforms (1) Source: Intel Internal estimates All products, platforms, dates, and figures specified are preliminary based on current expectations, and are subject to change without notice. 12 * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. Tukwila RAS example – DDDC Double Device Data Correction Memory Today:However, cannot fix Systemswhen 2 sequential can fix DRAM devices fail, memory errors when Most which could result in 1 DRAM device fails high-end onmemory a DIMM loss due and to aa server processors hard-error…fatal system crash 13 * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. Tukwila RAS example – DDDC Double Device Data Correction • Tukwila DDDC can fix both Tukwila Memory single and double memory hard-errors • Tukwila DDDC can improve system uptime and reduce DIMM replacement rates lowering overall service costs 14 * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright © 2008, Intel Corporation. Intel® Itanium® Superior Availability System Availability 100.000 99.981% 99.979% 99.873% 99.786% 99.75 ty i l Independent consultant analysis by the Standish 99.50 Group shows that HP’s Integrity NonStop systems are the most System Availabi reliable in the world, 99.25 superior to IBM’s System z mainframes* $97,150 99.0 HP Integrity IBM HP Integrity IBM NonStop zMainframe pSeries *The above chart shows selected system availability by percent of yearly uptime. The data was collected