IBM System Z10 Enterprise Class
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The forward thinking mainframe for the twenty first century IBM System z10 Enterprise Class The future runs on System z In today’s world, IT is woven in to almost everything that a business does and consequently is pivotal to a busi- ness. Some of the key requirements today are the need to maximize return on investments by deploying resources designed to drive efficiencies and economies of scale, managing growth through resources that can scale to meet changing business demands, reducing risk by reducing the threat of lost productivity through downtime or security breaches, reducing complexity Highlights by reversing the trend of server prolifer- ation and enabling business innovation ■ Delivering new levels of energy ■ Just-In-Time deployment of by deploying resources that can help efficiency resources protect existing investments while also enabling those new technologies that ■ Unprecedented capacity and ■ Specialty engines offer an can aid in business transformation. virtualization to meet consolida- attractive alternative when run- tion needs ning new workloads The IBM System z10™ Enterprise amount of power usage, it is important capacity the z10 EC virtualization capa- Class (z10 EC) delivers a world class to review the role of the server in bal- bilities can help to support hundreds or enterprise server designed to meet ancing IT spending. To assist in energy thousands of virtual servers in a single these business needs. The z10 EC pro- planning, Resource Link™ provides 2.83 square meters footprint. When vides new levels of performance and tools to estimate server energy require- consolidating on System z you can capacity for growth and large scale ments before a new server purchase. create virtual servers on demand; consolidation, improved security, And once the z10 EC is installed and achieve network savings through resiliency and availability to reduce risk operational, the mainframe power HiperSockets™ (internal LAN); provide and introduces just in time resource monitoring tool, introduced on the security to enable and support new and deployment to help respond to chang- System z9® servers, provides power existing applications; improve systems ing business requirements. As environ- and thermal information via the System management of virtual servers; and mental concerns raise the focus on Activity Display (SAD). The tool offers an most importantly, consolidate software energy consumption, the z10 EC is energy consumption point-in-time refer- from distributed processors to fewer designed to reduce energy usage and ence. With a z10 EC, this information consolidated processors. save floor space when consolidating can be fed into IBM Systems Director distributed servers. Specialty engines Active Energy Manager™ (AEM) Scale to support a changing IT world continue to help users expand the use for Linux® on System z V3.1. AEM for The z10 EC provides a record level of of the mainframe for a broad set of Linux on System z will allow tracking of capacity over the previous System z applications, while helping to lower the trends for both the z10 EC as well as servers, achieved by both increasing cost of ownership. The z10 EC is at multiple server platforms. With this the performance of the individual the core of the enhanced System z™ trend analysis, a data center adminis- processor unit (PU) as well as increas- platform that delivers technologies that trator will have the data to help properly ing the number of PUs per server. The businesses need today along with a estimate power inputs and more accu- z10 EC is expected to deliver up to foundation to drive future business rately plan data center consolidation or approximately 50% more capacity on growth. modification projects. average for a n-way processor com- pared to the IBM System z9 Enterprise Powerful, but not a power consumer Workload consolidation can help to bal- Class (z9™ EC) and approximately Power and cooling discussions have ance IT budget spending. The z10 EC 70% more capacity on a fully config- entered the budget planning of every IT is designed to reduce energy usage by ured server than a z9 EC Model S54, environment. As energy prices have greater than 80% and save floor space for average LSPR workloads running risen and utilities have restricted the by greater than 85% when used to z/OS 1.8. consolidate x86 servers. With increased The z10 EC is built using IBM’s modular digits of the model number indicate the memory will be installed for the multi-book design that supports one to number of customer orderable PUs on Hardware System Area (HSA). The HSA four books per server. Each z10 EC the z10 EC—for example the E12 is a memory is entirely fenced from cus- book contains a multi-chip module 1 to 12-way server. tomer memory. (MCM), which hosts the newly redesigned CMOS 11S processor units, Each z10 EC will have up to two spare High speed connectivity and high band- storage control chips and high speed PUs and there is a graduated scale up width out to the data and the network interfaces for I/O. The new quad core of System Assist Processors (SAPs) are critical in achieving high levels of processor chip targets high frequency used for I/O processing, depending on transaction throughput and enabling and will be introduced at 4.4 GHz and the number of books installed in the resources inside and outside the server can help improve the execution of CPU server. The customer orderable PUs to maximize application requirements. intensive workloads on the z10 EC. The can be characterized as Central The z10 EC has a new host bus inter- memory and books will be intercon- Processors (CPs); Integrated Facility for face with a link data rate of 6 GB using nected with a point-to-point symmetric Linux (IFL) processors; System z10 the industry standard InfiniBand® pro- multiprocessor (SMP) network for Application Assist Processors (zAAPs); tocol to help satisfy coupling, cryptog- improved performance and availability. System z10 Integrated Information raphy, I/O and LAN requirements; for This approach facilitates the high- Processors (zIIPs); Internal Coupling ICF and server-to-server connectivity, availability and dynamic capabilities that Facility (ICF) processors; or additional for Crypto Express2 with secure differentiate the z10 EC from other SAPs. The z10 EC has subcapacity coprocessors and SSL transactions, servers. processors available on servers config- for I/O connectivity using ESCON®, ured with twelve or fewer CPs. FICON® or FCP, for LAN connectivity The z10 EC has five model offerings using the new OSA-Express35 between 1 to 64 configurable processor The z10 EC Models E54 and E64 sup- 10 Gigabit Ethernet feature or OSA- units (PUs) and can support up to ports up to 1.5 TB of real memory. This Express2 Gigabit Ethernet and 64 PUs in a single z/OS® image (with is three times the maximum memory 1000BASE-T Ethernet. z/OS V1.9). All models have the available on the z9 EC. The increased machine type of 2097. Four models available memory of the server can help The z10 EC can utilize up to four chan- (E12, E26, E40 and E56) have 17 PUs to benefit workloads such as DB2®, nel subsystems (CSSs), each with up to per book and the high capacity z10 EC WebSphere® and Linux that perform 256 channels. I/O constraint relief using Model E64 has one 17 PU book and better with large memory configura- Multiple Subchannel Sets (MSS) can three 20 PU books. The second two tions. In addition to the customer pur- help support larger I/O configurations. chased memory, an additional 16 GB of The introduction of DS8000™ V3.1, A new temporary capacity offering on capacity (so if four CBUs aren’t enough combined with z/OS V1.10, can help the z10 EC is Capacity for Planned it can be redefined to be six CBUs) as address z/OS storage constraint issues Events (CPE), a variation on CBU. If long as enough server infrastructure is by offering a new Extended Address unallocated capacity is available in a available to meet maximum needs. Volume (EAV) capacity to enable server, it will allow the maximum capac- volume growth past the current ity available to be used for planned All activations can be done without hav- 65,520 (55.7 GB) cylinder capacity limit. events such as planned maintenance in ing to interact with IBM—when it is With z/OS V1.10, you will be able to a data center. The three-day CPE con- determined that capacity is required, no define up to 262,668 cylinders tract can be purchased at a fixed price. passwords or phone connections are (223 GB) per Extended Address necessary. As long as the total z10 EC Volume. The DS8000 HyperPAV func- The z10 EC introduces a new architec- can support the maximums that are tion will allow dynamic, real-time scaling tural approach for temporary offerings defined, then they can be made avail- of I/O rates against these larger that can change the thinking about on able. A new z10 EC feature now makes volumes. demand capacity. One or more flexible it possible to add permanent capacity configuration definitions can be used to while a temporary capacity is currently Just in time deployment of IT resources solve multiple temporary situations and activated, without having to return first Infrastructures must be more flexible to multiple capacity configurations can be to the original configuration. changing capacity requirements and active at once. This means that On/Off provide users with just-in-time deploy- CoD can be active and up to three The activation of On/Off CoD on z10 ment of resources. Having the 16 GB other offerings can be active EC can be simplified or automated by dedicated HSA on the z10 EC means simultaneously.