IBM Announces System z10 servers
26 Feb 2008: The System z10 Enterprise Class (TM) (z10(TM) EC) is a world-class enterprise server designed to meet your business needs. The z10 EC is built on the inherent strengths of the IBM System z (TM) platform and is designed to deliver new technologies and virtualization that provide improvements in price and performance for key new workloads. The z10 EC further extends System z leadership in key capabilities with the delivery of expanded scalability for growth and large-scale consolidation, improved security and availability to reduce risk, and just-in-time capacity deployment, helping to respond to changing business requirements. Built with modular book design, the z10 EC delivers higher total system capacity, memory, and I/O bandwidth. The z10 EC is focused on providing a strong combination of mainframe characteristics plus new functions designed around scalability, availability, and security. The intent of the z10 EC is to help increase the flexibility to configure a server to meet current needs, provide a powerful and advanced data serving environment, and help reduce risks and business costs without sacrificing features or functions. With a range of five models, the z10 EC delivers the following new functionality and enhancements: Up to 64 customer processor units Up to 384 GB of memory per book Up to 1.5 TB of total available server memory Up to 60 logical partitions (LPARs) Reduction in the preplanning requirements by providing a fixed HSA Coupling using InfiniBand (planned availability second quarter 2008) Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support Capacity on Demand functions, which include: Ability to perform a permanent LICCC upgrade while temporary resources are active Ability to install and activate multiple temporary records at any given time Disaster recovery solutions [Capacity for Planned Events (CPE) and Capacity Backup (CBU)] Capacity provisioning, which provides a means of managing your processing capacity bases on business needs, and 36 available subcapacity settings. Reduced impact of planned and unplanned server outages through enhanced book availability, redundant I/O interconnect, enhanced driver maintenance, and dynamic oscillator switchover. Diego Sales Gimenez Mainframe Support - z/Linux Centro de Tecnologia IBM Phone: +55 (013) 97020474 Tie Line: 839-9249 Ext: (019) 2132-9249 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 26/02/2008 17:02 Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject z10, new Linux in LPAR facility Just read this in: System z10 Enterprise Class, System Overview, SA22-1084-00 <quote> Program directed re-IPL is designed to allow Linux on System z10 EC to re-IPL without operator intervention. Linux can identify how it was IPL'd from the load device. Program directed re-IPL uses LIC to request a reload, using the same load parameters, from the same load device. Program directed re-IPL allows a Linux system running natively in an LPAR to execute a re-IPL. </quote> -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
