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Feature Benefits
Linux® runs on IBM POWER® processor-based servers
  • Offers enterprise class capabilities and energy efficiency to the Linux marketplace that UNIX® clients have depended on to run their businesses.
  • Offers leadership reliability, availability and scalability for unparalleled dependability and improved responsiveness of systems and people.
Linux runs on IBM BladeCenter and Flex System
  • Provides floating-point acceleration for HPC performance.
  • Allows POWER processor-based systems to be mixed and matched with x86 processor-based systems.
Red Hat and SUSE Linux operating system orderable through IBM
  • Linux distribution is easy to order with the hardware platform.
  • Distributions are tested by distributors and IBM.
Additional distributions support POWER
  • Fedora, Debian, and other distributions are available from the Linux community to offer maximum choice.
Leadership RAS features
  • First Failure Data Capture designed to isolate fault conditions to help prevent reoccurrence.
  • ECC and IBM Chipkill memory designed to reduce memory errors and keep applications running.
  • Includes hardware Service Processor that constantly monitors/reports system health.
  • Designed with fault tolerant power and cooling with N+1 redundancy to reduce downtime due to power and cooling component failures or required replacements.
Leadership virtualization features (optional on some models)
  • IBM PowerVM™ virtualization enables industry-leading virtualization features for Linux applications to help reduce energy and IT costs and better manage growth without adding complexity.
  • Shared Processor Pools provide the ability to transparently share processing power between partitions and balance processing power.
  • Dynamic LPAR allows reallocation of system resources without rebooting affected partitions, offering greater flexibility in using available capacity and more rapidly matching resources to changing business requirements.
  • IBM Micro-Partitioning™ technology designed to further enhance flexibility by allowing fractional processor allocation down to 1/10th of a processor.
  • Virtual I/O Server designed to help save costs by allowing partitions to share a single physical I/O adapter—SCSI, Fibre Channel, DVD, Ethernet.
  • Virtual LAN (VLAN) for extraordinary network performance between partitions.
  • Shared Dedicated Capacity helps optimize use of processor cycles.
  • Live Partition Mobility feature of PowerVM Enterprise Edition allows workload to be moved with no application downtime for better system utilization, improved application availability and energy savings.
Wide range of applications
  • Leading applications are available to support business needs.
  • Thousands of open source and ISV applications are available.
Choice in service offerings
  • Service for Linux for Power systems available through IBM Global Technology Services.
  • Red Hat and SUSE Linux distributors also support and service the Linux operating system for Power.

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Advantages

Companies embracing Smarter Computing are implementing IT infrastructure based on the IBM Power Systems platform that is designed for data, tuned to the task and managed with cloud technologies. With Power Systems, businesses can outpace their competitors by delivering services faster, differentiate their offerings by delivering higher quality services, and turn operational cost into investment opportunity by delivering services with superior economics.

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Hardware

Power Systems hardware provides the foundation for designing workload optimized systems in conjunction with software and expert domain knowledge. Power servers and blades are modular and scalable and designed from the chip through the software stack to help deliver new levels of business performance.

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Operating systems

Power servers deliver flexibility and choice of operating systems to enable your business to select the best applications for your business needs. Whether running 1, 2, or all 3 - coupled with PowerVM, they maximize the benefit of Power Systems in your business.

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System software

IBM's integrated approach to developing Systems and Systems Software stacks together delivers maximum utilization, availability, and flexibility helping you deliver new advantages in your business.

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Solutions

IBM and IBM Business Partner solutions exploit key benefits in Power Systems that help you deliver new capabilities and new competitive advantages to your business.

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Migrate to Power

Over the last five years thousands of Oracle and HP UNIX clients have migrated to POWER. Learn how Power Systems has helped them improve their business performance, reduce risk, and establish a more secure future.