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IBM extends hardware capability enhancements for selected IBM Power10 technology-based servers

Hardware enhancements are available for the IBM Power10 scale-up and Power10 scale-out family of servers, including:

  • New PCIe Gen4 I/O Expansion Drawer to provide up to 12 Gen4 PCIe slots (8 x16 & 4 x8)New PCIe4 4-Port 25/10/1 GbE RoCE SFP28 Adapter for Power E1080 server

  • New PCIe4 2-Port 25/10/1 GbE RoCE SFP28 Adapter

  • Simplified NVMe features for Enterprise SSD PCIe4 NVMe U.2 module

  • AC Titanium Power Supply - 1200W (100-127V/200-240V) support for the IBM Hardware Management Console

  • New configuration available for Power S1014 server support with 2x 1200W power supplies

  • IBM Power introduces new hardware features on Power10 servers with the announcement of new Version 4 of PowerVM (5765-VE4) and PowerVM for Linux (5765-VL4)

PCIe Gen4 I/O Expansion Drawer

The PCIe Gen4 I/O Expansion Drawer (#ENZ0) is a 4U high, 19-inch wide, PCIe Gen4 based rack mountable I/O drawer that is available as a feature of Power10 Servers.

The PCIe Gen4 I/O Expansion Drawer (#ENZ0) replaces the PCIe Gen3 I/O Expansion Drawer (#EMX0). There is no upgrade path from PCIe Gen3 I/O Expansion Drawer (#EMX0) to PCIe Gen4 I/O Expansion Drawer (#ENZ0).

PCIe4 4-Port 25/10/1 GbE RoCE SFP28 Adapter

This PCIe Gen4 Ethernet adapter provides four 25/10/1 GbE SFP28 ports. The adapter supports Ethernet NIC (Network Interface Card) traffic and IBTA RoCE standards. RoCE is Remote
Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet. Using RoCE, the adapter can support significantly greater bandwidth with low latency and minimize CPU overhead by more efficiently using memory access. This offloads the CPU from I/O networking tasks, improving performance and scalability.

PCIe4 2-Port 25/10/1 GbE RoCE SFP28 Adapter

This PCIe Gen4 Ethernet adapter provides two 25/10/1 GbE SFP28 ports. The adapter supports both NIC and IBTA RoCE standards. RoCE is Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet. Using RoCE, the adapter can support significantly greater bandwidth with low latency and minimize CPU overhead by more efficiently using memory access. This offloads the CPU from I/O networking tasks, improving performance and scalability.

Enterprise SSD PCIe4 NVMe U.2 module

IBM is reducing the number of Enterprise SSD PCIe4 NVMe U.2 module devices available in the Power10 systems to simplify the portfolio, making it easier to configure and order Power10 systems.

This simplification is possible because the existing multi-vendor devices have a common custom card identification number (CCIN), meaning they are considered equivalent and interchangeable devices.

The Enterprise SSD PCIe4 NVMe U.2 module features ES5B, ES5D, ES5F, ES5H, ES5A, ES5C, ES5E, and ES5G will replace the existing Enterprise SSD PCIe4 NVMe U.2 module features.

The Enterprise NVMe small form factor (SFF) U.2 15 mm SSD is a PCIe Gen4 device. This device supports boot on Power and can be use in any U.2 15mm NVMe slot in the system.

AC Titanium Power Supply - 1200W support for the IBM Hardware Management Console

IBM Hardware Management Console (MTM 7063-CR2) can be now configurable with two AC Titanium Power Supply - 1200W (100-127V/200-240V) (feature EB3W). The titanium power supply is configured in a one plus one for a 1S4U server configuration to provide redundancy.

Note: EB3W on MTM 7063-CR2 is not available in China.

2x 1200W power supplies support for the IBM Power S1014 server

IBM Power S1014 server is now supported with two 1200W power supplies (feature EB3W). The titanium power supply is configured in a one plus one for a 1S4U server configuration to provide redundancy. Supported in rack and tower models.

This 2x 1200W power supply (FC #EB3W) is the new default option, but customers can still choose one of the following power supply options if desired:

  • 2x 1200W (FC EB3W) new default configuration for both tower and rack systems

  • 2x 1600W (FC EB3S) still an option – required when orders include 24-core processor module (FC EPH8)

  • 4x 1200W (FC EB3W) still an option

Power10 hardware features for PowerVM Version 4

IBM Power introduces new hardware features on Power10 servers with the announcement of new Version 4 of PowerVM (5765-VE4) and PowerVM for Linux (5765-VL4).

With V4, Enterprise Edition is renamed. PowerVM Enterprise Edition is now referred to as PowerVM.

IBM extends hardware capability enhancements for selected IBM Power10 technology-based servers

NED24 NVMe Expansion Drawer

IBM is extending its leadership around I/O capabilities with the first PCIe direct- attached 24-bay 15 mm U.2 NVMe storage drawer in the industry. The new NED24 NVMe Expansion Drawer (#ESR0) is a storage expansion enclosure with 24 U.2 NVMe bays. It supports up to 24 U.2 NVME devices in 15 mm Gen3 carriers. The 15 mm carriers can accommodate either 7 mm or 15 mm NVMe devices.

The NED24 NVMe Expansion Drawer is supported on the IBM Power E1080, Power E1050, IBM Power S1024, IBM Power S1022, Power S1022s, IBM Power L1022, and IBM Power L1024 servers by IBM AIX(R), IBM i, Linux(R), and VIOS.

Each NED24 NVMe Expansion Drawer contains two redundant AC power supplies. The AC power supplies are part of the enclosure base.

The NED24 NVMe Expansion Drawer is connected to a Power server through dual CXP Converter adapters (#EJ24 or #EJ2A). Both CXP Converter adapter require one of the following identical cable features:

•  #ECLR - 2.0 M Active Optical Cable x16 Pair for PCIe4 Expansion Drawer

•  #ECLS - 3.0 M CXP x16 Copper Cable Pair for PCIe4 Expansion Drawer

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•    #ECLX - 3.0 M Active Optical Cable x16 Pair for PCIe4 Expansion Drawer
•    #ECLY - 10 M Active Optical Cable x16 Pair for PCIe4 Expansion Drawer

•    #ECLZ - 20 M Active Optical Cable x16 Pair for PCIe4 Expansion Drawer

The NED24 NVMe Expansion Drawer supports a Mode 1 single path (#ECMS), which consists of a single x16 connection from the host server through each of the two ESMs (#ESM1) to all 24 NVMe devices. The switch in each of the ESMs is configured to logically drive only 12 of the 24 NVMe drives. This enables a single path to each of the 24 NVMe devices from the host server.

PCIe3 12 Gb x8 SAS Tape HBA adapter

The PCIe3 SAS Tape HBA adapter is a high-performance SAS tape controller using PCIe Gen3 12 Gb x8 technology. The adapter supports external SAS tape drives, such as the LTO(R)-7, LTO-8, and LTO-9, which are available in the IBM 7226-1U3 Multimedia drawers or standalone tape units such as the TS2270, TS2280 single External Tape Drive, TS2900, TS3100, TS3200, or TS4300.

PCIe4 32 Gb 4-port optical FC adapter

The PCIe 4.0 16x 4-port 32 Gb optical FC adapter is a high-performance short-form PCIe host bus adapter (6.6 inches x 2.731 inches). It provides four ports of 32 Gb FC capability using short reach (SR) optics. Each port can provide up to 6,400 MBps bandwidth per port.

PCIe4 64 Gb 2-port optical FC adapter

The PCIe 4.0 8x 2-port 64 Gb optical FC adapter is a high-performance short-form PCIe host bus adapter (6.6 inches x 2.731 inches). It provides two ports of 64 Gb FC capability using SR optics. Each port can provide up to 12,800 MBps bandwidth per port.

Each port provides single initiator capability over a fiber link, or with NPIV, multiple initiator capability is provided. The adapter ships with 64 Gb SR optical transceivers installed. The ports have LC-type connectors and utilize shortwave laser optics. The adapter operates at link speeds of 16, 32, and 64 Gbps and will autonegotiate to the highest speed possible. The adapter supports boot on Power with Fcode.

Mixed DDIMM support for the Power E1050 server

IBM now offers a mixed DIMM memory feature (#EMCM) for the Power E1050, which enables the mixing of 128 GB (#EM77) and 256 GB (#EMJ7) DIMMs in a 50:50 ratio on the same dual chip module (SCM).

IBM Power Expert Care delivers a simplified method to select services and support for more IBM Power10 technology-based servers

When it comes to maintaining your systems and devices, you want to procure critical services as easily as possible. With the Power Expert Care service tiers, you have easy access to IT services that can help you avoid longer procurement and contracting processes by enabling you to acquire your chosen tier during the product purchase transaction.
There are three tiers of Power Expert Care:
Power Expert Care Basic
Hardware maintenance support is provided with 9x5 coverage, next-business-day onsite repair.
- Software Support and Services (SWMA) coverage is a prerequisite and must be aligned with the same number of years selected for the Power Expert Care Basic tier.
- Predictive Support, using Call Home Connect Cloud, is also available for 9x5 coverage and response from remote technical support specialists.
Power Expert Care Advanced
Hardware maintenance support is provided with 24x7 coverage, same-day onsite repair.
  • SWMA coverage is a prerequisite and must be aligned with the same number of years selected for the Power Expert Care Advanced tier.
  • Predictive support, that uses Call Home Connect Cloud, is also available for 24x7 coverage and response from remote technical support specialists.
Power Expert Care Premium
Hardware maintenance support is provided with 24x7 coverage, same-day onsite repair.
  • SWMA coverage is a prerequisite and must be aligned with the same number of years selected for the Power Expert Care Premium tier.
  • Predictive support, using Call Home Connect Cloud, is also available for 24x7 coverage and response from remote technical support specialists.
  • Enhanced response time available:
    • Enhanced response time is the elapsed time between when IBM technical support receives your problem submission and IBM's acknowledgment of the submission. When you purchase Power Expert Care Premium, you are entitled to a 30-minute response time on severity one and severity two problems only.
  • Access to Technical Account Manager:
    • IBM provides a Technical Account Manager to serve as your key interface for in-scope software, delivering partnership and consultancy as well as direct engagement on high-priority support cases.
  • Code Load capability:
    • Code Load allows system firmware and Hardware Management Console (HMC) updates for your Power10 system.

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IBM Power E1050 enterprise midrange technology-based server delivers optimized, cost-effective performance and scale to meet today's business needs

Power enterprise servers combines cloud management with leadership performance, scale, reliability, availability, and security to efficiently run the most data-intensive, mission-critical workloads.
The new Power E1050 (9043-MRX) server is designed to improve scale performance and security while delivering class-leading reliability. This design responds faster to business demands, protects data from core to cloud, and streamlines insights and automation. The enterprise family of systems can help deliver business agility by extending mission-critical workloads across a hybrid cloud with increased flexibility.
  • Respond faster to business demands: The Power10 processor delivers higher levels of performance as compared to IBM Power9 for the same workloads without increasing energy or carbon footprint, enabling more efficient scaling. Power Private Cloud with Dynamic Capacity includes metering of Linux, OpenShift(R), and AIX environments for flexible consumption consistently across public, private, and hybrid cloud when combined with the Power E1050.
  • Protect data from core to cloud: You can support end-to-end security with simplified encryption by using memory encryption at the processor level--without management overhead or performance impact. Power10 can also help you to stay ahead of future threats with support for post-quantum cryptography and fully homomorphic encryption.
  • Streamline insights and automation: You can deduce insights faster as compared to Power9 from enhanced in-core AI inferencing capability with no additional specialized hardware required. You can extract insights from your most sensitive data where it resides, eliminating the time and risk of data movement.
  • Maximize availability and reliability: You can help ensure your business stays up and running with built-in advanced recovery and self-healing for infrastructure redundancy and disaster recovery (DR) in IBM Cloud(R).
The Power E1050 server includes the following additonal software and services:
  • IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) for Power. CMC is a cloud-native platform that provides apps that give powerful insights into your Power infrastructure across data centers and geographies. With no additional software or infrastructure setup, you can get single pane of glass views of your inventory, software levels, resource capacity utilization, as well as launch-in-context of your on-premises software, such as IBM PowerVC and IBM PowerHA(R). Each new Power E1050 server purchase includes 36 months of CMC service, which can be renewed. For more information, visit IBM Cloud Management Console website.
  • Open source cloud automation and configuration tooling for AIX. IBM has expanded its commitment to keep key open source cloud management packages updated and to provide timely security fixes to enable you to leverage open source skills. The Power E1050 enables you to take advantage of key packages recently provided to enable cloud automation, including:
    • chef automation for configuration, deployment, and management. IBM is collaborating with clients in this community to provide useful resources for using chef with AIX systems.
    • yum package management is available with repository access from both ftp and https protocols. rpm is also updated to enable automatic dependency discovery.
    • cloud-init and all dependencies are available in the repository and includes support for licensed AIX users. For more information, see the AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software website.
  • Securely connect system-of-record workloads and data-to-cloud native applications. IBM API Connect(R) and IBM WebSphere(R) Connect provide secure connectivity to cloud-based applications, giving you the ability to rapidly develop new applications and services, thereby helping accelerate your time to value. IBM's Power to Cloud services can help you get started with these solutions and in designing new applications that leverage IBM Cloud. Cloud enables you to rapidly build, deploy, and manage your cloud applications, while tapping a growing ecosystem of available services and runtime frameworks.
  • eBMC is built on Open BMC Linux Foundation Project, with industry collaboration and industry-standard APIs.
  • Power to Cloud Rewards Program. The Power to Cloud Rewards Program helps you design, build, and deliver cloud platforms on Power. Clients purchasing a Power E1050 server earn 5,000 IBM Power to Cloud Reward Program points per system. The points can be used for a range of services to transform traditional IT platforms to private and hybrid cloud platforms. Power to Cloud Reward Program service offerings leverage the proven expertise of IBM Systems Lab Services consultants. Visit ibm.biz/PowertoCloud or contact your IBM representative, IBM Business Partner, or ibmsls@us.ibm.com for full program details.
Power E1050 hardware components
The Power E1050 server delivers a high-performing and reliable four-socket system, with simultaneous multithreading of up to eight threads per core (SMT8). Each Power E1050 server's Power10 dual-chip module delivers 409 GB/sec of memory bandwidth per socket. I/O bandwidth is also increased to double that of the predecessor Power9 systems with the introduction of PCIe Gen5 integrated controllers.
The Power E1050 server utilizes the following Power10 processor options:
•     Twelve-core with up to 48 cores typical 3.35--4.0 GHz (max)
•     Eighteen-core with up to 72 cores typical 3.2--4.0 GHz (max)
•     Twenty-four-core with up to 96 cores typical 2.95--3.90 GHz (max)
A minimum of two processor modules must be installed in each system, with a minimum quantity of one processor module's cores activated.
A Power E1050 server supports the following memory options:
•     64 GB (2x32GB) DDR4 DDIMMs, or
•     128 GB (2x64GB) DDR4 DDIMMs, or
•     256 GB (2x128GB) DDR4 DDIMMs, or
•     512 GB (2x256GB) DDR4 DDIMMs
E1050 provides 16 DDIMMs per socket to enable a maximum configuration of 16 TB. Minimum of 4 DDIMMs per socket must be installed.
A minimum of 50% or 256 GB, whichever is higher, of installed memory must be activated.
The PCIe capabilities provide up to 11 PCIe slots:
•     Two PCIe Gen5 x8
•     Three PCIe Gen4 x8
•     Six PCIe Gen4 x16 or Gen5 8x
PCIe slots support concurrent maintenance (hot plug).
Additional PCIe adapters can be attached through up to four PCIe I/O expansion drawers, providing up to 48 extra PCIe Gen3 slots.
The external USB DVD plugs into one of the two front USB ports.
The Power E1050 server comes standard with phase-redundant power regulators for processors, memory, disk, and I/O. Hot-plug, redundant power supplies and a hot- plug time-of-day battery are also standard, and AMM for Hypervisor is available as an option.

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The IBM Power E1080 Enterprise Server

Feature 9080 (HEX)

Clients need applications and data to be enterprise-grade everywhere without adding complexity and cost. The Power E1080 is the newest addition to IBM Power, the industry’s best-in-class server platform for security and reliability. The Power E1080 introduces the essential enterprise hybrid cloud platform—uniquely architected to help you securely and efficiently scale core operational and AI applications in a hybrid cloud. The Power E1080 simplifies end-to-end
encryption and brings AI where your data resides for faster insights. This helps enable greater workload flexibility and agility while accomplishing more work. The Power E1080 can help you:

  • Respond faster to business demands with unmatched performance for efficient scaling and consistent pay-for-use consumption across public and private clouds
  • Protect data with persistent security using full memory encryption at the processor level to support end-to-end security across public and private clouds without impacting performance
  • Streamline insights and automation by running AI inferencing directly where your operational data resides
  • Maximize availability and reliability with built-in advanced recovery and self-healing for infrastructure redundancy and disaster recovery in IBM Cloud

(HEX) Power E1080 brings AI to where your operational data resides

You can drive business insights faster, meet service level agreements (SLAs), and eliminate security risk associated with data movement by bringing AI to where your data resides.

IBM Power Private Cloud Solution with Dynamic Capacity

The Power Private Cloud Solution with Dynamic Capacity is an infrastructure offering that enables you to take advantage of cloud agility and economics while getting the same business continuity and flexibility that you already enjoy from Power servers. The Power Private Cloud Solution offers:
  • Cost optimization with pay-for-use pricing
  • Automated and consistent IT management with Red Hat Ansible for Power
  • IBM Proactive Support for Power systems services
  • IBM Systems Lab Services Assessment and implementation assistance

Both Elastic and Shared Utility Capacity options are now available on all Power E1080 systems.

Elastic Capacity on Power E1080 systems enables clients to deploy pay-for-use consumption of processor, memory, and supported operating systems, by the day, across a collection of Power E1080 and Power E980 systems.

You no longer need to worry about overprovisioning capacity on each system to support growth, as all available processors and memory on all systems in a pool are activated and available for use.

CMC for Power

The CMC is a cloud-native platform that provides apps that give powerful insights into your Power infrastructure across data centers and geographies. With no additional software or infrastructure setup, you can get single pane of glass views of your inventory, software levels, and resource capacity utilization, as well as launch-in-context of your on-premises software, such as IBM PowerVC and IBM PowerHA

Power E1080 server Power10 hardware components

  • Ten, twelve, or fifteen core processors
  • Up to 240 Power10 processor cores in one to four systems nodes; up to 64 TB of 2933 MHz, DDR4 DRAM memory, and six PCIe Gen4 x16 or PCIe Gen5 x8 and two PCIe Gen5 x8 I/O expansion slots per system node enclosure, with a maximum of 32 per system
  • Redundant clocking in each system node
  • Four non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drive bays per system node for boot purposes
  • System control unit, providing redundant system master FSP and support for the operational panel, the system VPD, and external attached DVD
  • 19-inch PCIe Gen3 4U I/O expansion drawer and PCIe fan-out modules, supporting a maximum of 192 PCIe slots and four I/O expansion drawers per node.
  • PCIe Gen1, Gen2, Gen3, Gen4, and Gen5 adapter cards supported in the system node, and PCIe Gen1, Gen2, Gen3, and Gen4 adapter cards supported in I/O expansion drawer
  • EXP24SX SFF drawer with 24 2.5-inch form-factor SAS bays
  • Dynamic LPAR support for adjusting workload placement of processor and memory resources
  • CoD for processors and memory to help respond more rapidly and seamlessly to changing business requirements and growth
  • Active Memory Expansion (AME) that is optimized onto the processor chip
  • Power Enterprise Pools that support unsurpassed enterprise flexibility for workload balancing
    and system maintenance

*EDP4 is not available to order in China.

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Ordering

Prerequisites

The CFR report (_.cfr) output file generated from eConfig is needed to define your placement requirements to IBM manufacturing. The CFReport including feature 0453/8453/0456 must be submitted to IBM through this website.

Note: The use of "Adapter and Disk Placement" and "Component in Rack Placement" is mutually exclusive with RPQs that affect placement and partitioning.

Ordering Requirements

IBM will build your server to the specifications you establish while planning and creating your design. The placement information is expected to be created in the System Planning Tool (SPT) and uploaded into eConfig or created directly in eConfig. Your order will be submitted to IBM through the normal IBM order process.

You will indicate that your design is to be used by selecting feature code 0453, 8453 or 0456 for Customer Specified Placement and/or feature code 0469 for Customer Specified Rack Placement on your server order. The selection of one or more of these feature codes will require you to use the LPAR/CSP Order Completion Form. This form is used to communicate the specific placement information via the CFReport (_.cfr), IBM plant order numbers and contact information through this webpage. If you are a US Business Partner or Distributor submitting orders through the B2B or Partner Commerce Server ordering path, you are not required to submit this form.

Note: Changes to existing orders will likely affect placement requirements. If your configuration changes from the _.cfr file that was originally created in the marketing configurator (eConfig), you will need to generate a new _.cfr file to attach to the Order Completion Form and resubmit to IBM for the Dual Submit process. The marketing configurator (eConfig) output and your order must be kept synchronized.

If you are using the Single Submit process, you will also need to generate a new _.cfr file and email it to your BPSO/CSO contact who will forward it to a plant order analyst.

CSP Order Completion

Note: If you are a US Business Partner or Distributor submitting orders through the B2B or Partner Commerce Server ordering path, you are not required to take any further steps.

Please refer to the details in the "Complete my Order" section below.

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Education

Complete my Order

US Business Partners and Distributors omit this step.
By providing your contact information you are granting express consent for processing your personal information. The personal information will only be used to contact you in case further information needed.
Send an email to orderentrypowergdl@bg.vnet.ibm.com.  In the subject include the country of the order and that the request is for a CSP order.  In the body include contact information, at least one Plant Order Number (PLORN), and the CFReport File.

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