Highlights
- New Crypto Express3 designed to satisfy high-end security requirements
- Leadership virtualisation and incomparable capacity to meet consolidation needs
- Improvements connecting to data and the network can help provide faster access to data
- Specialty engines offer an attractive alternative when running new workloads.
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 business. Yet technology leaders are challenged to manage sprawling, complex distributed infrastructures and the ever growing flow of data while still being able to protect the data and be responsive to the demands of the business. They must continually evaluate and decide when and how to adopt a multitude of innovations to keep the company competitive. The IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) is a perfect choice for enterprise computing. It can help reduce and control rising costs and improve provisioning speed and data centre security and resiliency-at any scale. It aligns technology and business-giving you the freedom and the tools you need to innovate and be competitive.
With leadership capabilities for security, availability, scalability, virtualisation and management, the System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) is a world class enterprise server designed to meet IT and business challenges head-on and serve as the cornerstone in your dynamic infrastructure. The z10 EC provides performance and capacity for growth and large scale consolidation, improved security, resiliency and availability while lowering both risk and cost. As environmental concerns raise the focus on energy consumption, the z10 EC is designed to reduce energy usage and save floor space when consolidating workloads from distributed servers. Specialty engines continue to help users expand the use of the mainframe for a broad set of applications, while helping to lower the cost of ownership. The z10 EC is the platform that delivers technologies that businesses need today along with a foundation to serve the future.
| Benefit |
Feature/Function |
| Availability/Reliability |
- CICS subspace group facility
- CICS subsystem storage protect
- Concurrent Book Add
- Concurrent ESCON, FICON, OSA-E and Coupling Link maintenance
- Concurrent HMC and Support Element
- Concurrent Licensed Internal Code (LIC) maintenance for CP, SAP, SE, PR/SM, LPAR, HMC, OSA-E and the Crypto Express3
- Concurrent power and thermal maintenance
- Dual Support Elements
- Dynamic Change to Partition Cryptographic Coprocessor Configuration
- Dynamic Channel Path Management
- Dynamic I/O Reconfiguration
- Dynamic memory sparing
- Dynamic Oscillator Switchover
- Dynamic Logical Channel SubSystems (LCSS) Add
- Dynamic Subchannel Set Add
- Dynamic Partition Add
- Dynamic PU reassignment
- Enhanced Application Preservation
- Enhanced Book Availability
- Enhanced Driver Maintenance
- Enhanced Dynamic Reconfiguration Management
- Enhanced Firmware Simulation
- Failure Containment for MBA
- Fault Tolerant Interconnect Design
- FICON Purge Path Extended
- FICON Express8 and FICON Express4 Pluggable Optics for individual servicing
- Fixed HSA
- Frame Bolt Down Feature
- Hybrid cooling
- Internal Battery Feature
- Multipath IPL – ESCON (CNC), FICON (FC) with z/OS
- N+1 power supply technology
- OSA-Express3 and OSA-Express2 Link Aggregation Support
- OSA-Express3 and OSA-Express2 Network Traffic Analyser
- Partial memory restart
- Plan ahead memory
- Point to Point SMP Fabric
- QDIO Diagnostic Synchronisation
- Redundant I/O Interconnect
- Remote operations support
- Sparing for Storage Protect Preservation Keys
- SAP reassignment and sparing
- System-Initiated CHPID Reconfiguration
- Transparent CP Sparing
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| Security |
- AES 128, 192, 256
- Certified for LPAR isolation
- Configurable Crypto Express3 and Crypto Express2 (secure coprocessor or SSL acceleration)
- OSA Express3/2 support for QDIO connection isolation
- CP Assist for Cryptographic Function with new Protected Key capability
- DES, TDES
- Common Criteria EAL5 certified for the security of its logical partitions
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) support for HMC user authentication
- Open Architecture Distributed Transaction Enablement
- PRNG
- Remote key load for ATMs
- SHA1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
- Support for up to 19 digit Personal Account Numbers
- SSL Acceleration for Linux for System z and z/OS
- Tamper-detecting and responding cryptographic hardware
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| Capacity on Demand (CoD) |
- API for Capacity Provisioning Management
- API for On/Off CoD activation
- Capacity Backup for both full and subcapacity CPs
- Capacity Backup for zAAP, zIIP, IFL, ICF and SAP
- CPE
- Capacity Tokens for On/Off CoD
- CUoD
- Customer Initiated upgrades
- On/Off CoD
- More than 200 configuration records may be staged on Support Element
- Up to eight active configurations stored on SEEPROM
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| Specialty Engines |
|
| I/O Connectivity |
- InfiniBand (IFB) host bus; 24 IFBs for I/O HCA2-C Fanout
- IBM ESCON CTC native and basic mode
- FCP support for SCSI devices by Linux, z/VM and z/VSE (disks)
- Fibre Connection (FICON, zHPF) 1, 2, 4, 8 Gigabits per second (Gbps)
- FCP 1, 2, 4, 8 Gbps
- FICON Express8 auto-negotiation for 2, 4, 8 Gbps
- FICON Express4 auto-negotiation for 1, 2, 4 Gbps
- FICON CTC
- FICON full duplex data transfer
- Full fabric FCP support
- IBM ESCON half duplex data transfer
- Multiple Image Facility (MIF)
- Multiple Subchannel Sets (MSS)
- N_Port ID virtualisation (NPIV) for FCP
- QDIO designed for high speed networking
- Up to four LCSS
|
| Networking |
- IBM HiperSockets Internet Protocol (IP)v6
- OSA for NCP (OSN)
- OSA Layer 3 VMAC
- OSA-Express3, OSA-Express2 Layer 2 Support
- OSA-Express Integrated Console Controller (1000BASE-T Ethernet)
- OSA-Express2 (Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10 GbE, 1000BASE-T Ethernet)
- OSA-Express3 (Gigabit, 10 GbE, 1000BASE-T Ethernet)
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| Cluster Systems |
- CFCC Level 16
- Dynamic CF Dispatching
- ETR – Sysplex Timer attachment (standard)
- GDPS
- InfiniBand Coupling links
- Internal Coupling channel (IC)
- Integrated Cluster Bus-4 (ICB-4)
- InterSystem Channel-3 (Peer mode only) (ISC-3)
- MBA and HCA-O Fanout
- NTP Client support for STP
- NTP Server for STP
- Parallel Sysplex clustering technology
- STP
- Shared ICFs and CPs
- Sysplex Distributor
- System-Managed CF Structured Duplexing
- Transparent ICF Sharing
- z/VM Virtual Parallel Sysplex
|
| Performance |
- Compare-and-move extended
- DB2 sort assist
- Flexible Memory Options
- Hardware-assisted data compression
- Hardware Decimal Floating Point
- HiperDispatch
- Hipersorting
- zHPF
- IBM Hiperbatch
- IEEE binary floating point support for advanced IBM Lotus Domino and Java performance
- Long Displacement Facility
- Modified Indirect Data Address Word (MIDAW) Facility
- OSA Dynamic LAN idle
- Performed Locked Operations for enhanced IP performance
- Up to 1.5 TB memory
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| Management |
- Balanced Power Plan Ahead
- (SE) maintenance
- HMC Panel Wizard
- HMC and SE IPv6 Support
- IBM Systems Director AEM for Linux on System z Support
- LPAR Group Capacity Limits
- Cancel I/O Requests
- Power Monitoring Display
- Power Estimation tool
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| z/Architecture |
- Intelligent Resource Director
- System z10 Processor Chip
- Superscalar Processor
- Tri-modal addressability
- Up to 60 LPARs each with 64-bit central memory addressability
|
| Processor core types: CP/IFL/ICF/zAAP1/zIIP1 |
| Model |
Minimum |
Maximum |
Increments |
| E12 |
1/1/1/0/0 |
12/12/12/6/6 |
1/1/1/1/1 |
| E26 |
1/1/1/0/0 |
26/26/16/13/13 |
1/1/1/1/1 |
| E40 |
1/1/1/0/0 |
40/40/16/20/20 |
1/1/1/1/1 |
| E56 |
1/1/1/0/0 |
56/56/16/28/28 |
1/1/1/1/1 |
| E64 |
1/1/1/0/0 |
64/64/16/32/32 |
1/1/1/1/1 |
| Coupling Links |
| ISC-32 |
48 |
| IC |
32 |
| ICB-43 |
16 |
| Maximum # Links |
644 |
| InfiniBand Coupling Links |
32 |
| Channels |
| Minimum: 0/0/0/0/0/0/0 |
ESCON/FICON Express8/FICON Express4/FICON Express25/FICON Express5/OSA-Express3/OSA-Express2 |
| Maximum: 1024/336/336/336/120/96:48/48 |
ESCON/FICON Express8/FICON Express4/FICON Express25/FICON Express5/OSA-Express3/OSA-Express2 |
| Increments: 4/4/4/4/2/4/2/2/1 |
ESCON/FICON Express8/FICON Express4/FICON Express25/FICON Express5/OSA-Express3 GbE, 1000BASE-T/OSA-Express3 10 GbE/OSA-Express2 GbE, 1000BASE-T/OSA-Express2 10 GbE |
| HiperSockets |
Up to sixteen high-speed ‘virtual’ LANs |
| Cryptographic6 |
| Crypto Express3 and Crypto Express2 |
Optional up to 8 features (16 PCI-X adapters), minimum order is 2 features |
| Processor Memory |
| Model |
Minimum |
Maximum7 |
| E12 |
16 GB |
3848 GB |
| E26 |
16 GB |
752 GB |
| E40 |
16 GB |
1136 GB |
| E56 |
16 GB |
1520 GB |
| E64 |
16 GB |
1520 GB |
| Upgradeability |
Upgradeable within the z10 EC family
Upgrading to the E64 from other z10 EC models will require a planned outage
Upgradeable from IBM System z9 Enterprise Class (z9 EC) and IBM eServer zSeries 990 (z990) |
| Physical Configuration |
Model E12, minimum9 |
Model E64, maximum10 |
| Weight |
1248 kg (2807 lbs) |
2271 kg (5110 lbs) |
| Footprint |
2.83 Sq metres (30.44 Sq ft) |
2.83 Sq metres (30.44 Sq ft) |
| Service |
5.73 Sq metres (61.60 Sq ft) |
5.73 Sq metres (61.60 Sq ft) |
| Input |
9.7 kW |
27.5 kW |
| Heat |
33.1 KBTU/hr |
93.8 KBTU/hr |
| Air Flow Nominal11 |
CFM 1155 m3/m |
CFM 2465, m3/m |
| Height |
201.32 cm (79.26 inches) |
201.32 cm (79.26 inches) |
| General |
Conforms to EIA guidelines for frames |
| Supported Operating Systems |
| z/OS: |
z/OS V1.9 and subsequent releases |
| z/VM: |
z/VM 5.3 and subsequent releases |
| Linux on System z: |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 and subsequent releases, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 and subsequent releases, Linux as z/VM guest |
| z/VSE: |
z/VSE V4.1 |
| TPF: |
TPF 4.1 |
| z/TPF: |
z/TPF 1.1 |
1 If ordering a zAAP or a zIIP, one or more general purpose processor (CP) per the specialty engine is required. One CP can satisfy the requirement for either or both of the specialty engines
2 ISC-3 Peer mode only
3 ICB-4 Not available on E64
4 64 external and 32 internal
5 Available only when carried forward on an upgrade
6 OSA-Express3 2-ports per CHPID (except for 10 Gigabit adapters)
7 Initial order of Crypto Express2 requires 2 features, maximum of 8 features
8 Excludes the standard fixed size of 16 GB HSA
9 Full installed capacity can not be used until second book is installed due to 32 GB increments for memory between 256-512 GB
10 Model E12 with one I/O cage and no Internal Battery Feature (IBF)
11 Model E26 with three I/O cages and IBF with a combined max of 64
12 Airflow is designed to increase as the local ambient room temperature increases. Nominal airflow assumes 77 degrees F ambient
