IBM eServer zSeries 890

z/Architecture

• zSeries Application Assist Processor (zAAP)
• Intelligent Resource Director
• Capacity Upgrade on Demand**
• Integrated Facility for Linux
• Capacity BackUp**
• On/Off Capacity on Demand**
• HiperSockets
• Customer Initiated Upgrades**
• QDIO  

Cluster systems

• Parallel Sysplex clustering technology
• Sysplex Distributor
• Shared ICFs and CPs
• Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex™**
• Dynamic CF Dispatching
• Internal Coupling Facility (ICF)
• Dynamic ICF Expansion
• Internal Coupling Channel
• Transparent ICF Sparing
• z/VM Virtual Parallel Sysplex (when z/VM has been licensed)
• InterSystem Coupling-3 Links
• Integrated Cluster Bus
• System-Managed CF Structure Duplexing

Availability

• Transparent CP Sparing
• System Assist Processor (SAP)
• Enhanced Application Preservation
• Dynamic memory sparing
• Reassignment & Sparing
• CICS® subspace group facility (when CICS has been licensed)
• Partial memory restart
• CICS subsystem storage protect (when CICS has been licensed)
• Dynamic Channel Path Management
• Remote operations support
• Dual Support Elements
• N+1 power supply technology
• Hybrid cooling
• Concurrent power and thermal maintenance
• Concurrent channel, OSA-E and Coupling Link maintenance
• Concurrent Hardware Management Console and Support Element
• Concurrent Licensed Internal Code (LIC) maintenance for CP, SAP, SE, PR/SM™, LPAR, Hardware Management Console, OSA-Express2
• FICON Purge Path Extended
• Dynamic I/O Reconfiguration

Management

• (SE) maintenance
• Power/Thermal
• Cancel I/O Requests
• Internal Battery Feature
• ESCON sparing

PR/SM ^TM

• Up to 30 LPARs each (up to 15 LPARS each with capacity setting 110) with 64-bit central memory addressability
• Enhanced Dynamic Reconfiguration management

Performance

• IEEE binary floating point support for advanced Lotus® Domino™ and Java performance
• Up to 32GB memory
• Hipersorting
• Hiperbatch™
• Compare-and-move extended
• Long Displacement Facility 
• Hardware-assisted data compression
• Performed Locked Operations for enhanced IP performance
• DB2® sort assist (when DB2 has been licensed)

I/O connectivity

• ESCON half duplex data transfer
• Multiple Image Facility (MIF)
• ESCON CTC native and basic mode
• FICON™ full duplex data transfer
• FICON CTC
• Full fabric FCP support
• FCP support for SCSI devices
• FCP LUN Access Control
• Logical Channel SubSystems

Networking

• OSA-Express (Gigabit Ethernet, 1000BASE-T Ethernet, Token-Ring)
• OSA-Express2 (Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet)
• OSA-Express and OSA-Express2 Layer 2 support
• OSA-ICC Integrated Console Controller
• HiperSockets

Security

• Open Architecture Distributed Transaction Enablement
• SSL Acceleration for Linux and z/OS (when Linux or z/OS have been licensed)
• Tamper-proof Cryptographic Support
• Designed for LPAR isolation - certified EAL4+ by U.S. Government
• Designed for FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certification
• AES Encryption support
• CP assist for Cryptographic Functions
• TKE Smart Card Reader support