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IBM System z9 Business Class


OverviewFeatures & benefitsSpecifications

Benefits Features/functions
Availability/Reliability
  • Air cooling


  • CICS subspace group facility


  • CICS subsystem storage protect


  • Concurrent channel, OSA-E, OSA-E2 and Coupling Link maintenance


  • Concurrent Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Support Element


  • Concurrent Licensed Internal Code (LIC) maintenance for CP, SAP, SE, PR/SM™, LPAR, HMC, OSA-Express2


  • Concurrent power and thermal maintenance


  • Dual Support Elements


  • Dynamic Channel Path Management


  • Dynamic I/O Reconfiguration


  • Dynamic memory sparing


  • Dynamic Oscillator Switchover


  • Enhanced Application Preservation


  • Enhanced Driver Maintenance


  • Enhanced Dynamic Reconfiguration Management


  • Enhanced Firmware Simulation


  • Failure Containment for MBA


  • Fault Tolerant Interconnect Design


  • FICON Purge Path Extended


  • Frame Bolt Down Kit


  • Multipath IPL


  • N+1 power supply technology


  • OSA-Express2 Link Aggregation Support


  • OSA-Express2 Network Traffic Analyzer


  • Partial memory restart


  • QDIO Diagnostic Synchronization


  • Reassignment and Sparing


  • Redundant I/O Interconnect


  • Remote operations support


  • Sparing for Storage Protect Preservation Keys


  • System Assist Processor (SAP)


  • System-Initiated CHPID Reconfiguration


  • Transparent CP Sparing
Security
  • Advanced encryption standard (AES)


  • Certified for LPAR isolation


  • Configurable Crypto Express2 (1 or 2 PCI-X Adapter features)


  • CP Assist for Cryptographic Function


  • Designed for FIPS 140-2 Level 4


  • EAL5 certified


  • LDAP support for HMC user authentication


  • Open Architecture Distributed Transaction Enablement


  • Pseudo random number generator (PRNG)


  • Remote key load for ATMs


  • Secure hash algorithm-256 (SHA-256)


  • SSL Acceleration for Linux and z/OS


  • Tamper-proof Cryptographic Support
Capacity on Demand
  • Administrative On/Off CoD Testing


  • API for On/Off CoD activation


  • Capacity Backup Upgrade (from any model to any model and capacity setting)


  • Capacity Upgrade on demand


  • Customer Initiated upgrades


  • On/Off Capacity on Demand


  • Up to 100 configuration records may be stored on System Element
Specialty Engines
  • Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)


  • Internal Coupling Facility (ICF)


  • System z9 Application Assist Processor (zAAP)


  • System z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP)
I/O Connectivity
  • ESCON CTC native and basic mode


  • ESCON half duplex data transfer


  • FCP LUN Access Control


  • FCP support for SCSI devices by Linux and z/VM


  • FICON CTC


  • FICON Express4 4 Gbps (2 and 4 channel features)


  • FICON full duplex data transfer


  • Full fabric FCP support


  • Logical Channel SubSystems


  • Multiple Image Facility (MIF) sharing across LCSS’s


  • N_Port ID Virtualization


  • QDIO
Networking
  • HiperSockets™


  • OSA for NCP (OSN)


  • OSA Layer 3 VMAC


  • OSA-Express (Gigabit Ethernet, 1000BASE-T Ethernet, Fast Ethernet)2


  • OSA-Express and OSA-Express2 Layer 2 Support


  • OSA-Express Integrated Console Controller (1000BASE-T Ethernet)


  • OSA-Express2 (Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 1000BASE-T Ethernet)
Cluster systems
  • Dynamic CF Dispatching


  • Dynamic ICF Expansion


  • Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex™