IBM Power Systems Update

David Spurway IBM Power Systems Product Manager

STG, UK and Ireland

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Power 8

POWER8 is the fastest around

Power S812L Power S822L

Scale-out Systems (1 & 2 sockets) 2014 IBM Power Systems | Announce: April 28, 2014

Enterprise Systems (4+ sockets)

Power E880Power E870

Power E850

Announce: May 11, 2015

Power Systems Range

Announce: October 6, 2014Power S824L Power S822

Operating Systems Hypervisors Management

Power S814 Power S824

The OpenPOWER Foundation creates an open ecosystem, using the POWER Architecture to share expertise, investment, and

server-class intellectual property to serve the evolving needs of customers.

Performance of leading POWER architecture Broadens the capability and performance of the POWER platform

Collaboration across multiple thought leaders

Collaborative development model drives collective thought leadership, simultaneously across multiple disciplines

Open Development OpenPOWER enables greater innovation through both open software and open hardware

OpenPOWER drives industry innovation

Membership now at >160!

Power System S812LC and S822LC

Key Client Value Specifications Advantages vs. Competition

S822LC Commercial

Optimize your datacenter for cloud, big data, and business-critical applicationswith new solutions to deliver superior cloud economics through greater efficiency and agility, developed with an open ecosystem of innovators including members of the OpenPOWER Foundation

» 2-socket, 2U» Up to 20 cores (2.9-3.3Ghz)» 1 TB Memory (32 DIMMs)» 230GB/sec memory bandwidth» 2x SFF (HDD/SSD), 2 TB storage» 5 PCIe slots, 4 CAPI enabled I/O available» Default 3 yr 9x5 Warranty 100% CRU

» Over 2X performance per core than Xeon E5-2600 v3

» 40% better price/performance vs Xeon E5-2600 v3-based servers

» Over 2X greater memory bandwidth than Xeon E5-2600v3 with fully configured memory capacity

S822LC High PerformanceComputing

Access all data, build models quickly, iterate faster with new solutions to deliver analytics in the cloud at the speed of data creation. Developed with an open ecosystem of innovators, including OpenPOWER Foundation members, data scientists can deliver results faster with Power Systems, an open platform that tightly integrates the best acceleration technologies

» 2-socket, 2U» Up to 20 cores (2.9-3.3Ghz)» 1 TB Memory (32 DIMMs)» 230GB/sec memory bandwidth» 2 integrated NVIDIA GPUs » 5 PCIe slots, 2 CAPI enabled I/O available» Default 3 yr 9x5 Warranty 100% CRU

» Available CAPI-attached accelerators for compute, storage, fabric with lower latency

» Over 2X greater memory bandwidth than Xeon E5-2600v3 with fully configured memory capacity

S812LC

Act faster and make better decisions with systems designed for dataPower Systems unique design for data is built to address the specific memory and multithreading demands that analytics applications built with Hadoop and Spark present

» 1-socket, 2U» Up to 10 cores (2.9-3.3Ghz)» 1 TB Memory (32 DIMMs)» 115GB/sec memory bandwidth» 14x 3.5” drives, 112TB Storage» 4 PCIe slots, 2 CAPI enabled» Default 3 yr 9x5 Warranty 100% CRU

» Optimized for Spark and Hadoop» 16X the memory capacity of Xeon E3 servers, 2X

1P Xeon E5 servers

Introducing a new line of servers for Linux Clouds & Clusters – IBM Power Systems LC Line

IBM Research - 7 Nanometer and Beyond

Carbon Nanotubes • IBM demonstrated a 10,000 transistor chip

• IBM demonstrated a 9nm transistor

• 5x-10x better performance

Graphene • IBM demonstrated a 100 GHz transistor

• IBM demonstrated a functional circuit

• 10,000x better performance

What would “faster” mean to you?

The Bottom Line

AIX 7.2

New AIX level ships every four years

New Technology Levels (TL) initially ship yearly for new AIX releases, then transition to a TL every two years

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

AIX 6.1GA 11/2007 EOL 4/20 EOM 4/16 EOS 4/17

AIX 7.2 GA 12/2015

AIX 7.1GA 09/2010

EOL 4/25

TL1 TL2 TL3 TL4 TL5

AIX Next GA 4Q2019 TL1 TL2 TL3

IBM Confidential

SPSPP8 Entry P8 High End

SPP8 Midrange

EOS 4/22

TL0 EOS 4Q27

AIX Release Life Cycle View

TL0

TL3 TL4 TL5

TL9

Marketed and serviced Fee-based service extension

Serviced only Web support only Last TL

Technology Level (TL) SP Service Pack

EOM 4/2021

AIX 7.2 Highlights

IBM is introducing AIX 7.2, the IBM strategic UNIX operating system for mission-critical, core business applications, with the following features: • AIX Live Update for Interim Fixes.• Cluster Aware AIX (CAA) automation with repository replacement mechanism.• SRIOV-backed Virtual Network Interface Card (VNIC).• RDSv3 over RoCE, which adds support of the Oracle RDSv3 protocol over the Mellanox Connect RoCE

adapters.• Flash caching. Workloads can take advantage of a read-only cache.

Planned availability date - December 4, 2015

CEC

Project Requirements • Use existing maintenance model and administrative tools (NIM, emgr, installp) • Start with live AIX kernel replacement for i-fixes, then in future extend to SPs and possibly TLs • Long term goal is to provide non-disruptive updates for all of AIX (kernel, commands, and Libs)

AIX 7.2 Next Generation AIX Live Update Technology

New rootvg(Alt-disk-install)

VIOS

VSCSI

SEA

Virt. entVSCSI

RunningWorkload

Live Migration

Original LPAR

Original kernel

Original rootvg New rootvg(Alt-disk-install)

Virt. entVSCSI

RunningWorkload

Surrogate LPAR

Updated kernel

Original rootvg

Target customers: Enterprise customers willing to invest in technology for better I/O performance Typical customer use cases: • I/O intensive workloads with a transactional DB • Data Warehouse applications System requirement: • Standard AIX 7.2 • Requires Flash storage Steps for adoption: • Can be adopted right away. Simple admin set-up required to enable. Flash storage will be required

Key message – Potential performance improvement with caching of SAN data in server-attached Flash storage . No application change is required. All storage solution such as SSD or SAS attached drawer are supported. Additional performance improvements are seen from off-loading SAN traffic closer to the server

AIX 7.2 – Workload Optimization with Flash

Target customers: Oracle RAC on POWER customers Typical customer use cases: • Customers who are on or evaluating 40GB ethernet in their data centers • Customers evaluating PurePower which integrates 40 GB into the system System Requirement: • Standard AIX 7.2 • 40 GB Ethernet adapter. This is a feature code in POWER8 • 40GB switch is included in PurePOWER, or can be ordered directly from Mellanox Steps for adoption: • Oracle support of 40GB over IP on AIX was announced on September 1, ready to deploy today on AIX 7.1 and 6.1! • Oracle certification of AIX 7.2 with RDS for improved DB performance is being worked for future growth

Key message – Infrastructure simplification with users, applications and DB on one topology, eliminates need for specialized interconnect technology, and provides better performance and scaling

AIX 7.2 – Simplified and Optimized Oracle RAC on POWER

Target customers: Customers that have a need higher performing network adapters, better QOS and that use Live Partition Mobility Typical customer use cases: • Consolidated workloads on large high end servers where some workloads may require larger bandwidth System requirement: • AIX software is part of standard AIX 7.2, and AIX 7.1 TL 4 • PowerVM 2.2.4 is required • SR-IOV adapter is required Steps for adoption: • Can be adopted right away. Simple admin set-up required to enable. • Supported on servers with POWER8 processors running PowerVM

Key message – vNIC enables Live Partition Mobility for SR-IOV adapters, SR-IOV adapters provide better QOS controls which allow guaranteed bandwidth to be assigned to each VM and reduced server resource consumption

AIX 7.2 – vNIC Adapter with SR-IOV Virtualization (Performance Optimized Virtual Networking)

Other AIX 7.2 Features

CAA automation with repository replacement mechanism • When the Storage Framework (SFW) detects primary (active) repository disk DOWN, it will notify CAA and CAA will

automatically replace the failed repository disk with a user-specified backup repository disk

RDSv3 over RoCE adds support of the Oracle RDSv3 protocol over the Mellanox Connect RoCE adapters. Instead of requiring the IB network infrastructure, the feature allows the user to leverage the high-speed Ethernet connect and run the RDSv3 protocol over Oracle RAC cluster for higher performance.

AIX Dynamic System Optimizer is now included as part of AIX 7.2.

IBM BigFix Lifecycle provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It provides near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all distributed endpoints. This offering will ship with AIX Enterprise editions.

AIX Enterprise Edition

AIX Enterprise Edition V1.1 includes the following offerings:

• Dynamic System Optimizer V1.1 (5765-PWO) (AIX 7.1 Only as included in AIX 7.2)

• IBM PowerSC Std Ed V1.1 (5765-PSE)

• PowerVC Standard Edition V1 (5765-VCS)

• Cloud Manager with OpenStack V4.3 (5765-CMO)

• ITM V6.3

• IBM BigFix Lifecycle

• Mozilla Firefox (ESD only)