Statement Of General Direction; Product Number - IBM Power 750 Express Hardware Announcement

Statement of general direction

IBM plans for PowerVM to support up to 320 logical partitions on the Power 750
server and up to 640 logical partitions on the Power 770 and 780 servers. For future
POWER7 systems, IBM plans for PowerVM to support up to 1,000 logical partitions
per server.
IBM is working with Red Hat on POWER7 support. Red Hat plans to support
the Power 750, 755, 770, and 780 models in an upcoming release targeted for
availability during first half 2010. For additional questions on the availability of this
release, contact Red Hat.
IBM plans for PowerVM Lx86 to support POWER7 systems in second quarter 2010.
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Product number

The following are newly announced features on the specific models of the IBM Power
Systems 8233 machine type:
Description
IBM Power 750
Specify Code for External High Speed Modem
Mirrored System Disk Level, Specify Code
Device Parity Protection-All, Specify Code
Mirrored System Bus Level, Specify Code
Device Parity RAID-6 All, Specify Code
RISC-to-RISC Data Migration
AIX Partition Specify
Linux Partition Specify
IBM i Operating System Partition Specify
CSC Specify
Specify Custom Data Protection
Mirrored Level System Specify Code
RAID Hot Spare Specify
V.24/EIA232 6.1m (20-Ft) PCI Cable
V.24/EIA232 15.2m (50-Ft) PCI Cable
V.35 6.1m (20-Ft) PCI Cable
V.35 15.2m (50-Ft) PCI Cable
V.36 6.1m (20-Ft) PCI Cable
X.21 6.1m (20-Ft) PCI Cable
X.21 15.2m (50-Ft) PCI Cable
V.24/EIA232 (80-Ft) PCI Cable
CBU Specify
Customer Specified Placement
SSD Placement Indicator - CEC
SSD Placement Indicator (5802/5803)
SSD Placement Indicator - 5886
IBM United States Hardware Announcement
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