Power 780 System Features - IBM Power 780 Technical Overview And Introduction

Eight I/O expansion slots per enclosure (maximum 32 per system)
– Six Gen2 PCIe 8x slots plus two GX++ slots per enclosure
Dynamic LPAR support, Processor and Memory Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD)
PowerVM (optional)
– IBM Micro-Partitioning® technology
– Virtual I/O Server (VIOS)
– Automated CPU and memory reconfiguration support for dedicated and shared
processor logical partition groups (dynamic LPAR)
– Support for manual provisioning of resources, namely PowerVM Live Partition
Migration (PowerVM Enterprise Edition)
Optional IBM PowerHA® for AIX, IBM i, and Linux
A 12X I/O drawer with PCI slots
– Up to 16 PCIe I/O drawers (FC 5802 or FC 5877)
– Up to 32 PCI-X DDR I/O drawers (7314-G30 or FC 5796)
Disk-only I/O drawers
– Up to 56 EXP24S SFF SAS I/O drawers on external SAS controller (FC 5887)
– Up to 110 EXP12S SAS DASD/SSD I/O drawers on SAS PCI controllers (FC 5886)
– Up to 60 EXP24 SCSI DASD Expansion drawers on SCSI PCI controllers (7031-D24)
– Enhanced EXP30 Ultra Solid-State Drive (SSD) I/O Drawer holding up to 30 SSDs (FC
EDR1). The EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer is attached directly to the Power 770
(9117-MMD) and Power 780 (9179-MHD) GX++ slot for higher bandwidth.
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The Power 770 operator interface controls, located on the front panel of the primary I/O
drawer, consist of a power ON/OFF button with an IBM POWER® indicator, an LCD display
for diagnostic feedback, a RESET button, and a disturbance or system attention LED.

1.4.2 Power 780 system features

The following features are available on the Power 780:
A 4U 19-inch rack-mount system enclosure
One to four system enclosures: 16U maximum system size
One processor card feature per enclosure (includes the voltage regulator):
– 0 to 16 core, 4.42 GHz processor card (FC EPH0)
– 0 to 32 core, 3.72 GHz processor card (FC EPH2)
POWER7+ DDR3 Memory DIMMs (16 DIMM slots per processor card):
– 0 - 32 GB (4 X 8 GB), 1066 MHz (FC EM40)
– 0 - 64 GB (4 X 16 GB), 1066 MHz (FC EM41)
– 0 - 128 GB (4 X 32 GB), 1066 MHz (FC EM42)
– 0 - 256 GB (4 X 64 GB), 1066 MHz (FC EM44)
Six hot-swappable, 2.5-inch, small form factor, SAS disk or SSD bays per enclosure
One hot-plug, slim-line, SATA media bay per enclosure (optional)
Redundant hot-swap AC power supplies in each enclosure
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