Power E880 System Features - IBM Power Systems E870 Technical Overview And Introduction

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1.4.2 Power E880 system features

The following features are available on the Power E880:
One or two 5U 19-inch rack-mount system node drawers
One 2U 19-inch rack-mount system control unit drawer
12U for a system with two system node drawers
One processor feature per system node:
– 4.35 GHz, (4 X 0/8-core) 32-core POWER8 processor (#EPBB)
Static or mobile processor activation features available on a per core basis
POWER8 DDR3 memory CDIMMs (32 CDIMM slots per system node, 16 sites populated
per system node minimum):
– 0/64 GB (4 X 16 GB), 1600 MHz (#EM8J)
– 0/128 GB (4 X 32 GB), 1600 MHz (#EM8K)
– 0/256 GB (4 X 64 GB), 1600 MHz (#EM8L)
– 0/512 GB (4 X 128 GB), 1600 MHz (#EM8M)
Active Memory Expansion - optimized onto the processor chip (#EM82)
90 Days Elastic CoD Temporary Processor Enablement (#EP9T)
Eight PCIe Gen3 x16 I/O expansion slots per system node drawer (maximum 16 with
2-drawer system)
One slim-line, SATA media bay per system control unit enclosure (DVD drive defaulted on
order, option to de-select)
Redundant hot-swap ac power supplies in each system node drawer
Two HMC ports per Flexible Service Processor (FSP) in the system control unit
Dynamic logical partition (LPAR) support
Processor and memory CUoD
PowerVM virtualization:
– Micro-Partitioning
– Dynamic logical partitioning
– Shared processor pools
– Shared storage pools
– Live Partition Mobility
– Active Memory Sharing
– Active Memory Deduplication
– NPIV support
– PowerVP Performance Monitor
Optional PowerHA for AIX, IBM i, and Linux
Optional PCIe Gen3 I/O Expansion Drawer with PCIe Gen3 slots:
– Zero or two PCIe Gen3 Drawers per system node drawer (#EMX0)
– Each Gen3 I/O drawer holds two 6-slot PCIe3 Fan-out Modules (#EMXF)
– Each Gen3 I/O drawer attaches to the system node via two PCIe3 Optical Cable
Adapters (#EJ07)
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