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IBM OpenPower 720 Technical Overview And Introduction

IBM OpenPower 720 Technical Overview And Introduction (74 pages)

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Table of Contents

Front Cover
1
Table of Contents
5
Notices

7
- Trademarks
  8
Preface

9
Chapter 1. General Description

11
- System Specifications
  13
- Physical Package
  13
  - IBM Eserver Openpower 720 Deskside
    14
  - IBM Eserver Openpower 720 Rack-Mounted
    14
- Minimum and Optional Features
  15
  - Processor Card Features
    16
  - Memory Features
    16
  - Disk and Media Features
    17
  - USB Diskette Drive
    17
  - I/O Drawers
    18
  - Hardware Management Console Models
    19
- Express Product Offerings
  20
- System Racks
  22
Chapter 2. Architecture and Technical Overview

29
- The POWER5 Chip
  30
- Processor Cards
  33
  - Available Processor Speeds
    34
- Memory Subsystem
  34
  - Memory Placement Rules
    34
  - Memory Throughput
    35
  - Memory Restrictions
    35
- System Buses
  36
  - RIO Buses and GX Card
    36
- Internal I/O Subsystem
  36
  - PCI-X Slots and Adapters
    37
  - LAN Adapters
    37
  - Graphic Accelerators
    37
  - SCSI Adapters
    38
- Internal Service Processor Communications Ports
  38
- Internal Storage
  38
  - Internal Media Devices
    38
  - Internal SCSI Disks
    39
  - RAID Options
    39
- External I/O Subsystem
  40
  - I/O Drawers
    40
  - 7311 Model D20 I/O Drawer
    40
  - 7311 I/O Drawer's RIO-2 Cabling
    41
  - 7311 Model D20 I/O Drawer SPCN Cabling
    42
  - External Disk Subsystems
    43
- Advanced Openpower Virtualization
  44
  - Logical Partitioning and Dynamic Logical Partitioning
    44
  - Virtualization
    45
- Service Processor
  47
  - Service Processor Base
    48
  - Service Processor Extender
    48
- Boot Process
  48
- Operating System Requirements
  55
  - Linux
    55
Chapter 3. RAS and Manageability

57
- Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
  58
  - Fault Avoidance
    58
  - First Failure Data Capture
    58
  - Permanent Monitoring
    59
  - Self-Healing
    60
  - N+1 Redundancy
    60
  - Fault Masking
    61
  - Resource Deallocation
    61
  - Serviceability
    62
- Manageability
  63
  - Service Processor
    63
  - Service Agent
    64
  - Openpower Customer-Managed Microcode
    65
- Cluster 1600
  65
Related Publications

69
- IBM Redbooks
  69
- Other Publications
  69
- Online Resources
  70
- How to Get IBM Redbooks
  70
- Help from IBM
  71

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