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IBM Power Systems H922 and H924 Technical Overview and Introduction

Release Date: 2021/01/01
ISBN: 9780738459356
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This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power System H922 (9223-22S), and IBM Power System H924 (9223-42S) servers that support memory-intensive workloads, such as SAP HANA, and deliver superior price and performance for mission-critical applications in IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems. The goal of this paper is to provide a hardware architecture analysis and highlight the changes, new technologies, and major features that are being introduced in these systems' 2020 release, such as the following examples:


  • Availability of new IBM POWER9™ processor configurations for the number of cores per socket.
  • More performance by using industry-leading IBM Peripheral Component Interconnect® Express (PCIe) Gen4 slots.
  • Enhanced internal disk configuration options, with up to 14 NVMe adapters (four U.2 NVMe plus up to 10 PCIe add-in cards).
  • Twice as fast back-end I/O enables seamless maximum speed and throughput between on-premises and multiple public cloud infrastructures with high availability (HA).

This publication is for professionals who want to acquire a better understanding of IBM Power Systems products. The intended audience includes the following roles:


  • Clients
  • Sales and marketing professionals
  • Technical support professionals
  • IBM Business Partners
  • Independent software vendors (ISVs)

This paper expands the current set of IBM Power Systems documentation by providing a desktop reference that offers a detailed technical description of the Power H922 and Power H924 systems.

Table of Contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. Preface
    1. Authors
    2. Now you can become a published author, too!
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  4. Chapter 1. General description
    1. 1.1 Systems overview
    2. 1.1.1 Power H922 server (9223-22S)
    3. 1.1.2 Power H924 server (9223-42S)
    4. 1.1.3 Common features
    5. 1.2 Operating environment
    6. 1.3 Physical package
    7. 1.4 System features
    8. 1.4.1 Power H922 (9223-22S) system features
    9. 1.4.2 Power H924 (9223-42S) system features
    10. 1.4.3 Minimum features
    11. 1.4.4 Power supply features
    12. 1.4.5 Processor module features
    13. 1.4.6 Memory features
    14. 1.4.7 PCIe slots
    15. 1.5 Disk and media features
    16. 1.6 I/O drawers for Power H922, and Power H924 servers
    17. 1.6.1 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer
    18. 1.6.2 .I/O drawers and usable PCI slots
    19. 1.6.3 EXP24SX SAS Storage Enclosure (#ESLS) and EXP12SX SAS Storage Enclosure (#ESLL)
    20. 1.7 System racks
    21. 1.7.1 IBM 7014 Model T00 rack
    22. 1.7.2 IBM 7014 Model T42 rack
    23. 1.7.3 IBM 42U Slim Rack 7965-94Y
    24. 1.7.4 1.8 Meter Rack (#0551)
    25. 1.7.5 2.0 Meter Rack (#0553)
    26. 1.7.6 Rack (#ER05)
    27. 1.7.7 The AC power distribution unit and rack content
    28. 1.7.8 Rack-mounting rules
    29. 1.7.9 Useful rack additions
    30. 1.7.10 Original equipment manufacturer racks
    31. 1.8 Hardware Management Console
    32. 1.8.1 New features
    33. 1.8.2 Hardware Management Console overview
    34. 1.8.3 Hardware Management Console code level
    35. 1.8.4 Two architectures of Hardware Management Console
    36. 1.8.5 Virtual Hardware Management Console
    37. 1.8.6 Connectivity to POWER9 processor-based systems
    38. 1.8.7 High availability Hardware Management Console configuration
  5. Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview
    1. 2.1 IBM POWER9 processor
    2. 2.1.1 POWER9 processor overview
    3. 2.1.2 POWER9 processor features
    4. 2.1.3 POWER9 processor core
    5. 2.1.4 Simultaneous multithreading
    6. 2.1.5 Processor feature codes
    7. 2.1.6 Memory access
    8. 2.1.7 On-chip L3 cache innovation and intelligent caching
    9. 2.1.8 Hardware transactional memory
    10. 2.1.9 Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface 2.0
    11. 2.1.10 Power management and system performance
    12. 2.2 Memory subsystem
    13. 2.2.1 Memory placement rules
    14. 2.2.2 Memory bandwidth
    15. 2.3 System buses
    16. 2.3.1 Memory buses
    17. 2.3.2 Inter-node SMP X-buses
    18. 2.3.3 PCIe Gen 4 buses
    19. 2.3.4 Service processor interface bus
    20. 2.4 Internal I/O subsystem
    21. 2.4.1 Slot configuration
    22. 2.4.2 System ports
    23. 2.5 PCIe adapters
    24. 2.5.1 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
    25. 2.5.2 LAN adapters
    26. 2.5.3 Graphics accelerator adapters
    27. 2.5.4 SAS adapters
    28. 2.5.5 Fibre Channel adapters
    29. 2.5.6 InfiniBand host channel adapter
    30. 2.5.7 Cryptographic coprocessor
    31. 2.5.8 Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface adapters
    32. 2.5.9 USB adapters
    33. 2.6 Internal storage
    34. 2.6.1 Power H922 Base Storage Backplane (#EJ1F)
    35. 2.6.2 Power H922 Split Backplane option for Base Storage Backplane (#EJ1H)
    36. 2.6.3 Power H922 Expanded Function Storage Backplane (#EJ1G)
    37. 2.6.4 Power H922 NVMe Storage Backplanes with front U.2 drive slots (#EJ1V and #EJ1W)
    38. 2.6.5 Power H924 Base Storage Backplane (#EJ1C)
    39. 2.6.6 Power H924 Split Backplane option for Base Storage Backplane (#EJ1E)
    40. 2.6.7 Power H924 Expanded Function Storage Backplanes (#EJ1D and #EJ1M)
    41. 2.6.8 Power H924 NVMe Storage Backplanes with front U.2 drive slots (#EJ1T and #EJ1U)
    42. 2.6.9 Power H924 SAS and NVMe Backplane with front drive slots (#EJ1S)
    43. 2.6.10 RAID support
    44. 2.6.11 Easy Tier
    45. 2.6.12 External SAS ports
    46. 2.6.13 Media drawers
    47. 2.6.14 External DVD drives
    48. 2.6.15 RDX removable disk drives
    49. 2.7 External IO subsystems
    50. 2.7.1 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express Gen3 I/O expansion drawer
    51. 2.7.2 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer optical cabling
    52. 2.7.3 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer system power control network cabling
    53. 2.8 External disk subsystems
    54. 2.8.1 EXP12SX SAS Storage Enclosure and EXP24SX SAS Storage Enclosure
    55. 2.8.2 IBM Storage
    56. 2.9 Operating system support
    57. 2.9.1 IBM i
    58. 2.9.2 Virtual I/O Server
    59. 2.10 Power Systems reliability, availability, and serviceability capabilities
    60. 2.11 Manageability
    61. 2.11.1 Service user interfaces
    62. 2.11.2 Power Systems Firmware maintenance
    63. 2.11.3 Concurrent Firmware Maintenance improvements
    64. 2.11.4 IBM Electronic Services and IBM Electronic Service Agent
  6. Chapter 3. SAP HANA and Cloud Private
    1. 3.1 SAP HANA on POWER
    2. 3.1.1 IBM Power Systems H922 (9223-22S) and H924 (9223-42S) running SAP
    3. 3.1.2 Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM)
    4. 3.2 Cloud-ready H922 and H924 servers
    5. 3.2.1 IBM PowerVC
    6. 3.2.2 IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers
    7. 3.2.3 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power
    8. 3.2.4 IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management
  7. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Online resources
    3. Help from IBM
  8. Back cover
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