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by Bartlomiej Grabowski, Gareth Coates, Young Hoon Cho, Scott Vetter
IBM Power Systems S922, S914, and S924 Technical Overview and Introduction
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Notices
Trademarks
Preface
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Chapter 1. General description
1.1 Systems overview
1.1.1 Power S922 server
1.1.2 Power S914 server
1.1.3 Power S924 server
1.1.4 Common features
1.2 Operating environment
1.3 Physical package
1.3.1 Tower model
1.3.2 Rack-mount model
1.4 System features
1.4.1 Power S922 server features
1.4.2 Power S914 server features
1.4.3 Power S924 server features
1.4.4 Minimum features
1.4.5 Power supply features
1.4.6 Processor module features
1.4.7 Memory features
1.4.8 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express slots
1.5 Disk and media features
1.6 I/O drawers for Power S922, Power S914, and Power S924 servers
1.6.1 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer
1.6.2 I/O drawers and usable PCI slots
1.6.3 EXP24SX (#ESLS) and EXP12SX (#ESLL) SAS Storage Enclosures
1.7 IBM i Solution Editions for Power S914
1.8 IBM Capacity BackUp
1.8.1 Power S922 (9009-22A) IBM Capacity BackUp offering
1.8.2 Power S914 (9009-41A) IBM Capacity BackUp offering
1.8.3 Power S924 (9009-42A) IBM Capacity BackUp offering
1.9 System racks
1.9.1 IBM 7014 Model T00 rack
1.9.2 IBM 7014 Model T42 rack
1.9.3 IBM 42U Slim Rack 7965-94Y
1.9.4 1.8 Meter Rack (#0551)
1.9.5 2.0 Meter Rack (#0553)
1.9.6 Rack (#ER05)
1.9.7 The AC power distribution unit and rack content
1.9.8 Rack-mounting rules
1.9.9 Useful rack additions
1.9.10 Original equipment manufacturer racks
1.10 Hardware Management Console
1.10.1 New features
1.10.2 Hardware Management Console overview
1.10.3 Hardware Management Console code level
1.10.4 Two architectures of Hardware Management Console
1.10.5 Hardware Management Console connectivity to POWER9 processor-based systems
1.10.6 High availability Hardware Management Console configuration
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview
2.1 The IBM POWER9 processor
2.1.1 POWER9 processor overview
2.1.2 POWER9 processor features
2.1.3 POWER9 processor core
2.1.4 Simultaneous multithreading
2.1.5 Processor feature codes
2.1.6 Memory access
2.1.7 On-chip L3 cache innovation and intelligent caching
2.1.8 Hardware transactional memory
2.1.9 Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface 2.0
2.1.10 Power management and system performance
2.1.11 Comparison of the POWER9, POWER8, and POWER7+ processors
2.2 Memory subsystem
2.2.1 Memory placement rules
2.2.2 Memory bandwidth
2.3 System bus
2.4 Internal I/O subsystem
2.4.1 Slot configuration
2.4.2 System ports
2.5 Peripheral Component Interconnect adapters
2.5.1 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
2.5.2 LAN adapters
2.5.3 Graphics accelerator adapters
2.5.4 SAS adapters
2.5.5 Fibre Channel adapters
2.5.6 InfiniBand host channel adapter
2.5.7 Cryptographic coprocessor
2.5.8 Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface adapters
2.5.9 USB adapters
2.6 Internal storage
2.6.1 Backplane (#EJ1C)
2.6.2 Split backplane option (#EJ1E)
2.6.3 Backplane (#EJ1D)
2.6.4 Expanded Function Backplane (#EJ1M)
2.6.5 NVMe support
2.6.6 Backplane (#EJ1F)
2.6.7 Expanded Function Storage Backplane (#EJ1G)
2.6.8 RAID support
2.6.9 Easy Tier
2.6.10 External SAS ports
2.6.11 Media drawers
2.6.12 External DVD drives
2.6.13 RDX removable disk drives
2.7 External IO subsystems
2.7.1 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express Gen3 I/O expansion drawer
2.7.2 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer optical cabling
2.7.3 PCIe Gen3 I/O expansion drawer system power control network cabling
2.8 External disk subsystems
2.8.1 EXP24SX SAS Storage Enclosure and EXP12SX SAS Storage Enclosure
2.8.2 IBM Storage
2.9 Operating system support
2.9.1 AIX operating system
2.9.2 IBM i
2.9.3 Linux operating system
2.9.4 Virtual I/O Server
2.10 POWER9 reliability, availability, and serviceability capabilities
2.11 Manageability
2.11.1 Service user interfaces
2.11.2 IBM Power Systems Firmware maintenance
2.11.3 Concurrent firmware maintenance improvements
2.11.4 Electronic Services and Electronic Service Agent
Chapter 3. Virtualization
3.1 POWER9 Hypervisor
3.1.1 Virtual SCSI
3.1.2 Virtual Ethernet
3.1.3 Virtual Fibre Channel
3.1.4 Virtual (TTY) console
3.2 POWER processor modes
3.3 Active Memory Expansion
3.4 Single Root I/O Virtualization
3.5 PowerVM
3.5.1 Multiple shared processor pools
3.5.2 Virtual I/O Server
3.5.3 Live Partition Mobility
3.5.4 Active Memory Sharing
3.5.5 Active Memory Deduplication
3.5.6 Remote Restart
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