IBM Power 10 (E1080)

The IBM® Power® E1080, the most powerful and scalable server in the IBM Power portfolio, provides the following underlying hardware components:

• Up to 240 Power10 technology-based processor cores
• Up to 64 TB memory
• Up to 32 Peripheral Component Interconnect® Express (PCIe) Gen5 slots in system nodes
• Up to 192 PCIe Gen3 slots with expansion drawers
• Up to over 4,000 directly attached serial-attached SCSI (SAS) disks or solid-state drives (SSDs)
• Up to 1,000 virtual machines (VMs) per system
• System control unit, providing redundant system master Flexible Service Processor (FSP)

The Power E1080 supports:

• IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® environments
• Capacity on demand (CoD) processor and memory options
• IBM Power System Private Cloud Solution with Dynamic Capacity

Power E1080

Clients need applications and data to be enterprise-grade everywhere without adding complexity and cost. The Power E1080 is the newest addition to IBM Power, the industry's best-in-class server platform for security and reliability. The Power E1080 introduces the essential enterprise hybrid cloud platform--uniquely architected to help you securely and efficiently scale core operational and AI applications in a hybrid cloud. The Power E1080 simplifies end-to-end encryption and brings AI where your data resides for faster insights. This helps enable greater workload flexibility and agility while accomplishing more work. The Power E1080 can help you:

• Respond faster to business demands with unmatched performance for efficient scaling and consistent pay-for-use consumption across public and private clouds
• Protect data with from core to cloud using full memory encryption at the processor level to support end-to-end security across public and private clouds without impacting performance
• Streamline insights and automation by running AI inferencing directly where your operational data resides
• Maximize availability and reliability with built-in advanced recovery and self-healing for infrastructure redundancy and disaster recovery in IBM Cloud®

Power E1080 brings AI to where your operational data resides

You can drive business insights faster, meet service level agreements (SLAs), and eliminate security risk associated with data movement by bringing AI to where your data resides.

Each new Power10 processor single chip module (SCM) contains two memory controllers. Four 10-core 3.65 - 3.90 GHz (max), four 12-core 3.6 - 4.15 GHz (max), or four 15-core 3.55 - 4.00 GHz (max) are used in each system node, providing 40 cores to a 160-core system (#EDP2), 48 cores to a 196-core system (#EDP3), or 60 cores to a 240-core system (#EDP4)*. As few as 16 cores in the system can be activated or up to 100% of the cores in the system can be activated. Increments of one core at a time is available through built-in Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) functions to the full capacity of the system.

The system control unit provides redundant FSPs, the operator panel, and the Vital Product Data (VPD).

An optional external DVD can be attached with a USB cable when a USB adapter is installed in a node.

The memory supported in this server are the next-generation differential dual inline memory modules (DIMMs) implemented by Power called DDIMMs, which utilize DDR4 DRAM memory.

Power E1080 memory options are available as 128 GB (#EMC1), 256 GB (#EMC2), 512 GB (#EMC3), and 1024 GB (#EMC4) memory features. Each memory feature provides four DDIMMs. Each system node supports a maximum of 16 memory features and up to 64 DDIMM slots. Using 1024 GB DDIMM features yields a maximum of 16 TB per node. A two-node system has a maximum of 32 memory features and 32 TB capacity. A four-node system has a maximum of 64 TB capacity. Minimum memory activations of 50% of the installed capacity are required.

The 19-inch PCIe 4U I/O expansion drawer (#EMX0) provides 12 additional slots for PCIe adapters. Up to four PCIe I/O expansion drawers can be attached per system node. For example, a two-node system can have a maximum of eight PCIe I/O expansion drawers for a total of 96 PCIe slots in the I/O drawers with no PCIe slots in the system node.

Direct attached storage is supported with the EXP24SX SFF Gen2-bay drawer (#ESLS), an expansion drawer with 24 2.5-inch form-factor SAS bays.

IBM Power Private Cloud Solution with Dynamic Capacity

The Power Private Cloud Solution with Dynamic Capacity is an infrastructure offering that enables you to take advantage of cloud agility and economics while getting the same business continuity and flexibility that you already enjoy from Power servers. The Power Private Cloud Solution offers:

• Cost optimization with pay-for-use pricing
• Automated and consistent IT management with Red Hat® Ansible® for Power
• IBM Proactive Support for Power systems services
• IBM Systems Lab Services Assessment and implementation assistance

Both Elastic and Shared Utility Capacity options are now available on all Power E1080 systems.

Elastic Capacity on Power E1080 systems enables clients to deploy pay-for-use consumption of processor, memory and supported operating systems, by the day, across a collection of Power E1080 and Power E980 systems.

Shared Utility Capacity on Power E1080 systems provides enhanced multisystem resource sharing and by-the-minute tracking and consumption of compute resources across a collection of systems within a Power Enterprise Pool (2.0). It delivers a complete range of flexibility to tailor initial system configurations with the right mix of purchased and pay-for-use consumption of processor, memory, and software. Clients with existing Power Enterprise Pools of Power E980 systems can simply add Power E1080 systems into their pool and migrate to them at the rate and pace of their choosing, as any Power E980 and Power E1080 server may seamlessly interoperate and share compute resources within the same pool.

A Power Private Cloud Solution infrastructure consolidated onto Power E1080 systems has the potential to greatly simplify system management so IT teams can focus on optimizing their business results instead of moving resources around within their data center.

Shared Utility Capacity resources are easily tracked by virtual machine (VM) and monitored by an IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC), which integrates with local Hardware Management Consoles (HMC) to manage the pool and track resource use by system and VM, by the minute, across a pool.

You no longer need to worry about overprovisioning capacity on each system to support growth, as all available processor and memory on all systems in a pool are activated and available for use.

Base Capacity for processor, memory, and supported operating system entitlement resources is purchased on each Power E980 and Power E1080 system and is then aggregated across a defined pool of systems for consumption monitoring.

Metered Capacity is the additional installed processor and memory resource above each system's Base Capacity. It is activated and made available for immediate use when a pool is started, then monitored by the minute by a CMC.

Metered resource usage is charged only for minutes exceeding the pool's aggregate Base resources, and usage charges are debited in real-time against your purchased Capacity Credits (5819-CRD) on account.

IBM offers a Private Cloud Capacity Assessment and Implementation Service performed by Systems Lab Services professionals, which can be preselected at time of purchase or requested for qualifying Power E1080 servers.

Power to Cloud services

To assist clients with their move to the cloud, IBM is bundling 10,000 points with every Power E1080 server purchase that can be redeemed for onsite cloud deployment services. For additional details, see the IBM Power to Cloud Rewards Program website. For those clients looking to create their own private cloud, expert services are available for cloud provisioning and automation with IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager with a heavy focus on creating and supporting a DevOps cloud implementation.

For those clients looking for a hybrid cloud solution, Design for Hybrid Cloud Workshop services are available to help you produce best-of-breed applications using IBM API Connect® and IBM Cloud with IBM Power.

To learn more about all the new cloud capabilities that come with the Power E1080 server, see the IBM Power Enterprise Cloud Index website.

CMC for Power

The CMC is a cloud-native platform that provides apps that give powerful insights into your Power infrastructure across data centers and geographies. With no additional software or infrastructure setup, you can get single pane of glass views of your inventory, software levels, and resource capacity utilization, as well as launch-in-context of your on-premises software, such as IBM PowerVC and IBM PowerHA®.

Power E1080 server Power10 hardware components

• Ten, twelve, or fifteen core processors
• Up to 240 Power10 processor cores in one to four systems nodes; up to 64 TB of 2933 MHz, DDR4 DRAM memory, and six PCIe Gen4 x16 or PCIe Gen5 x8 and two PCIe Gen5 x8 I/O expansion slots per system node enclosure, with a maximum of 32 per system
• Redundant clocking in each system node
• Four non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drive bays per system node for boot purposes
• System control unit, providing redundant system master FSP and support for the operations panel, the system VPD, and external attached DVD
• 19-inch PCIe Gen3 4U I/O expansion drawer and PCIe fan-out modules, supporting a maximum of 192 PCIe slots and four I/O expansion drawers per node
• PCIe Gen1, Gen2, Gen3, Gen4, and Gen5 adapter cards supported in the system node, and PCIe Gen1, Gen2, Gen3, and Gen4 adapter cards supported in I/O expansion drawer
• EXP24SX SFF drawer with 24 2.5-inch form-factor SAS bays
• Dynamic LPAR support for adjusting workload placement of processor and memory resources
• CoD for processors and memory to help respond more rapidly and seamlessly to changing business requirements and growth
• Active Memory Expansion (AME) that is optimized onto the processor chip
• Active Memory Mirroring (AMM) to enhance resilience by mirroring critical memory used by the PowerVM® hypervisor
• Power Enterprise Pools that support unsurpassed enterprise flexibility for workload balancing and system maintenance

*EDP4 is not available to order in China.