ARPUG Briefing P8 Overview

IBM North America Power Systems
POWER8 is Revolutionary
John Hock
IBM Power Systems Advanced Technical Support
#madewithibm
#powersystems, #powerlinux, #bigdata,
#IBMWatson, #OpenPOWER
2013 IBM Corporation
Power8: Superior Innovation
Power8: Innovations for Evolving Workloads
Power8: First Generation Open Platform
IBM continues to Invest in Linux on Power
POWER8 moves forwards while x86 moves backwards

POWER8 core performance2
improvements surpass
lagging x86 core
performance improvements
Relative Core Performance
IBM POWER processors continue to deliver improved core performance up to +35% versus POWER7+
while Intel went backwards (-10%) with Ivy Bridge versus Sandy Bridge.
1.4
1.2
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
POWER8 core provides 35%

better performance per SW
license $ than POWER7+
Intel Ivy Bridge Core degrades
performance per SW license $ by
10% versus Sandy Bridge
Relative Core Performance
P7+
P8
Floating
Point
P8 Java
1.4
1.2
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
Sandy
Bridge
P8 CRM P8 Integer
Ivy Bridge Ivy Bridge Ivy Bridge Ivy Bridge

CRM
Integer Floating
Java
Point
Based on generational comparisons of SW that utilizes per core pricing and 50% more cores in per system (Power: 8c POWER7 to 12c POWER8; x86:8c E5-2690 to 12c E5-2697
v2)
Performance is based on published x86 data and published/projected POWER8 data averaged across multiple workloads (ERP, Integer, Floating Point, Java)
10
POWER8
Processor
Memory
I/O
11
Power Processor Technology Roadmap
POWER9
POWER8
POWER5/5+
130/90 nm
Dual Core
Enhanced Scaling
SMT
Distributed Switch +
Core Parallelism +
FP Performance +
Memory Bandwidth +
Virtualization
2004
12
POWER6/6+
65/65 nm
Dual Core
High Frequencies
Virtualization +
Memory Subsystem +
Altivec
Instruction Retry
Dynamic Energy Mgmt
SMT +
Protection Keys
2007
POWER7/7+
45/32 nm
Eight Cores
On-Chip eDRAM
Power-Optimized Cores
Memory Subsystem ++
SMT++
Reliability +
VSM & VSX
Protection Keys+
2010
More Cores
SMT+++
Reliability ++
FPGA Support
Transactional Memory
PCIe Acceleration
Extreme Analytics
Optimization
Extreme Big Data
Optimization
On-chip accelerators
200+ systems in test
2014
POWER8 Highlights
Announced 2013 at Hot Chips Conference
12 Cores per Socket/Chip
Significantly Strengthened Cores
8 threads per core (SMT8)
Wider fetch / dispatch/issue of instructions (8 fetch / dispatch, 10 issue)
Doubled highly utilized execution units
Larger Caches:
64K D Cache, 32K I Cache, 512K private L2, 8M L3 / Core (96M)
2 Integrated Memory Controllers w/ Improved Latency & BW

~ 25% memory latency improvement via on-chip fastpath interconnect
16MB mem cache / buffer chip
Integrated SMP Interconnect w/ improved Flatness
2-Hop fabric topology
Integrated IO Subsystem
On Chip PCIe Controller
Fine Grained Power Management
On Chip Power Management Controller & Power gating
13
Scale Out Systems - DCMs and POWER8 Chips

1S & 2S servers use DCM (Dual Chip Module)
1 DCM fills 1 socket . Similar to POWER7+ 750 / 760
1 DCM has two Scale Out POWER8 chips
1 DCM can provide 6-core, 8-core, 10-core or 12-core sockets
Local SMP Links
Accelerators
6-core Processor Chip

362 mm2
22nm SOI w/ eDRAM
Strengthen Cores
8 Threads per Core
Caches
Total: 48MB
Fine Grained Power Management

On Chip power management
Excellent I/O bandwidth per socket

PCIe Gen3: 24 Lanes
14
Remote SMP Links

PCI Gen 3 Links
D Cache: 64KB
L2: 512KB
L3: 8 MB per Region
Core
Core
Core
L2
8M L3
Region
L2
L2
L3 Cache & Chip Intercon MemCtrl
L2
L2
L2
Core
Core
Core
POWER8 Memory Buffer Chip
DRAM
Chips
Memory
Buffer
DDR Interfaces
Intelligence Moved into Memory

Scheduling logic, caching structures
Energy Mgmt, RAS decision point
Formerly on Processor
Moved to Memory Buffer
16MB
Scheduler &
POWER8
Memory
Management Cache Link
Processor Interface
9.6 GB/s high speed interface
More robust RAS
On-the-fly lane isolation/repair
Performance Value
End-to-end fastpath and data retry (latency)
Cache latency/bandwidth, partial updates
Cache write scheduling, prefetch, energy
15
POWER8 Memory Organization (Max Config shown)

DRAM
Chips
Memory
Buffer
128
GB
16MB
128
GB
128
GB
128
GB
16MB
128
GB
16MB
16MB
128
GB
16MB
16MB
128
GB
16MB
128
GB
POWER8
DCM
Close Proximity
= Performance
16MB
Up to 1 TB / Socket
First P8 Systems:
512 GB /Socket
16
POWER8 Integrated PCI Gen 3

POWER8
POWER7
Native PCIe Gen 3 Support
GX
Bus
I/O
Bridge
Direct processor integration

Replaces proprietary GX/Bridge
Low latency
Transport Layer for CAPI Protocol
Coherently Attach Devices connect to

processor via PCIe
Protocol encapsulated in PCIe
PCIe G2
PCI
Devices
17
PCIe G3
24 Lanes
16 = 32GBs
8 = 16GBs
PCI
Device
PCIe Gen3
Gen1 x8
Gen2 x8
Gen3 x8
2.5 GHz
Though these cards physically look the same and fit in the same slots
Gen3 cards/slots have up to 2X more bandwidth than Gen2 cards/slots
Gen3 cards/slots have up to 4X more bandwidth than Gen1 cards/slots
More virtualization
More consolidation
saving PCI slots and I/O drawers
More ports per adapter
18
16
14
12
Peak
A Gen1 x8 PCIe adapter has a theoretical max (peak)

bandwidth of 4 GB/sec.
A Gen2 x8 adapter has a peak bandwidth of 8 GB/sec.
A Gen3 x8 adapter has a peak bandwidth of 16 GB/sec.
Sustained
10
8
6
4
2
0
Gen1
Gen2
Gen3
18
2014 International Business Machines Corporation
PCIe x8 and x16
POWER8 servers have x8

AND x16 PCIe slots
Compared to POWER7+ PCIe Gen2 x8 slot, a
POWER8 PCIe Gen3 x16 slot has a peak bandwidth of
4X (2X going Gen2 to Gen3 plus 2X going x8 to x16)
x8
x1
x4
x8
x16
x16
x16 slot/card has more connections than a x8 slot/card

x16 or x8 refers to the number of lanes. More lanes = more physical
connections = more bandwidth
A x8 card can be placed in a x16 slot, but only uses half the connections
19
POWER8 Multi-threading Options

SMT1: Largest unit of execution work
SMT2: Smaller unit of work, but provides
greater amount of execution work per
cycle
SMT4: Smaller unit of work, but provides

greater amount of execution work per
cycle
SMT8: Smallest unit of work, but
provides the maximum amount of
execution work per cycle
Can dynamical shift between modes as
required: SMT1 / SMT2 / SMT4 / SMT8
Mixed SMT modes supported within
same LPAR
Requires use of Resource Groups
20
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
P7
P8
P8
P8
P8
SMT1 SMT1 SMT2 SMT4 SMT8
CAPI
Stmt of Direction
21
POWER8 CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)

POWER8
Statement of direction
as of April 2014
POWER8
Coherence Bus
PCIe Gen3
Transport for encapsulated messages
FPGA or ASIC
Customizable Hardware / Application Accelerator

Specific system SW, middleware, or user application
Written to durable interface
22
POWER8 CAPI (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface)

Virtual Addressing
Accelerator can work with same memory addresses that the
processors use
Pointers de-referenced same as the host application
Removes OS & device driver overhead
POWER8
POWER8
Coherence Bus
Hardware Managed Cache Coherence

Enables the accelerator to participate in Locks as a normal
thread Lowers Latency over IO communication model
PSL
Custom
Hardware
Application
FPGA or ASIC
CAPP
PCIe Gen3
Transport for encapsulated messages
Processor Service Layer (PSL)

Present robust, durable interfaces to applications
Offload complexity / content from CAPP
Customizable Hardware
Application Accelerator
Specific system SW, middleware, or user application
Written to durable interface provided by PSL
23
Possible Example: CAPI Attached Flash Optimization

Application
Read/Write
Syscall
FileSystem
strategy()
iodone()
20K
Instructions
LVM
strategy()
iodone(
)
Disk & Adapter DD

Pin buffers,
Translate,
Map DMA,
Start I/O
Interrupt,
unmap,
unpin,Iodone
scheduling
24
Possible Example: CAPI Attached Flash Optimization

Application
Attach flash memory to POWER8 via

CAPI coherent Attach
Read/Write
Syscall
FileSystem
strategy()
iodone()
20K
Instructions
LVM
strategy()
iodone(
)
Disk & Adapter DD

Pin buffers,
Translate,
Map DMA,
Start I/O
Interrupt,
unmap,
unpin,Iodone
scheduling
Application
Posix Async
I/O Style API
aio_read()
aio_write()
User Library
< 500
Instructions
Shared
Memory
Work Queue
Issues Read/Write Commands from applications to eliminate 97% of

instruction path length CAPI Flash controller Operates in User Space
Saves 10 Cores per 1M IOPs
25
Storage
Backplanes
26
2U Storage Backplane Options

Must select one
2U server
Base
Split
12 SFF SAS bays

1 SAS controller
No write cache
RAID-0,1,5,6,10
DVD bay
6+6 SFF SAS bays

2 SAS controllers
No write cache
RAID-0,1,5,6,10
DVD bay
Availability plan:
- eConfig 15 July
- GA Sept
Expanded
Function *
8 SFF SAS bays
Dual SAS controllers
7.2**GB cache
RAID-0,1,5,6,10
DVD bay
6-bay SSD cage ***
External SAS ports
Easy Tier function
* Uses one x8 PCIe slot

** 1.8GB physical write cache provides up to 7.2GB effectively with compression
*** SSD cage not available on mdl 21L, Required on mdl 22A with expanded function
27
4U Storage Backplane Options

Must select one
4U server
Base
12 SFF SAS bays
1 SAS controller
No write cache
Split
Expanded
Function *
6+6 SFF SAS bays

2 SAS controllers
No write cache
18 SFF SAS bays

Dual SAS controllers
7.2**GB cache
RAID-0,1,5,6,10 RAID-0,1,5,6,10
RAID-0,1,5,6,10
DVD bay
Availability plan:
- eConfig 15 July
- GA Sept
DVD bay
DVD bay
8-bay SSD cage***
External SAS ports
Easy Tier function
* Uses one x8 PCIe slot

** 1.8GB physical write cache provides up to 7.2GB effectively with compression
***SSD cage not available on mdl 41A, Required on mdl 42A with expanded function
28
Storage Backplanes
4U server example
12 SAS bays for either base
or split backplanes
Backplanes provide
High performance integrated SAS controller(s) built on IBM industry leading
PCIe Gen3 SAS adapter technology
All include RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10. Plus hot spare capability
Split backplane option with zero-write cache controllers

Easy Tier function*
8-18** SAS bays for 2.5-inch (SFF) HDD or SSD
6-8** SAS bays for 1.8-inch SSD*
One DVD bay

Op-panel
Option for attaching one EXP24S drawer of HDD
or SSD*
DVD
* With dual IOA, expanded function backplane with write cache

** number varies based on 2U/4U and backplane option selected
29
Easy Tier Function Advantage

Optional function with
expanded-function, highperformance storage
backplane
HDD
SSD
Low cost per IOP
Low cost per GB
Easy
Tier
Automatically moves high activity (hot) data to SSD and low activity
(cold) data to HDD
Function handled totally by POWER8 integrated SAS controllers. No
application coding. No SAN, just internal SAS drives.
For AIX/Linux/VIOS. Just configure as a new type RAID array
IBM i already has hot/cold function in OS for all SAS adapters
Could use this function via VIOS (no performance data available at this time)
IBM i less automated, but has more controls/options
30
RAS
34
Standard
Optional
Not Available
RAS Feature Overview

RAS Item
Redundant / Hot Swap Fans & Blowers
Hot Swap DASD & Media
Hot Swap PCI Adapters
Concurrent Firmware Update
Redundant / Hot Swap Power Supplies
Dual disk controllers (split backplane)
Processor Instruction Retry
Alternate Processor Recovery
Storage Keys
PowerVM/Live Part. Mobility/Live App Mobility
Dynamic Processor Sparing
Redundant Service Processors
Redundant System Clocks
Hot GX Adapter Add and Cold Repair
Dynamic Service Processor &System Clock Failover
Enterprise Memory ( Memory Sparing )
Integrated TPMD Function
Hot GX Adapter Repair
Active Memory Mirroring for Hypervisor
Power Pools
Dynamic Processor Sparing
35
POWER7+
POWER7+
POWER8
710 / 730
720 / 740
models
N/A
N/A
Performance
36
Power Systems Performance Optimization
Draft available now!

POWER7 & POWER8
PowerVM Hypervisor
AIX, i & Linux
Java, WAS, DB2
Compilers & optimization
Performance tools & tuning
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg248171.html
37
POWER8 IO Bandwidth
POWER8
POWER7+
POWER7
POWER6
0
50
100
150
200
GB/Sec
39
POWER8 Memory Bandwidth per Socket
POWER8
POWER7
POWER6
POWER5
50
100
150
200
GB/Sec
40
POWER8 Relative Performance
P8 S824
P5+ 595
P4 690
41
CPW
S814
720 POWER7+
4-core
6-core
8-core
(1 socket)
3.6 GHz
28,400
3.6 GHz
42,400
3.6 GHz
56,300
+40%
(1 socket)
4-core xxxxx
6-core 3.0 GHz
8-core 3.7 GHz
xxxxxx
59,500
85,500
+50%
740 POWER7+
(1 or 2 socket)
6-core 4.2 GHz
49,000
12-core 4.2 GHz
91,700
(1 or 2 socket)
6-core 3.8 GHz

12-core 3.8 GHz
72,000
130,000
+40%
8-core 3.6 GHz

16-core 3.6 GHz
56,300
106,500
8-core
16-core
64,500
120,000
4.2 GHz
4.2 GHz
S824
8-core 4.1 GHz

16-core 4.1 GHz
94,500
173,500
+60%
12-core 1-socket not offered

24-core 3.5 GHz
230,500
+90%
42
Power 740 / POWER8 S824 CPW Compares

Performance
Dual Socket
Performance
per Core
24
Core
16
Core
16
Core
740
P740+
S824
P740
43
16
Core
P740+
S824
S824
Power 740+ / POWER8 S824

Performance
per Core
rPerf Comparisons
Performance
per Socket
Performance
per KW
18
27%
Better
200
150
9
100
50
P740
P740+ P8 4U2S
44
P740
P740+ P8 4U2S
P 740+
P8 4U2S
rPerf Comparsion
45
Model
Processors /#cores
GHz
rPerf ST
rPerf SMT 2 rPerf SMT4 rPerf SMT 8
S822
P8/6
3.8
59.9
86.9
112.9
120.8
S822
P8/10
3.8
88.2
127.8
166.2
177.8
S822
P8/12
3.8
116.8
169.4
220.2
235.6
S822
P8/20
3.8
171.9
249.3
324
346.7
S824
P8/6
3.8
59.9
86.9
112.9
120.8
S824
P8/8
4.1
82.3
119.3
155.1
166
S824
P8/12
3.8
116.8
160.4
220.2
235.6
S824
P8/16
4.1
160.4
232.7
302.4
323.6
S824
P8/24
3.8
209.1
303.2
394.2
421.8
740
P7/12
3.7
101.7
740
P7+/12
4.2
176.6
Power 750+ vs POWER8 4U2S

Performance
Total # Cores
1.2
Performance
per $
TCA
3
2.5
2.5
1.5
1.5
0.5
0.5
32
1
0.8
24
0.6
16
0.4
8
0.2
P 750+ P8 4U2S
POWER8
Performance
P 750+ P8 4U2S
Fewer cores means Lower
Software Costs
Does not reflect lower PVU
savings
46
P 750+ P8 4U2S
P 750+ P8 4U2S
Lower investment costs
Better performance
per dollar spent
SAP Sales & Distribution 2-Tier ERP 6 Benchmarks

IBM Power System S824 using DB2 10.5 vs. Competition
Over 2 times better 24 core performance than nearest Intel competitive

results
Up to 2 times greater performance than previous Power generation
2X
more users
IBM Power
S824
Fujitsu
RX300 S8
Cisco UCS
C240 M3
HP ProLiant
BL460c
IBM Power
S824
IBM
p270
IBM
p260
(1.0) IBM Power System S824 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 4 processors / 24 cores / 192 threads, POWER8;
3.52GHz, 512 GB memory, 21,212 SD benchmark users, running AIX 7.1 and DB2 10.5, dialog response: 0.98 seconds, line items/hour: 2,317,330, dialog steps/hour: 6.952,000 SAPS: 115,870 database
response time (dialog/update): 0.011 sec / 0.019sec, CPU utilization: 99%, Certification #: 2014016 Results valid as of 3/24/14. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
(1.1) Fujitsu RX300 S8 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24 cores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E5-2697
processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.240 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 SE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013024
(1.2) Cisco UCS c240 M3 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24c ores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E5-2697
processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.045 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 DE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013038
(1.3) HP ProLiant BL460c Gen8 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 24 cores / 48 threads. Intel Xeon E52697 processor 2.70 GHz, 256 GB memory, 10.025 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 DE and SQL Server 2012, Certification #: 2013025
(2.1 IBM Flex System p270 Compute Node on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 4 processors / 24 cores / 96 threads,
POWER7+; 3.4GHz, 256 GB memory, 12.528 SD benchmark users, running AIX 7.1 and DB2 10 .5 Certification #: 3012019 Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
(1.1)IBM Flex System p260 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 2 processors / 16 cores / 64 threads, POWER7+; 4.1GHz,
256 GB memory, 10,000 SD benchmark users, running AIX 7.1 and DB2 10, Certification #: 2012035
47
SAP SD 2-Tier Details
46%
Better
75%
Better
Performance
Performance per Core
DL380p
S822L
DL380p
S822L
HP
IBM
HP
IBM
48
SPECjbb Details
50%
Better
81%
Better
40%
Better
Performance
Performance per Core
Price Performance
DL380p
S822L
DL380p
S822L
DL380p
S822L
HP
IBM
HP
IBM
HP
IBM
51
POWER8
Roll Out
54
Power April Announcements
New Scale-Out Servers with POWER8 technology

2U servers: 2 socket
4U servers: 1 socket and 2 socket
Linux-only server models

2U servers: 2 socket
New Virtualization Management

IBM PowerKVM Kernel Virtual Machine
PowerKVM for Linux-only servers
New HMC Functionality

LPAR Creation
LPAR Management
Performance Monitoring
55
Power April Announcements
New IBM i Releases

IBM i 7.2 --- New Release (Annc 28 Apr)
IBM i 7.1 --- New Technology Refresh, TR8 (Annc 8 Apr)
POWER8 Hardware support
56
IBM BLU Acceleration Solution - Power Systems Edition

IBM PowerVP Virtualization Performance
IBM PowerSC Security and Compliance
IBM PowerVM
IBM PowerVC
57
POWER8 2S2U Scale-Out System

Power S822
Single Socket populated
Cores:
Memory:
PCIe Slots:
6 or 10
Up to 512 GB
6 PCIe Gen3 LP (Hotplug)
Both Sockets populated

Cores:
Memory:
PCIe Slots:
12 or 20
Up to 1 TB
Ethernet: Quad 1 Gbt / (x8 slot)

Integrated ports: USB (4), Serial (2), HMC (2)
Internal Storage
3 Yr Warranty
DVD
12 SFF Bays -- Split Backplane: 6 + 6
or 8 SFF Bays & 6 1.8 SSD Bays with Easy Tier with 7GB write cache
Hypervisor: PowerVM
OS: AIX, Linux
(not IBM i)
58
POWER8 Linux 2S2U Scale-Out System

Power S822L
Dual Sockets
Cores:
Memory:
Slots:
20 or 24
Up to 1 TB

Internal Storage
DVD
Hypervisor: PowerVM or PowerKVM

OS: Linux
3 Yr Warranty
59
POWER8 Linux 1S2U Scale-Out System

Power S812L
Dual Sockets
Cores:
Memory:
Slots:
10 or 12
Up to 512 GB

Internal Storage
DVD
Hypervisor: PowerVM or PowerKVM

OS: Linux
3 Yr Warranty
GA Sept 2014
60
POWER8 2S4U Scale-Out System

Power S824
Single Socket populated
Cores:
Memory:
Slots:
6 or 8
Up to 512 GB
7 PCIe Gen3 full-high (Hotplug)
Both Sockets populated

Cores:
Memory:
Slots:
12, 16, or 24
Up to 1 TB
11 PCIe Gen3 full-high (Hotplug)

Integrated ports: USB (4/5), Serial (2), HMC (2)
Internal Storage
DVD
or 18 SFF bays & 8 SSD bays with Easy Tier with 7GB write cache
3 Yr Warranty
Hypervisor: PowerVM
OS: AIX, IBM i, Linux

61
SWG 70 Processor Value Unit (PVU) Licensing

Now Available Worldwide
Applies to SWG PVU licensed
software products for ALL Power
cores running Linux
70 PVUs
All Power cores
running Linux And all
1 &2 core AIX servers
70 PVU pricing previously only

available for 1-2 socket servers
PowerLinux 7R1/7R2, p260 and
Power 710/720/730/740
Intel SandyBridge servers
70 PVU pricing now includes:
Power IFLs
Power 750 to Power 795
PowerLinux 7R4
Flex System p460
Power 8 one and two socket
servers (AIX)
PVU Table link: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html

62
Announce / Availability Plans
63
Annc
eConfig
GA
Power S814
28 Apr
28 Apr
10 Jun
Power S822
28 Apr
28 Apr
10 Jun
Power S824
28 Apr
28 Apr
10 Jun
Power S822L
28 Apr
28 Apr
10 Jun
Addl storage backplane option
28 Apr
17 July
Sept
SFF-3 146/139GB 15k & 300/283GB 10k HDD
28 Apr
27 May
25 July
Linux-only 1S 2U S812L
July
July
Sep
Linux-only 4U S824L
2H14
2H14
2H14
4-core Power S814
4Q
4Q
4Q
NEBS compliance 2U
4Q
4Q
4Q
POWER8 Enterprise Systems - Statements of Direction

POWER8
Enterprise Systems
IBM plans to
bring POWER8 capability to the full Power Systems portfolio,
with the intent to deliver the most scalable, highest performing
enterprise-class Power System with
an advanced version of the POWER8 processor.
to provide upgrade paths from the current POWER7+ Power

770 and 780 servers to enterprise-class
POWER8 processor-based servers.
preserve client investment in Power Systems by enabling

POWER8 processor-based Power systems to interoperate and
share Mobile Capacity on Demand (COD) resources with
POWER7/7+ processor-based Power systems in a single Power
Enterprise Pool
64
Architectural strengths
of Power 795
Modularity & efficiencies
of Power 770/780
Performance and
innovation of POWER8
Greater Scalability &
Reliability
Increased Efficiency
(Space, Energy)
New POWER8 PCIe Adapters

LAN
2-port 40GbE NIC & RoCE
QSFP+ cables
2-port 10GbE
RJ45 (10GBaseT)
only $950
4-port 10GbE+1GbE Copper twinax & RJ45 only $1200
4-port 10GbE+1GbE SR optical & RJ45
only $1600
USB-3
4-port
No
NIM
(old USB-2 not supported)
SAS PCIe3
4-port Tape/DVD
only $1000
Reprice 4-port zero cache HDD/SSD
to $1000
Graphics adapter for future RHEL 7
(Planned June announce)
PCIe3 FPGA Accelerator Adapter

Prices are USA PRELIMINARY list prices for a Power S822 and are subject to change. Reseller prices may vary.
65
POWER8
OS
Support
66
AIX the leading UNIX operating system

IBMs market leading, scalable, open standards-based UNIX operating
system:
Unmatched performance and higher scalability
Virtualization to increase server utilization and lower energy costs

Legacy systems inspiration delivering the reliability, availability and security
of a mainframe environment
Broad application support with over 8000 apps from over 3000 ISVs
Available in three editions for even more capability and flexibility
AIX 7.1 TL3, 6.1 TL9
Enhanced live system backup support
Provides a consistent backup even in the presence of a workload that is
creating and deleting temporary files
Enhanced LDAP support with users and groups

Local system defined user can be a member of an LDAP based group
An LDAP based user can be a member of a local system defined group
Improved AIX WPAR update management (AIX 7.1 only)

Can roll-back to a previous version of the WPAR
Enhanced AIX versioned WPAR lifecycle management (AIX 7.1 only)

Allow existing AIX 5.2 or 5.3 versioned WPARs to be upgraded to AIX 7 WPARs
Does your OS Matter?,
Solitaire Interglobal Ltd. (SIL)
study, 2012
Display of current ODM attribute settings

New lsattr P option to display applied attributes that may not yet be in effect on
the running system
AIX Enterprise Edition includes entitlement to PowerVC

67
AIX Enterprise Edition Contents

AIX 7 or AIX 6
PowerVC
PowerSC Standard Edition

AIX Dynamic System Optimizer
SmartCloud Entry Bundle for Power
Director Storage Control

Systems Director Standard Edition
IBM System Director

Active Energy Manager
Network Control
Transition Manager for HP SIM
Service and Support Manager
VMControl Enterprise Edition

WPAR Manager
Tivoli Products
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
68
AIX Roadmap
2013
2012
2011
Workload Optimization:
ASO (v1)
Virtualization:
AIX 5.3 Compatible
WPAR
UUIDs for WPARs and
LPARs
Active Memory
Deduplication
Single Unix Spec v4
AIX 7 TL1
AIX 6.1
69
Workload Optimization
ASO (v2)
Support for DPO
Scaled Throughput Folding
IPV6 for NFSV3 and WPARs
Virtualization:
Cross platform WPAR Mobility
LPAR to WPAR tool
Java WPAR shared memory
HW Support/Exploitation:
POWER7+ Introduction
Security Encryption HW
Acceleration
Active Memory Expansion HW
Acceleration
Availability:
Concurrent Maintenance w/
WPAR Mobility between AIX
Levels
AIX 7 TL2
Future
DSO (v3)
Oracle RDSv3 Certification
OFED 1.5 for RoCE
SSD Flash Caching
Virtualization:
WPAR alt-disk install and
rollback
Security:
Russian Security
Certification
More POWER7+ Servers
Energy Management++
DSO (v4)
Hybrid Threads
SMC-R (shared memory
communications)
Node/V8/Javascript
Key OSS Dependencies
Virtualization:
SRIOV (NIC, RoCE, FCoE)
WPAR to LPAR
Security:
China Security Certification
POWER8
Transactional Memory
Coherent Accelerators
CAPI Flash
PCIe FPGA
40Gb Ethernet
Availability:
Live AIX Kernel Update
AIX 7 TL3
Still Supported on New HW

IBM Confidential
IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 8
IBM i is the integrated operating environment for IBM Power Systems

Includes operating system, database, and middleware that were
designed, developed, built, tested, delivered and supported together
Provides a foundation for wide variety of industry applications
Helps businesses deliver services faster, with higher quality and with superior
economics
Announce 4/8 GA 6/25
IBM i 7.1 TR8 provides enhancements to the following:

Support for refreshed
POWER7+ models
Support for new I/O
Accessible but secure information

Generate SQL from any file type; capture; archive; compare; model
Solutions for a modern mobile world

Extending applications and management
Data management
enhancements
SWG product
enhancements
Strong integrated value

Processors, I/O and Operating System
New enhancements for Rational and WebSphere products

Free format RPG added to RDi
WebSphere Liberty profile is new base for IBM i Integrated
Application Server
70
IBM i 7.2
IBM i is the integrated operating environment for IBM Power Systems

Includes operating system, database, and middleware that were
designed, developed, built, tested, delivered and supported together
Provides a foundation for wide variety of industry applications
Helps businesses deliver services faster, with higher quality and with
superior economics
Announce 4/28 GA 5.2
Major Release
Enhanced Security for
critical business data
Support for movement to
mobile device enablement
Significant enhancements
to entire operating system
and most licensed
program products
71
IBM i 7.2 is a major new release affecting all parts of the operating
system and Licensed Program Products
Significant new enhancements include
DB2 for i extends reputation for securing critical business
data by delivering advanced security functions
IBM Navigator for i provides new interfaces, new system
management capabilities and performance investigator
New additions to the integrated IBM I SSO application suite
BRMS adds new Hub function
PowerHA SystemMirror for i Express Edition
Support for new POWER8 hardware
Support for new and extended I/O devices
Enhancements to Save/Restore, Installation, PTF
Management and Printing
Linux for Scale-out Servers

1H / 2014
2H / 2014
RHEL6
RHEL 6.5
POWER7 Mode on POWER8
RHEL 6.6
POWER7 mode on POWER8
RHEL 7
RHEL 7.0 *
SLES 11
SLES 11 + SP3
POWER7 Mode on POWER8
SLES 12 (LE)
POWER8 Support
SLES 12
Ubuntu (LE)
14.04.00/01
POWER8 Support
14.04.00/02
Debian
LE Introduction
POWER8 Support
LE Update
PowerVM
2.2.3.3
2.2.3.X
* REH7 currently in Beta, RH and IBM working to support POWER8

72
73
Power
Software
74
Planned 2Q Announcement / GA
Power System Software

Delivering the intelligent IT infrastructure to support Cloud, Big Data, Analytics & Mobile
Simplified Virtualization & Cloud Mgmt
The industrys most scalable and flexible
virtualization infrastructure for enterprise
UNIX, Linux and IBM i private clouds
New
PowerKVM Open Virtualization Choice

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine(KVM) Linux based
virtualization for scale out POWER8 Linux Servers
Update PowerVM - Virtualization without Limits
Improved virtualization user experience with New

performance views and capacity data
Update PowerVP - Virtualization Performance
Improved memory and shared processor affinity for

improved optimization
Update PowerVC Virtualization Center
Nw
75
Improved scalability and added support for active

directory and shared storage pools enabling faster
integration with clients existing infrastructure
SmartCloud Entry for Power Systems*

Extended base OpenStack capability to allow for
customization & quicker deployment of OpenStackbased cloud solutions
Enhanced Security & Availability

A track record of excellence with
industry leading resilience and security
Update PowerHA SystemMirror for i
Decrease failover time and eliminate operator

intervention with automated UID/GID post failover
mergers and Object authority/ownership sync
New
PowerHA Express for i
Provides full system HyperSwap for continuously
available storage
Update IBM i 7.1 TR 8
Support for refreshed POWER7+ models and new

I/O, as well as application and management
extensions that enable solutions for a modern mobile
world
New
IBM i 7.2
Major new release that delivers significant
enhancements in the areas of DB2 for i, Security and
Systems Mgmt as well as many other areas of the
operating system
* Will announce in May, not

as part of Power April Launch
Power Cloud and Virtualization

Driving efficiency and simplicity towards a software defined environment
Update
PowerVM - Virtualization without Limits
Performance, resiliency, and flexibility improvements with better
Shared Storage Pools elasticity, better vSCSI redundancy and
New
virtualization performance monitoring
PowerVP - Virtualization Performance Analyzer

Real time, graphical performance information for virtualized workloads
health mgmt and optimization New
PowerVC Virtualization Center

Advanced virtualization management leveraging OpenStack to help
clients respond to business needs faster while reducing cost
SmartCloud Entry for Power Systems

Open and extensible cloud delivery based on OpenStack for
alignment with emerging cloud standards, interoperability
Solution Edition for Service Providers
New
Integrated and optimized for Service Providers with cloud delivery,

management and utility-based pricing
Enterprise Pools and Mobile CoD
New
Dynamically move processor and memory activations within pools of

systems to flexibly pay for what you use
Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) on Power

76
New
Improved economics for Linux applications and infrastructure with

industry-leading scale and performance of Power
PowerVM v2.2.3.3
Virtualization without Limits
Reduces IT infrastructure costs
Consolidate diverse workloads save operational costs
Improves service levels
Virtualized resources can be applied dynamically to workloads as needed
Manages risk
Unrivaled flexibility enables rapid response to business change minimizing risk

Improved User
Experience for
PowerVM
Industrial Strength
Server Virtualization
POWER8 Support
77
Improved Virtualization User Experience

Enhanced, simplified HMC Virtualization UI lowers cost of
operation
No Touch VIOS Management simplifies administration
One Touch VIOS Deployment from the HMC accelerates
virtualization deployment
System and Partition Templates reduces risk by providing
repeatable deployments and best practices enforcement
New Performance Views and Capacity Data help to simplify
performance and capacity management
POWER8 Support enables improved Power capabilities
SRIOV NIC Support enables enhanced hardware virtualization
PowerVC v1.2 Virtualization Center

Improve resource utilization to reduce capital expense and power
consumption
Increase agility and execution to quickly respond to changing business
requirements
Increase IT productivity and responsiveness
Manage scalability without adding complexity
Dynamically adjusts workloads to ease burden on systems management

I have a certain set of skills.
For me to do these tasks
without any background of the
product shows its intuitive.
Spencer Siu
Globalization (group 1) for improved usability for non English

speaking clients
Active Directory support for simpler integration with clients existing
infrastructure and security standards
Shared Storage Pool support to enable support for a broader set of

storage and clients with EMC and Hitachi storage
PowerVC is so easy I could
have an intern do this for me.
David Jackson
Leverage the Performance of new POWER8 hardware

Support for the new PowerKVM
Expanded scale to manage larger enterprise environments
78
Power Enterprise Pools with Mobile and Elastic COD

delivers both flexibility and economic efficiency
Multi-system infrastructure providing a highly available and flexible IT
environment to support clients most demanding business resiliency
objectives
Clients purchase the capacity needed and may allocate & rebalance
virtual processor and memory resources within the capacity pool
Elastic On/Off Processor and memory enables clients to address

periodic spikes in demand
Live Partition Mobility enables clients to migrate running workloads
between systems to enable continuous availability
Active - Active
64
Inactive
64
Inactive
Planned Maintenance
System
being
Maintained
Activate
64c for
Maint.
Resource Balancing
32
Inactive
96
Inactive
Periodic Demand Peaks
64
Inactive
64
Inactive
64c
Active
64c
Active
32c
Active
64c
Active
79
79
64c
Active
64c
Active
64c
Active
32c
Active
New Mobile-Enabled Activations
static
mobile
8 April 2014 announcement for POWER7+ 770/780 and Power 795

New static processor core activations can save total cost
Higher initial cost, but converts to mobile activations at no-charge when
ready
+ MES conversion
Original Static
$$$$
$$$$
Mobile enabled Static + MES conversion

$$$$$$
80
Mobile
$$$$$$$$
Mobile
$$$$$$
PowerVP v1.1.2 Virtualization Performance Intelligence

Provides performance information to help optimize virtualized systems
Understand the mapping of virtualized workloads to physical hardware
Accelerates identifying performance bottlenecks
Operational health status
Real time performance

information which
identifies performance
bottlenecks
Graphical display
showing virtualized
workloads health
81
POWER8 Hardware Support enables performance

optimization for new Power systems
Globalization Support provides local language support for
messages and documentation
Improved Memory Affinity Information allows optimization of
memory for virtualized workloads
Improved Shared Processor Affinity Information allows
shared processor configurations to be understood and
optimized
SmartCloud Entry Next for Power Systems

Announce 5/19
GA 6/13/14
Whats New?
Support for PowerVC enhancements including support for Shared
Storage Pools and live VM migration
Flexible, more advanced cloud deployment with Chef
Open alternative to
proprietary cloud stacks
Leveraging community to
speed innovation
Open APIs provide
flexibility, agility and hybrid
cloud support
Expanded OpenStack ecosystem including cinder, heat, ceilometer

and Horizon UI
Enhanced integration with policy-based placement solutions, IBM
Platform Resource Scheduler
VM placement policies, ie. Packing, Striping, Load balance and
more
Run-time optimization policies, ie. Load, Memory, VM-HA, and
more
Hybrid Private Cloud with OpenStack and SoftLayer**
Adding OpenStack support for PowerKVM, z/VM and VMware
vSphere to KVM/x86 and Microsoft HyperV
*New name to be announced at GA
** STG Lab Services offering, to x86 initially
82

This document is for IBM and IBM Business Partner use only. It is not intended for use with customers.
PowerHA SystemMirror for i V7.2

Minimize planned and unplanned outages in the data center
Provide multi-site solutions for disaster recovery
Tightly integrated with IBM i for robust operations
Fault tolerant storage configurations with HyperSwap
Comprehensive HA/DR with IBM Storage Copy Services

Integrate and automate
HA/DR operations with
IBM storage
Eliminate Storage
outages with HyperSwap
Minimize cost with the
CBU for i
Simple, low cost
replication with
Geographic Mirroring
83
Single-node HyperSwap for cross-campus fault tolerant storage

UID/GID post failover auto merge
Admin Domain increased to 45,000 objects

Object authority/ownership post fail over auto-sync
Independent ASP Assignment; many to one FlashCopy operations
NEW - PowerHA Express Edition for i provides full system
HyperSwap for continuously available storage
PowerKVM v2.1
Open Virtualization Choice for Linux-only Scale-out Servers
Optimize Linux Workload Consolidation and scale out of workloads at
a lower cost of ownership
Maintain flexibility and agility by exploiting Open Source Community
Leverage traditional Linux admin skills on Power Systems to

administer virtualization
Use open source tools like OpenStack to manage virtualization
Reduces IT
Infrastructure costs
Optimize Linux
workload consolidation
at a lower cost
Simplify your
virtualization
management using
open source tools
84
Kernel-Based Virtual Machine(KVM) Linux based virtualization

For Scale Out POWER8 Linux Servers
Processor and memory sharing and over commitment enables
higher VM and workload consolidation
Dynamic addition & removal of virtual devices
Live VM Migration enables higher availability and allows workload
balancing
Exploits P8 Features like Micro-Threading providing greater
scheduling granularity vs x86 virtualization
Exploits performance, scalability and security built into Linux
Managed by PowerVC and open source tools which provides
flexible familiar Linux admin tools
Supports Redhat, SUSE, Ubuntu Linux Guests
Back
SR-IOV
86
SR-IOV . A Technology of Interest
LPAR #1
LPAR #2
Single Root I/O Virtualization
LPAR #3
Runs closer to the silicon potentially offering some

performance efficiencies
Doesnt require VIOS as a pre-req and thus can do simple
virtualization under PowerVM without VIOS . BUT .
VIOS continues to offer many additional advanced functions
Architecturally can virtualize a resource like an Ethenet

adapter and allocate/provide a user-defined minimum level
of bandwidth to a partition Quality of Service (QoS)
Ethernet NIC announced.
FCoE and FC not announced.
Can use VIOS & SR-IOV together
87
SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) for Ethernet NIC
Simple virtualization without VIOS

With quality of service controls
LPAR #1
LPAR #2
QoS
Min of y%
Gen 2 *
LPAR #3
LPAR #4
88
* For specific Gen2 Adapters with SR-IOV

capable electronics In PCIe Gen2 (or later) slot
For specific Integrated Multifunction Cards with
SR-IOV capable electronics
Under latest 7.8 firmware
With recent OS level software
SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) for Ethernet NIC

Virtualization with VIOS example
Redundant VIOS with one hardware resource
Minimum amount of bandwidth for Quality of Service (QoS)
QoS
VIOS - A
LPAR #2
Min of y%
Gen 2 *
LPAR #3
VIOS - B
89
* For specific Gen2 Adapters with SRIOVcapable electronics In PCIe Gen2 or later slot
For specific Integrated Multifunction Cards with
SRIOV-capable electronics
Under latest 7.8 firmware
With recent OS level software
SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization)
Dual VIOS
Redundant VIOS with redundant hardware resource

Minimum amount of bandwidth for Quality of Service (QoS)
QoS
QoS
SRIOV virtualization +
VIOS virtualization
Gen 2
VIOS - A
LPAR #2
SRIOV virtualization +
VIOS virtualization
Min of y%
Gen 2
LPAR #3
VIOS - B
90
SR-IOV and POWER8 Servers

No announcement or SOD was issued for SR-IOV
function in April 2014
However, this capability is being worked on by IBM
development. No architectural problems are known.
The only known challenge is working it into busy test
schedules and ensuring things are tuned properly on
the POWER8 PCIe Gen3 slots
Note that SR-IOV requires an HMC
91
HMC
96
Enhanced HMC Management Capabilities

Performance Monitoring
1. View System Performance Dashboard
2. View Resource Utilization Trends (Processor,
Memory, Network, Storage)
97
Performance Monitoring Metrics & Dashboard

Performance metric indicators & utilization dashboard
Processor, memory & I/O
Server & LPAR level information

Basic trend data collection and visualization
Identify bottlenecks
Early problem detection
REST based API to access:

All platform (PHYP & VIOS) metrics for Tivoli
Third Party tools
9
8
98
Performance Monitoring Server Overview
99
Performance Monitoring Processor Utilization
1
0
0
100
Power Systems Management Requirements
Minimum Requirement:
HMC FW
V8.R1.0 or Later
HMC HW
7042-CR5 / 7042-C08 or Later
HMC Memory
Power HW
PowerVM/VIOS
101
2GB or More
POWER6 and Later
V2.2.3
Education
102
Enterprise2014 (Tech U)
The Premier Enterprise Infrastructure Event
October 6-10
The Venetian | Las Vegas

The Premier Enterprise Infrastructure Event
IBM Enterprise2014 will be held October 6-10, 2014 at the Venetian in Las Vegas,
Nevada. In its second year, this event brings together the IBM System z Technical
University, the IBM Power Systems Technical University and the Enterprise
Executive Summitall combined to provide the premier enterprise infrastructure
event.
IBM Enterprise 2014

105
Thank You!
from
IBM Power Systems
106

ARPUG Briefing P8 Overview

Загружено:

Сведения о документе

Авторское право

Доступные форматы

Поделиться этим документом

Поделиться или встроить документ

Параметры публикации

Этот документ был вам полезен?

Это неприемлемый материал?

Авторское право:

Доступные форматы

ARPUG Briefing P8 Overview

Загружено:

Авторское право:

Доступные форматы

IBM North America Power Systems

2013 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

Power8: Superior Innovation

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

Power8: Innovations for Evolving Workloads

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

Power8: First Generation Open Platform

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

IBM continues to Invest in Linux on Power

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

POWER8 moves forwards while x86 moves backwards

Relative Core Performance

POWER8 core provides 35%

Relative Core Performance

Ivy Bridge Ivy Bridge Ivy Bridge Ivy Bridge

IBM North America Power Systems

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

Power Processor Technology Roadmap

200+ systems in test

IBM North America Power Systems

2 Integrated Memory Controllers w/ Improved Latency & BW

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

Scale Out Systems - DCMs and POWER8 Chips

6-core Processor Chip

Fine Grained Power Management

Excellent I/O bandwidth per socket

Remote SMP Links

L3 Cache & Chip Intercon MemCtrl

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

POWER8 Memory Buffer Chip

Intelligence Moved into Memory

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

POWER8 Memory Organization (Max Config shown)

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

POWER8 Integrated PCI Gen 3

Native PCIe Gen 3 Support

Direct processor integration

Transport Layer for CAPI Protocol

Coherently Attach Devices connect to

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

A Gen1 x8 PCIe adapter has a theoretical max (peak)

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

PCIe x8 and x16

POWER8 servers have x8

x16 slot/card has more connections than a x8 slot/card

2014 IBM Corporation

IBM North America Power Systems

POWER8 Multi-threading Options

SMT4: Smaller unit of work, but provides

IBM North America Power Systems