Statement of general direction
IBM plans for PowerVM to support up to 320 logical partitions on the Power 750 server and up to 640 logical partitions on the Power 770 and 780 servers. For future POWER7 systems, IBM plans for PowerVM to support up to 1,000 logical partitions per server.
IBM is working with Red Hat on POWER7 support. Red Hat plans to support the Power 750, 755, 770, and 780 models in an upcoming release targeted for availability during first half 2010. For additional questions on the availability of this release, contact Red Hat.
IBM plans for PowerVM Lx86 to support POWER7 systems in second quarter 2010.
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The following are newly announced features on the specific models of the IBM Power Systems 8233 machine type:
Description | MT | Model Feature | |
IBM Power 750 | 8233 | E8B |
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Specify Code for External High Speed Modem | 8233 | E8B | 0032 |
Mirrored System Disk Level, Specify Code | 8233 | E8B | 0040 |
Device Parity | 8233 | E8B | 0041 |
Mirrored System Bus Level, Specify Code | 8233 | E8B | 0043 |
Device Parity | 8233 | E8B | 0047 |
8233 | E8B | 0205 | |
AIX Partition Specify | 8233 | E8B | 0265 |
Linux Partition Specify | 8233 | E8B | 0266 |
IBM i Operating System Partition Specify | 8233 | E8B | 0267 |
CSC Specify | 8233 | E8B | 0275 |
Specify Custom Data Protection | 8233 | E8B | 0296 |
Mirrored Level System Specify Code | 8233 | E8B | 0308 |
RAID Hot Spare Specify | 8233 | E8B | 0347 |
V.24/EIA232 6.1m | 8233 | E8B | 0348 |
V.24/EIA232 15.2m | 8233 | E8B | 0349 |
V.35 6.1m | 8233 | E8B | 0353 |
V.35 15.2m | 8233 | E8B | 0354 |
V.36 6.1m | 8233 | E8B | 0356 |
X.21 6.1m | 8233 | E8B | 0359 |
X.21 15.2m | 8233 | E8B | 0360 |
V.24/EIA232 | 8233 | E8B | 0365 |
CBU Specify | 8233 | E8B | 0444 |
Customer Specified Placement | 8233 | E8B | 0456 |
SSD Placement Indicator - CEC | 8233 | E8B | 0462 |
SSD Placement Indicator (5802/5803) | 8233 | E8B | 0463 |
SSD Placement Indicator - 5886 | 8233 | E8B | 0464 |
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