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Specifications
Error codes
Memory placement rules
Maintenance
Fault avoidance
How to
The POWER5 chip
Service processor
Capacity Upgrade on Demand
Minimum and optional features
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Contents
Extreme flexibility with outstanding performance
IBM Eserver p5 Technical Overview
and Introduction
Giuliano Anselmi Gregor Linzmeier
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Introduction
International Technical Support Organization
IBM Sserver p5 570 Technical Overview and
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Contents
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Notices
Trademarks
Preface
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Chapter 1. General description
2p5-570Technical Overview and Introduction
Dimension
1.1 System specifications
1.2 Physical package
Description
1.3 Minimum and optional features
1.3.1 Processor card features
Feature code
1.3.2Memory features
1.3.3 Disk and media features
Feature Code
7311 Model D10 I/O drawer
1.3.4 USB diskette drive
1.3.5 I/O drawers
7311 Model D10 I/O drawer physical package
7311 Model D11 I/O drawer physical package
7311 Model D11 I/O drawer
7311 Model D20 I/O drawer
I/O drawers and usable PCI slots
7311 Model D20 I/O drawer physical package
1.4 Value Paks
1.3.6 Hardware Management Console models
Value
1.5 Model type conversion
1.6 System racks
Processors, FC
1.6.1 IBM RS/6000 7014 Model T00 Enterprise Rack
1.6.3AC Power Distribution Unit and rack content
1.6.2 IBM RS/6000 7014 Model T42 Enterprise Rack
1.6.5 Additional options for rack
Flat panel display options
1.6.6OEM rack
Hardware Management Console 7310 Model CR2
1.7 Statement of direction
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Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview
Figure 2-1 p5-570logic data flow
POWER5
2.1 The POWER5 chip
POWER4
2.1.1 Simultaneous multi-threading
2.1.2 Dynamic power management
Enhanced SMT features
ST operation
2.1.3 The POWER chip evolution
POWER5TM
SMI SMI
2.2 Processor cards
2.1.4 CMOS, copper, and SOI technology
2.2.1 Processor drawer interconnect cables
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2.2.2 Processor clock rate
pmcycles -m
2.3.2 Memory restriction
2.3.1 Memory placement rules
2.3 Memory subsystem
2.4.1 RIO-2buses and GX+ card
2.4 System buses
2.3.3 Memory throughput
11S1234567YL12345678901 FRU P/N EC Level
2.5.1 PCI-Xslots and adapters
2.5 Internal I/O subsystem
2.4.2 SP bus
2.5.4 SCSI adapters
2.5.2 LAN adapters
2.5.3 Graphic accelerators
64-bitand 32-bitadapters
2.6 Internal storage
2.6.1 Internal hot swappable SCSI disks
Hot-swapdisks and Linux
2.6.2 Internal RAID options
2.6.3 Internal media devices
2.7 External I/O subsystems
2.7.1 I/O drawers
2.7.3 7311 Model D20 I/O drawer
7311 Model D10 features
7311 Model D11 features
2.7.4 7311 I/O drawer and RIO-2cabling
7311 Model D20 internal SCSI cabling
Performance Optimized
2.7.57311 I/O drawer and SPCN cabling
Cost Optimized
2.7.6External disk subsystems
IBM 2104 Expandable Storage Plus
IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server
IBM 7133 Serial Disk Subsystem SSA
IBM TotalStorage FAStT Storage servers
2.9 Virtualization
2.9.2 Advanced POWER Virtualization feature
2.8 Dynamic logical partitioning
2.9.1 Virtual Ethernet
Micro-Partitioningtechnology
Virtual I/O Server
POWER5 Partitioning
POWER Hypervisor
Shared Ethernet adapter
2.10 Service processor
Partition Load Manager
2.10.1 Service processor - base
2.10.2Service processor - extender
2.11 Boot process
2.11.2Hardware Management Console
2.11.3IPL flow with an HMC attached to the system
Profiles
2.11.4 Definitions of partitions
Managed systems
Processors
2.11.7 System Management Services
2.11.5Hardware requirements for partitioning
Memory
2.11.8 Boot options
Figure 2-17System Management Services main menu
External tape drives
2.11.9Additional boot options
DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM
2.12 Operating system requirements
SAN boot
LAN boot
2.11.10 Security
2.12.2 Linux
Linux support
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2-way1.65 GHz POWER5 processor card
3.1 Capacity on Demand
On/Off Capacity on Demand
3.1.2 Capacity Upgrade on Demand for memory
Capacity Upgrade on Demand
Reserve Capacity on Demand
On/Off Capacity on Demand
3.1.4Trial Capacity on Demand
3.2Reliability, availability, and serviceability
3.2.1 Fault avoidance
Mutual surveillance
3.2.2 First Failure Data Capture
3.2.3 Permanent monitoring
3.2.4Self-healing
Environmental monitoring
3.2.7Resource deallocation
3.2.6Fault masking
3.2.5 N+1 redundancy
Dynamic or persistent deallocation
3.2.8 Serviceability
Error indication and LED indicators
3.3.1 Advanced System Management Interface
Concurrent Maintenance
3.3Manageability
System Attention LED
3.3.2 Service Agent
3.3.3 p5 Customer-ManagedMicrocode
3.3.4 Service Update Management Assistant
Service focal point
3.4 Cluster
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CSM value points
CSM V1.4 on AIX and Linux planned 4Q04
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Online resources
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