Environmental Enhancements
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Plan ahead memory is exclusive to System z10 and is transparent to operating systems.
Service Enhancements
z10 EC service enhancements designed to avoid sched- uled outages include:
•Concurrent fi rmware fi xes
•Concurrent driver upgrades
•Concurrent parts replacement
•Concurrent hardware upgrades
•DIMM FRU indicators
•Single processor core checkstop
•Single processor core sparing
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•FCP
•Hot swap of
•Redundant 100 Mb Ethernet service network with VLAN
Power and cooling discussions have entered the budget planning of every IT environment. As energy prices have risen and utilities have restricted the amount of power usage, it is important to review the role of the server in bal- ancing IT spending.
Power Monitoring
The “mainframe gas gauge” feature introduced on the System z9 servers, provides power and thermal informa- tion via the System Activity Display (SAD) on the Hardware Management Console and will be available on the z10 EC giving a point in time reference of the information. The current total power consumption in watts and BTU/hour as well as the air input temperature will be displayed.
Power Estimation Tool
To assist in energy planning, Resource Link provides tools to estimate server energy requirements before a new server purchase. A user will input the machine model, memory, and I/O confi guration and the tool will output an estimate of the system total heat load and utility input power. A customized planning aid is also available on Resource Link which provides physical characteristics of the machine along with cooling recommendations, environmental specifi cations, system power rating, power plugs/receptacles, line cord wire specifi cations and the machine confi guration.
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