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Contents<br />

Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi<br />

Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii<br />

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xv<br />

The team that wrote this paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi<br />

Become a published author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii<br />

Comments welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix<br />

Chapter 1. Introduction to the <strong>POWER6</strong> <strong>IBM</strong> <strong>Power</strong> System servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.1 <strong>IBM</strong> <strong>Power</strong> Systems models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />

1.2 General <strong>POWER6</strong> technology capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />

1.2.1 System unit, processor enclosure, <strong>and</strong> CEC terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

1.2.2 SAS <strong>and</strong> SCSI bus technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

1.2.3 General I/O terminology <strong>and</strong> configuration summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />

1.2.4 I/O enclosures attaching using 12x or RIO-2 I/O loop adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

1.2.5 Common I/O enclosures from existing System i <strong>and</strong> System p configurations that are<br />

supported on <strong>POWER6</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />

1.2.6 Common racks from System i <strong>and</strong> System p configurations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />

1.3 <strong>IBM</strong> <strong>Power</strong>VM naming <strong>and</strong> editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />

1.4 Hardware availability <strong>and</strong> energy management facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

1.4.1 Reliability, fault tolerance, <strong>and</strong> data integrity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

1.4.2 <strong>IBM</strong> EnergyScale technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />

1.5 <strong>POWER6</strong> floating point decimal arithmetic data <strong>and</strong> calculations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />

1.6 Operating system levels required on <strong>POWER6</strong> processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />

1.6.1 <strong>IBM</strong> AIX 5.3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />

1.6.2 <strong>IBM</strong> AIX V6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />

1.6.3 <strong>IBM</strong> i 5.4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />

1.6.4 <strong>IBM</strong> i 6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />

1.6.5 <strong>IBM</strong> i support of <strong>IBM</strong> System Storage Enterprise Disk products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36<br />

1.6.6 Linux systems summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br />

1.6.7 Supported virtualization features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />

1.6.8 System firmware <strong>and</strong> HMC levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />

1.7 Hardware withdrawal summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />

Chapter 2. <strong>IBM</strong> <strong>Power</strong> <strong>570</strong> Model 9117-MMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />

2.1 <strong>IBM</strong> <strong>Power</strong> <strong>570</strong> Model 9117-MMA overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />

2.1.1 Operating systems <strong>and</strong> editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />

2.1.2 System unit (CEC) <strong>and</strong> features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />

2.1.3 9406-MMA editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55<br />

2.1.4 9117-MMA minimum <strong>and</strong> maximum capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56<br />

2.2 Notes for <strong>IBM</strong> <strong>Power</strong> <strong>570</strong> Model 9117-MMA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />

2.3 Hardware Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64<br />

2.4 Comparing 2007 <strong>POWER6</strong> <strong>570</strong> models with 2008 9117-MMA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64<br />

2.4.1 <strong>IBM</strong> 9406-MMA compared to <strong>IBM</strong> <strong>Power</strong> <strong>570</strong> Model 9117-MMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />

2.5 9117-MMA server feature <strong>and</strong> system unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66<br />

2.5.1 9117-MMA server features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66<br />

2.6 System specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />

2.6.1 Physical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />

2.6.2 Operating Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68<br />

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