Magdy Ebeid VP of Operation IBM POWER9 Scale-out Magdy Ebeid VP of Operation

Agenda Topics IBM End of Maintenance Service Announcement IBM POWER9 Announcement

IBM Servers to be withdrawn

IBM POWER9 S924 First Look IBM POWER9

POWER9 Scale-out Servers Highest performance and security The most reliable Built in PowerVM and PowerVC Industry leader in the 2 socket market

POWER9 Offering Roadmap 2018 More performance and scale via POWER9 processors 2-4X Memory capacity for in-memory DB Reduce latency and improve throughput with enhanced I/O support PCIe Gen4 Integrated NVMe Flash (bootable) High-bandwidth (25Gb/s) links for GPU/OpenCAPI acceleration 2-socket LC & Entry SOR 4-socket Midrange 4- to16-socket Modular High-end Large-scale multi-socket SMP Buffered memory attach Robust 2-socket SMP Direct memory attach 2017 2-socket LC HPC / HPDA & HSDC

POWER9 Processor features that effect the Servers

Scale out Portfolio Transition

Comparison POWER8 vs POWER9

POWER9 S914

POWER9 S924

POWER9 S922

PowerVM offer PowerVM Enterprise is no cost with POWER9 Scale-Out Wow, that is NEW !! There is SWMA to pay. Live Partition Mobility to quick move from P7 & P8 servers 1. Use a temporary IBM PowerVM LPM license for P7 & P8 Request a MES upgrade for a temporary LPM VET code Up to 60 days 2. Don’t need PowerVM or to pay SWMA = IBM has a process for that! 3. Can’t have LPM due to vendor SW licence (Oracle) MES upgrade for a no cost LPM permanent LPM disable