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

2. Agenda Topics IBM End of Maintenance Service Announcement
IBM POWER9 Announcement

3. IBM Servers to be withdrawn

5. IBM POWER9 S924
First Look
IBM POWER9

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

7. 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

8. POWER9 Processor features that effect the Servers

10. Scale out Portfolio Transition

11. Comparison POWER8 vs POWER9

12. POWER9 S914

13. POWER9 S924

14. POWER9 S922

15. 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