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servers
At
~1TB/s
with PCIe4
4GHZ
7TB/s
BW into chip PEAK
FREQUENCY
on chip
BW 8
BILLION
>15 TRANSISTORS
>24B
MILES OF VIAS
WIRE
17 Innovation that makes a
LEVELS OF
METAL difference for mission
critical applications
Key Differences between POWER9 and POWER 8
POWER9 POWER8
5U Server (Single CEC) + 2U control Unit, 920 GB/s
Form Factor (For Enterprise total System bandwidth per drawer
5U Server (Single CEC) + 2U control Unit
Servers)
Rack & Tower Rack & Tower
PCIe – GEN3/4 Directly Integrates PCI Leadership PCIe GEN3 (48 lanes) Directly Integrates PCI
Lane Count Full Cache Integration Improves latency/bandwidth CAPI 1.0 Support
2U – Single & Dual RAID Write Cache 2U - Dual RAID Write Cache
RAS
4U and Above – Dual Raid Write Cache 4U and Above – Dual Raid Write Cache
• Solution Highlights
– Both servers used are existing servers to be moved from DC
– DR capacity is at 80% of Prod DC
Proposed LPAR Distribution at DR
Existing P870 Configuration
Exisitng P750 Configuration
Model VM Workload Cores RAM OS Model VM Workload Cores RAM OS
VIO 1 1 16 VIO 1 1 16
VIO 2 1 16 VIO 2 1 16
Note
The DR is provisioned at 80% of the capacity
- Power 9 sees a-least 30% technology upgrade over Power 8, Hence the number of cores required will be the same as
in current after considering 3 years 15 % growth
Implementation Activities
S/ Tentative Start Tentative End
Action Item Responsible Advisor Status Pre-Req's
N Date Date
Complete
1 Delivery of Hardware to DC IBM (TSS) Maruti 28-Feb-19 28-Feb-19
d
Complete
2 Inventory of Hardware IBM (TSS) Maruti 28-Feb-19 28-Feb-19
d
Complete
3 RACK Space & power allocation in stagging Maruti (Paramjeet) IBM (TSS) 28-Feb-19 28-Feb-19 Site Pre-Req's
d
Maruti
4 Asset creation IBM (TSS) Pending 28-Feb-19 12-Mar-19
(Paramjeet)
Maruti Complete
5 Power on the server in Staging IBM (TSS) 28-Feb-19 04-Mar-19
(Paramjeet) d
Complete
6 Download of latest VIOS/AIX/ image media IBM (TSS) Maruti 05-Mar-19 05-Mar-19
d
Complete
7 Allocation of 42000 BTU/Hrs Cooling (Maximum) Maruti (Paramjeet) IBM (TSS) 28-Feb-19 28-Feb-19
d
Complete
8 Space avaiability & allocation in DC for Rack1 Maruti (Paramjeet) IBM (TSS) 07-Mar-19 07-Mar-19
d
Complete
9 Allocation of 9KVA Power in a rack (Maximum) for Rack1 Maruti (Paramjeet) IBM (TSS) 28-Feb-19 12-Mar-19
d
Complete
10 Space avaiability & allocation in DC FOR Rack2 Maruti (Paramjeet) IBM (TSS) 28-Feb-19 12-Mar-19
d
11 Allocation of 9KVA Power in a rack (Maximum) for Rack2 Maruti (Paramjeet) IBM (TSS) Pending 28-Feb-19 20-Mar-19
Maruti (Manjit /
12 10G network cable feasibility & laying IBM (TSS) Pending 11-Mar-19 15-Mar-19 Network Connectivity
Deenbandhu)
Maruti Storage Team / Complete
13 16G FC SAN cable laying IBM (TSS) 11-Mar-19 12-Mar-19 SAN FC Connectivity
Manoj d
12 Management & client IP's IBM (TSS) Maruti Pending NA NA CR to Raise
13 Network switch installation in Server RACK for HMC network Network Team IBM (TSS) Pending 11-Mar-19 18-Mar-19 HMC network
RACK movement /Power ON/HMC connection/ Firmware
14 IBM (TSS) Maruti Pending 04-Mar-19 18-Mar-19 P9 Server Pre-Req's
Update
WWPN change of host on Power9, any storage host multipath
15 Maruti Storage Team IBM (TSS) Pending NA NA
change dependancy check
16 VIOS Servers installation/configuration IBM (TSS) Maruti Pending 13-Mar-19 15-Mar-19 LAB LLD, VIOS media images
a) VIOS profile creation & wwpn details IBM (TSS) Maruti Pending 13-Mar-19 15-Mar-19
Maruti Storage
b) 200GB LUN allocation from storage on each VIOS IBM (TSS) Pending 13-Mar-19 15-Mar-19 LLD from LAB team
Team
Maruti Storage
c) VIOS installation IBM (TSS) Pending 13-Mar-19 15-Mar-19
Team
17 Power LPARs profile creation & wwpn collection IBM (TSS) Maruti (Ravi) Pending 12-Mar-19 18-Mar-19
Please note : For application migration CL01,CL02, Cl03 support will be required from the maruti application
team for testing and UAT