Reducing IT Spending With IBM Power Systems

p012645 - Reducing IT Spending with IBM Power Systems
Pascal Taverne
Senior IT Specialist & TCO Consultant, IBM CPO Eagle Team
IBM
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Session objectives
• Introduce the IBM CPO Eagle Team and IT Economics Concepts to

help with competitive plays.
• Learn how IBM POWER8 helps businesses consolidating their

workloads on IBM Power Systems to reduce IT costs associated with
the proliferation of x86 servers to support infrastructure and business
critical workloads.
• The presentation will share financial and technical data from actual
business cases developed for clients to quantify their IT costs of doing
business on x86 and Power Systems.
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Session summary
• Eagle IT Economics Overview

• IBM Power Systems do have lots of technical advantages ....
• Core performance
• I/O & memory-bandwidth
• Enterprise Pools - Shared Procesor Pool (SPP)
• Mobile Ressources
• Capacity on Demand
• Virtualization and Consolidation
• Infrastructure Complexity
• Availability of Infrastructure (RAS, Security)
• Other Cost Considerations (Power & Cooling, Floor Space, Network)

IBM.
IBM Eagle Team - IT Economics Practice
• Who we are
• Part of the IBM Competitive Project Office (CPO)
• Specialized in examining economic differences between platforms in client environments
• Focused on identifying areas for efficiencies and cost reductions
• Provide no-charge studies
• Benefits of engaging the Eagle Team

• Worldwide experience from successfully helping hundreds of clients since 2007
• … most likely we have evaluated a similar scenario before
• Leverage research and benchmarks from the various CPO teams
• We use client figures (not our own)
• … through a transparent model
• … with agreed-to assumptions
• … and iterate as required
• Provide a business case from which a client can make a financially based IT decision

IBM.
TCO – Get the Complete Picture!
TCA Hardware $ $ $ $ $ Planning

Software $ $ $ $ $ Upgrades
People $ $ $ $ $ Migration
Network $ $ $ $ $ Growth
Storage $ $ $ $ $ Parallel Costs
Facilities $ $ $ $ $ Net Present Value
QoS – Availability, Reliability, Security and Scalability
Total Cost of Ownership is much more than Total Cost of Acquisition!

IBM.
Agenda
1. Eagle IT Economics Overview

2. IBM Power Systems do have lots of technical advantages ....
1. Core performance
2. I/O & memory-bandwidth
3. Enterprise Pools - Shared Procesor Pool (SPP)
4. Mobile Ressources
5. Capacity on Demand
3. Virtualization and Consolidation
4. Infrastructure Complexity
5. Availability of Infrastructure (RAS, Security)
6. Other Cost Considerations (Power & Cooling, Floor Space, Network)

IBM.
Performance Difference Between POWER8 and x86
Per core performance (2-socket systems) for last 3 generations of Power vs x86
IBM Power processors continue to increase the core performance each generation
and decrease the need for licenses of per-core software
x86 Power
4000
Per Core Performance

86% Increase
3000
16% Decrease
2000 POWER8
POWER7+ 24c / 2s
POWER7 16c / 2s 3.5 GHz
1000 16c / 2s 4.2 GHz
3.55 GHz
0
POWER7 POWER7+ POWER8
Power

IBM.
Performance comparison – POWER8 vs. x86 E7
IBM POWER8 core performance is 2x the x86 Xeon E7-8890 v3 core performance
x86 IBM POWER8 vs. x86

Core Performance
“Haswell” POWER E870
Ratio
Intel Xeon POWER8 P8 Util: 100%
E7-8890 v3 @ 4.1 GHz x86 Util: 100%
# Cores 144 80 Benchmark Utilization
SAP 2-Tier 58,626 79,750 2.4

SPECint_rate2006 5,630 6,320 2.0
SPECfp_rate2006 2,050 5,130

(72 cores)
2.2
• Results are based on best published per core results on Xeon E7-8890 v3 processor
• SAP results are based on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application. Results valid as of October 3,
2014. . IBM Power Enterprise System E870 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 8
processors / 80 cores / 640 threads, POWER8; 4.19GHz, 2048 GB memory, 79,750 SD benchmark users running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10.5, Certification #: 2014034 Result valid as of
October 3, 2014. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark. Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 2800E2, 8 Processors / 144 Cores / 288 Threads, Intel Xeon Processor E7-8890 v3, 2.5 Ghz, 1024 GB
memory; 58,626 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition and DB2 10; Certification # 2015012. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark .
• SPECcpu2006 results are submitted as of 5/15/2015. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/cpu2006/results/.

IBM.
Agenda

1. Core performance

IBM.
How is POWER8 optimized for big workloads?
These design decisions result in

best performance for all types of
workloads such as:
Analytics, Big Data, Java, ERP,
OLTP, HPC, …
*: POWER8 compared to Haswell EX

IBM.
Oracle on Power vs x86 TCO Tool – Step 1 of 6
Core Performance SMT8

Servers Perfromance
# Core
Core Ratio
POWER8 HE w/ PowerVM 2 x1
POWER8 SO w/ PowerVM 2 x1
POWER7 w/ PowerVM 1,07 x1,86
x86 "Haswell" w /OracleVM 1 x2
x86 "Haswell" w/ VMware 1 x2

IBM.
Agenda

1. Core performance

IBM.
Shared Processor Pool Example
• Practical case with Shared Processor Pool (SPP)

• Non production environment : test, development, qualification, ...
• Asses the average workload and peaks and define a shared
Processor pool with the corresponding capacity to reduce the Oracle
licensing
CPU = 2.6 / VP = 4
CPU = 1.7 / VP = 4
= 16 processor licenses
CPU = 3.1 / VP = 4
CPU = 2.8 / VP = 4
The CPU monitoring shows a maximum cumulated workload for 6.3

èDefine a Shared Processor Pool with 7 CPUs
CPU = 2.6 / VP = 4
CPU = 1.7 / VP = 4
CPU = 3.1 / VP = 4 = 7 processor licenses
CPU = 2.8 / VP = 4
Virtual Shared Processor Pool with 7 processors

IBM.
Shared Processor Pool – micropartitioning and SW licensing
• Sum the ENTITLED CAPACITY of each capped LPAR in the pool

• Sum the ONLINE VIRTUAL CPUs for each uncapped LPAR in the pool
• Compare the total of capped and uncapped CPUs vs the Shared Pool
size. Use the lowest number for licensing
• LPAR 1 = capped, entitled capacity =1.6
• LPAR 2 = uncapped, Virtual CPUs =2
• Total = LPAR 1 (1.6) + LPAR2 (2) = 3.6 = round up to 4
• Pool size = 6
• Number of cores to license = 4 (lower than pool size of 6 cores)

IBM.
Agenda

1. Core performance

IBM.
CoD pricing is economical and flexible
• CoD processors and memory priced to make it economically easier to

physically have “extra/standby” resources in place for easy permanent
or temporary activation
Power Capacity
on Demand
Systems
Physical E880
Price has two parts – E870
physical and activation 795 E850
Activation 780
770
No x86 server has Capacity on Demand

Specific ratio of Activation price to Physical resource price can vary depending on the model and specific
processor or memory feature. In general however, the majority of the total price is in the activation.

IBM.
Power8 Enterprise Pools
• Power Enterprise Pools

• Typical challenges:
• Planned Maintenance
• Rebalancing workloads
• Failover Clusters
• Passive Disaster Recovery
• Power8 Migration
• With EP, you move processor and memory activations within a defined pool of systems.
A B C A B C
Before After

IBM.
Leveraging Enterprise Pools
Mobile processor and memory activations may be re-allocated to any
system within a defined pool
20% buffer – activated on

request – configuration limit.
Exxx
BUFFER Capacity on demand:
activated on request – pay as
COD
Price you go.
Point MOBILE Activated capacity which can
STATIC move throughout the
Critical and less critical CPU RAM enterprise pool.
workloads Capacity activated and
• Production & Staging persistent to the server.
• Quality Assurance and Rules:
Development - Min 8 Active cores
- 50% of configured RAM is
active
- 25% of active RAM is
STATIC.
Traditional Capacity Model EP Capacity Model
Buffer Buffer Buffer Buffer
COD COD COD COD Mobile capacity
Price recovered from
Point failed server in room
STATIC from STATIC from MOBILE MOBILE
a.
Pre-allocated and
activated resources
Room B Room A License core from Room B from Room A
to cover HA. savingPrice

STATIC Point
MOBILE MOBILE MOBILE
Protected -
EP
Critical CRITICAL CRITICAL CRITIC
CRITICAL CRITIC
CRITICAL
Workload Non Non AL
Non AL
Non
CRITICAL CRITICAL CRITICAL CRITICAL
ROOM A ROOM B ROOM A ROOM B
Enterprise Pool with Mobile processor and memory can provide huge saving mainly
for HA & DR environment

IBM.
Agenda

1. Core performance

IBM.
Power enterprise pools with mobile and elastic CoD deliver both
flexibility and economic efficiency
• Multi-system infrastructure providing a highly available

and flexible IT environment
E880
E870
• Clients purchase the capacity needed and allocate & 780

795
rebalance virtual processor and memory resources 770
• Live Partition Mobility enables clients to migrate running

workloads between systems to enable continuous • Planned maintenance
availability • Rebalance capacity
• Failover clusters
• Server Migrations
Active - Active Planned Maintenance Resource Balancing Periodic Demand Peaks
32
System being Activate Inactive
64 64 96 64 64
Maintained 64c for
Inactive Inactive Inactive Inactive Inactive
Maint.
32c
Active
64c 64c 64c Active 64c 64c

Active Active 64c 32c Active Active
Active Active
No Intel x86 server has this quality of service

IBM.
Core Performance SMT8 Consolidation

Virtual
Servers Perfromance Estim. Cumul
# Core Shared Proc
Core Ratio # Core
Pool Impact
Roundup of
POWER8 HE w/ PowerVM 2 x1 x1 x1
Sum
Roundup of
POWER8 SO w/ PowerVM 2 x1 x1 x1
Sum
Roundup of
POWER7 w/ PowerVM 1,07 x1,86 x1 x1,86
Sum
Roundup of
x86 "Haswell" w /OracleVM 1 x2 x1 x2
Sum
Sum of
x86 "Haswell" w/ VMware 1 x2 x1.2 x2,4
Roundup
Roundup of Sums versus the Sum of Roundups. Vendors such as Oracle force customers to
roundup licensing for each partition of Oracle Database before they add the licenses together
of all the partitions within a server. These roundups can add to a tremendous overhead of
“lost” licensing. By using IBM Power’s Shared Processor Pools, only the total pool has to be
rounded up and then licensed within a server

IBM.
Agenda

1. Core performance

IBM.
Statistical Multiplexing Example: The More Workloads you can
Consolidate, the Smaller is the Variance of the Sum
One Workload in one LPAR 16 Workloads in 16 LPARs 144 Workload in 144 LPARs
Server utilization = 17% Server Server utilization = 70%
Capacity Server utilization = 44%
Require
d (60)
Server
6x Peak To Average Capacity
Required Server
(364) 1.42x Peak To Average Capacity
2.25x Peak To Average Required
Average Average (2057)
Demand Average
Demand
(10) Demand
(160)
(1440)
Individual workloads Sum of both workloads

Variance in
Variance in demand
demand
n Workload demands peak at different times

n Peaks & valleys in demand tend to cancel each other out
n Statistical multiplexing results in less variance of total demand

IBM.
Performance comparison – POWER8 vs. x86 E7
IBM POWER8 core performance is 2x the x86 Xeon E7-8890 v3 core performance
• ALL data is PUBLISHED or SUBMITTED

x86 IBM POWER8 vs. x86
“Haswell” POWER E870 Core Performance Ratio
Intel Xeon POWER8 P8 Util: 100% P8 Util: 80% P8 Util: 80%
E7-8890 v3 @ 4.1 GHz x86 Util: 100% x86 Util: 40% x86 Util: 20%
Benchmark Utilization with Utilization without
# Cores 144 80 Utilization virtualized x86 virtualized x86
SAP 2-Tier 58,626 79,750 2.4 4.8 9.7

SPECint_rate2006 5,630 6,320 2.0 4.0 8.0
SPECfp_rate2006 2,050 5,130

(72 cores)
2.2 4.5 9.1
• Results are based on best published per core results on Xeon E7-8890 v3 processor
• SAP results are based on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application. Results valid as of October 3, 2014. . IBM Power
Enterprise System E870 on the two-tier SAP SD standard application benchmark running SAP enhancement package 5 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application; 8 processors / 80 cores / 640 threads, POWER8;
4.19GHz, 2048 GB memory, 79,750 SD benchmark users running AIX® 7.1 and DB2® 10.5, Certification #: 2014034 Result valid as of October 3, 2014. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark. Fujitsu
PRIMEQUEST 2800E2, 8 Processors / 144 Cores / 288 Threads, Intel Xeon Processor E7-8890 v3, 2.5 Ghz, 1024 GB memory; 58,626 SD benchmark users, running Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition
and DB2 10; Certification # 2015012. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark .
• SPECcpu2006 results are submitted as of 5/15/2015. For more information go to http://www.specbench.org/cpu2006/results/.

IBM.
POWER8 Performance Utilization Guarantee
System Performance Utilization Scale Out System Performance Utilization Enterprise

IBM has designed these POWER8 systems to operate at IBM has designed these POWER8 systems to operate at
industry-leading levels of efficiency, guaranteeing the industry-leading levels of efficiency, guaranteeing the system
system will perform as warranted while at a sustained will perform as warranted while at a sustained 80% utilization
65% utilization – a rate higher than common competitive for E870 and E880 and at a sustained 70% utilization for E850
platform utilization levels – rates higher than common competitive platform utilization
levels
System Performance Utilization Guarantee

When a Client acquires a POWER8 Scale Out Server and the Client runs eligible workloads,
IBM guarantees the system will perform as warranted with a System Utilization Rate of up to
65%. Should the Client not be able to achieve 65% system utilization rate, assuming there is
sufficient work to drive the machine to 65% utilization, IBM will assist with the attainment
of 65% system utilization rate, at no additional cost.
System Performance Utilization Guarantee

When a Client acquires a POWER8 E850, E870 or E880 Enterprise Server and the Client
runs eligible workloads, IBM guarantees the system will perform as warranted with a System
Utilization Rate of up to 80% (70% for E850). Should the Client not be able to achieve 80%
(or 70% for E850) system utilization rate, assuming there is sufficient work to drive the
machine to 80% utilization, IBM will assist with the attainment of 80% (or 70% for E850)
system utilization rate, at no additional cost.
The IBM POWER8 one or two-socket server (the “POWER8 Server”) must be purchased from IBM or an authorized IBM Business Partner prior to December 31, 2015, provided that the combined transaction price (not
including taxes and fees) of the POWER8 Server purchased with other IBM hardware, IBM software, IBM maintenance, and IBM services must be US $150,000 or greater. Eligible workloads are AIX, Linux, or IBM i workloads,
or any combination of the three, on PowerVM. Guarantee Period - 120 calendar days following the Date of Installation of the Eligible Machine. System Performance Guarantee Requirements - Client implements each of the
requirements set forth in the “POWER8 Performance Guarantee Requirements. Common x86 utilization levels assessed by 3rd party analysis.

IBM.
Example:
IBM i and AIX Consolidation on IBM Power Systems
(POWER8)

IBM.
TCO Study - Executive Overview
• The objective of this TCO Study is to demonstrate the cost savings

that can be achieved by consolidating Customer POWER 5/6 Systems
to the latest POWER8 IBM Power Systems, over a 5-year period.
• Customer Business Issue:

• Customer is running the core banking application on previous generation of IBM i (POWER6). They
are also running various POWER5 and POWER6 Systems with AIX. To improve the performance
and the scalability of their global IT solution but also to reduce the global IT cost (HW/SW
maintenance, power consumption, DP space, …) they would like to consolidate on POWER8
• Study Objectives:
• 5-year TCO Cost Comparison of their existing environment with new POWER8 solution
• Cases Evaluated:
• Case 1 – Existing POWER5/6 IBM Power Systems
• Case 2 – IBM Power Systems E870 – Enterprise Server (POWER8 4.02GHz)
• The findings:
• IBM Power System E870 offers the lowest 5 year TCO with EUR 3.5M substantial cost savings and
a potential EUR 0.87M saving in Annual Run Rate or Operating Cost compared to the existing
environment.

IBM.
TCO Study Comparisons
Case 1 – Baseline Case 2 – New POWER8 Servers
Existing Servers IBM Power Systems E870

Various POWER5/6 IBM Power Systems 2 x POWER8 3.42GHz (4ch/32co)
505 (x2), 510 (x3), 550 (x6), 570 (x2), 595 (x2)
15 servers 2 servers
140 cores 41 cores (22 for Prod / 19 for DR)
AIX, IBM i AIX, IBM i
PowerVM, PowerHA PowerVM, PowerHA
Oracle, WBI, DataStage Oracle, WBI, DataStage
WAS, MQ, Portal WAS, MQ, Portal
LPAR23 LPAR23
Other Non IBM Application (except Oracle) are out of Scope Other Non IBM Application (except Oracle) are out of
of the study comparison Scope of the study comparison

IBM.
TCO Study Approach
• Study analysed Customer’s POWER5/6 Workloads

• 15x Various POWER5/6 IBM Power Systems with up to 58 LPARS
• Consolidation (IBM GHz Analysis Method) Calculations

• Calculations include:
• The Relative Performance (RPE2) of each server / processor
• A Chip Performance Factor based on the processor generation
• A Networking (Co-Location Effect) Factor
• A Utilization Factor (based on actual data from the nmon for AIX and Tango/04 for IBM i Analysis tools)
• TCO (5-Years) Cost Calculations

• Hardware, Software, People
• Networking Costs, Hosting, Energy Consumption (Consumption and Cooling)
• OS / MiddleWare / Oracle Software Stack

• AIX (5.3, 6.1, 7.1) , IBM i (7.1). Note that AIX 5.3 is not supported on POWER8 Systems LPAR
• PowerVM (Standard Edition) , PowerHA
• Oracle Database Enterprise Edition , IBM Websphere Business Integration for Financial Networks Base Server, DataStage
• Websphere ND, WebSphere MQ, Websphere Portal
• Tivoli Storage Manager

IBM.
Customer’s POWER5/6 Servers
Type Model Name Processor

9115 505 505 Power5+
9115 505 505 Power5+
9110 51A 510 Power5+
9110 51A 510 Power5+
9110 51A 510 Power5+
8204 E8A 550 Power6
8204 E8A 550 Power6
8204 E8A 550 Power6
9133 55A 550 Power5+
9133 55A 550 Power5+
9133 55A 550 Power5+
9406 MMA 570 Power6
9117 MMA 570 Power6
9119 FHA 595 Power6
9119 FHA 595 Power6

IBM.
Customer’s POWER5/6 LPARS
Server Server Type - Prod Site Role / Mem cores / Server Server Type - DR Site Role / Mem cores /
Location (GB) LPAR Location (GB) LPAR
Name Name
System p5 505Q Express (1U) Power5+ 1.65GHz 36MB System p5 505Q Express (1U) Power5+ 1.65GHz 36MB
LPAR1 LPAR26
(2ch/4co) Prod 16 4.0 (2ch/4co) DR 16 4.0
System p5 510Q Express (2U) Power5+ 1.65GHz 36MB
LPAR2 LPAR27
(2ch/4co) Test 16 4.0 Power 550 Express (4U) Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (2ch/4co) DR 15 1.0
System p5 510Q Express (2U) Power5+ 1.65GHz 36MB
LPAR3 LPAR28
(2ch/4co) Prod 6 2.0 Power 550 Express (4U) Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (2ch/4co) DR 15 3.0
System p5 510Q Express (2U) Power5+ 1.65GHz 36MB LPAR29 System i 570 (8U) Power6 4.7GHz 32MB (4ch/8co) DR 46 1.5
LPAR4
(2ch/4co) Prod 6 2.0
LPAR30 System i 570 (8U) Power6 4.7GHz 32MB (4ch/8co) DR 25 1.0
System p5 550 Express (4U) Power5+ 1.65GHz 36MB
LPAR10 LPAR31 System i 570 (8U) Power6 4.7GHz 32MB (4ch/8co) DR 10 1.0
(2ch/4co) Prod 16 4.0
System p5 550 Express (4U) Power5+ 1.65GHz 36MB LPAR32 System i 570 (8U) Power6 4.7GHz 32MB (4ch/8co) DR 3 0.5
LPAR11
(2ch/4co) Prod 16 4.0 LPAR33 System i 570 (8U) Power6 4.7GHz 32MB (4ch/8co) DR 54 3.0
System p5 550 Express (4U) Power5+ 1.65GHz 36MB
LPAR5 LPAR48 Power 595 Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (20ch/40co) DR 55 5.6
(2ch/4co) Prod 12 4.0
LPAR49 Power 595 Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (20ch/40co) DR 2 0.6
LPAR8
Power 550 Express (4U) Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (2ch/4co) Prod 15 1.0 LPAR50 Power 595 Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (20ch/40co) DR 6 0.3
Power 550 Express (4U) Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (2ch/4co) Prod 15 3.0
LPAR6
Power 550 Express (4U) Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (2ch/4co) Prod 15 1.0 LPAR53 Power 595 Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (20ch/40co) DR 30 2.8

Power 550 Express (4U) Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (2ch/4co) Prod 15 3.0
LPAR12 Power 595 Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (32ch/64co) Prod 128 7.5
LPAR34 Power 570 (16U) Power6 3.5GHz 32MB (8ch/16co) DR 12.5 2.0
LPAR35 Power 570 (16U) Power6 3.5GHz 32MB (8ch/16co) DR 16 1.0
LPAR36 Power 570 (16U) Power6 3.5GHz 32MB (8ch/16co) DR 12.5 2.5
LPAR22 Power 595 Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (32ch/64co) Prod 4 0.6 LPAR41 Power 570 (16U) Power6 3.5GHz 32MB (8ch/16co) DR 14 1.0
LPAR25 Power 595 Power6 4.2GHz 32MB (32ch/64co) Test 23 1.5 LPAR44 Power 570 (16U) Power6 3.5GHz 32MB (8ch/16co) DR 10 0.4

IBM.
Existing Infrastructure
p505 p550 p550 p505 p550
LPAR26 LPAR27
LPAR1 LPAR5 LPAR10
Prod DR
LPAR28
p510 p550 p550 p570
LPAR2 LPAR6 LPAR11
LPAR29 p570
LPAR7 LPAR34
p510 LPAR30
LPAR35
LPAR3
p550 LPAR31
LPAR36
P510 LPAR8 LPAR32

LPAR37
LPAR4 LPAR9
LPAR33 LPAR38
p595 LPAR39
p595
LPAR40
LPAR12 LPAR19
LPAR48 LPAR54 LPAR41

LPAR13 LPAR20

LPAR14 LPAR21
LPAR43
LPAR50 LPAR56
LPAR15 LPAR22
LPAR44
LPAR51 LPAR57
LPAR52 LPAR58
LPAR53
IBM i AIX

IBM.
New Infrastructure
POWER8 E870
POWER8 E870
LPAR48 LPAR54
Prod DR
LPAR1 LPAR5
LPAR49 LPAR55
LPAR2 LPAR6 LPAR50 LPAR56
LPAR51 LPAR34
LPAR3 LPAR7
LPAR52 LPAR35
LPAR8
LPAR4
LPAR53 LPAR36
LPAR9
LPAR12
LPAR31 LPAR39
LPAR19

LPAR14
LPAR27 LPAR42
LPAR21
LPAR15
LPAR28 LPAR43
LPAR22
LPAR23 LPAR45
LPAR58
LPAR17

LPAR18
LPAR25 LPAR47
IBM i AIX

IBM.
TCO Study Results
53% Saving
EUR 3,574,679
EUR 6,714,912 EUR 3,140,233

IBM.
TCO Study Results
6,714,912
3,140,233
New POWER8 IBM Power Systems deliver substantial cost savings (EUR 3.5M) compared to the
installed various POWER5/6 IBM Power Systems over a 5-year TCO period

IBM.
TCO Study Results
EUR
0.87M
IBM Power Systems offer a potential (EUR 0.87M) saving in Annual Run Rate or Operating Cost

IBM.
TCO Study - Executive Overview
The objective of this TCO Study is to demonstrate the cost savings that could be
achieved by refreshing the actual IBM Power System 795 (POWER7) by a new IBM
Power System E880 (POWER8).
Study Objectives:
• 5-year TCO Cost Comparison
Cases Evaluated:
• Case 1 –Existing IBM Power 795 (POWER7) with Oracle DB
• Case 2 – Technical Refresh to of the existing p795 to a new IBM Power E880
(POWER8) with Oracle DB
• Case 3 – Technical Refresh to of the existing p795 to a new IBM Power E880
(POWER8) with IBM DB2
The findings:
• IBM POWER8 refresh with DB2 requires 66% fewer cores than the existing
POWER7 server – this translates into lower hardware maintenance cost and software
costs. Infrastructure cost (DP room, Electricity & cooling) are also lower
• IBM POWER8 E880 with DB2 offers the lowest 5 year TCO - $8.3M vs $12.2M for
POWER8 E880 with Oracle vs $34M for POWER7 795 with Oracle
• IBM POWER8 E880 with DB2 offers the lowest annual operating rate: $1.2M vs
$2.7M for POWER8 E880 with Oracle vs $7.6M for POWER7 795

IBM.
TCO Study Comparisons
Case 1 – Baseline Case 2 – New Case 3 – New
Existing Server IBM Power Systems E880 IBM Power Systems E880
POWER 795 @ 4.0 Ghz POWER E880 @ 4.35 Ghz POWER E880 @ 4.35 Ghz
Active Cores: 96 of 128 Active Cores: 64 of 96 Active Cores: 64 of 96
Active Memory: 1536 GB Active Memory: 2048 GB Active Memory: 2048 GB
2 servers (1 for Prod + 1 for DR) 2 servers (1 for Prod + 1 for DR) 2 servers (1 for Prod + 1 for DR)
192 cores (96 x2) 72 Cores (64 + 8) 72 Cores (64 + 8)
IBM AIX IBM AIX IBM AIX
Oracle DB Oracle DB IBM DB2
Oracle Workload Sizing Oracle Workload Sizing DB2 Workload Sizing
162 (81 + 81) cores 102 (51 + 51) cores 42 (41 + 1) cores

IBM.
POWER7 Servers/Lpars
Prod DC DR DC
840F627 / p595 840F617 / p595
FRAM_1 FRAM_2 FRAM_1 FRAM_2
FRAM2-APP- HANDSET-DB- FRAM2-APP- HANDSET-DB-

SVR SVR SVR SVR
LGR-PROD- LGR-PROD-
LAB LAB
DB-2 DB-2
NIM PRAC NIM PRAC
PROD-ORA- PROD-ORA- PROD-ORA- PROD-ORA-

DB-SVR-6 DB-SVR-7 DB-SVR-6 DB-SVR-7

DB-SVR-8 DB-SVR-9 DB-SVR-8 DB-SVR-9

DB-SVR4 DB-SVR5 DB-SVR4 DB-SVR5
PROD- PROD-
PROD1 104 PROD1 104
ORADV-SVR3 ORADV-SVR3
SURE-DB- SURE-DB-
PROD2 112 PROD2 112
SVR SVR
WEB WEB
VIOS VIOS
SERVICES SERVICES
WVALE- ZSMART-BI- WVALE- ZSMART-BI-

ORADB-SVR1 COGNOS ORADB-SVR1 COGNOS
ZSMART-SAN ZSMART-SAN

IBM.
Power Enterprise Pool – Regular Mode
Pool Totals
192 Cores
Prod DR Activations:
96-core E880 96-core E880 72 Acitve
4.35 GHz 4.35 GHz
Activations: - 16 static
Activations:
64 Acitve 8 Acitve - 56 mobile
- 8 static - 8 static 120 “dark”
- 56 mobile - 0 mobile
32 “dark” 88 “dark”
32
Dark Dark
Mobile 88 Mobile
56
Static Static
8 8

IBM.
Power Enterprise Pool - Disaster Mode
Pool Totals
96 Cores
4.35 GHz 4.35 GHz
Activations: - 8 static
Activations:
32
Dark Dark
Mobile Mobile
56
Static Move 56 Mobiles
Static

IBM.
Power Enterprise Pool – 20% Growth
Pool Totals
192 Cores
4.35 GHz 4.35 GHz
Activations: Activations: - 16 static
26
Move 6 Mobiles
Dark Dark
Mobile Mobile
62 88
Static Static
8 8

IBM.
Power Enterprise Pool – More on Activations
• Each server must have some static processor core activations.

• All systems must be ordered with at least 50% of the memory active. A max of
75% of the memory activations can be mobile.
Static activations Power E870/E880 POWER7+ 770 / 780 Power 795

Static core minimum 8 4 25% or 24 (which ever larger)
Static memory minimum 25% 25% 25%
• Mobile activations ordered against a specific E870, E880, 770, 780, 795
• But “kept” or “inventoried” in the pool’s HMC, not on that specific
server
• A server is unaware of mobile activations unless the HMC assigns the
activation to it
• Static activations kept on the specific server
static mobile

IBM.
TCO Study Results
35,000$
5+Year)TCO)Comparison)
30,000$
25,000$
Thousands)
20,000$
64 % Saving 75 % Saving
15,000$
10,000$
5,000$
0$
AsIs$ $E880(Oracle$$ $E880(DB2$$
Migra5on$ ($$$$ ($$$$ 704,750$
DR$(All)$ 10,566,911$ 3,869,348$ 1,078,923$
Energy$ 310,204$ 114,646$ 104,619$
Hos5ng$ 15,490$ 8,095$ 8,095$
Networking$ 12,500$ 12,500$ 12,500$
People$ 1,800,000$ 1,800,000$ 1,800,000$
SoLware$ 10,002,164$ 3,794,192$ 2,348,124$
Sys$SoLware$ 4,228,056$ 784,680$ 674,856$
Hardware$ 7,065,997$ 1,773,862$ 1,614,677$
5-year TCO USD 34 001 323 USD 12 157 324 USD 8 346 545

IBM.
TCO Study Results
Accumulated)TCO)Cost)Comparison)
35000"
USD 34 001 323
30000"
Thousands)
25000"
20000"
15000"
USD 12 157 324
10000"
USD 8 346 545
5000"
0"
Year"1" Year"2" Year"3" Year"4" Year"5"
"AsIs"" "E8801Oracle"" "E8801DB2""
IBM POWER8 System with DB2 delivers substantial cost savings (USD 25.6M) compared to the
POWER7 795 System over a 5-year TCO period

IBM.
TCO Study Results
Annual)Run)Rate)TCO)Cost)Comparison)
!10,000.00!!
!9,000.00!!
!8,000.00!!
Thousands)
!7,000.00!!
!6,000.00!! USD 6.4M
!5,000.00!!
!4,000.00!!
!3,000.00!!
!2,000.00!!
!1,000.00!!
!"!!!!
Year!1! Year!2! Year!3! Year!4! Year!5!
!AsIs!! !E880"Oracle!! !E880"DB2!!
IBM POWER8 System with DB2 offers a potential (USD 6.4M) average saving in Annual Run Rate or
Operating Cost (4.9M Compare to POWER8 with Oracle)

IBM.
Core Performance
Consolidation Virtualization
SMT8
Virtual
Servers Estim. Cumul Typical CPU Cumul
Perfromance # Shared
# utilization with # Core
Core Ratio Core Proc Pool
Core virtualization
Impact
POWER8 HE w/ Roundup 80% (IBM
2 x1 x1 x1 x1 x1
PowerVM of Sum Commit.)
POWER8 SO w/ Roundup 65% (IBM
2 x1 x1 x1 x1,23 x1,23
POWER7 w/ Roundup 60% (IBM
1,07 x1,86 x1 x1,86 x1,23 x2,29
x86 "Haswell" w Roundup
1 x2 x1 x2 40% x2 x4
/OracleVM of Sum
x86 "Haswell" w/ Sum of
1 x2 x1.2 x2,4 40% x2 x4,8
VMware Roundup
Try to ensure that each Processor CORE is running at close to 100% utilization as
possible
A good average is close to 80-90%
Large processor pools provide better protection against unexpected workloads

IBM.
Agenda

1. Core performance

IBM.
Infrastructure Complexity Increase Staff costs
• Enterprise complexity
• Complexity increases with scale, staff turnover, Enterprise Availablity
clustering, changes, etc
• When complexity is no longer manageable,
Availablity
availability decreases
• Operational challenges increase with volume
(e.g. PD/PSI, security, performance management)
Complexity
• Strategies for reducing complexity

• Deploy common tooling and enterprise wide automation
• Standardize - utilize reference architectures
• Use larger virtualized servers
• Appropriate strategies may vary with the size of the environment

IBM.
Labor Cost
Labor Cost Example

Example:
• UCS C240 M4 (2U) Xeon E5-2670v03 12-Core 2.3GHz (2ch/24co)
• Power System E870 40 Cores (7U)
Based on Step 4 with only perfromance ratio :
Core Performance Consolidation

Virtualization
SMT8 (estimated)
TCA Server w / Oracle
Cumul Virtual Shared Cumul
Licence Core CPU utilization Estim. #
# Core # Core Proc Pool
Ratio with virtualization Core
Impact
80% (IBM Roundup of
Power8 w/ PowerVM 2,1 x1 x1 x1 x1 x1
Commit.) Sum
x86 "Haswell" w/ Roundup of
1 x2.1 40% x2 x4.1 x1 x4.1
OracleVM Sum
x86 "Haswell" w/ Sum of
1 x2.1 40% x2 x4.1 x1.2 x5
VMware Roundup
6 x 86 Xeon E5-2670v3 24 cores can be consolidated on 1 x E870 40 cores

Labor Model For Servers
• Annual Cost @ ~ 120.000 € per year (customer Hours per
Hours per
provided - fully burdened, blended rate) # of Physical Total # of HW or SW
Distributed Server - Labor Year for FTE Ratio %
Servers VMs Tasks (per
• FTE Hours per year @ ~ 1.670 hours Tasks
year)
• 52 weeks x 38 hrs / week = 1976 hours, minus
x86 24 72 36 2592
• 190 hours for vacation (5 weeks) Software Labor
Power 4 72 36 2592
• 120 hours for sick leave / paid holidays / training
x86 24 0 32 768
& administration Hardware Labor
Power 4 0 32 128
• Best Fit data indicates
x86 24 72 3 360
• Software Tasks are 36 hours per software image per Subtotal
year Power 4 72 2 720
• Assume this applies to all software images Available Hours per FTE 1 670
• Hardware Tasks are 32 hours per physical server # of FTEs x86 2,01
per year # of FTEs Power 1,63
19%
• Assume this applies to Intel and Unix Servers

IBM.
FTE Cost
TCA Server w / Oracle Licence
FTE
# FTE
Ratio
Power8 w/ PowerVM 0,8 x1

x86 "Haswell" w /OracleVM 1 X1,2
x86 "Haswell" w/ VMware 1 X1,2

IBM.
Agenda

1. Core performance

IBM.
Power Availability of Infrastructure to avoid loss in revenue
• Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS)

• IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® software
• 99.997% application uptime
• 7x24 Enterprise customer operations Hardware redundancy
• Automated recovery
• Special error-handling technologies Reliable components
• Failure detection
• Monitoring
• IBM develops, tests, integrates the entire stack for RAS
• I/O drawers / memory management unit
• Processors and all chips in CEC
• Hypervisor (PowerVM) and VIOS
• Device drivers, PCI adapters
• Operating system (AIX, System i, Linux)
• Middleware and Clustering software

IBM.
ITIC 2014 Survey –
POWER Has Highest Availability for 5th Year in a row
Planned Downtime - Hours Per month

Note: This survey included a
Power AIX 0.09 5.4 minutes/month variety of different system
environments (stand-alone
and clustered) over multiple
Intel RHEL 0.18 10.8 minutes/month platform generations
HP UX 0.39 At Least 2X Better

Availability than
Intel SUSE 0.44 26.4 minutes/month x86 Systems
Intel Ubuntu 0.55
Windows Server 2012 0.76 45.60 minutes/month
Oracle SPARC Solaris1.26 1.26
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4
Source:
2014 ITIC Server Reliability Survey: http://itic-corp.com

IBM.
Downtime costs
x86 x86 Power

Calculations
Windows Linux AIX
Average hours per month 0,76 0,18 0,09
Annual downtime hours per year 9,12 2,16 1,08
Average revenue loss per downtime hour (Insurance) $1 202 404 $1 202 404 $1 202 404
Total Annual Downtime Costs (annual revenue loss) $10 965 924 $2 597 193 $1 298 596

IBM.
Availability Cost
Server
Downtime
Downtime
Ratio
Power8 w/ AIX 0,11 X1

x86 "Haswell" w / Linux 0,5 X2
x86 "Haswell" w/ Window 1 X8,4

IBM.
Agenda

1. Core performance

IBM.
Other Cost Considerations when Choosing a Platform
• Infrastructure Costs Compared example

Data Centre
# of Max Power Total Power
Distributed Server - Cooling Yearly Cost Power &
*
Servers Physical (KWh) (KWh)
Power Vs x86 Efficiency (0,16cts/KWh) Cooling Ratio
Servers Theoritical Theoritical
(100%) Monthly Cost of Annual Cost
x86 24 0,90 21,50 21,50 60 320 € Frame Service Total Frame
Frame SqM Frame Space Per of Frame
Power + Cooling 45% Space Multiplier SqM
Power 4 2,95 11,81 11,81 33 133 € SqM Space
# of Total needed
0,62 1,5 1,55 600 € 11 160 €
Distributed Server - #U per Yearly Cost Floor Space
Servers Physical Total # U Rack (Max
Power Vs x86 Server (7200€/SqM)* Ratio
Servers 36U of 42U)
x86 24 2 48 2 22 320 €
Floor Space
Power 4 7 28 1 11 160 €
50%
# of WAN Ports
Distributed Server - SAN Ports per Average Cost
Servers Physical per Server/ Yearly Cost Network Ratio
Power Vs x86 Server/ Switch per Port
Servers Switch
x86 24 2 2 500 € 48 000 €
Network
Power 4 4 4 500 € 16 000 €
67%
Example:
• UCS C240 M4 (2U) Xeon E5-2670v3 12-Core 2.3GHz (2ch/24co)
• Power System E870 40 Cores (7U)
Based on Step 4 with only performance ratio :
Core Performance
Virtualization Consolidation (estimated)
SMT8
TCA Server w / Oracle
Cumul Virtual Shared Cumul
License Core CPU utilization with Estim. #
# Core # Core Proc Pool
Ratio virtualization Core
Impact
Roundup of
Power8 w/ PowerVM 2,1 x1 80% (IBM Commit.) x1 x1 x1 x1
Sum
x86 "Haswell" w/ Roundup of
1 x2.1 40% x2 x4.1 x1 x4.1
OracleVM Sum
Sum of
x86 "Haswell" w/ VMware 1 x2.1 40% x2 x4.1 x1.2 x5
Roundup
6 x 86 Xeon E5-2670v3 24 cores can be consolidated on 1 x E870 40 cores

IBM.
Power &
Floor Space Network
Cooling
Server
Network
Power Ratio Floor Ratio
Ratio
Power8 X1 X1 X1
x86 "Haswell" X1,8 X2 X3

IBM.
IT Economics Studies
Use a business case to make a technically and financially based IT decision
Cloud Assessment
Perform a Health Check to find the right private, public or hybrid cloud solution
Examine workload size and activity, SLA and provisioning requirements, and instance costs
Workload Placement Assessment

Consolidate, offload, and place new workloads on alternative platforms
Exploit and compare platform attributes to optimize workload performance and costs
Business Value Assessment (BVA)

Understand solution attributes and how business requirements are mapped
Quantify financial benefits and compare to alternatives to determine the most compelling case
Mobile Assessment
Mitigate high-volume, low-value mobile transaction costs
Evaluate the effects of throughput, response time and other KPIs in mobile topologies
Analytics Assessment
Determine the most cost-effective infrastructure for analytics solutions
Exploit platform attributes and efficient storage solutions for Analytics and Big Data
Chargeback Analysis
Align chargeback policies to actual IT costs
Identify and overcome chargeback policies that drive adverse IT decisions
IT Best Practice Benchmarking

Compare actual IT environment with best practices in the IT industry
Improve forecast and actual spend
Available at no-charge to IBM Clients and Business Partners

IBM.
Steps for an Eagle study
1. Request a study - Contact the IBM Eagle Team at ITEcon@us.ibm.com

2. Initial Call - A senior Eagle consultant will contact you to
• Understand the client situation
• Identify where a study would best help your account
• Help you identify the executive sponsor
• Join a call with you and the executive sponsor to gain their commitment
• Determine the workshop date and meeting logistics with you and the client
3. On-site Workshop - Two hours

• Determine scope of study (objectives, challenges and environment)
• Define study scenarios
• Share best practices and benchmarks learned from hundreds of client studies
• Identify action owners, study time line and next steps
4. Eagle Analysis - Approximately four weeks

• Analysis and report preparation is performed by Eagle consultant off-site
• Weekly checkpoint with you and the client’s assigned focal
5. On-site Study Presentation - One to two hours

• Eagle consultant presents findings and provides recommendations
• Client receives a detailed assessment based on their customized scenarios

IBM.
Eagle Presence World Wide
World wide and local teams expert in Eagle methodology and on-site client
consulting
Eagle consultants staffed in 18 countries across all GEOs

Craig Bender, Director
Worldwide Practice Leader
Somers, NY, USA
John Gustavson, CTO

Worldwide Practice Leader
Detroit, MI, USA
Americas EMEA AP
Christopher T. von Koschembahr Alfredo Micarelli J C Yao
IBM Eagle Team IBM Eagle Team IBM Eagle Team
Americas Practice Leader EMEA Practice Leader AP Practice Leader
New York, NY, USA Rome, Italy Tokyo, Japan

IBM.
Case Study 1: Consolidation of x86 Servers onto Power 8
Business Problem
Direction to reduce IT spend with perceived lower cost of Linux x86
Study Objective:
• Demonstrate the cost savings that can be achieved by
consolidating the client’s SAP Oracle Database
workloads to IBM Power Systems, using a 5 Year TCO
Case 1 – Existing Case 2 – New Case 3 – New (DR)
Study Servers IBM Power Systems S822 IBM Power Systems E870
IBM Flex System x240 POWER8 3.42GHz POWER8 4.02GHz
Xeon E5-2697v2 2.7GHz (2ch/20co) (4ch/32co)
(2ch/24co) 3 servers 2 servers
Options Evaluated: Flex System Chassis & 60 cores 64 (16 Static + 48 Mobile
CoD) cores
Flex System Manager
• Case 1 – Existing IBM Flex System x240 – Compute 12 servers
288 cores
Node (Intel Ivy Bridge-EP)
Database Workload Database Workload Database Workload
• Case 2 – IBM Power Systems S822 – Scale-out Server Oracle 144 cores¹ Oracle 28 cores¹ Oracle 20 cores¹
(POWER8 3.4GHz)
• Case 3 – IBM Power Systems E870 – Enterprise Server
(POWER8 4.02GHz)
76% Saving 76% Saving

Benefit:
• Savings of kr.42 M over five years using two
Enterprise Power E880 servers
• 76% lower TCO than the x86 solution
kr. 55,491,524 kr. 13,290,566 kr. 13,396,682

IBM.
Cast Study 1: 5 Year TCO Comparison
60,0
Accumulated TCO Cost Comparison
50,0
60
Cost (Millions) DKK
40,0
50
Cost (Millions) DKK

30,0
40
20,0
5 Year TCO 30
Kr. 42 M
10,0 76% Saving 20
0,0
Flex System x240 3x Power Systems 2x Power Systems 10
(Existing) S822 E870
Energy 1 272 921 563 279 532 971
0
Hosting 102 966 30 890 72 076 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
Networking 900 950 225 237 150 158
People - - -
Flex System x240 (Existing) 3x Power Systems S822
Software 52 189 194 10 147 899 7 248 499 2x Power Systems E870
Sys Software 819 612 954 702 933 261
Hardware 205 883 1 368 560 4 459 717
kr. 55,491,524 kr. 13,290,566 kr. 13,396,682

IBM.
Case Study 2: Refreshing Power 770 Servers onto Power 8
Business Problem
Server refresh required to replace older hardware
Study Objective:
The objective of this TCO Study is to demonstrate
the cost savings that can be achieved by refreshing
to IBM POWER8 technology, over a 5-year period
for a stockbroker.
Options Evaluated: 5 Year TCO

$5.96 M
• Case 1 – IBM Power (POWER7) 770 – Existing
Infrastructure Today 33% Saving
• Case 2 – IBM Power System (POWER8) S824
• Case 3 – IBM Power System (POWER8) E870
Benefit:
• The “Enterprise Class” IBM Power System
E870 offers the lowest 5 year TCO - US$ 11.8M
• Software Costs are the most dominant factor
• IBM POWER8 requires 56% fewer Oracle
workload cores than IBM POWER7

IBM.
Case 3: Off-Load from Power to x86 escalates costs!
Business Problem
Leverage lowest cost solution to run business applications
Client Solution
An IT outsourcing company in Switzerland had a Power Continue to run applications on Power. The increase
install base but was convinced an x86 solution would be in core count and physical servers in the x86 solution
more economical. The client issued an RFP for the lowest drove higher run rate.
priced solution to run their business applications.
Increasing SW licensing, energy and labor significantly
5 Year TCO
affected IT costs as the company continued to grow
Benefit 14.5 M USD
10% year to year.
Run rate compare between Power and x86 indicated a Savings
Existing Power Environment x86 Environment
cumulative savings of $14.5M over 5 years using the 257 cores, 5 servers
Calculated equivalent:
Power solution. 799 cores, 50 Servers
Additional costs not included in the $14.5M delta were

migration, space and storage to deploy and house the
x86 solution.
Cost in $M

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• Introduce the IBM CPO Eagle Team and IT Economics Concepts to

• Learn how IBM POWER8 helps businesses consolidating their

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• Eagle IT Economics Overview

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• Benefits of engaging the Eagle Team

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TCA Hardware $ $ $ $ $ Planning

QoS – Availability, Reliability, Security and Scalability

Total Cost of Ownership is much more than Total Cost of Acquisition!

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1. Eagle IT Economics Overview

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Per Core Performance

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x86 IBM POWER8 vs. x86

# Cores 144 80 Benchmark Utilization

SAP 2-Tier 58,626 79,750 2.4

SPECfp_rate2006 2,050 5,130

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1. Eagle IT Economics Overview

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These design decisions result in

*: POWER8 compared to Haswell EX

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Core Performance SMT8

POWER7 w/ PowerVM 1,07 x1,86

x86 "Haswell" w /OracleVM 1 x2

x86 "Haswell" w/ VMware 1 x2

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1. Eagle IT Economics Overview

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• Practical case with Shared Processor Pool (SPP)

The CPU monitoring shows a maximum cumulated workload for 6.3

CPU = 3.1 / VP = 4 = 7 processor licenses

Virtual Shared Processor Pool with 7 processors

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• Sum the ENTITLED CAPACITY of each capped LPAR in the pool

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1. Eagle IT Economics Overview

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• CoD processors and memory priced to make it economically easier to

No x86 server has Capacity on Demand

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• Power Enterprise Pools

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20% buffer – activated on

to cover HA. savingPrice

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1. Eagle IT Economics Overview

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• Multi-system infrastructure providing a highly available

• Clients purchase the capacity needed and allocate & 780

rebalance virtual processor and memory resources 770

• Live Partition Mobility enables clients to migrate running

64c 64c 64c Active 64c 64c

No Intel x86 server has this quality of service

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Core Performance SMT8 Consolidation

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1. Eagle IT Economics Overview

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