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Power E1080 is the newest addition to IBM Power family, the industry’s best-in-class
server platform for security and reliability. The Power E1080 introduces the essential
enterprise hybrid cloud platform, which is uniquely designed to help you securely and
efficiently scale core operational and artificial intelligence (AI) applications anywhere in a
hybrid cloud.
The Power E1080 simplifies end-to-end encryption and brings AI where your data is stored
for faster insights. This configuration helps enable greater workload deployment flexibility and
agility while accomplishing more work.
The Power E1080 can help you to realize the following benefits:
Protect trust from core to cloud
Protect data that is in-transit and at-rest with greatly simplified end-to-end encryption
across hybrid cloud without affecting performance.
Enjoy enterprise quality of service
The Power E1080 can detect, isolate, and recover from soft errors automatically in the
hardware without taking an outage or relying on an operating system to manage the faults.
Drive greater efficiency with sustainable and scalable compute
The processor performance, massive system throughput, and memory capacity qualify the
Power E1080 server to be the perfect workload consolidation platform. This performance
Sentails significant savings in floor space, energy consumption, and operational
expenditure costs.
This chapter includes the following topics:
1.1, “System overview” on page 2
1.2, “System nodes” on page 6
1.3, “System control unit” on page 10
1.4, “Server specifications” on page 12
1.5, “System features” on page 15
1.6, “I/O drawers” on page 25
1.7, “System racks” on page 34
1.8, “Hardware management console overview” on page 42
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2 IBM Power E1080: Technical Overview and Introduction
1.1 System overview
The Power E1080, also referred to by its 9080-HEX machine type-model designation,
represents the most powerful and scalable server in the IBM Power portfolio. It is comprised
of a combination of CEC enclosures that are called nodes (or system nodes) and more units
and drawers.

In this section, we provide a general overview of the system nodes, processors, and memory.
For more information about the system nodes, see 1.2, “System nodes” on page 6.
A system node is an enclosure that provides the connections and supporting electronics to
connect the processor with the memory, internal disk, adapters, and the interconnects that
are required for expansion.
A combination of one, two, three, or four system nodes per server is supported. At
announcement, a maximum of two nodes can be ordered. After December 10, 2021, the
maximum configuration of four nodes is to be made available.