System Configurations | Model 8408-E8E |
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Processor and Memory | |
Processor cores | 48 at 3.02 GHz POWER8 40 at 3.35 GHz POWER8 32 at 3.72 GHz POWER8 |
Sockets | 2 – 4 |
Level 2 (L2) cache per core | 512 KB |
Level 3 (L3) cache per core | 8 MB eDRAM shared L3 |
Level 4 (L4) cache | Up to 128 MB eDRAM L4 (off-chip) per socket |
Enterprise Memory | Up to 32 CDIMMs, 1600 MHz DDR3 128 GB to 2 TB, increasing to 4 TB in the future* |
Processor-to-Memory bandwidth | 192 GBps per socket |
Storage and IO | |
Integrated PCIe adapter slots | Up to 11 hot-swap PCIe Gen3 slots x16: 4 – 8 (2 per socket) x8: 3 (one defaults to 2 x 10 Gb LAN) |
Integrated SAS Controllers | Two in storage backplane, supporting standard RAID 0,5,6,10, 5T2, 6T2 and 10T2
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Integrated SAS bays for solid-state drives (SSD) or hard-disk drives | 8 hot-swap SFF SAS drive bays (2.5”) + 4 SSD bays (1.8”) |
Expansion features (optional – operating system dependencies) | |
DVD bay | One |
Max PCIe Gen3 I/O Drawers (12 PCIe Gen3 slots each) | 4 |
Max DASD/SSD I/O Drawers (24 SFF bays each) | 64 EXP24S I/O drawers |
Standard features | |
Flexible Service Processor | 1 |
IBM POWER Hypervisor™ | LPAR, Dynamic LPAR; Virtual LAN (Memory to memory inter-partition communication) |
PowerVM Standard Edition (optional) | 20 Micro-Partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Shared Dedicated Capacity; Virtual I/O Server |
PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional) | 20 Micro-Partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Virtual I/O Server; Shared Dedicated Capacity; Live Partition Mobility (LPM) and Active Memory Sharing † (AMS) |
RAS features | Processor Instruction Retry Alternate Processor Recovery Selective dynamic firmware updates Chipkill memory Memory DRAM sparing Dynamic L3 cache column repair Dynamic Processor de-allocation Phase redundant, integrated sparing voltage regulator modules for processors, memory and I/O Second generation service processor Hot swappable Time-of-Day battery Redundant, hot swappable power supplies Redundant fans for SAS controllers and drive bays Redundant, hot swappable fans for processor, memory and PCIe slots Hot-swappable SAS bays Hot-swappable PCIe slots Dynamic de-allocation of logical partitions and PCIe bus slots Extended error handling on PCIe slots Active Memory Mirroring for Hypervisor (optional) |
Capacity on Demand features (optional) | Processor and/or Memory Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) Elastic Processor and/or Memory Capacity on Demand (CoD) Trial Processor and/or Memory CoD Utility CoD |
Operating systems | AIX and Linux for Power ‡ |
High availability | Power HA Editions |
Power requirements | Operating voltage: 200 to 240 V AC |
System dimensions | Four EIA (4U) space in a 19-inch rack Width: 449 mm (17.6 in.) Depth: 776 mm (30.6 in.) Height: 175 mm (6.9 in.) |
IBM Power System E850
- Designed for data and analytics, delivers secure, reliable performance in a compact, 4-socket system
- Can flexibly scale to rapidly respond to changing business needs
- Can reduce IT costs through application consolidation, higher availability and virtualization to yield over 70 percent utilization