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IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG14-0098
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– One system port with RJ45 connector
• Four hot plug, redundant power supplies
• 19-inch rack-mount hardware (4U)
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One fewer PCIe slot is available with the dual IOA storage backplane feature EJ0U.
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One x8 PCIe slot is used for integrated LAN adapter.
PowerVM
IBM PowerVM, which delivers industrial-strength virtualization for IBM AIX, IBM
i, and Linux environments on IBM POWER® processor-based systems, has been
enhanced with a virtualization-oriented performance monitor and performance
statistics are available through the HMC. These performance statistics can be used
to understand the workload characteristics and to prepare for capacity planning.
Capacity backup
The Power S824 server's CBU designation enables you to temporarily transfer IBM
i processor license entitlements and IBM i user license entitlements purchased for
a primary machine to a secondary CBU-designated system for HA/DR operations.
Temporarily transferring these resources instead of purchasing them for your
secondary system may result in significant savings. Processor activations cannot be
transferred.
The CBU specify feature 0444 is available only as part of a new server purchase.
Certain system prerequisites must be met and system registration and approval are
required before the CBU specify feature can be applied on a new server. Standard
IBM i terms and conditions do not allow either IBM i processor license entitlements
or IBM i user license entitlements to be transferred permanently or temporarily.
These entitlements remain with the machine they were ordered for. When you
register the association between your primary and on-order CBU system, you must
agree to certain terms and conditions regarding the temporary transfer. After a new
CBU system is registered along with the proposed primary and the configuration
is approved, you can temporarily move your optional IBM i processor license
entitlement and IBM i enterprise enablement (#5250) entitlements from the primary
system to the CBU system when the primary system is down or while the primary
system processors are inactive. The CBU system can then support failover and role
swapping for a full range of test, disaster recovery, and high availability scenarios.
Temporary entitlement transfer means that the entitlement is a property transferred
from the primary system to the CBU system and may remain in use on the CBU
system as long as the registered primary and CBU system are in deployment for the
high availability or disaster recovery operation. The intent of the CBU offering is to
enable regular role-swap operations.
Before you can temporarily transfer 5250 entitlements, you must have more than
one 5250 Enterprise Enablement entitlement on the primary server and at least one
5250 Enterprise Enablement entitlement on the CBU system. You can then transfer
the entitlements that are not required on the primary server during the time of
transfer and that are above the minimum of one entitlement. The minimum number
of permanent entitlements on the CBU is one however you are required license all
permanent workload such as replication workload. If for example, the replication
workload consumes four processor cores at peak workload, then you are required to
permanently license four cores on the CBU.
For example, if you have a 12-core Power 740 as your primary system with six IBM
i processor license entitlements (five above the minimum) and two 5250 Enterprise
Enablement entitlements (one above the minimum), you can temporarily transfer
up to five IBM i entitlements and one 5250 Enterprise Enablement entitlement.
During the temporary transfer, the CBU system's internal records of its total number
of IBM i processor entitlements are not updated, and you may see IBM i license
noncompliance warning messages from the CBU system.