This section covers the standard system features that are included in the Power E1050 server.
1.4.1 Power E1050 server features
This summary describes the standard features that are available on the Power E1050 (9043-MRX) server model:
Ê The Power E1050 supports 24 – 96 processor cores with 2 – 4 Power10 processor modules.
Ê The Power E1050 delivers 256 GB to 16 TB high-performance DDR4 memory with an L4 cache.
Ê A Power E1050 server supports up to 10 NVMe drives. Ê Up to 11 hot-swap PCIe slots may be in the system unit:
– Six PCIe Gen5 x8 or Gen4 x16 slots. – Three PCIe Gen4 x8 slots.
– Two PCIe Gen5 x 8 slots.
– With two processor modules, there are seven PCIe slots; with three modules and four modules, there are 11 PCIe slots.
Ê The PCIe I/O Expansion Drawer (#EMX0) expands the number of full-high, hot-swap slots:
– Up to two PCIe drawers with two processor modules (maximum of 31 slots on the server).
– Up to four PCIe drawers with four processor modules (maximum of 51 slots on the server).
Ê Up to 64 EXP24SX SFF Drawers (#ESLS) can be attached, providing up to 1,536 SAS bays for disks or solid-state drives (SSDs).
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Ê System unit I/O (integrated I/O):
– USB 3.0 ports: four 3.0 ports, two front and two rear. – USB 2.0 ports: two rear 2.0 ports for limited use.
– HMC ports: two 1 GbE RJ45.
Ê Four hot-plug and redundant power supplies 2300 W (200 – 240 V AC) (#EB39). Ê System unit only 4U in a 19-inch rack-mount hardware.
Ê Primary OSs:
– AIX (#2146): small-tier licensing.
– Linux (#2147): Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
Processor modules
Ê The Power E1050 supports 24 – 96 processor cores:
– Twelve-core typical 3.35 – 4.0 GHz (max) #EPEU Power10 processor. – Eighteen-core typical 3.20 – 4.0 GHz (max) #EPEV Power10 processor.
Ê Twenty-four-core typical 2.95 – 3.90 GHz (max) #EPGW Power10 processor.
Ê A minimum of two and a maximum of four processor modules are required for each system. The modules can be added to a system later through a Miscellaneous Equipment Specification (MES) upgrade, but the system requires scheduled downtime to install. All processor modules in one server must be of the same frequency (same processor module feature number), that is, you cannot mix processor modules of different frequencies.
Ê Permanent CoD processor core activations are required for the first processor module in the configuration and are optional for the second and fourth modules. Specifically:
– Two, three, or four 12-core typical 3.35 – 4.0 GHz (max) processor modules (#EPEU) require 12 processor core activations (#EPUR) at a minimum.
– Two, three, or four 18-core typical 3.20 – 4.0 GHz (max) processor modules (#EPEV) require 18 processor core activations (#EPUS) at a minimum.
Ê Two, three, or four 24-core typical 2.95 – 3.90 GHz (max) processor modules (#EPGW) require 24 processor core activations (#EPYT) at a minimum.
Ê Temporary CoD capabilities are optionally used for processor cores that are not permanently activated. An HMC is required for temporary CoD.
System memory
Ê 256 GB – 16 TB high-performance memory up to 3200 MHz DDR4 OMI:
– 64 GB DDIMM Memory (#EM75).
– 128 GB DDIMM Memory (#EM76).
– 256 GB DDIMM Memory (#EM77).
– 512 GB DDIMM Memory (#EM7J).
– Optional Active Memory Expansion (#EMBM).
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Ê As your memory requirements increase, the system capabilities increase as follows:
– With two processor modules installed, 32 DDIMM slots are available. Minimum memory is 256 GB.
– With three processor modules installed, 48 DDIMM slots are available. Minimum memory is 384 GB.
– With four processor modules installed, 64 DDIMM slots are available. Minimum memory is 512 GB. Sixteen DDIMMs are available per socket.
– The more DDIMM slots that are filled, the larger the bandwidth that is available to the server.
Permanent CoD memory activations are required for at least 50% of the physically installed memory or 256 GB of activations, whichever is larger. Use 1 GB activation (#EMCP) and 100 GB activation (#EMCQ) features to order permanent memory activations.
Temporary CoD for memory is available for memory capacity that is not permanently activated.
Ê Delivery through Virtual Capacity machine type and model (MTM) (4586-COD) by using the IBM Entitled Systems Support (IBM ESS) process.
Ê An HMC is required for temporary CoD.
Notes:
Ê Memory is ordered in a quantity of eight of the same memory feature.
Ê The minimum memory that is supported per two Power10 processors installed is 256 GB.
Ê The minimum memory that is supported per three Power10 processors installed is 384 GB.
Ê The minimum memory that is supported per four Power10 processors installed is 512 GB.
Storage options
The Power E1050 supports up to 10 NVMe 7-mm or 15-mm drives:
Ê Six NVMe drives within a two or three-socket configuration Ê Ten NVMe drives within a four-socket configuration
All NVMe drives are driven directly from the system backplane with no PCIe card or cables required.
The 7-mm NVMe drives from the IBM Power E950 are also supported on the Power E1050 with a carrier conversion feature that is offered to hold these drives.