IBM Power System S822
Scale-out application server for secure infrastructure built on open technology
IBM newest Power System S822 is designed for mid-sized business solutions. With a strong commitment to optimizing AIX® workloads, these new systems deliver better the performance of our prior generation of systems and additionally offer unmatched price/performance value for integrated Linux applications. IBM Power Systems™ based one and two socket servers provide the ideal foundation for private and public cloud infrastructure. The new S2400 server based on POWER8™ processors deliver superior throughput of Intel based offerings for comparable workloads and provide superior economics for scale-out deployments. For customers looking to deploy advanced analytics, Power can now deliver superior response time for sorting and querying unstructured big data sets and deliver superior number of business reports per hour for typical business analytics over competing solutions built on x86. For Java™ workloads the new systems deliver unprecedented performance.
Highlights
- Ideal for consolidation of multiple applications and infrastructure workloads in a virtualized environment, bringing together business transaction processing with infrastructure for social and mobile solutions
- Consolidation of UNIX and x86 Linux workloads
- Gain faster insights with the IBM® POWER8™ processor and smart acceleration enabled by Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) technologies
- Reduce energy consumption utilizing advanced energy control
Power Systems: Innovation to put data to work
New innovation brings faster insight to the point of impact for today’s data hungry applications
Built with innovation that puts data to work, IBM Power Systems™ deliver the foundation for organizations to bring insight to the point of impact 2x faster. These first generation systems push the physical and virtual boundaries of data center technology with innovation designed to drive faster and more efficient data-centric applications required for today’s smarter enterprise.
With new innovations, Power Systems provide the ability to:
- Gain faster insights with the POWER8 processor and smart acceleration enabled by CAPI technologies such as accelerators for key workloads
- Achieve lower latency and smaller footprint with CAPI Flash
- Move data in and out of systems more quickly with twice the memory and I/O expansion
- Achieve greater speed and efficiency for database, transactional and other highly multi-threaded applications with transactional memory supported by 50 percent more cores and 2x the number of simultaneous threads per core
| System configurations | Model 8284-22A |
|---|
| Processor and Memory | |
|---|---|
| Microprocessors | One or two 6 core 3.89GHz POWER8 processor cards or One or two 10 core 3.42 GHz POWER8 processor cards |
| Level 2 (L2) cache | 512 KB L2 cache per core |
| Level 3 (L3) cache | 8 MB L3 cache per core |
| Level 4 (L4) cache | 16 MB per DIMM |
| Memory Min/Max | 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 module 16 to 512 GB (1S) 32 to 1 TB (2S) |
| Processor-to-memory bandwidth | 192 GBps per socket |
| Storage and I/O | |
|---|---|
| Standard backplane | 12 SFF HardDiskDrive/SolidStateDisk |
| With dual IOA higher function backplane | 8 SFF HDD/SSD plus 6 1.8-inch bays for SSD |
| Media bays | One slimline DVD |
| Integrated SAS Controller | Standard RAID 0,5,6,10. optional: 7200 MB* cache & easy tier function |
| Adapter slots | Included one x8 PCIe slots must contain a 4-port 1 Gb Ethernet LAN available for client use Nine PCIe Gen3 slots with concurrent maintenance: four x16 plus five PCIe Gen3 x8 1 CAPI adapter per processor card |
| I/O bandwidth | 96 GBps per socket |
| Power, RAS, system software, physical characteristics and warranty | |
|---|---|
| Power supply | 200 V to 240 V |
| RAS features | Processor instruction retry Alternate processor recovery Selective dynamic firmware updates Chipkill memory ECC L2 cache, L3 cache Service processor with fault monitoring Hot-swappable disk bays Hot-plug concurrent maintenance PCIe slots Hot-plug and redundant power supplies and cooling fans Dynamic processor deallocation Extended error handling on PCI slots |
| Operating systems† | AIX and Linux on POWER |
| System dimensions | 427.5 W x 86.5 H x747.5 D mm |
| Warranty | 3 year limited warranty, on site for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country), next business day 9x5 (excluding holidays), warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available. |
* 1.8 GB write cache with compression up to 7.2 GB effective
† See facts and features document for detailed OS level support.
