Power 6
IBM System P Family Datasheet
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The POWER6 announcement covers the new POWER6 chip, New Virtualisation Capabilities, and pre-viewing a new version of the operating system, AIX 6. POWER6 provides ground breaking performance, flexibility and efficiency capabilities for its System p UNIX servers.
Performance - Customers will see a 35-40% performance improvement
Flexibility – Allows customers to move workloads within and between System p servers to reduce occurrences of total system downtime that affects service quality.
Efficiency - Reduced energy costs through highly optimised and capacity-utilised systems. Allows for consolidation of even larger workloads resulting in further energy and resource savings.
Customer Benefits
The IBM System p offerings have features designed to enable continuous availability, reduce complexity and improved service levels.
Enables clients to get more processing power with fewer processors, thereby reducing both hardware and software licensing costs and getting tasks completed more quickly freeing up time and energy for additional tasks or idling back to conserve energy.
- Live Partition Mobility and Live Application Mobility
Provides for movement of partitions between servers to optimise system utilization.
Enables outage avoidance for planned outages and upgrades.
Provides for workload balancing across multiple servers.
Enables clients to dynamically increase processing capacity while maintaining current application availability. It allows for the adding of additional hardware components without taking the system down....concurrent hardware upgrades.
Enables clients to repair failed hardware components without bringing a system or application offline/down.
Eliminate downtime associated with installing some critical AIX updates.
- Utility Capacity on Demand
Enables processing capacity to be enabled and utilised at one minute increments in order to support flexible/changing business requirements.
- LPAR Virtualisation Tools and Systems Director
Easy-to-use tools designed to size, configure and deploy a customers virtual environment. Enhanced to improve management of cross-system environment: servers and storage
- Hardware Management Console Enhancements
New graphical web-based interface designed to ease the deployment and management of POWER systems.