IBM today announced a complete redesign of your family system 86 server,with up to 12.8 TB of NAND flash memory directly on the bus of the server and a modular structure,the user,to allow the server upgrade by simply replacing plug in books Calculate.This sixth generation of system x has six basic reference architectures,including one for SAP HANA is designed to virtualize ERP and other large applications at the level of fundamental company for delivery by private and hybrid clouds easier.The scalable design also can reduce the cost of acquiring up to 28 percent compared to competitive x86 Xeon says IBM.
The announcement includes a new System x3850 M4 server BD storage,server rack has two sockets supporting up to 14 flash and hard drives with up to 56 TB of storage with high density. This server combines the screen with memory is specially designed Big Data facilities for large deployment architectures such as Hadoop,It also includes the new IBM System Flash 840,double the bandwidth and IOPS performance 1.1 M offers like its predecessor,the 820 flash system.Supports up to 48 TB of usable capacity in a 2U unit with IBM Microlatency technology reduces access time to data microseconds.Designed to handle large amounts of data , actionable provides information to analyze data in real time faster than their predecessors.It also features a new graphical user interface for managing data centers and advanced features such as hot-swappable and load the same code components and enables rapid deployment and ease of management.
Virtualize your ERP for the cloud
The x6 system is the first server in the family,which was effectively designed from the ground up to integrate flash memory.Previously,Flash memory is a kind of add-on adds a PCI card with the server. This is the integration of the flash memory bus that the high-speed bus in the system,and a block memory device,such as other storage medium in block appears therefore the application.
Flash memory bus,which is the world's fastest flash memory And these new systems can support a large amount of the same .
It looks exactly like a DDR3 DIMM.These systems will have 92 DIMM slots on a four track so it can hold up to 6 terabytes of memory in a four way,support 12 terabytes in one of the eight positions.This is three times more storage than on the server by eight standard positions today.
This has important implications for big data analytics and virtualization of large enterprise applications such as ERP. If you want that in the analysis server applications,database caching five terabytes,you can configure it as a cache.For example in the SAP HANA appliance a lot of that used space for RAM allowing users to have a very large set in HANA,while still large amounts of Flash for the start-up scene data data. HANA or extension of a similar system on multiple servers to support large databases on the memory bus and provides resiliency and redundancy in case of a hardware or power on each server.
Before generating x6, users could with memory restrictions on what they could virtualize.If a four-way server that supports only one or two terabytes of memory it is hard to virtualize had a terabyte application.Now they can do in these new platforms.This is the way for virtualization of ERP systems including Oracle Red Stack now running on the bare metal so that customers realize the benefits of server virtualization and service-based ERP and other systems important for users by their private Clouds.I want to spend my large databases to a cloud model.Want to move my SAP HANA to a cloud model.Want to spend my large ERP applications.Want it does not have to re-design for a new architecture I would now like to spend, and this provides the infrastructure to do that,
Booking” your memory, flash, CPUs
The other part of the revolution x6 is the new parallel modular design,IBM servers called Compute the Books.Each are these plug- and-play modules that plug each with its own processor and memory.These in a motherboard.This means that a server upgrade or replacement of a unit is not just a matter of separating one or more modules and plug replacement.Then a simple reboot the new hardware without requiring a replacement forklift and the whole administration that goes along with that.IBM estimates that the central server will support at least the next three generations of processors and memory technology/Flash.
"As soon as the server Architected and puts his large applications on it two years from now,when you say Scotty , I need more power just pull the plug Compute books and the last not the biggest in.It's all transparent to the IO line.It provides a lot of investment protection through generations.
And although it requires that the updated server is restarted because it is a virtualized environment and are virtualized now this great applications that you have not,application downtime.
"As soon as the server Architected and puts his large applications on it two years from now,when you say Scotty , I need more power just pull the plug Compute books and the last not the biggest in.It's all transparent to the IO line.It provides a lot of investment protection through generations.
And although it requires that the updated server is restarted because it is a virtualized environment and are virtualized now this great applications that you have not,application downtime.
Six reference architectures
As part of the announcement,IBM also announced six pre-architected versions that come with software installed: an SQL data Warehouse a Hyper-V appliance running on Windows Server an SAP HANA version an SAP Business Suite version, a VMware vCloud,and finally a version running DB2 with BLU acceleration on Linux.The servers come with either SUSI or Red Hat Linux or Microsoft Server.While IBM does not have a reference architecture for it Oracle has System x on its compatibility list,so users can also run an Oracle Red Stack on the new System x.And because of the higher end processors and the large amounts of memory and flash storage that the new generation supports,they can decrease the number of licenses they need,saving significant cost,particularly with Oracle. And System x also runs IBM Watson for users who want that in-house rather than using it from IBM’s cloud.
