IBM DS8880

Bulletproof data systems made for the future of business

Release 8.0

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New!

Introducing the new DS8880 family

of data systems 1H/2016

DS8 Advanced F(X)

2 3 Times 8870 Perf
19 Rack
2 TB Cache (DRAM)
128 Ports
1536 HDD/SDDs

DS8884 DS8886 DS8888

Fast Lower Cost T1 Storage Faster: 2X Performance Industrys Fastest T1 Subsystem

256 GB Cache (DRAM) Hybrid Flash All-flash
64 Ports 2 TB Cache (DRAM) 2 TB Cache (DRAM)
768 HDD/SDD + 120 flash cards 128 Ports 128 Ports
19 Rack 1536 HDD/SDDs + 240 flash cards 480 Flash Cards
19 Rack 19 Rack

IBM is introducing a family of business-critical hybrid data systems that span a wide range of price points. The family is
powered by the next generation of IBM's proven DS8000 platform and delivers critical application acceleration,
uncompromising availability and industry-leading capabilities.

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The story of an architecture evolution
DS8300 DS8700 DS8800 DS8870 DS8880
Disk FC FC SAS SAS SAS

Power Bulk Bulk Bulk DC-UPS DC-UPS

CEC p5/p5 p6 p6 p7/p7+ p8+

IO Bay RIOG PCIe-1 PCIe-1 PCIe-2 PCIe-3

Adapters 4Gb/2Gb 4Gb/2Gb 8Gb/8Gb 16Gb/8Gb 16Gb/8Gb

Rack 33 33 33 33 19

33 rack 19 rack
40U 40 to 46U

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New!

DS8880 family: features

Built on New Power 8 Platform
Tuleta S822 2S2U for DS8884
Tuleta S824 2S4U for DS8886

New IO Bay Interconnect

PCIe Gen3 for increased Bandwidth performance
8 IOA PCIe connectors for increased HW support
Power System Size Reduction
13U to 8U DC UPS
Single Phase Power
Built on DS8870 base
Inherits all Advanced Function from DS8870
Enablement for future advanced function
Standard 19 Form Factor Rack
Complies with data center planning requirements
600mmx1200mm foot print.

Integrated Dual HMC

1 or 2 HMCs option in base Rack
Eliminates external location requirement for 2nd HMC

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IBM DS8880: accelerate response time with
2x better performance

DS8886
DS8800 DS8870 DS8884 P8 24 Core
Units P6 4 Core P7+ 16 Core P8 6 Core Targets Targets
Rd Seq GB/s 11.8 22 ~ 20 ~47
Wr Seq GB/s 6.6 11 ~ 12 ~28

DB zOS
K IO/s 204K 900K ~ 600 ~1500K

DB open K IO/s 198K 1096K ~ 600 ~1500K

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IBM DS8880 Performance

Up to 1.65M IOPs with sub-millisecond

response time

Multi-thread optimization helps to scale

with more cores/threads

1,5 x faster

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DS8880: Mission critical architecture
Base Rack Expansion Rack

SSD/DDM Media SSD/DDM Media

Enclosure Enclosure

High Performance
Flash Enclosure

High Performance
I/O Bay Enclosure Flash Enclosure

P8 Servers I/O Bay Enclosure

DC-UPS DC-UPS

Single or Dual HMC

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New!

IBM DS8884
Mission critical enterprise system in a space savings, affordable package

For clients running critical workloads on mainframe, power or

distributed in single or mixed modes needing the same functionality on
a lower cost, flexible and space savings solution.

Up to 12 cores
256GB Total system memory
64 16GB FCP/FICON ports
768 HDD/SSD drives + 120 Flash Cards
19, 40U rack

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New!

IBM DS8886
Scalability and accelerated performance with world class storage services

Up to 2X better performance, highly scalable, with unmatched

capability for multisite replication in a dense yet expandable package.

Up to 48 cores
2TB Total system memory
128 16GB FCP/FICON ports
1536 HDD/SSD drives + 240 Flash Cards
19, 46U rack

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1H16!

IBM DS8888 all-flash

Extreme performance for applications where time equals money

When performance is as critical as the data it serves: for applications

and workloads where time equals money and you want more of each.

Alpine 850 Power 8 Processor

Up to 96 cores
2TB Total system memory
128 16GB FCP/FICON ports
480 Flash Cards
19, 40U rack

Statements on IBMs future plans and directions are for informational purposes during Customer Briefings under NDA only.
Future plans and directions are subject to change without notice. This information is considered IBM Confidential.

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DS8886 Physical Layout
HDD-SSD/Flash/Total
The P8 DS8886 will be the following 192/120/312 288/120/408 432/0/432 432/0/432 192/0/192
All Racks will 19 46U - 40U with 6U top Hat 46 1a1 4a2 2U 2U

2x P8 4U CEC's dual processor socket 44

1b1 4b2 3a3 1a4

4x IO Bay Pairs 42
3a1
6a2 3b3
````
1b4
40
6b2 0a3 3a4
- 2x IO Bay Pair in A Rack 3b1
38
0a1 5a1 0b3 3b4
- 2x IO Bay Pair in B Rack 36 0a4
5b1 2a3
Max of 128 Ports
0b1 22U

34 0b4
2a1 7a1 2b3
32
- 4 port 16Gbps FCP / FICON 2b1 7b1 5a2
2a4

30
- 4 port and 8 port 8Gbps FCP / FICON adapters HPFE
HPFE
4a1 5b2 2b4
28 5a3
HPFE 4b1 7a2
- max 16 ports per I/O Bay 26
HPFE

Max 8 DA Pairs
6a1 7b2 5b3
24 5a4
6b1 1a2 7a3

Max of 1536 DDMs/64 Gigapack drawers 22 HPFE

1b2
7b3 5b4

Max of 8 High Performance Flash Enclosures - 240

HPFE
20 HPFE 7a4
3a2 4a3
HPFE
flash drives 18
3b2 4b3 7b4

16 4a4
- 4 HPFE Drawers in A Rack 0a2 6a3
14 4b4
- 4 HPFE Drawers in B Rack 0b2 6b3
12 6a4
2x 8U DC-UPS
2a2 1a3
10 6b4
2b2 1b3
Single Phase 8

1 or 2 HMC option 6

Max of 5 Racks 4

2
HMC HMC

New Model Number of 981

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DS8884 Physical Layout
HDD-SSD/Flash/Total
The DS8884 will be the following 240/60/300 288/60/248 240/0/240

19" 40U rack 40 1U 1U

2x P8 2U CEC's single processor socket 38

3a1 6a3

2x IO Bay Pairs 36
3b1 6b3
2a4
6a2i 11U
- 1x IO Bay Pair in A Rack 34
2b4
- 1x IO Bay Pair in B Rack (B Rack can be 32 6b2
2a3
ordered with out IO bay Pair) 30 6a1

Max of Host 64 Ports 28

2b3
6b1 7a4
2a2
- 4 port 16Gbps FCP / FICON 26 3a4
7b4
2b2
- 4 port and 8 port 8GbpsFCP / FICON adapters 24 3b4 7a3
2a1
- max 16 ports per I/O Bay 22 3a3
7b3
Max 4 DA Pairs 20
2b1
3b3
7a2
HPFE
Max of 768 DDMs/32 Gigapack drawers 18 1U
HPFE
3a2
7b2

Max of 4 High Performance Flash Enclosures -120 16

3b2
HPFE
7a1
flash drives 14 HPFE
7b1
- 2 HPFE Drawers in A Rack 12U 6a4
- 2 HPFE Drawers in B Rack 10U 6b4
2x 8U DC-UPS 60A Single Phase 8U
1 or 2 HMC option 6U
Max of 3 Racks 4U

2U
HMC HMC
New Model Number of 981

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 DS8880 Configuration Summary
Model Processor Processor Available System NVS Expansion Max DA Pairs / Max Flash /
s per Cards per Threads Memory Frame Max HA's Max DDMs
CEC CEC SSDs

DS8884 Model 980/98B

980 6-core 1x6 core 24 64 4 0 2 / 8(32 ports) 60 / 240

980 6-core 1x6 core 24 128 8 0 to 2 4 / 16(64 ports) 120 / 768

980 6-core 1x6 core 24 256 16 0 to 2 4 / 16(64 ports) 120 / 768

DS8886 Model 981/98E

981 8-core 1x8 core 32 128 8 0 4 / 16(64 ports) 120 / 192
256 16

981 16-core 2x8 core 64 256 16 0 to 4 8 / 32(128 ports) 240 / 1536

512 32

981 24-core 2x12 core 96 1024 64 0 to 4 8 / 32(128 ports) 240 / 1536

2048 64

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Base Function License
Logical Configuration support for
FB
Original Equipment License (OEL)
IBM Database Protection
Thin Provisioning
Encryption Authorization
Easy Tier
I/O Priority Manager
z Synergy Service Function
PAV
Hyper-PAV
FICON, High Performance FICON
(zHPF)
IBM z/OS Distributed Data Backup
Copy Services Function
FlashCopy
Metro Mirror, Global Mirror
Metro/Global Mirror
z/Global Mirror & z/Global Mirror
Resync
Multi-Target PPRC

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 Copy Service Manager (CSM)
New Product Based on TPC-R technology
IBM Copy Services Manager 6.0 will be Generally Available Announcement with DS8K R8.0
Rebranding of TPC-R on z/OS
CSM PID 5698-E01
CSM Basic PID 5698-E02
New Product ID for Distributed Servers
CSM Distributed PID 5608-AB1

Existing TPC-R customers

Are entitled to CSM
Will have to Order CSM
Migration to CSM
Existing Sessions and Relationships remain
Install CSM
Export TPC-R Data Base
Import TPC-R Data Base in to CSM
Stop TPC-R

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