Power System S924 (9009-42G)

IBM Power Systems has always been focused on reliability and performance. The Power System S924 server is primed with a POWER9 processor, displaying a technology designed from the ground up for data-intensive workloads, such as operational databases, advanced analytics, and business applications. The system is built with innovations that deliver the highest security and reliability standards for future-driven enterprises.

When it comes to virtualization technology, Power Systems is unmatched. With a built-in IBM PowerVM hypervisor, clients have been relying on IBM for years to provide consumability and agility in IT data centers. Today, leveraging IBM's unique, comprehensive approach to the cloud, from on-premises IT to public cloud provider, we are taking one step forward.

The new Power System S924, powered by PCIe Gen4 switches, delivers a seamless and lightspeed throughput I/O between multiple on-premises and public cloud applications, as well as cloud-like agility and economics by supporting Enterprise Pools 2.0.

The Power S924 (9009-42G) server has been refreshed to provide:

Superior on-premises infrastructure for hybrid cloud

• Twice as fast back-end I/O enables seamless maximum speed and throughput between on-premises and multiple public cloud infrastructures with high availability.
• Largest memory bandwidth and memory storage in the market combined with up to 14 (four U.2 NVMe plus up to ten PCIe add in cards) NVMe adapters allows a huge VM, containers, and bare metal consolidation, saving data center space and networking costs.
• Supports multiple OS instances without processing overhead in the server.
• PowerVM hypervisor is built in at no extra charge, so every POWER9 workload is virtualized, mobile, and cloud ready.
• IBM VM Recovery Manager, built on PowerVM, provides easy, low-cost solutions for high availabiity (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) operations.
• IBM PowerHA for AIX and IBM i are the low-cost, highly automated solutions to deliver high availability features to your mission critical applications.

Introducing Shared Utility Capacity for pay-per-use compute experience by the minute

• Provides flexible consumption with a pay-per-use compute through Power Enterprise Pools 2.0. There are no fixed monthly fees: you pay for what you use.
• Enables multisystem resource sharing across a collection of IBM scale-out servers - pool processors, AIX, and IBM i license entitlements.
• Offers a lower initial system price with a higher value-added proposition. Systems may be configured with only a single core active and 256 GB memory.
• Delivers an on-premises cloud-like agility and economics experience with leadership business continuity and security hardware.
• Industry-leading monitoring and metering through the IBM Cloud Management Console (CMC) with granular real-time and historical views of consumption of resources by the LPAR and system.

Increased performance and flexibility for your key workloads

• Upgrade AIX and IBM i installations to speed up your journey to a hybrid multicloud
• Benefit from an increased I/O architecture on IBM Db2 Mirror for i
• Optimize performance and license costs with Oracle applications through Shared Utility Capacity
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift deployments
• Increased performance and reduced footprint to run IBM Cloud Paks
• Epic Healthcare Solution Edition
• High performance for IBM Spectrum Scale offerings
• SAP HANA environments with external storage or multiple nodes