One contributor to the higher list price is probably do to the fact that
Power VM is now included with the box.
PowerVM Enterprise Edition will be included with all POWER9 enterprise
server models (excluding L and LC models).
Purchasers of POWER8 enterprise server models can select either PowerVM
Standard Edition or PowerVM Enterprise Edition.
Jim W Grant
Senior VP, Chief Information Officer
Web: www.pdpgroupinc.com
From: "Steve Pavlichek" <spavlichek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02/13/2018 09:21 AM
Subject: RE: P9 Announcement day
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
The ?H? systems are targeted for SAP HANA and only support 25% of the
cores for running IBM i/AIX. All other cores are Linux.
The ?S? systems are basically same T&Cs as their POWER8 counterparts.
S924-S824, S922-S922, S914-S814.
As expected POWER9 requires 7.2/7.3 with latest TR release. NO v7r1
support.
No performance data(CPW/rPerf) numbers yet but IBM says to expect 1.5x
performance of POWER8
Initial review is showing POWER9 list price a bit higher than a comparable
POWER8 but price/performance should still be better.
From: Jim Oberholtzer<mailto:midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 8:47 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: P9 Announcement day
Read deep into the announcements. Several of these boxes Require SAP HANA
as the primary OS, and the IBM i P group is 20. IBM i and AIX are
limited
to 25% of the total machine.
These will need some serious review to understand exactly what's in store
for IBM i .
--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
midrange.com
