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The IBM System z10 Business Class (z10 BC) delivers
innovative technologies for small and medium enter-
prises that give you a whole new world of capabilities
to run modern applications. Ideally suited in a Dynamic
Infratructure, this competitively priced server delivers
unparalleled qualities of service to help manage growth
and reduce cost and risk in your business.
The z10 BC further extends the leadership of System z by
delivering expanded granularity and optimized scalability
for growth, enriched virtualization technology for consoli-
dation of distributed workloads, improved availability and
security to help increase business resiliency, and just-in-
time management of resources. The z10 BC is at the core
of the enhanced System z platform and is the new face
of System z.
The z10 BC has the machine type of 2098, with one model
(E10) offering between one to ten confi gurable Processor
Units (PUs). This model design offers increased fl exibility
over the two model IBM System z9 Business Class (z9
®
BC)
by delivering seamless growth within a single model, both
temporary and permanent.
The z10 BC delivers improvements in both the granular
increments and total scalability compared to previous
System z midrange servers, achieved by both increasing
the performance of the individual PU as well as increasing
the number of PUs per server. The z10 BC Model E10 is
designed to provide up to 1.5 times the total system capac-
ity for general purpose processing, and over 40% more
confi gurable processors than the z9 BC Model S07.
The z10 BC advances the innovation of the System z10
platform and brings value to a wider audience. It is built
using a redesigned air cooled drawer package which
replaces the prior “book” concept in order to reduce cost
and increase fl exibility. A redesigned I/O drawer offers
higher availability and can be concurrently added or
replaced when at least two drawers are installed. Reduced
capacity and priced I/O features will continue to be offered
on the z10 BC to help lower your total cost of acquisition.
The quad core design z10 processor chip delivers higher
frequency and will be introduced at 3.5 GHz which can
help improve the execution of CPU intensive workloads on
the z10 BC. These design approaches facilitate the high-
availability, dynamic capabilities and lower cost that differ-
entiate this z10 BC from other servers.
The z10 BC supports from 4 GB up to 248 GB of real
customer memory. This is almost four times the maximum
memory available on the z9 BC. The increased available
memory on the server can help to benefi t workloads that
perform better with larger memory confi gurations, such
as DB2, WebSphere and Linux. In addition to the cus-
tomer purchased memory, an additional 8 GB of memory
is included for the Hardware System Area (HSA). The
HSA holds the I/O confi guration data for the server and is
entirely fenced from customer memory.
High speed connectivity and high bandwidth out to the
data and the network are critical in achieving high levels of
transaction throughput and enabling resources inside and
outside the server to maximize application requirements.
The z10 BC has a host bus interface with a link data rate
of 6 GB using the industry standard Infi niBand protocol to
help satisfy requirements for coupling (ICF and server-to-
server connectivity), cryptography (Crypto Express2 with
secure coprocessors and SSL transactions), I/O (ESCON
®
,
FICON
®
or FCP) and LAN (OSA-Express3 Gigabit, 10
Gigabit and 1000BASE-T Ethernet features). High Perfor-
mance FICON for System z (zHPF) also brings new levels
of performance when accessing data on enabled storage
devices such as the IBM System Storage DS8000
™
.
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