IBM ZSERIES 890 - Manual (Page 2)

the mid-sized enterprise. The z890 is
a mainframe with advanced on
demand capabilities at a size and
cost that fits your business.
How can the z890 help you control
costs? This new line of high
performance midrange servers
provides many of the capabilities
available in larger enterprise class
servers at a lower entry point, along
with extremely granular growth
options that allow you to buy the
capacity that best fits your needs.
The z890 is capable of running Linux
and mainframe operating systems at
the same time, and it provides the
flexibility to easily manage changing
business needs while maintaining
mainframe levels of availability
and security.
as needed and paying for only what
you use. It means running multiple
applications on a single server and
running multiple operating systems at
the same time. It means maintaining
flexible growth and upgrade options.
If your company can truly achieve
this flexibility, it can compete – and
win – in today’s marketplace.
From an IT perspective, flexibility has
sometimes seemed like a luxury
afforded only to larger companies.
While small and medium-sized
businesses struggled to do more with
less, bigger companies were able to
simplify their infrastructures through
high-end enterprise servers like the
IBM ^ zSeries 990 (z990).
Now, IBM brings the advanced
mainframe technology of the z990 to
your IT world with the new
IBM ^ zSeries 890 (z890),
designed and sized specifically for
With the z890, you can start at the
capacity setting you need to meet
your IT infrastructure requirements,
then easily add additional capacity to
meet your changing needs as you
grow. The four processors on the
z890 have seven engine levels,
giving you a total of 28 capacity
settings overall. The smallest z890 –
with capacity setting 110 – has most
of the same features as the other 27
capacity settings; however it has
smaller I/O configuration/expansion
capabilities.
To help you reduce the complexity
and costs of your IT infrastructure,
you can use the advanced
virtualisation technology of the z890
to run several operating systems at
the same time. Competitively priced
Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL)
engines help you run Linux
applications more cost-effectively,
z890 – Single model with multiple features for a range of capacity settings
Uni-Processor
variants
2 Processor
variants
3 Processor
variants
4 Processor
variants
110 210 310 410
120 220 320 420
130 230 330 430
140 240 340 440
150 250 350 450
160 260 360 460
170 – Full Uni 270 – Full 2P 370 – Full 3P 470 – Full 4P
Single machine: 2086 and a single model: A04