IBM Power Systems E870C and E880C Technical Overview and Introduction

Reliability, availability, serviceability, and manageability

This chapter provides information about IBM Power Systems reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) design and features.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•4.1, “RAS enhancements of POWER8 processor-based servers” on page 116

•4.2, “Reliability” on page 118

•4.3, “Processor/Memory availability” on page 120

•4.4, “Enterprise systems availability” on page 126

•4.5, “Availability effects of a solution architecture” on page 127

•4.6, “Serviceability” on page 129

•4.7, ...