250 Power Systems Enterprise Servers with PowerVM Virtualization and RAS
7.1 Introduction
The IBM Power development team in Austin, TX, has aggressively pursued the integration of
industry-leading mainframe reliability technologies into Power Systems servers. With the
introduction of POWER7, there are successive generations of new RAS features included in
the server line. One core principle that guides the IBM RAS architecture engineering design
team is that systems must be configurable to achieve the required levels of availability without
compromising performance, utilization, or virtualization. Hardware and firmware RAS features
are independent of the operating system and, therefore, do not affect operating system or
application perfor ...