Glossary

IBM Power 10 Glossary

Definitions for Power 10, IBM i, PowerVM, VIOS, CPW, rPerf, DDIMM, firmware, and related IBM Power planning terms.

C

• CPW ... Commercial Processing Workload, IBM i relative performance metric.

D

• DDIMM ... Differential DIMM memory module used across most Power 10 systems.

H

• HMC ... Hardware Management Console used to manage IBM Power systems.

I

• IBM FlashSystem ... IBM external storage family often paired with Power systems over SAN.
• IBM i Software Tier ... The P05, P10, P20, or P30 class that strongly affects IBM i software cost.

L

• LPAR ... Logical partition on an IBM Power system.

P

• Power 10 ... IBM Power processor and server generation used across S1012, S1014, S1022s, S1022, S1024, E1050, and E1080 systems.
• Power 11 ... The successor generation to Power 10 and the future-state comparison point for new IBM Power purchases.
• PowerVM ... IBM Power virtualization layer for logical partitions.

R

• rPerf ... Relative performance metric used for AIX and Linux workload comparison.

V

• VIOS ... Virtual I/O Server used to share network and storage resources across Power partitions.

W

• Withdrawal From Marketing ... IBM lifecycle milestone where new sales availability changes for selected products.