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Competitive Power Sales Advisor IBM Power S824 vs Oracle T5-2

IBM - Power System S824 Oracle - SPARC T5-2


Manufacturer IBM Oracle
Product Type Mid-Range Server Entry-Level Server
Form Factor Rack Rack
Platform UNIX, LINUX, Other OS UNIX
Announced 28-Apr-14 26-Mar-13
Available 10-Jun-14 26-Mar-13
Architecture RISC RISC
Base Price (USD) 51,124 (2ch/6co 512GB) 62,626 (1ch/16co 512GB)
Rack Units 4U 3U
Operating System AIX, IBM i, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux Solaris
Processor Family POWER SPARC
Processor Options POWER8 (3.89GHz) SPARC T5 (3.6GHz)
Max Processor Chips POWER8 (4.15GHz)
4 2
Max Processor Cores 24 32
Cache 16MB L4 (per DIMM) 8MB L3
Chipset IBM proprietary
Memory Minimum 32 GB 128 GB
Memory Maximum 2048 GB 1024 GB
Memory Type DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 SDRAM
DIMM Type CDIMM RDIMM
Memory DIMM Slots Standard 16 32
Max Memory DIMM Slots 16 32
Memory Protection ECC, Chipkill ECC, Extended ECC, Parity Checking
Disk Type SAS, Solid State SAS, Solid State
Disk Controller Integrated SAS LSI SAS2008 SAS/SATA
Internal Disk Bays 12 (26 max) 6
Bays Information 12 x 2.5" hot-swap disk drive bays or 6 x 2.5" drive bays
Disk Max Internal 35,400 GB (total of 1209TB with addition of 3,600 GB
RAID Support EXP
0, drive
5, 6, 10 drawers) 0, 1, 1E
Hot-Swap Disks SAS, SSD SAS, SSD
Media Drive Optional DVD-RW
I/O Technology PCI Express 3.0 PCI Express 3.0
I/O Slot Types With one DCM: 8 x PCI Express 3.0 x8 Low Profile
I/O Max Slots 31 (using PCIe Gen3 I/O Expansion 8
Drawers)
I/O Internal Slots 7 8
Networking via PCI Express adapter: 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Last update: August 29, 2016 1 For IBM and IBM BP Use Only
Competitive Power Sales Advisor IBM Power S824 vs Oracle T5-2

IBM - Power System S824 Oracle - SPARC T5-2


Dimensions Height: 17.3 cm (6.81 in) Height: 12.985 cm (5.11 in)
Weight Width:
43.8 kg44.3 cmlbs)
(96.56 (17.44 in)
(max) Width:kg
36.28 43.65 cmlbs)
(79.98 (17.19 in) rackmount kit)
(without

Max Power (Calculated) 1,616 W (9,309 CO2e kg pa) 1,934 W (11,141 CO2e kg pa)
Max Power (Theoretical) 2,300 W (13,249 CO2e kg pa) 1,450 W (8,353 CO2e kg pa) (estimated)
Max Heat (Calculated) 5,818 kJ/hr (5,514 Btu/hr) 6,963 kJ/hr (6,599 Btu/hr)
Max Heat (Theoretical) 8,280 kJ/hr (7,848 Btu/hr) 5,226 kJ/hr (4,953 Btu/hr)
Hot-Swap/Redundant Cooling Fans Yes/Yes Yes/Yes
Hot-Swap/Redundant Power Supply Yes/Yes Yes/Yes
System Management Light Path diagnostics ILOM providing IPMI 2.0 Implementation
IBM Systems Director Active Energy
Manager with EnergyScale Technology
Electronic Service Agent
Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
Warranty 3yr (IOL) NBD Parts [CRU] + Onsite 1-Year Hardware Warranty with 2 Business
3-Year IBM Onsite Limited (IOL) Day On-Site Response
Some parts are Customer Replaceable Business Hours Phone Support
Units (CRU) (No Software Support)
IBM ships replacement CRU Next Business Worldwide
Day (NBD)
and client performs replacement
Other parts replacement is done by IBM
NBD Onsite

Power Data based on: Worst-Case Configurations

Last update: August 29, 2016 2 For IBM and IBM BP Use Only

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