IBM Power Systems Series Site And Hardware Planning

Cabling under the floor
A cable access bar located on the bottom rear of the rack helps to route the cables, leaving the rack in
place. This bar can be removed for installation and then reattached after the rack is installed and cabled.
Figure 27. Cabling within the rack
Figure 28. Cable access bar
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IBM Power Systems Series Specifications

General

Virtualization	PowerVM
Architecture	POWER
Operating System	AIX, IBM i, Linux
Use Case	Enterprise workloads, cloud
Form Factor	Rack-mount
I/O	PCIe
Power Supply	Redundant power supplies available
Management	HMC (Hardware Management Console)
Processor	IBM POWER processors (POWER9, POWER10, etc.)
Storage	Supports various storage options including SSDs and HDDs