IBM POWER 730 - Manual (Page 2)

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The IBM Power 710 Express server is a 2U rack-mount server with one processor
socket offering 4-core 3.0 GHz, 6-core 3.7 GHz, and 8-core 3.55 GHz configurations.
The IBM Power 730 Express server delivers the outstanding performance of the
POWER7 processor in a dense, rack-optimized form factor and is ideal for running
multiple application and infrastructure workloads in a virtualized environment. Take
advantage of the Power 730 Express servers' scalability and capacity by leveraging
our industrial-strength PowerVM
TM technology to fully utilize the server's capability.
The IBM Power 730 Express server is a 2U rack-mount server with two processor
sockets offering 8-core 3.0 and 3.7 GHz, 12-core 3.7 GHz, and 16-core 3.55 GHz
configurations.
The Power 710 Express server supports a maximum of eight DDR3 DIMM slots, with
four DIMM slots included in the base configuration and four DIMM slots available
with an optional memory riser card, allowing for a maximum system memory of 64
GB. The Power 730 Express server supports a maximum of 16 DDR3 DIMM slots,
with four DIMM slots included in the base configuration and 12 DIMM slots available
with a maximum of three optional memory riser cards, allowing for a maximum
system memory of 128 GB.
Memory features (two memory DIMMs per feature) supported are 8 GB and 16
GB and run at speeds of 1066 MHz. Also, the optional Active Memory Expansion
can allow the effective maximum memory capacity to be much larger than the
true physical memory. Innovative compression/decompression of memory content
using processor cycles can allow memory expansion up to 100%. A server with a
maximum of 128 GB can effectively be expanded up to 256 GB. This can enhance
virtualization and server consolidation by allowing a partition to do significantly more
work with the same physical amount of memory or a server to run more partitions
and do more work with the same physical amount of memory.
The Power 710 and 730 Express servers offer three storage backplane options. The
first supports three SFF SAS hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs), an
SATA DVD, and a half-high tape drive. The second supports six SFF SAS HDDs/SSDs
and an SATA DVD. The third supports six SFF SAS HDDs/SSDs, an SATA DVD, Dual
Write Cache RAID, and an external SAS port. HDDs/SSDs are hot-swap and front
accessible.
Also available in the Power 710 and Power 730 system units is a choice of quad
gigabit or dual 10 Gb integrated host Ethernet adapters. These native ports can
be selected at the time of initial order. Virtualization of these integrated Ethernet
adapters is supported.
Other integrated features include:
• Four PCIe x8 Low Profile expansion slots
• One GX++ slot on the Power 710 and two GX++ slots on the Power 730 for 4X
connections
• Service Processor
• Integrated SAS/SATA controller for disk/SSD/DVD in system unit
• EnergyScale technology
• Two system ports, three USB ports, and two HMC ports
• Redundant and hot-swap power
• Redundant and hot-swap cooling