Planned availability date, Description – IBM POWER 730 User Manual

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Planned availability date

September 17, 2010, except for feature 2319, which is planned to be available on

December 10, 2010

Description

Power 710 and Power 730

Summary of standard features:

• Rack-mount (2U) configuration
• 4-, 6-, and 8-core processor modules

– 4-core, 6-core, and 8-core configurations on the Power 710
– 8-core, 12-core, and 16-core configurations on the Power 730

• 8 GB or 16 of 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC memory (error checking and correcting)

memory, expandable to 64 GB on the Power 710 and 128 GB on the Power 730

• Three storage backplane options:

– Three SFF SAS HDDs/SSDs, SATA DVD bay, tape drive bay
– Six SFF SAS HDDs/SSDs, SATA DVD bay
– Six SFF SAS HDDs/SSDs, SATA DVD bay, Dual Write Cache SAS RAID, external

SAS port

• Choice of three HEA daughter cards:

– Quad-port RJ45 1 Gb HEA (Copper)
– Dual-port SFP+ 10 Gb HEA (Fiber SR)
– Dual-port SFP+ 10 Gb HEA (Copper TwinAx)

• Four PCIe x8 Low Profile slots
• One GX++ slot on the Power 710; two GX++ slots on the Power 730
• Integrated:

– Service Processor
– EnergyScale technology
– Hot-swap and redundant cooling
– Three USB ports, two system ports, two HMC ports

• One Power supply on the Power 710, two power supplies on the Power 730

– 1725 Watt AC, Hot-swap
– Additional power supply available for redundant power on the Power 710

The minimum Power 710 initial order must include a processor module, processor

activations, memory, one HDD/SSD, a storage backplane, a power supply and power

cord, an operating system indicator, a chassis indicator, and a Language Group

Specify.

If IBM i is the Primary Operating System (#2145), the initial order must also include

one additional HDD/SSD, Mirrored System Disk Level Specify Code, and a System

Console Indicator. A DVD is defaulted on every order but may be de-selected.

The minimum defined initial order configuration, if no choice is made, when AIX or

Linux is the primary operating system is:


Feature number Description

8350 0/4 core 3.0 GHz POWER7 Processor Module
4 x 8360 4 Processor Activations
4526 8 GB (2 x 4096 MB) Memory

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