IBM Power 750 Express Hardware Announcement

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IBM United States Hardware Announcement110-009IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2For ordering, contact your IBM® representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBMAmericas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).OverviewThe Power 750 Express server (8233-E8B) supports up to four 3.3 GHz 6-core orfour 8-core 3.0, 3.3, and 3.55 GHz POWER7 processor cards in a rack-mount drawerconfiguration. The POWER7 processors in this server are 64-bit, 6-core and 8-coremodules packaged on dedicated processor cards with 4 MB of L3 cache/core and 256KB of L2 cache/core.The Power 750 Express server supports a maximum of 32 DDR3 DIMM slots, eightper processor card. Memory features (two memory DIMMs per feature) supportedare 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB and run at speeds of 1066 MHz. A system with fourprocessor cards installed has a maximum memory of 512 GB. Also, the optionalActive Memory Expansion can allow the effective maximum memory capacity to bemuch larger than the true physical memory. Innovative compression/decompressionof memory content using processor cycles can allow memory expansion up to 100%.A server with a maximum of 512 GB can effectively be expanded up to 1 TB. Thiscan enhance virtualization and server consolidation by allowing a partition to dosignificantly more work with the same physical amount of memory or a server to runmore partitions and do more work with the same physical amount of memory.The Power 750 Express server provides great I/O expandability. For example, with12X-attached I/O drawers, you can have up to 50 PCI-X slots or up to 41 PCIeslots. This combination can provide over 100 LAN ports or over 72 WAN ports, orup to 576 disk drives (over 240 TB disk storage). Extensive quantities of externallyattached storage and tape drives and libraries can also be attached.The Power 750 Express system unit without I/O drawers can contain a maximum ofeither eight SFF SAS disks or eight SFF SAS SSDs, providing up to 2.4 TB. All disksand SSDs are direct dock and hot pluggable. The eight SAS bays can be split intotwo sets of four bays for additional AIX/Linux configuration flexibility. The systemunit also contains a slimline DVD-RAM, plus a half-high media bay for an optionaltape drive or removable disk drive.Also available in the Power 750 system unit is a choice of quad gigabit or dual 10 Gbintegrated host Ethernet adapters. These native ports can be selected at the time ofinitial order. Virtualization of these integrated Ethernet adapters is supported.Other integrated features include:• Five expansion slots– Three PCIe x8 (two short-length, one full-length)– Two PCI-X DDR (full length)– Two GX slots for 12X I/O loop or 4X connections• Service Processor• Integrated SAS/SATA controller for disk/SSD/DVD in system unit– Optional 175 MB RAID write cache to augment disk/SSD performance andfunction• EnergyScale technology• Two system ports and three USB ports• Two hardware management console (HMC) ports and two SPCN ports• Redundant and hot-swap power• Redundant and hot-swap cooling