IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG10-0214
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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