BladeCenter PS704 Express

IBM BladeCenter PS704 Express

Frontier provides refurbished and excess IBM BladeCenter PS704 blades. This blade server is the solution to replacing traditional rack server. This blade server allows agility and speed all in one simple to manage package. The PS704 Express blades utilize 2.4 GHz 64-bit Power7 processor and are available in sixteen-core or thirty two-core configurations. The PS704 blade server delivers massive workload consolidation with extreme cost efficiency.

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Features

• Form factor:  Doublewide blade server for BladeCenter S, BladeCenter H, or BladeCenter HT chassis
• Processor cores:  Thirty two 64-bit 2.4 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
• Level 2 (L2) cache:   256 KB per processor core
• Level 3 (L3) cache:   4 MB per processor core
• Memory (std/max): 
  • Base offering: 32 GB (8 x 4 GB); Express offering: 64 GB (8 x 8 GB), up to 256 GB maximum , thirty two DIMM slots, ECC IBM Chipkill DDR3 SDRAM running at 1066 MHz (4 GB DIMMs) 1066 MHz (8 GB DIMMs)
• Internal disk storage: 
  • Two 300 or 600 GB GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or four 1.8" 177GB Solid State Disks; No disk drive required on base offering.
• Networking:  Integrated quad gigabit Ethernet ports. Virtualized ethernet provided by PowerVM VIOS
• I/O upgrade:  Two PCI-E CIOv Expansion Cards and two PCI-E CFFh High Speed Expansion Cards
• Optional connectivity:   1 and 10 Gbps Ethernet, 4 and 8 Gbps Fibre Channel, 4X InfiniBand, SAS Expansion
• PowerVM:
  • PowerVM Express Edition: Supports 2 VMs/server and includes Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) and PowerVM Lx86
  • PowerVM Standard Edition: Scales to 10 VMs/core and adds suspend/resume and shared storage pools
  • PowerVM Enterprise Edition: Adds active memory sharing and live partition mobility
• Systems management:
  • Integrated systems management processor, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, light path diagnostics, Predictive Failure Analysis, Cluster Systems Management (CSM), Serial Over LAN, IPMI compliant
• RAS features:
  • IBM Chipkill ECC detection and correction
  • Processor Instruction Retry
  • Service processor with fault monitoring
  • Hot-swappable disk bays (in BladeCenter S chassis)
  • Hot-plug power supplies and cooling fans (in chassis)
  • Dynamic Processor Deallocation
  • Dynamic deallocation of logical partitions and PCI bus slots
  • Extended error handling on PCI-E slots
  • Redundant power supplies and cooling fans (in chassis)
• Operating systems:
  • AIX V5.3, V6.1 or AIX 7.1
  • IBM i1 7.1 or 6.1.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES11 SP1 or later
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 for POWER or later
  • RHEL6.0 or later
• High availability:  IBM PowerHA family
• System dimensions:
  • PS704 Express blade: 9.65 in (245 mm) H x 2.32 in (59 mm) W x 17.55 in (445 mm) D; weight: 19.2 lb (8.7 kg)
  • BladeCenter H chassis: 15.75 in (400 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.0 in (711 mm) D; weight: 350 lb (159 kg)
  • BladeCenter S chassis: 12.0 in (306 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.3 in (733 mm) D; weight: 240 lb (108.9 kg)