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Configuration options
POWER7 processor modules one per processor card 4-core 3.0 GHz or

6-core 3.0 GHz or

8-core 3.0 GHz
Sockets One
Level 2 (L2) cache 256 KB per core
Level 3 (L3) cache 4 MB per core
Memory 8 GB to 128 GB of Registered Dual Inline Memory Module (RDIMM) Double Data Rate (DDR)3

Active Memory Expansion
Solid-state Drives (SSD) Up to eight small form factor (SFF) drives or
Disk drives Up to eight SFF Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives
Disk capacity Up to 2.4 TB
Media bays Slimline for DVD-RAM

Half height for tape drive or removable disk
PCI Adapter slots Four PCI Express 8x and optional Four PCI Express Low Profile
Standard input/output (I/O) adapters
Integrated Virtual Ethernet Four Ethernet 10/100/1000 Megabits per second (Mbps) ports

(or)

Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports
Integrated SAS controller One controller for SAS Direct Access Storage Device (DASD)/SSD and DVD-RAM

Optional protected 175 MB cache
Other integrated ports Three Universal Serial Bus (USB), two Hardware Management Console (HMC), two system ports, two SPCN
GX slots (12X) One GX++ 1
Expansion features (optional)
I/O expansion Up to two PCIe 12X I/O drawers

Up to four PCI-X DDR 12X I/O drawers
High-performance PCI adapters 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel (FC); 10 GbE, 10 Gigabit FC over Ethernet (FCoE)
Other PCI adapters supported include SAS, Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI), Wide Area Network (WAN)/Async, USB, Crypto, SCSI over IP (iSCSI)
PowerVM technologies
POWER Hypervisor Logical Partition (LPAR), Dynamic LPAR, Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) (Memory-to-memory interpartition communication)
PowerVM Express Edition (optional) Up to three partitions on the server; PowerVM Lx86; VMControl, virtualised disk and optical devices (VIOS); Integrated Virtualisation Manager (IVM); Shared Dedicated Capacity
PowerVM Standard Edition (optional) PowerVM Express Edition plus Micro-Partitioning with up to 10 micro-partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools
PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional) PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility (LPM) and Active Memory Sharing (AMS)
RAS features Error Checking and Correction (ECC) memory with chipkill

Processor Instruction Retry

Alternate Processor Recovery

Service processor with fault monitoring

Hot-plug disk bays

Hot-plug and redundant power supplies and cooling fans

Dynamic component Deallocation
Operating systems 2 AIX

IBM i

Linux for POWER
High availability IBM PowerHA family
Power requirements 100 V to 240 V ac, single phase
System dimensions Tower: 21.3" H x 7.2 - 12.9" W x 27.0" D (541 mm x 183  328.5 mm x 688 mm); weight: 106 lbs (48.2 kg) 3

Rack Drawer: 6.9" H x 17.3" W x 24.0" D (173 mm x 440 mm x 610 mm); weight: 82 lbs (37.3 kg) 3
Warranty (limited) Nine hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next business day for three years at no additional cost; on site for selected components; customer-replaceable unit (CRU) for all other units (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available

1 Each shares space with and replaces one PCI Express 8x slot. Available configuration options are dependent on the number of processor cores and other factors. Contact IBM or your IBM Business Partner for specific configuration restrictions

2 See facts and figures document for detailed operating system level support

3 Weight will vary when disks, adapters and peripherals are added

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