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Power 730

Power 730 Express at a glance
Configuration options
POWER7 processor modules two per system Eight core 3.0 GHz or

Eight core 3.7 GHz or

12-core 3.7 GHz or

16-core 3.55 GHz
Sockets Two
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 6 small form factor (SFF) drives or
Disk drives Up to 6 SFF Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives
Disk capacity Up to 1.8 TB
Media bays Slimline for DVD-RAM Half height for tape drive1 or removable disk
PCI Adapter slots Four PCI Express 8x 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 Two GX++
Expansion features (optional)
High performance PCI adapters 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel (FC); 10 GbE, 10 Gigabit FC over Ethernet (FCoE)
PowerVM technologies
POWER Hypervisor 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 systems2 AIX

IBM i

Linux for POWER
High availability IBM PowerHA family
Power requirements 100 V to 240 V ac, single phase
System dimensions Rack Drawer: 3.4"H x 17.6"W x 28.6"D (86 mm x 447 mm x 728 mm); weight 65 lbs (29.5 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 Tape support results in three SFF bays, one tape bay and one DVD

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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