BladeCenter PS703 and PS704 Express

Highlights

Consolidate on IBM BladeCenter Power Blades and virtualize applications to better utilize resources and amplify the already-significant advantages of BladeCenter efficiencies
Simplifies your deployment with flexible configurations that make it easy to implement the right system and the ability to run AIX, IBM i, and Linux operating systems simultaneously
Realize innovation with a flexible, scalable architecture that lets you choose the right solution for your dynamic business and delivers the utmost in investment protection, performance growth, and time to value
A secure, resilient infrastructure solution that helps drive cost down, reduces risk, improves energy efficiency and enhances flexibility

Built on the proven foundation of the IBM BladeCenter family of productseasy-to-use, integrated platforms with a high degree of deployment flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability and manageabilitythe IBM BladeCenter PS703 and PS704 Express are the premier blades for 64-bit applications. Minimize complexity, improve efficiency, automate processes, reduce energy consumption and scale easily: these are the benchmarks that matter on a smarter planet. The new POWER7 processor-based PS blades automatically optimize performance and capacity at either a system or virtual machine level and benefits from the new POWER7 processor, which contains innovative technologies that help maximize performance and optimizes energy efficiency. They represent one of the most flexible and cost-efficient solutions for UNIX, i and Linux deployments available in the market. Further enhanced by its ability to be installed in the same chassis with other IBM BladeCenter blade servers, the PS blades can deliver the rapid return on investment that clients and businesses demand.

Delivering on the promise for a highly dynamic infrastructure, the BladeCenter PS blades help in delivering superior business and IT services with agility and speedall in a simple to manage highly efficient way. The PS703 and PS704 Express blades have been preconfigured and tested by IBM and are based on proven technology. Utilizing a 2.4 GHz 64-bit POWER7 processor and available in sixteen-core or thirty two-core configuration, they are optimized to achieve maximum performance for both the system and its virtual machines. Couple that performance with PowerVM and you are now enabled for massive workload consolidation to drive maximum system utilization, predictable performance, and cost efficiency.

Power is effortlessly balancing workload performance

POWER7 Intelligent Threads technology enables workload optimization by selecting the most suitable threading mode: Single Thread (per core) or Simultaneous Multi Thread-2 or 4 modes. Consequently, Intelligent Threads technology can provide improved application performance. In addition, POWER7 processors can maximize cache access to cores, improving performance, using Intelligent Cache technology.

Power is dynamic energy optimization

EnergyScale Technology offers Intelligent Energy management features, which can dramatically and dynamically conserve power and further improve energy efficiency. These Intelligent Energy features enable the POWER7 processor to operate at a higher frequency if environmental conditions permit, for increased performance and performance per watt; or alternatively operate at a reduced frequency if user settings permit, for significant energy savings.

Smart BladeCenter Solutions with Power Blades

If you are looking for the perfect alternative to replacing traditional rack servers, then look no further. With a range of available PS blade choices and BladeCenter chassis supported you have the performance and scalability you need for demanding workloads of any sort. When combined with the BladeCenter S chassis, the PS blades become an ideal solution for deploying blades in an office and distributed enterprise environment. Unlike a stand-alone server that needs multiple power supplies and fans, individual systems management, numerous cables and a lot of space, IBM BladeCenter is compact and easy to use. By integrating servers, storage, networking and management, BladeCenter is helping companies in every industry sweep complexity aside. The blades contain all the necessities to run an applicationprocessors, memory, I/O and storage. The chassis contains shared redundant power, shared hot-swap cooling, a media tray, integrated Ethernet, storage, switching and consolidated powerful management.

Virtualizing on IBM BladeCenter allows you to create a highly flexible infrastructure that can quickly and easily adapt to business change. BladeCenter with Power blades is the only blade server solution in the industry that allows you to consolidate and simplify your Linux, UNIX and IBM i workloads on a single platform. When business transformation is your goal, BladeCenter and virtualization is the answer. Together, virtualization and BladeCenter with Power can help reduce costs, increase business agility and boost IT resiliency.

Simplify. Cut costs. Boost productivity. Go green. Theyre all priorities for IT, and theyre all driving organizations to rethink their server strategies and become more receptive to new ways to use IT. Blades are the next-generation solution, promising improvements across the board. So toss your cables and take the leap. Migrate to the blade solution that uses less energy and gives more choices and control. You have nothing to lose but complexity. IBM BladeCenter is the right choice. Open. Easy. Green.

BladeCenter PS703 Express blade provides:

Common features	Hardware summary
Singlewide blade server compatible with selected BladeCenter family chassis Sixteen-core SMP scalability 64-bit IBM POWER7 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration	Sixteen 2.4 GHz POWER7 processor cores From 16 GB to 128 GB memory in sixteen DIMM slots High-performance DDR3 memory running at up to 1066 MHz Integrated SAS controller One 2.5" 10K rpm Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drive bay supporting 300 or 600 GB of internal storage or two 1.8" 177 GB Solid State Disks Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit with light path diagnostics, IBM Predictive Failure Analysis, ECC and IBM Chipkill memory Support for Calibrated Vectored Cooling, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager software and EnergyScale technology to monitor energy and maintain optimum cooling Supported in BladeCenter H, HT and S chassis
or
IBMDirector industry-leading systems management software Support for AIX (V5.3 or later), IBMi¹ (V6.1 or later) and Linux for Power distributions from Red Hat (RHEL for POWER V4.6 or later) and SUSE Linux (SLES10 SP1 for POWER or later) Support for System Cluster 1350 Support for the IBMPowerHA family of high availability products and Cluster Systems Management software*

And the BladeCenter PS704 Express blade provides:

Common features	Hardware summary
Doublewide blade server compatible with selected BladeCenter family chassis Thirty two-core SMP scalability 64-bit IBM POWER7 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration	Thirty two 2.4 GHz POWER7 processor cores From 32 GB to 256 GB memory in thirty-two DIMM slots High-performance DDR3 memory running at up to 1066 MHz Integrated SAS controller Two 2.5" 10K rpm Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drive bay supporting 300 or 600 GB of internal storage or four 1.8" 177 GB Solid State Disks Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit with light path diagnostics, IBM Predictive Failure Analysis, ECC and IBM Chipkill memory Support for Calibrated Vectored Cooling, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager software and EnergyScale technology to monitor energy and maintain optimum cooling Supported in BladeCenter H, HT and S chassis
or
IBMDirector industry-leading systems management software Support for AIX (V5.3 or later), IBMi¹ (V6.1 or later) and Linux for Power distributions from Red Hat (RHEL for POWER V4.6 or later) and SUSE Linux (SLES10 SP1 for POWER or later) Support for System Cluster 1350 Support for the IBMPowerHA family of high availability products and Cluster Systems Management software*

* Available as separately priced software product

¹ Some of the IBM BladeCenter functions may not be supported by the IBM i operating system. These are identified at /systems/power/hardware/blades/ibmi.html.