BladeCenter PS703 and PS704 Express

IBM BladeCenter PS703 Express at a glance

Form factor	Singlewide blade server for BladeCenter S, BladeCenter H, or BladeCenter HT chassis
Processor cores	Sixteen 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: 16 GB (4 4 GB); Express offering: 32 GB (4 8 GB), up to 128 GB maximum per blade, sixteen DIMM slots, ECC IBM Chipkill DDR3 SDRAM running at 1066 MHz (4 GB DIMMs) 1066 MHz (8 GB DIMMs)
Internal disk storage	One 300 or 600 GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or two 1.8" 177GB Solid State Disks; No disk drive required on base offering
Networking	Integrated dual gigabit Ethernet ports. Virtualized ethernet provided by PowerVM VIOS
I/O upgrade	One PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card and one PCI-E CFFh High Speed Expansion Card
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 (on 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 (on 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	PS703 Express blade: 9.65 in (245 mm) H x 1.14 in (29 mm) W x 17.55 in (445 mm) D; weight: 9.6 lb (4.35 kg)² 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)² 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)²
Warranty (limited)	9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next business day for three years at no additional cost; on-site for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.
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)² 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)² 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)²
Warranty (limited)	9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next business day for three years at no additional cost; on-site for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.

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

² Weight can vary when disks, adapters and other peripherals are added.

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