Power express servers

Sockets	One
Processor cores	Four-, six- or eight-core POWER7+
Clock rates (Min/Max)	Four-core 3.6 GHz or six-core 4.2 GHz or eight-core 4.2 GHz
System memory	8 gigabytes (GB)/256 GB¹
	139 GB/5.4 terabytes (TB)

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The Power® 710 Express server is a 1-socket server supporting 4-core, 6-core or 8-core POWER7 processor modules in a dense 2U rack-optimised form factor. Easy to buy, deploy and manage, the Power 710 Express server offers outstanding performance, reliability and energy efficiency as an infrastructure or application server. The Power 710 Express server implements Light Path diagnostics and offers a choice of AIX®, IBM i or Linux operating system while offering innovative workload-optimising and energy management capabilities that can deliver additional performance and performance per watt to improve return on hardware and software investments.

IBM Power 720 Express

Sockets	One
Processor cores	Four-, six- or eight-core POWER7+
Clock rates (Min/Max)	Four-core, six-core or eight-core - 3.6 GHz
System memory	Min/Max: 8 gigabyte (GB)/512 GB¹¹8 – 64 GB memory for Power 720 Model 8202-E4D with four-core processor
Internal storage	Min/Max:139 GB/7.2 terabyte (TB)

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The Power 720 Express server is a 1-socket server supporting 4-core, 6-core or 8-core POWER7 processor modules in a flexible rack-optimised or tower form factor. The leading-edge RAS and diagnostic capabilities make it an ideal distributed application, small consolidation server, or a complete integrated business system utilising the IBM i operating system. The Power 720 Express is designed to deliver outstanding business value to small and midsized businesses while meeting the needs of mission-critical applications. This highly flexible, available and easy-to-manage server can enable you to spend more time running your business utilising a proven solution from thousands of ISVs that support the AIX, IBM i and Linux operating systems.

IBM Power 730 Express

Sockets	Two
Processor cores	Eight-, 12- or 16-core POWER7+
Clock rates (Min/Max)	Eight-core 4.3 GHz (2 × four-core) or 12-core 4.2 GHz (2 × six-core) or 16-core 3.6 GHz (2 × eight-core) or 16-core 4.2 GHz (2 × eight-core)
System memory	Min/Max: 8 gigabyte (GB)/512 GB
Internal storage	Min/Max: 139 GB/5.4 terabyte (TB)

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The Power 730 Express server is a two-socket server offering 8, 12 or 16 POWER7 cores in a dense, 2U rack-optimised form factor. The Power 730 Express server is a high-performance, reliable and energy-efficient server fueled by the outstanding performance of the POWER7 processor supporting a choice of AIX, IBM i or Linux operating systems. Combine that performance and operating system support with industrial-strength PowerVM™ and the workload-optimising capabilities available with the POWER7 processor and you’re now ready to run multiple application and infrastructure workloads in a virtualised environment while driving higher utilisation and reducing costs.

IBM Power 740 Express

Sockets	One or two
Processor cores	Six-, eight-, 12- or 16-core POWER7+
Clock rates (Min/Max)	Six-core – 4.2 GHz or eight-core – 3.6 GHz or eight-core – 4.2 GHz or 12-core – 4.2 GHz (2× six-core) or 16-core – 3.6 GHz (2× eight-core) or 16-core – 4.2 GHz (2× eight-core)
System memory	Min/Max: 8 gigabytes (GB)/1024 GB
Internal storage	Min/Max: 139 GB/7.2 terabytes (TB)

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The Power 740 Express server is a 1- or 2-socket server supporting 4, 6, 8, 12 or 16 POWER7 cores in a flexible rack-optimised form factor. The Power 740 offers large memory capacity, outstanding performance of the POWER7 processor, industrial-strength virtualisation and workload-optimising capabilities for small to midsize database servers and consolidation of virtualised application servers. These capabilities combined with proven solutions from thousands of ISVs that support the AIX, IBM i and Linux operating systems can enable companies to get the most out of their systems by increasing utilisation and performance while reducing costs.

IBM Power 750 Express

Sockets	1 to 4
Processor cores	POWER7+
Clock rates	3.5 GHz / 4.0 GHz
System memory (Max)	Up to 1 TB
System unit storage (Max)	Up to 5.4 TB with 900 GB HDD

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The Power 750 Express® server is a 1- to 4-socket server supporting up to 32 cores using POWER7 6-core and 8-core processor modules. The IBM Power 750 Express server is designed to deliver outstanding business value with leadership performance, choice of AIX, IBM i or Linux operating systems, and proven virtualisation capabilities of PowerVM. Whether you need a reliable and efficient server consolidation platform or a high performing multiapplication or database server, the Power 750 Express server can fulfill your requirements while using technology that provides innovation that sets your business apart from the competition.

IBM Power 710 Express

IBM Power 720 Express

IBM Power 730 Express

IBM Power 740 Express

IBM Power 750 Express

¹ 4 to 64GB memory for Power 710 Model 8231-E2B
² 8/128 GB min/max memory for Power 720 Model 8202-E4B
³ 128GB maximum memory for Power 730 Model 8231-E2B
⁴ 256 GB maximum memory for Power 740 Model 8205-E6B

*** The benchmarks and values shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level computer systems. Actual system performance may vary and is dependent upon many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration.

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