BladeCenter PS703 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 Single Instruction Multiple Data (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 (four × 4 GB); Express offering: 32 GB (four × 8 GB), up to 256 GB maximum per blade, sixteen Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) slots, Error Checking and Correction (ECC) IBM Chipkill Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (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 revolutions per minute (rpm) non-hot-swappable disk drive or two 1.8" 177GB Solid State Disks (SSDs); No disk drive required on base offering
Networking Integrated dual Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports. Virtualised ethernet provided by PowerVM Virtual I/O Server (VIOS)
I/O upgrade One PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card and one PCI-E CFFh High Speed Expansion Card
Optional connectivity 1 and 10 GbE, 4 and 8 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel (FC), 4X InfiniBand, SAS Expansion
PowerVM PowerVM Express Edition: Supports 2 VMs/server and includes 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 Local Area Network (LAN), IPMI compliant
Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (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 (SLES) 11 SP1 or later

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6 for POWER or later; RHEL6.0 or later
High availability (HA) 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) 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

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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 (US)

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