IBM Power 770 server

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Configuration Options	Per building block	System maximum
Processors	Two 3.3 GHz POWER7 processor modules with eight cores each or Two 3.7 GHz POWER7 processor modules with six cores each	Eight 3.3 GHz POWER7 processor modules with eight cores each or Eight 3.7 GHz POWER7 processor modules with six cores each
Sockets	Two	Eight
Level 2 (L2) cache	256 KB L2 cache per core	256 KB L2 cache per core
Level 3 (L3) cache	4 MB L3 cache per core (eDRAM)	4 MB L3 cache per core (eDRAM)
Enterprise Memory	Up to 1 TB of 1066 MHz DDR3 Active Memory™ Expansion	Up to 4 TB of 1066 MHz DDR3 Active Memory Expansion
Integrated SAS bays for Solid State Drives (SSD) or Hard Disk Drives (HDD)	Up to six SFF SAS drive bays	Up to 24 SFF SAS drive bays
Integrated media bays	One slimline for SATA DVD-RAM	Four slimline for SATA DVD-RAMs
Integrated PCI adapter slots	Six PCIe Gen2 slots	24 PCIe Gen2 slots
Integrated multifunction card	One per enclosure: Dual 10 Gb + Dual 1 Gb	Up to four per system: Dual 10 Gb + Dual 1 Gb
Integrated SAS controllers	Two SAS DASD/SSD controllers One SATA media controller	Eight SAS DASD/SSD controllers Four SATA media controllers
Other integrated ports	Three USB; two HMC; two SPCN	Nine USB; four HMC; four SPCN
GX slots (12X)	Two	Eight

Expansion features (optional – operating system dependencies)
I/O expansion	Up to 4 PCIe 12X I/O drawers Up to 8 PCI-X DDR 12X I/O drawers	Up to 16 PCIe 12X I/O drawers Up to 32 PCI-X DDR 12X I/O drawers
High-bandwidth PCI adapters	6 Gigabit SAS 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel 10 Gigabit Ethernet 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel over Ethernet 40 Gigabit QDR
Other PCI adapters supported	SAS, Fibre Channel, Ethernet, SCSI, WAN/Async, USB, Crypto, iSCSI

PowerVM virtualization technologies
POWER Hypervisor™	LPAR, Dynamic LPAR; Virtual LAN (Memory to memory interpartition communication)
PowerVM Standard Edition (optional)	Micropartitioning with up to 10 micropartitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Virtual I/O Server; Shared Dedicated Capacity
PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional)	PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility (LPM)¹ and Active Memory Sharing (AMS)²

RAS features	Processor Instruction Retry Alternate Processor Recovery Selective dynamic firmware updates Chipkill memory Memory DRAM sparing ECC L2 cache, L3 cache Redundant service processors with automatic failover³ Redundant system clocks with dynamic failover³ Hot-swappable disk bays Hot-plug/blind-swap PCI slots Hot-add I/O drawers Hot-plug power supplies and cooling fans Dynamic Processor deallocation Dynamic deallocation of logical partitions and PCI bus slots Extended error handling on PCI slots Redundant power supplies and cooling fans Active Memory Mirroring (optional)

Capacity on Demand features (optional)	Processor and/or Memory CUoD On/Off Processor and/or Memory CoD Trial Processor and/or Memory CoD Utility CoD

Operating systems	AIX®, IBM i and Linux for Power®⁴

High availability	IBM PowerHA family

Power requirements	Operating voltage: 200 V ac to 240 V ac Power consumption: 1,600 watts maximum per enclosure

System dimensions	Power 770 rack drawer building block: 6.9 in. H (4U) × 19.0 in. W × 34.0 in. D (174 mm × 483 mm × 863 mm) Weight 155 lbs (70.3 kg)⁵

Warranty (limited)	Nine hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next business day for one year at no additional cost; onsite for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.

¹ Live Partition Mobility not supported on IBM i 6.1

² Active Memory Sharing requires AIX 5.3-12 SP5, IBM i 6.1 or later, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 for Power or later, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 or later

³ Requires two or more enclosures (nodes)

⁴ See Facts and Features for specific supported operating system levels

⁵ Weight will vary when disks, adapters and peripherals are installed.