IBM Power 780 server

Modular and scalable systems for performance, availability and IT efficiency

Configuration Options Per building block System maximum
Processors Four 3.72 GHz POWER7+ processor modules with eight cores each or
Four 4.42 GHz POWER7+ processor modules with four cores each		 Sixteen 3.72 GHz POWER7+ processor modules with eight cores each or
Sixteen 4.42 GHz POWER7+ processor modules with four cores each
Sockets Four Sixteen
Level 2 (L2) cache 256 KB L2 cache per core 256 KB L2 cache per core
Level 3 (L3) cache 10 MB L3 cache per core (eDRAM) 10 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
Disk drives Up to six SFF SAS drives Up to 24 SFF SAS drives
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
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 inter-partition communication)
PowerVM Standard Edition (optional) Micro-Partitioning with up to 20 micro-partitions 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
Power System Pool
Capacity on Demand features (optional) Processor and/or Memory CUoD
Elastic Processor and/or Memory CoD
Trial Processor and/or Memory CoD
Utility CoD
Operating systems AIX, IBM i, and Linux for Power4
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 780 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 lb (70.3 kg)5
Warranty (limited) 24×7, same day response for one year; onsite (varies by country).
Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.

1 Live Partition Mobility not supported on IBM i
2 Active Memory Sharing requires AIX 5.3-12 SP5 or later, 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

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