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- Power 710 Express data sheet (846KB)
- Power 710 virtual tour (IBM suggests using Java version 6 Update 12 or higher)
- Technical overview and introduction
- Hardware documentation
- Support
Highlights
- A high performance, energy efficient, reliable and secure infrastructure plus application server in a compact 2U package. With IBM® POWER7+ workload-optimising technologies, the Power 710 Express server is designed to handle today’s compute-intensive combination of business transactions along with social and mobile activity
- An easy-to-buy, install and manage server that can seamlessly fit into your existing infrastructure, resulting in faster deployment time and time to value for applications running on AIX, IBM i and Linux® operating systems (OS).
Everyone knows what 'performance' meant for IT in the past. Built on the foundation of POWER7+ processor technology, our Power Systems Express servers continue to excel and extend industry excellence in the traditional benchmarks of performance.
But today we are in the midst of an important technology shift driving growth and innovation - built on the confluence of big data, cloud, mobile devices and social business. As processes become more interrelated and complex, IT is being called upon to solve challenging new problems - and implement new IT projects - delivering them with both higher service levels and in a more cost effective manner. This era presents a defining moment for IT organisations to reshape the value they deliver through the customer experience.
The emerging measures of IT performance today are around agility and the ability to help the business capitalise on new opportunities. IT is measured on providing an infrastructure that can handle rapid growth and manage business risk while meeting higher required service levels. And of course it is expected that new services will be delivered with tighter budget constraints - with IT expected to do more with less and find the lowest cost solutions possible.
Built on the impressive performance of the POWER7+ processor, the Power 710 Express is a one-socket server that supports up to eight POWER7+ cores in a dense, rack-optimised form factor. As a high performance infrastructure or application server, the Power 710 Express contains innovative workload-optimising technologies that improve performance based on client computing needs. In addition, it includes Intelligent Energy features that help increase performance and optimise energy efficiency, resulting in one of the most cost-efficient solutions for UNIX®, IBM i and Linux deployments. And, with solutions from thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs), you can make the choices that set your business apart from the competition.
| Feature | Benefits |
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| Impressive POWER7+ performance |
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| Intelligent Threads |
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| AME |
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| RAS Features |
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| Light Path Diagnostics |
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| IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager with EnergyScale Technology |
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| Configuration options | Model 8231-E1D |
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| POWER7+ processor modules – one per system | four-core 3.6 GHz or six-core 4.2 GHz or eight-core 4.2 GHz |
| Sockets | One |
| Level 2 (L2) cache | 256 kilobytes (KB) per core |
| Level 3 (L3) cache | 10 megabytes (MB) per core |
| Memory | 8 gigabyte (GB) to 256 GB of registered dual inline memory module (RDIMM) double data rate-3 (DDR-3) AME |
| Solid-state Drives (SSD) | Up to six small form factor (SFF) drives |
| Disk drives | Up to six SFF serial attached SCSI (SAS) drives |
| Disk capacity | Up to 5.4 terabytes (TB) |
| Media bays | Slimline for DVD-random access memory (RAM) Half height for tape drive1 or removable disk |
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| PCI Adapter slots | Five PCI Express Generation2 8x low profile |
| Standard Ethernet | Four Ethernet 10/100/1000 megabits per second (Mbps) ports |
| Integrated SAS controller | One controller for SAS DASD/SSD w/ redundant array of independent disks (RAID) 10 and DVD-RAM Optional protected 175 MB cache with RAID 5, 6 |
| High-performance PCI adapters | 8 Gigabit (Gb) Fibre Channel (FC) two-port 16 Gb per second (Gbps) FC two-port 10 Gb Ethernet (GbE) RoCE Dual port 10 GbE Dual port 10 Gb FC over Ethernet (FCoE) Dual port quad data rate (QDR) Infiniband 6Gbps SAS RAID controller |
| Other integrated ports | Three universal serial bus (USB), two hardware management console (HMC), two system ports |
| GX slots | One GX++ (not available with four-core processor) |
| PowerVM technologies | |
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| POWER Hypervisor | VMs, LPAR, Dynamic LPAR (DLPAR), Virtual local area network (vLAN) (Memory-to-memory interpartition communication) |
| PowerVM Express Edition (optional) | Up to three partitions on the server; virtualised disk and optical devices (VIOS); Integrated Virtualisation Manager (IVM); Shared Dedicated Capacity |
| PowerVM Standard Edition (optional) | PowerVM Express Edition plus Micro-Partitioning with up to 20 micro-partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools |
| PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional) | PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility (LPM) and Active Memory Sharing (AMS) |
| RAS features | Error Checking and Correcting (ECC) memory with Chipkill Processor Instruction Retry Alternate Processor Recovery Service processor with fault monitoring Hot-plug disk bays Hot-plug and redundant power supplies and cooling fans Dynamic component Deallocation |
| OS2 | AIX IBM i Linux for POWER |
| High availability (HA) | IBM PowerHA family |
| Power requirements | 100 V to 240 V ac, single phase |
| System dimensions | Rack Drawer: 3.4 in. H × 17.6 in. W × 28.6 in. D (86 mm × 447 mm × 728 mm); weight 62 lbs (28.2 kg)3 |
| Warranty (limited) | Three year Limited Warranty, on-site for selected components; customer-replaceable unit (CRU) for all other units (varies by country), Next Business Day 09:00 to 17:00 (excluding holidays), warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available |
1 Tape support results in three SFF bays, one tape bay and one DVD.
2 See facts and features document for detailed OS level support.
3 Weight will vary when disks, adapters and peripherals are added.
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