IBM 755 manual Minimum defined configuration, if no choice is made, is, EXP 12S SAS Drawer #5886

•A maximum of five hot-swap slots:

–Two PCIe x8 slots, short card length (slots 1 and 2)

–One PCIe x8 slot, full card length (slot 3)

–Two PCIX DDR slots, full card length (slots 4 and 5)

–One GX++ slot (shares same space as PCIe x8 slot 1)

•Integrated:

–Service Processor

–Quad-port 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet

–EnergyScale technology

–Hot-swap and redundant cooling

–Three USB ports; two system ports

–Two HMC ports; two SPCN ports

•Two Power Supplies, 1725 Watt AC, Hot-swap

The minimum Power 755 configuration must include four processor cards, 32 processor activations, memory, two power supplies and power cords, two DASD, a DASD/SSD/Media backplane, an operator panel cable, an Ethernet daughter card, a DVD-RAM, an operating system indicator, and a Language Group Specify.

The minimum defined configuration, if no choice is made, is:

Feature number		Description
4 x 8332		0/8 core 3.3 GHz POWER7 Processor -- 32-core system
32 x	2325	32 Zero-priced Processor Activations
16 x	4526	8 GB (2 x 4096 MB) Memory -- Total 128 GB memory
2 x 1883		Two 73.4 GB 15k SFF DASD
1878		Operator Panel Cable, Rack-mount drawer with
		2.5-inch DASD Backplane
8340		DASD/Media Backplane for 2.5-inch DASD/SATA
		DVD/Tape with External SAS Port
5624		Quad-port 1 Gb Integrated Ethernet Daughter Card
2 x 7740		Two Power Supplies, 1725 Watt AC, Base
5762		SATA DVD-RAM
9300/97xx)		Language Group Specify
2146	or 2147	Primary Operating System Indicator - IBM AIX (2146)
		or Linux (2147)
2 x 6xxx		Two Power Cords

Notes:

•The 8 GB memory feature (#4526) is planned to be available on March 16, 2010. Eight of feature 4527 can replace 16 of feature 4526.

•The GX Dual-port 12X Channel Attach Adapter Card (#5609) will be defaulted on every 8236-E8C order but may be deselected.

•No internal DASD is required if feature 0837 (Boot from SAN) is selected. In this case, a Fibre Channel or Fibre Channel over Ethernet adapter must also be ordered.

I/O drawer availability

The EXP12S disk-only I/O drawers (#5886) are supported on the Power 755, providing large storage capacity and multiple partition support.

EXP 12S SAS Drawer (#5886)

The EXP 12S SAS drawer (#5886) is a 2 EIA drawer and mounts in a 19-inch rack. The drawer can hold either SAS disk drives or SSD. The EXP 12S SAS drawer has twelve 3.5-inch SAS disk bays with redundant data paths to each bay. The drawer supports redundant hot-plug power and cooling and redundant hot-swap SAS

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