IBM 750 manual Overview

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Overview

The Power 750 Express server (8233-E8B) supports up to four 3.3 GHz 6-core or four 8-core 3.0, 3.3, and 3.55 GHz POWER7 processor cards in a rack-mount drawer configuration. The POWER7 processors in this server are 64-bit, 6-core and 8-core modules packaged on dedicated processor cards with 4 MB of L3 cache/core and 256 KB of L2 cache/core.

The Power 750 Express server supports a maximum of 32 DDR3 DIMM slots, eight per processor card. Memory features (two memory DIMMs per feature) supported are 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB and run at speeds of 1066 MHz. A system with four processor cards installed has a maximum memory of 512 GB. Also, the optional Active Memory Expansion can allow the effective maximum memory capacity to be much larger than the true physical memory. Innovative compression/decompression of memory content using processor cycles can allow memory expansion up to 100%. A server with a maximum of 512 GB can effectively be expanded up to 1 TB. This can enhance virtualization and server consolidation by allowing a partition to do significantly more work with the same physical amount of memory or a server to run more partitions and do more work with the same physical amount of memory.

The Power 750 Express server provides great I/O expandability. For example, with 12X-attached I/O drawers, you can have up to 50 PCI-X slots or up to 41 PCIe slots. This combination can provide over 100 LAN ports or over 72 WAN ports, or up to 576 disk drives (over 240 TB disk storage). Extensive quantities of externally attached storage and tape drives and libraries can also be attached.

The Power 750 Express system unit without I/O drawers can contain a maximum of either eight SFF SAS disks or eight SFF SAS SSDs, providing up to 2.4 TB. All disks and SSDs are direct dock and hot pluggable. The eight SAS bays can be split into two sets of four bays for additional AIX/Linux configuration flexibility. The system unit also contains a slimline DVD-RAM, plus a half-high media bay for an optional tape drive or removable disk drive.

Also available in the Power 750 system unit is a choice of quad gigabit or dual 10 Gb integrated host Ethernet adapters. These native ports can be selected at the time of initial order. Virtualization of these integrated Ethernet adapters is supported.

Other integrated features include:

•Five expansion slots

–Three PCIe x8 (two short-length, one full-length)

–Two PCI-X DDR (full length)

–Two GX slots for 12X I/O loop or 4X connections

•Service Processor

•Integrated SAS/SATA controller for disk/SSD/DVD in system unit

–Optional 175 MB RAID write cache to augment disk/SSD performance and function

•EnergyScale technology

•Two system ports and three USB ports

•Two hardware management console (HMC) ports and two SPCN ports

•Redundant and hot-swap power

•Redundant and hot-swap cooling

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