IBM United States Hardware Announcement
110-009
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Description
Power 750
Summary of standard features:
• Rack-mount (4U) configuration
• 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-core design with one, two, three, or four 3.3 GHz processor
cards; 8-, 16-, 24-, and 32-core design with one, two, three or four 3.0 or 3.3
GHz processor cards; or 32-core design with four 3.55 GHz processor cards
• 8 GB of PC3-8500 1066 MHz ECC memory (error checking and correcting)
memory, expandable to 128 GB per processor card (512 GB system maximum)
Note: The 8 GB memory feature (#4526) is planned to be available on March 15,
2010.
• 8 x 2.5-inch DASD/SSD/Media backplane with an external SAS port
– 1 to 8 SFF DASD or SSDs (mixing allowed)
• Choice of two integrated virtual Ethernet daughter cards:
– Quad-port 1 Gb IVE
– Dual-port 10 Gb IVE
• Two media bays:
– One slim bay for a DVD-RAM (required)
– One half-high bay for an optional tape drive or removable disk
• 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 2)
– 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 750 configuration must include a processor, processor
activations, memory, two power supplies and power cords, one or two DASD, a
DASD/SSD/Media backplanes, 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, when AIX or Linux is the
primary operating system is:
Feature number Description
8335 0/6 core 3.3 GHz POWER7 Processor
6 x 7717 6 Processor Activations
4526 8 GB (2 x 4096 MB) Memory
1883 73.4 GB 15k SFF DASD
1878 Operator Panel Cable, Rack-mount drawer with
2.5-inch DASD Backplane