Datasheet

Processor Eight 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
Form Factor Singlewide blade server for BladeCenter S, BladeCenter H, or BladeCenter HT chassis
L2 Cache 256KB per processor core
L3 Cache 4 MB per processor core
Memory
Base offering: 16 GB (4 x 4 GB); Express offering: 32 GB (4 x 8 GB), up to 128 GB maximum per blade, sixteen DIMM slots, ECC IBM
Chipkill DDR3 SDRAM running at 1066 MHz (4 GB DIMMs) 800 MHz (8 GB DIMMs)
Disk Bays One 300 or 600 GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive; No disk driverequired on base offering
Slots (total / available) One PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card and one PCI-E CFFh High Speed Expansion Card
Network Interface Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit and support for optional dual-gigabit Ethernet
Optional Connectivity 1 and 10 Gbps Ethernet, 4 and 8 Gbps Fibre Channel, 4X InfiniBand®, SAS Expansion
PowerVM
PowerVM Express Edition: Includes Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) with Integrated Virtualization Manager andPowerVM Lx86PowerVM
Standard Edition: Adds shared processor pools and micropartitioning
PowerVM Enterprise Edition: Adds active memory sharing and live partition mobilityIntegrated
RAS Features
IBM Chipkill ECC detection and correction
Processor Instruction Retry
Service processor with fault monitoring
Hot-swappable disk bays (in BladeCenter S chassis)
Hot-plug power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis)
Dynamic Processor Deallocation
Dynamic deallocation of logical partitions and PCI bus slots
Extended error handling on PCI-E slots
Redundant power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis)
Dimensions 9.65 in (245 mm) H x 1.14 in (29 mm) W x 17.55 in (445 mm) D; weight: 9.6 lb (4.35 kg)
Weight weight: 9.6 lb (4.35 kg)²
Cooling System Calibrated Vectored Cooling via Chassis
High Availablility IBM PowerHA™ family
Operating Systems
AIX V5.3 or later, AIX V6.1 or later
IBM i 6.1 or later
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER® (SLES10 SP3) or later; SLES11 SP1 or later
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 for POWER (RHEL5.5) or later; RHEL5.1 or late
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Systems Management
Integrated systems management processor, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, light path diagnostics, Predictive Failure
Analysis, Cluster Systems Management (CSM), Serial Over LAN, IPMI compliant
Warranty
9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next-business-day for three years at no additionalcost; on-site for
selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country).Warranty service upgrades and
maintenance are available.
Important Note: The PS701 can only be ordered via System p ordering mechanisms.
IBM BladeCenter™ PS701 Express