IBM Power 740 Express Servers
Flagship is a leading reseller of refurbished and custom built IBM Power 740 Express Server Systems.
Flagship can custom configure any IBM Scale-Out Power Systems to your needs. Please contact us for more information and pricing at 763-516-1300 or 1-800-416-8900.
Highlights
- For small-to-midsize database servers
- Ideal for running today’s compute-intensive combination of business transactions along with social and mobile activity for UNIX, IBM i and Linux operating environments
- For consolidation of UNIX, IBM i and x86 Linux workloads and virtualized application servers
Configuration options: Model 8231-E2D
POWER7+ processor modules – one or two per system:
- 6-core or 12-core 4.2 GHz or
- 8-core or 16-core 3.6 GHz or
- 8-core or 16-core 4.2 GHz
Sockets:
1 or 2
Level 2 (L2) cache:
256 KB per core
Level 3 (L3) cache:
10 MB per core
Memory:
- 8 GB to 512 GB of RDIMM DDR3 - 1 processor
- 8 GB to 1024 GB of RDIMM DDR3 - 2 processors
- Active Memory Expansion available
Solid State Drives (SSD):
Up to eight SFF drives
Disk drives:
Up to eight SFF SAS drives
Disk capacity:
Up to 7.2 TB internal storage
Media bays:
- Slimline for DVD-RAM
- Half height for tape drive or removable disk
I/O
PCI Adapter slots:
Five PCI Express 8x Generation2 plus optional four PCI Express Generation2 low profile
Standard Ethernet:
Four Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports
Integrated SAS controller:
- One controller for SAS DASD/SSD with RAID 10, and DVD-RAM
- Optional protected 175 MB cache with RAID 5, 6
High performance PCI adapters:
- 4-port 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel
- 2-port 16 Gigabit Fibre Channel
- 2-port 10GbE RoCE
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet
- 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel over Ethernet
- Dual Port Quad Data Rate IB
- 6Gbps SAS RAID controller
I/O Expansion features (optional):
- Up to 4 PCIe 12X I/O drawers – 40 PCIe slots
- Up to 8 PCI-X DDR 12X I/O drawers – 48 PCIx slots
- Up to 416 SFF bays
Other PCI Adapters Supported Included:
SAS, SCSI, WAN/Async, USB, Crypto, iSCSI
PowerVM technologies
POWER Hypervisor:
Virtual Machines, LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN (Memory-to-memory interpartition communication)
PowerVM Express Edition (optional):
Up to three partitions on the server; virtualized disk and optical devices (VIOS); Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM); Shared Dedicated Capacity
PowerVM Standard Edition (optional):
PowerVM Express Edition plus Micro-Partitioning® with up to 20 micropartitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools
PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional):
PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility (LPM) and Active Memory Sharing (AMS)
High availability:
IBM PowerHA family
RAS features:
- 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
Operating systems:
- AIX
- IBM i
- Linux for POWER
Power requirements:
200 V to 240 V ac, single phase
System dimensions:
Rack Drawer: 6.9 in. H × 17.3 in. W × 24.0 in. D (173 mm × 440 mm × 610 mm); weight: 87 lbs (39.5 kg)