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IBM BladeCenter PS700,
PS701 and PS702
Express
Smarter Power Blades for a Smarter Planet
Built on the proven foundation of the IBM BladeCenter® family of
Highlights products—easy-to-use, integrated platforms with a high degree of
deployment flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability and manageability—
● Consolidate on IBM BladeCenter Power the BladeCenter PS700, PS701 and PS702 Express are the premier
Blades and virtualize applications to
better utilize resources and amplify the blades for 64-bit applications. Minimize complexity, improve efficiency,
already-significant advantages of automate processes, reduce energy consumption and scale easily:
BladeCenter efficiencies these are the benchmarks that matter on a smarter planet. The new
● Simplifies your deployment with flexible POWER7 processor-based PS blades automatically optimize perform-
configurations that make it easy to ance and capacity at either a system or virtual machine level and bene-
implement the right system and the fits from the new POWER7 processor, which contains innovative
ability to run AIX®, IBM i, and Linux®
operating systems simultaneously technologies that help maximize performance and optimizes energy
efficiency. They represent one of the most flexible and cost-efficient
● Elegantly simple scalability, allows easy
solutions for UNIX®, i and Linux deployments available in the market.
expansion and pay-as-you-grow flexibil-
ity for the utmost in investment protec- Further enhanced by its ability to be installed in the same chassis with
tion, performance growth, and time to other IBM BladeCenter blade servers, the PS blades can deliver the
value rapid return on investment that clients and businesses demand.
● A secure, resilient infrastructure solution
that helps drive cost down, reduces Delivering on the promise for a highly dynamic infrastructure, the
risk, improves energy efficiency and
BladeCenter PS blades help in delivering superior business and IT
enhances flexibility
services with agility and speed—all in a simple to manage highly effi-
cient way. The PS700, PS701 and PS702 Express blades have been
preconfigured and tested by IBM and are based on proven technology.
Utilizing a 3.0 GHz 64-bit POWER7™ processor and available in a
four-core, eight-core or sixteen-core configuration, they are optimized
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to achieve maximum performance for both the system and its Smart BladeCenter Solutions with Power
virtual machines. Couple that performance with PowerVM Blades
and you are now enabled for massive workload consolidation If you are looking for the perfect alternative to replacing tra-
to drive maximum system utilization, predictable perform- ditional rack servers, then look no further. With a range
ance, and cost efficiency. of available PS blade choices and BladeCenter chassis sup-
ported you have the performance and scalability you need for
Power is effortlessly balancing workload demanding workloads of any sort. When combined with
performance the BladeCenter S chassis, the PS blades become an ideal
POWER7 Intelligent Threads technology enables workload solution for deploying blades in an office and distributed
optimization by selecting the most suitable threading mode: enterprise environment. Unlike a stand-alone server
Single Thread (per core) or Simultaneous Multi Thread-2 or that needs multiple power supplies and fans, individual
4 modes. Consequently, Intelligent Threads technology can systems management, numerous cables and a lot of space,
provide improved application performance. In addition, IBM BladeCenter is compact and easy to use. By integrating
POWER7 processors can maximize cache access to cores, servers, storage, networking and management, BladeCenter is
improving performance, using Intelligent Cache technology. helping companies in every industry sweep complexity aside.
Power is dynamic energy optimization
EnergyScale™ Technology offers Intelligent Energy man-
agement features, which can dramatically and dynamically
conserve power and further improve energy efficiency. These
Intelligent Energy features enable the POWER7 processor
to operate at a higher frequency if environmental conditions
permit, for increased performance and performance per watt;
or alternatively operate at a reduced frequency if user settings
permit, for significant energy savings.
PS Blade Family
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The blades contain all the necessities to run an application—
processors, memory, I/O and storage. The chassis contains
shared redundant power, shared hot-swap cooling, a media
tray, integrated Ethernet, storage, switching and consolidated
powerful management.
Simplify. Cut costs. Boost productivity. Go green. They’re
all priorities for IT, and they’re all driving organizations to
rethink their server strategies and become more receptive
to new ways to use IT. Blades are the next-generation solu-
tion, promising improvements across the board. So toss your
cables and take the leap. Migrate to the blade solution that
uses less energy and gives more choices and control. You have
nothing to lose but complexity. IBM BladeCenter is the right
choice. Open. Easy. Green.
BladeCenter H with PS Blades
Feature Benefits
World’s first scalable ● Maximize performance and minimize costs; consolidate workloads and virtualize on an energy-efficient
POWER7-based blade servers platform that supports the latest POWER7 processor technology
● Pay as you grow; start with a 1-processor chip (8 core) blade and upgrade to a 2-processor chip (16 core)
blade when ready without scrapping your initial investment
● Save time and money; standardize on a single blade platform for both 1- and 2-processor chip server
application needs
Highly efficient and flexible ●
Densely pack more servers in a smaller space
design of IBM BladeCenter ●
Tailor system to meet varied business requirements with a choice of BladeCenter chassis
●
Lower acquisition cost and energy consumption versus traditional 1U or 2U rack servers
●
Integrate networking switch infrastructure for improved cabling and data center maintenance
●
Deploy in virtually any office environment for quiet, secure and contaminant-reduced operation
Pioneering EnergyScale ●
Generate less heat by managing application utilization and server energy consumption
technology and IBM Systems ●
Use less energy to cool the system
Director Active Energy
Manager™ software
Industry-leading ●
Reduce infrastructure costs by running more workloads with fewer servers
IBM PowerVM™ virtualization ●
Simplify IT operations by virtualizing storage, network and computing resources
technology ●
Manage risk and minimize downtime with rapid provisioning and improved resilience
Innovative reliability features ●
Expedite hardware repairs and reduce service time
and systems management ●
Enable scheduled maintenance with proactive monitoring of critical system components to help reduce
unplanned failures
Choice of AIX, IBM i or Linux ● Standardize on a single platform that runs the large and varied portfolio of applications that support your
operating systems business
● Take advantage of the power of IBM’s industry-leading UNIX operating system, AIX
● Utilize the Linux for Power® operating system to access the breadth of open source applications
●
Exploit the simplicity of the integrated IBM i operating environment
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IBM BladeCenter PS700 Express at a glance
Form factor Singlewide blade server for BladeCenter E, BladeCenter T, BladeCenter S, BladeCenter H, or
BladeCenter HT chassis
Processor cores Four 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
Level 2 (L2) cache 256 KB per processor core
Level 3 (L3) cache 4 MB per processor core
Memory (std/max) Base offering: 8 GB (2 x 4 GB); Express offering: 16 GB (4 x 4 GB), up to 64 GB maximum per blade, eight
DIMM slots, ECC IBM Chipkill™ DDR3 SDRAM running at 1066 MHz (4 GB DIMMs) 800 MHz (8 GB DIMMs)
Internal disk storage Two 300 or 600 GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive; No disk drive
required on base offering.
Networking Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit and support for optional dual-gigabit Ethernet
I/O upgrade One PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card and one PCI-E CFFh High Speed Expansion Card
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 and
PowerVM Lx86
PowerVM Standard Edition: Adds shared processor pools and micropartitioning
PowerVM Enterprise Edition: Adds active memory sharing and live partition mobility
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
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)
Operating systems AIX V5.3 or later, AIX V6.1 or later
IBM i 6.1 or later1
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 later
High availability IBM PowerHA™ family
System dimensions PS700 Express blade: 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)2
BladeCenter H chassis: 15.75 in (400 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.0 in (711 mm) D;
weight: 350 lb (159 kg)2
BladeCenter S chassis: 12.0 in (306 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.3 in (733 mm) D;
weight: 240 lb (108.9 kg)2
Warranty (limited) 9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next-business-day for three years at no additional
cost; on-site for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country).
Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.
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IBM BladeCenter PS701 Express at a glance
Form factor Singlewide blade server for BladeCenter S, BladeCenter H, or BladeCenter HT chassis
Processor cores Eight 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
Level 2 (L2) cache 256 KB per processor core
Level 3 (L3) cache 4 MB per processor core
Memory (std/max) 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)
Internal disk storage One 300 or 600 GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive; No disk drive
required on base offering
Networking Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit and support for optional dual-gigabit Ethernet
I/O upgrade One PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card and one PCI-E CFFh High Speed Expansion Card
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 and
PowerVM Lx86
PowerVM Standard Edition: Adds shared processor pools and micropartitioning
PowerVM Enterprise Edition: Adds active memory sharing and live partition mobility
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
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)
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IBM BladeCenter PS701 Express at a glance
Operating systems AIX V5.3 or later, AIX V6.1 or later
IBM i 6.1 or later1
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; RHEL6.1 or later
High availability IBM PowerHA family
System dimensions PS701 Express blade: 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)2
BladeCenter H chassis: 15.75 in (400 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.0 in (711 mm) D;
weight: 350 lb (159 kg)2
BladeCenter S chassis: 12.0 in (306 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.3 in (733 mm) D;
weight: 240 lb (108.9 kg)2
Warranty (limited) 9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next business day for three years at no additional
cost; on-site for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country).
Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.
IBM BladeCenter PS702 Express at a glance
Form factor Doublewide blade server for BladeCenter S, BladeCenter H, or BladeCenter HT chassis
Processor cores Sixteen 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
Level 2 (L2) cache 256 KB per processor core
Level 3 (L3) cache 4 MB per processor core
Memory (std/max) Base offering: 32 GB (8 x 4 GB); Express offering: 64 GB (16 x 4 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)
Internal disk storage Two 300 or 600 GB GB 2.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive; No disk drive
required on base offering.
Networking Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit and support for optional dual-gigabit Ethernet
I/O upgrade Two PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card and two PCI-E CFFh High Speed Expansion Card
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 and
PowerVM Lx86
PowerVM Standard Edition: Adds shared processor pools and micropartitioning
PowerVM Enterprise Edition: Adds active memory sharing and live partition mobility
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IBM BladeCenter PS702 Express at a glance
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
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 (in 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 (in chassis)
Operating systems AIX V5.3 or later, AIX V6.1 or later
IBM i 6.1 or later1
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; RHEL6.1 or later
High availability IBM PowerHA family
System dimensions PS702 Express blade: 9.65 in (245 mm) H x 2.32 in (59 mm) W x 17.55 in (445 mm) D;
weight: 19.2 lb (8.7 kg)2
BladeCenter H chassis: 15.75 in (400 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.0 in (711 mm) D;
weight: 350 lb (159 kg)2
BladeCenter S chassis: 12.0 in (306 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.3 in (733 mm) D;
weight: 240 lb (108.9 kg)2
Warranty (limited) 9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next business day for three years at no additional
cost; on-site for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country).
Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.
For more information
To learn more about the IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701 and
PS702 Express blade servers, please contact your IBM mar-
keting representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit the
following Web sites:
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