"An economical, high performance, reliable, and energy efficient server"
 

Built on the leadership performance of the POWER7 processor, the Power 710 Express is a one-socket server that supports up to eight POWER7 cores in a dense, rack-optimized form factor. As a high-performance infrastructure or application server, the Power 710 Express contains innovative workload-optimizing technologies that improve performance based on client computing needs. In addition, it includes Intelligent Energy features that help increase performance and optimize energy efficiency, resulting in one of the most cost-efficient solutions for UNIX, IBM i and Linux deployments.
The Power 710 Express is a high performance, easy-to-own, energy efficient, elegantly simple and reliable server. The Power 710 Express server is fueled by the outstanding performance of the POWER7 processor with a choice of AIX, IBM i or Linux operating systems and solutions from thousands of ISVs that can set your business apart from the competition.


HIGHLIGHTS:

  • A high-performance, energy efficient, reliable and secure infrastructure and application server in a compact 2U package. With POWER7® workload-optimizing technologies, the Power® 710 Express server can deliver fast transactions with the AIX®, IBM i and Linux operating systems.
  • An easy-to-buy, install and manage server that can seamlessly fit into your existing infrastructure, resulting in faster deployment time and time to value.
    Features Benefits
    Leadership POWER7 performance

    Access data faster and improve response time.
    Do more work with fewer servers and benefit from infrastructure cost savings from a reduction in the number of servers and software licenses.

    Intelligent Threads Optimize performance by selecting the suitable threading mode for your application.
    Active Memory Expansion Enables more work to be done with existing server.
    RAS Features Keep applications up and running so you can focus on growing your business.
    Light Path Diagnostics Easily and quickly diagnose hardware problems reducing service time.
    IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager with EnergyScale Technology Dramatically and dynamically improve energy efficiency and lower energy costs with innovative energy management capabilities.
    Enables businesses to continue operations when energy is limited.
 
 
Configuration Options
POWER7 Processor modules-one per system 4-core 3.0 GHz or
6-core 3.7 GHz or
8-core 3.55 GHz
Sockets 1
L2 cache 256 KB per core
L3 cache

4 MB per core
Memory 4 GB to 128 GB1 of RDIMM DDR3
Active Memory Expansion
Solid-state Drives(SSD)

Up to six SFF drives
Disk Drives

Up to six SFF SAS drives

Disk Capacity

Up to 3.6 TB
Media Bays Slimline for DVD-RAM
Half height for tape drive2 or removable disk

I/O

 Model 8231-E2B Model 8231-E1C
PCI Adapter slots Four PCI Express 8x low profile Five PCI Express Generation2 8x low profile
Standard Ethernet Four virtual Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports (or) Two virtual 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports Two Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports
Integrated SAS controller One controller for SAS DASD/SSD and DVD-RAM
Optional protected 175 MB cache with RAID 5, 6		 One controller for SAS DASD/SSD w/ RAID 10 and DVD-RAM
Optional protected 175 MB cache with RAID 5, 6
High-Performance PCI adapters 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel
10 Gigabit Ethernet
10 Gigabit Fibre Channel over Ethernet		 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel
Dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet
10 Gigabit Fibre Channel over Ethernet
Other Integrated ports Three USB, two HMC, two system ports  
GX slots One GX++  
PowerVM™ technologies
POWER Hypervisor™
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 10 micropartitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools
PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional) PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility (LPM) and Active Memory Sharing (AMS)
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 systems3 AIX
IBM i
Linux for POWER®
High availability IBM PowerHA™ family
Power requirements 100 V to 240 V ac, single phase
System dimensions Rack Drawer: 3.4 in. H × 17.6 in. W × 28.6 in. D (86 mm × 447 mm × 728 mm); weight 62 lbs (28.2 kg)4
Warranty 3 years