What Your Blade Server Offers - IBM Power PS700 Installation And User Manual

What your blade server offers

The design of the blade server takes advantage of advancements in chip technology, memory
management, and data storage.
The blade server uses the following features and technologies:
v Baseboard management controller (BMC)
The enhanced BMC for the PS700 blade server is a flexible service processor that provides support for
the following functions:
– Alert Standard Format (ASF) and RS-485 interfaces to the management modules
– Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
– The operating system
– Power control and advanced power management
– Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features
– Serial over LAN (SOL)
– Continuous health monitoring and control
– Configurable notification and alerts
– Event logs that are time stamped and saved in nonvolatile memory and that can be attached to
e-mail alerts
– Point-to-point protocol (PPP) support
– Remote power control
– Remote firmware update and access to critical blade server settings
v Disk drive support
The blade server supports the following:
– First DASD bay: zero or one 2.5" SAS HDD
– Second DASD bay: zero or one 2.5" SAS HDD
v IBM Director
IBM Director is a workgroup-hardware-management tool that you can use to centrally manage PS700
blade server, including updating the PS700 firmware.
For more information, see the IBM Director documentation on the IBM Director CD.
v Impressive performance using the latest microprocessor technology
The blade server comes with one POWER7
v Integrated network support
The blade server has two integrated (onboard) 1 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) Host Ethernet Adapter
(HEA) controllers that provide advanced acceleration features, such as checksum offload, TCP large
send, and jumbo frames. Capabilities include virtualized adapter sharing among logical partitions that
does not require the shared Ethernet adapters of Virtual I/O Server. TCP advanced features include
hardware de-multiplexing and per connection queues.
v I/O expansion
The blade server has connectors on the system board for optional 1Xe and High Speed expansion
cards, such as Fibre Channel and InfiniBand expansion cards, for adding more network communication
capabilities to the blade server.
v Large system memory capacity
The memory bus in the PS700 Type 8406 server supports up to 64 GB of system memory. For the
official list of supported DIMMs, see the ServerProven
eserver/serverproven/compat/us/.
v Light path diagnostics
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