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– Hot-swappable disk drives
– Environmental sensing
– N+1 Power
– Service processor for integrated system monitoring
– Concurrent diagnostics
Preconfigured tailored solutions that take advantage of the rack packaging to
custom tailor your solution. Choose from multiple SCSI and SSA:
– Storage
– Media
– Communication
– Drawer options
Open industry standards, such as Open Firmware based on IEEE P1275
standard.
Processor and memory growth beyond any previous RS/6000 Enterprise
Server. The base configuration, 4-way SMP processors can be expanded up
to 12-way. Memory can be expanded up to 32 GB in 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4
GB, or 8 GB increments. System power supplies are designed for maximum
configurations.
Internal I/O system scalability and expandability that supports:
– Up to four system I/O drawers with up to 56 PCI slots
– Up to 436.8 GB internal disks
– Eight media bays for tape and optical devices
Robust industry-standard PCI subsystem supporting 32-bit and 64-bit
adapters. Greater application throughput is achieved by the four independent
PCI buses per drawer, providing up to 500 MB per second aggregate
bandwidth per drawer.
A high-performance ECC L2 cache of 8 MB per 262 MHz processor.
RAID support SSA. The operating system provides RAID 0 and 1. The optional
SSA RAID adapter provides RAID level 0, 1, and 5.
Product positioning
The 7017-S7A is the natural growth path for the Models R30, R40, and R50. It
offers more performance, memory, and storage, and has the added advantage of
running your current 32-bit applications alongside new 64-bit solutions.
The 7017-S7A has the capacity to meet your current and future needs with:
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