Overview Of Ps700, Ps701, And Ps702 Blade Servers - IBM BladeCenter PS700 Technical Overview And Introduction

1.1 Overview of PS700, PS701, and PS702 blade servers

Figure 1-1 shows the IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, and PS702 blade servers.
Figure 1-1 The IBM BladeCenter PS702, BladeCenter PS701, and BladeCenter PS700
The PS700 blade server
The PS700 Blade Server (8406-70Y) is a single socket, single wide 4-core 3.0 GHz POWER7
processor-based server. The POWER7 processor is a 64-bit, 4-core with 256 KB L2 cache
per core and 4 MB L3 cache per core.
The PS700 blade server has eight DDR3 memory DIMM slots. The industry standard VLP
DDR3 Memory DIMMs are either 4 GB or 8 GB running at 1066 MHz. The memory is
supported in pairs, thus the minimum memory required for PS700 blade server is 8 GB (two 4
GB DIMMs). The maximum memory that can be supported is 64 GB (eight 8 GB DIMMs).
It has two Host Ethernet Adapters (HEA) 1 GB integrated Ethernet ports that are connected to
the BladeCenter chassis fabric (midplane). The PS700 has an integrated SAS controller that
supports local (on-board) storage, integrated USB controller and Serial over LAN console
access through the service processor, and the BladeCenter Advance Management Module.
It supports two on-board disk drive bays. The on-board storage can be one or two 2.5-inch
SAS HDD. The integrated SAS controller supports RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10 hardware
when two HDDs are used.
The PS700 also supports one PCIe CIOv expansion card slot and one PCIe CFFh expansion
card slot. See 1.5.8, "I/O features" on page 24 for supported I/O expansion cards.
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IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, and PS702 Technical Overview and Introduction