| Configuration options |
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| POWER7 processor modules—one or two per system |
4-core or 8-core 3.3 GHz or |
| 4-core or 8-core 3.7 GHz or |
| 6-core or 12-core 3.7 GHz or |
| 8-core or 16-core 3.55 GHz |
| Sockets |
1 or 2 |
| Level 2 (L2) cache |
256 KB per core |
| Level 3 (L3) cache |
4 MB per core |
| Memory |
8 GB to 512 GB1 of RDIMM DDR3 |
| Active Memory Expansion |
| Solid-state Drives (SSD) |
Up to eight SFF drives |
| Disk drives |
Up to eight SFF SAS drives |
| Disk capacity |
Up to 4.8 TB |
| Media bays |
Slimline for DVD-RAM |
| Half height for tape drive or removable disk |
| I/O |
Model 8205-E6C |
| PCI Adapter slots |
Five PCI Express 8x Generation2 plus optional four PCI Express Generation2 low profile |
| Standard Ethernet |
Two Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports |
| Integrated SAS controller |
One controller for SAS DASD/SSD with RAID 10, and DVD-RAM |
| Optional protected 175 MB cache with RAID 5, 6 |
| High-performance PCI adapters (optional) |
4-port 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel |
| 10 Gigabit Ethernet |
| 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel over Ethernet |
| Dual Port Quad Data Rate IB |
| Other integrated ports |
Three USB, two HMC, two system ports, two SPCN |
| GX slots (12X) |
Two GX 2 |
| I/O expansion (optional) |
Up to 4 PCIe 12X I/O drawers – 40 PCIe slots |
| Up to 8 PCI-X DDR 12X I/O drawers – 48 PCIx slots |
| Up to 416 SFF bays |
| Other PCI adapters supported include |
SAS, SCSI, WAN/Async, USB, Crypto, iSCSI |
| 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 |
200 V to 240 V ac, single phase |
| System dimensions |
Rack Drawer: 6.9 in. H × 17.3 in. W × 24.0 in. D (173 mm × 440 mm × 610 mm); weight: 87 lbs (39.5 kg)4 |
| Warranty (limited) |
3 year Limited Warranty, on site for selected components; CRU (customer-replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country), Next Business Day 9x5 (excluding holidays), warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available |
