IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701 and PS702 Express
Highlights
- Consolidate on IBM BladeCenter Power Blades and virtualize
applications to better utilize resources and amplify the
already-significant advantages of BladeCenter efficiencies
- Simplifies your deployment with flexible configurations that
make it easy to implement the right system and the ability to run
AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems simultaneously
- Elegantly simple scalability, allows easy expansion and
pay-as-you-grow flexibility for the utmost in investment protection,
performance growth, and time to value
- A secure, resilient infrastructure solution that helps drive
cost down, reduces risk, improves energy efficiency and enhances
flexibility
Built on the proven foundation of the IBM BladeCenter® family of
products—easy-to-use, integrated platforms with a high degree of
deployment flexibility, energy efficiency, scalability and
manageability—the BladeCenter PS700, PS701 and PS702 Express are the
premier blades for 64-bit applications. Minimize complexity, improve
efficiency, automate processes, reduce energy consumption and scale
easily: these are the benchmarks that matter on a smarter planet. The
new POWER7 processor-based PS blades automatically optimize performance
and capacity at either a system or virtual machine level and benefits
from the new POWER7 processor, which contains innovative technologies
that help maximize performance and optimizes energy efficiency. They
represent one of the most flexible and cost-efficient solutions for
UNIX®, i and Linux deployments available in the market. Further enhanced
by its ability to be installed in the same chassis with other IBM
BladeCenter blade servers, the PS blades can deliver the rapid return on
investment that clients and businesses demand.
Delivering on the promise for a highly dynamic infrastructure, the
BladeCenter PS blades help in delivering superior business and IT
services with agility and speed—all in a simple to manage highly
efficient way. The PS700, PS701 and PS702 Express blades have been
preconfigured and tested by IBM and are based on proven technology.
Utilizing a 3.0 GHz 64-bit POWER7™ processor and available in a
four-core, eight-core or sixteen-core configuration, they are optimized
to achieve maximum performance for both the system and its virtual
machines. Couple that performance with PowerVM and you are now enabled
for massive workload consolidation to drive maximum system utilization,
predictable performance, and cost efficiency.
Power is effortlessly balancing workload performance
POWER7 Intelligent Threads technology enables workload optimization by
selecting the most suitable threading mode: Single Thread (per core) or
Simultaneous Multi Thread-2 or 4 modes. Consequently, Intelligent
Threads technology can provide improved application performance. In
addition, POWER7 processors can maximize cache access to cores,
improving performance, using Intelligent Cache technology.
Power is dynamic energy optimization
EnergyScale™ Technology offers Intelligent Energy management features,
which can dramatically and dynamically conserve power and further
improve energy efficiency. TheseIntelligent Energy features enable the
POWER7 processor to operate at a higher frequency if environmental
conditions permit, for increased performance and performance per watt;
or alternatively operate at a reduced frequency if user settings permit,
for significant energy savings.
Smart BladeCenter Solutions with Power Blades
If you are looking for the perfect alternative to replacing traditional
rack servers, then look no further. With a range of available PS blade
choices and BladeCenter chassis supported you have the performance and
scalability you need for demanding workloads of any sort. When combined
with the BladeCenter S chassis, the PS blades become an ideal solution
for deploying blades in an office and distributed enterprise
environment. Unlike a stand-alone server that needs multiple power
supplies and fans, individual systems management, numerous cables and a
lot of space, IBM BladeCenter is compact and easy to use. By integrating
servers, storage, networking and management, BladeCenter is helping
companies in every industry sweep complexity aside. The blades contain
all the necessities to run an application—processors, memory, I/O and
storage. The chassis contains shared redundant power, shared hot-swap
cooling, a media tray, integrated Ethernet, storage, switching and
consolidated powerful management.
Simplify. Cut costs. Boost productivity. Go green. They’re all
priorities for IT, and they’re all driving organizations to rethink
their server strategies and become more receptive to new ways to use IT.
Blades are the next-generation solution, promising improvements across
the board. So toss your cables and take the leap. Migrate to the blade
solution that uses less energy and gives more choices and control. You
have nothing to lose but complexity. IBM BladeCenter is the right
choice. Open. Easy. Green.
Specifically, the BladeCenter PS700 Express blade provides:
Common features |
Hardware summary |
- Singlewide blade server compatible with BladeCenter
family chassis (BCE, BCT, BCH, BCHT, BCS)
- Four-core SMP scalability
- 64-bit IBM POWER7 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware
Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
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- Four 3.0 GHz POWER7 processor cores
- From 4 GB to 64 GB memory in eight DIMM slots
- High-performance DDR3 memory running at up to 1066
MHz
- Integrated SAS controller
- Two 2.5" 10K rpm Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk
drive bay supporting 300 or 600 GB of internal storage
- Elegantly simple scalability, allowing easy
expansion
- Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual
Gigabit
- Enterprise-class reliability with light path
diagnostics, IBM Predictive Failure Analysis, ECC and
IBM Chipkill memory
- Support for Calibrated Vectored Cooling™,
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ software and
EnergyScale technology to monitor energy and maintain
optimum cooling
- Supported in BladeCenter E, T, H, HT and S chassis
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