Features and specifications

Features and specifications of the IBM® BladeCenter® PS703 or PS704 blade server are summarized in this overview.

The PS703 is a single-wide blade server. The PS704 is the double-wide symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) unit. They are used in an IBM BladeCenter H (8852 and 7989), BladeCenter HT (8740 and 8750), or BladeCenter S (8886 and 7779) chassis unit.
Notes:
  • Power, cooling, removable-media drives, external ports, and advanced system management are provided by the BladeCenter unit.
  • The operating system in the blade server must provide support for the Universal Serial Bus (USB) to enable the blade server to recognize and communicate internally with the removable-media drives and front-panel USB ports.
Core electronics:

64-bit 2 x POWER7® processors (12S technology)

PS703 single-wide model:
  • 16-way single-wide blade: 2 socket 8-core at 2.4 GHz
  • 16 very low profile (VLP) DIMM slots. Maximum capacity is 128 GB. Supports 4 GB DDR3 and 8 GB DDR3 at 1066 MHz
PS704 double-wide model:
  • 32-way double-wide: 2x8-way base with 2x8-way expansion
  • 32 very low profile (VLP) DIMM slots. Maximum capacity is 256 GB. Supports 4 GB DDR3 and 8 GB DDR3 at 1066 MHz

P7IOC I/O hub

On-board, integrated features:
  • FSP1 Service Processor - IPMI, SOL
  • Two 1 Gb Ethernet ports using 5709S Ethernet controller (two on PS703 , four on PS704)
  • SAS controller
  • USB 2.0
  • 1 Serial over LAN (SOL) console using BMC Ethernet port

Local storage:

  • PS703 : Maximum of one SAS 2.5 in. hard disk drive (HDD) or maximum of two SATA 1.8 in. solid-state drives (SSDs) or none
  • PS704:
    • Maximum of two SAS 2.5 in. HDDs or maximum of four SATA 1.8 in. SSDs or none
    • Valid options:
      • None
      • 1 HDD
      • 2 HDDs
      • 1 HDD and 1 SSD
      • 1 HDD and 2 SSDs
      • 2 SSDs, 3 SSDs, or 4 SSDs
  • SSDs are 200 GB
  • HDDs are 300 GB and 600 GB
  • RAID functions supported

Daughter card I/O options:

  • in the PS703 :
    • Supports one expansion card (CIOv)
    • Supports one CFFh expansion card (combination form factor horizontal high-speed data card)
    • Supports one SAS passthrough using CIOv
  • PS704:
    • Supports two expansion cards (CIOv)
    • Supports two CFFh expansion cards
    • Supports up to two SAS passthroughs using CIOv
Integrated functions:
  • RS-485 interface for communication with the management module
  • Automatic server restart (ASR)
  • SOL through service processor
  • Two Universal Serial Buses (USB 2.0) on base system board for communication with removable-media drives
  • Optical media available by shared chassis feature
Environment:
  • Air temperature:
    • Blade server with power on: 10° - 35°C (50° - 95°F). Altitude: 0 - 914 m (3000 ft)
    • Blade server with power on: 10° - 32°C (50° - 90°F). Altitude: 914 m - 2133 m (3000 ft - 7000 ft)
    • Blade server with power off: -40° - 60°C (-40° - 140°F)
  • Humidity:
    • Blade server with power on: 8% - 80%
    • Blade server with power off: 8% - 80%
PS703 or PS704 size:
  • Height: 24.5 cm (9.7 in.)
  • Depth: 44.6 cm (17.6 in.)
  • PS703: Width: 30 mm (1.14 in.) PS704: 60 mm (2.28 in.)
 Systems management:
  • Supported by BladeCenter chassis management module
  • Front panel LEDs
  • IBM Director
  • Hardware Management Console (HMC)
  • Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
  • Energy scale thermal management for power management, power oversubscription (throttling), and environmental sensing
  • Active Energy Manager
  • Concurrent Code Update via Director Update Manager, Inventory Collection, Multiple VIOS, and PowerVM® Enterprise
Clusters support for:
  • IBM Director
  • xCat

Virtualization support for:

PowerVM Standard Edition hardware feature, which provides the Integrated Virtualization Manager, Virtual I/O Server, and IBM Systems Director Management Console (SDMC).

No HMC support

Reliability and service features:
  • Dual alternating current power supply
  • BladeCenter chassis redundant and hot-plug power and cooling modules
  • Boot-time processor deallocation
  • Blade server hot plug
  • Customer setup and expansion
  • Automatic reboot on power loss
  • Internal and ambient temperature monitors
  • ECC, chipkill memory
  • System management alerts
  • Light path diagnostics
  • Electronic Service Agent™ call home capability

Electrical input: 12 V DC

See the ServerProven website for information about supported operating-system versions and all blade server optional devices.

Parent topic: Product overview

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