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This bladeserver is the solution to replacing traditional rack servers. The IBM BladeCenter PS703 allows agility and speed all in one simple to manage solution. While providing reliability and dependability the IBM PS blades are the ideal solution for virtualization.

• Form factor:
  • Singlewide blade server for BladeCenter S, BladeCenter H, or BladeCenter HT chassis
• Processor cores:
  • Sixteen 64-bit 2.4 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
• Level 2 (L2) cache:  256 KB per processor core
• Level 3 (L3) cache:  4 MB per processor core
• Memory (std/max):
  • Base offering: 16 GB (4 × 4 GB)
  • Express offering: 32 GB (4 × 8 GB), up to 128 GB maximum per blade, sixteen DIMM slots, ECC IBM Chipkill DDR3 SDRAM running at 1066 MHz (4 GB DIMMs) 1066 MHz (8 GB DIMMs)
• Internal disk storage:
  • One 300 or 600 GB 2.5″ Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive or two 1.8″ 177GB Solid State Disks
  • No disk drive required on base offering
• Networking:   Integrated dual gigabit Ethernet ports. Virtualized ethernet provided by PowerVM VIOS
• I/O upgrade:  One PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card and one PCI-E CFFh High Speed Expansion Card
• Optional connectivity: 1 and 10 Gbps Ethernet, 4 and 8 Gbps Fibre Channel, 4X InfiniBand, SAS Expansion
• PowerVM:
  • PowerVM Express Edition: Supports 2 VMs/server and includes Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) and PowerVM Lx86
  • PowerVM Standard Edition: Scales to 10 VMs/core and adds suspend/resume and shared storage pools
  • PowerVM Enterprise Edition: Adds active memory sharing and live partition mobility Systems management Integrated systems management processor, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, light path diagnostics, Predictive Failure Analysis, Cluster
• Systems Management (CSM), Serial Over LAN, IPMI compliant
• RAS features:
  • IBM Chipkill ECC detection and correction
  • Processor Instruction Retry
  • Service processor with fault monitoring
  • Hot-swappable disk bays (in BladeCenter S chassis)
  • Hot-plug power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis)
  • Dynamic Processor Deallocation
  • Dynamic deallocation of logical partitions and PCI bus slots Extended error handling on PCI-E slots
  • Redundant power supplies and cooling fans (on chassis)
• Operating systems:
  • AIX V5.3, V6.1 or AIX 7.1
  • IBM i1 7.1 or 6.1.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES11 SP1 or later
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 for POWER or later
  • RHEL6.0 or later
• High availability: IBM PowerHA family
• System dimensions:
  • PS703 Express blade: 9.65 in (245 mm) H x 1.14 in (29 mm) W x 17.55 in (445 mm) D; weight: 9.6 lb (4.35 kg)
  • BladeCenter H chassis: 15.75 in (400 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.0 in (711 mm) D; weight: 350 lb (159 kg)
  • BladeCenter S chassis: 12.0 in (306 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.3 in (733 mm) D; weight: 240 lb (108.9 kg)