IBM pSeries Power 7 Servers

As a distributed application server, the Power 720 Express is designed to deliver leading-edge application availability and enable more work to be processed with less operational disruption for branch office and in-store applications. As consolidation servers, PowerVM Editions deliver the flexibility to use leading-edge AIX, IBM i, and Linux applications. PowerVM Editions offer comprehensive virtualization technologies designed to aggregate and manage resources while helping to simplify and optimize your IT infrastructure and deliver one of the most cost-efficient solutions for UNIX, IBM i, and Linux deployments.

The Power 720 Express server with IBM i offers a technology foundation with proven reliability and security for the small or midsized company seeking a complete, integrated business system. This business system enables you to avoid increased spending and staffing requirements while becoming more responsive to your customers, improving your productivity, and keeping your data secure. IBM i integrates features to simplify your IT environment and delivers a complete, cost-effective business system that can grow with a business. The Power 720 delivers the performance and capacity to run new and existing core business applications on a single server, to greatly integrate and simplify your IT environment.

The Power 720 Express offers a choice of a 4-, 6-, or 8-core configuration in either a 4U rack-mount or a tower form factor. The Power 720 POWER7+ 3.6 GHz chip offers industry-leading 64-bit, SMT4 threading, and up to 80 MB on-chip embedded DRAM L3 cache, among other advantages.

The Power 720 Express server supports a maximum of 16 DDR3 DIMM slots, with eight DIMM slots included in the base configuration and eight DIMM slots available with an optional memory riser card. Memory features (two memory DIMMs per feature) supported are 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB that run at speeds of 1066 MHz. A 6-or 8-core system with the optional memory riser card installed has a maximum memory of 512 GB.

The POWER7+ hardware accelerator for Active Memory Expansion provides 25% higher levels of memory expansion than available with POWER7 chips. While POWER7 Systems offer up to 100% memory expansion that can effectively double the server's maximum memory, POWER7+ servers offer up to 125% memory expansion for AIX partitions. Thus, a system memory maximum of 512 GB could effectively become greater than 1 TB effective memory capacity. This can enhance virtualization and server consolidation by enabling a partition to do significantly more work with the same physical amount of memory or a server to run more partitions and do more work with the same physical amount of memory.