IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Power Systems IBM Power 740 Express server High performance, reliable, expandable midsize database and consolidation server Highlights ● For small-to-midsize database servers ● For consolidation of UNIX, IBM i and x86 Linux workloads and virtualized application servers Everyone knows what “performance” meant for IT in the past. Built on the foundation of POWER7® processor technology, our Power Systems Express servers continue to excel and extend industry leadership in the traditional benchmarks of performance. But, today, the IT landscape is evolving rapidly. And, as processes become more interrelated and complex, IT is being called upon to solve challenging new problems—and implement new IT projects, delivering them with both higher service levels and in a more cost effective manner. The emerging measures of IT performance today are around agility and the ability to help the business capitalize on new opportunities. IT is measured on providing an infrastructure that can handle rapid growth and manage business risk while meeting higher required service levels. And of course it is expected that new services will be delivered with tighter budget constraints—with IT expected to do more with less and nd the lowest cost solutions possible. Businesses desire systems that deliver outstanding performance but also demand that those systems achieve higher levels of energy efficiency and utilization to help conserve energy and reduce infrastructure costs. As a small-to-midsize database server, the Power® 740 Express® server is fueled by the outstanding performance of the POWER7® processor, making it possible for applications to run faster with fewer processors, which can result in lower per core software licensing costs. The Power 740 Express also supports innovative workload-optimizing and energy management technologies to help clients get the most out of their systems; that is, running applications quickly and energy efficiently to reduce costs.

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Power Systems As a consolidation server, businesses can further reduce costs and energy consumption by combining the Power 740 Express performance, capacity and conguration exibility with industrial-strength PowerVM™ virtualization for AIX®, IBM i, and Linux. The Power 740 Express is designed with large memory and I/O capacity to satisfy even the most demanding processing environments and can deliver business advantages and higher client satisfaction. The Power 740 Express is a one- or two-socket server that supports up to 16 POWER7 cores in a exible 4U rack-optimized...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Power Systems Power is availability you can count on administrators to easily and quickly diagnose hardware problems. Hardware failures that may have taken hours to locate and diagnose can now be detected in minutes, avoiding or signicantly reducing costly downtime. The Power 740 Express is designed with capabilities to deliver leading-edge application availability and allow more work to be processed with less operational disruption. RAS capabilities include recovery from intermittent errors or failover to redundant components, detection and reporting of...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Power Systems Power 740 Express at a glance Conguration options 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...

IBM Systems and Technology Data Sheet Power Systems Power 740 Express at a glance 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...

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