IBM 755 User Manual
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• A maximum of five hot-swap slots:
– Two PCIe x8 slots, short card length (slots 1 and 2)
– One PCIe x8 slot, full card length (slot 3)
– Two PCIX DDR slots, full card length (slots 4 and 5)
– One GX++ slot (shares same space as PCIe x8 slot 1)
• Integrated:
– Service Processor
– Quad-port 10/100/1000 Mb Ethernet
– EnergyScale technology
– Hot-swap and redundant cooling
– Three USB ports; two system ports
– Two HMC ports; two SPCN ports
• Two Power Supplies, 1725 Watt AC, Hot-swap
The minimum Power 755 configuration must include four processor cards, 32
processor activations, memory, two power supplies and power cords, two DASD, a
DASD/SSD/Media backplane, an operator panel cable, an Ethernet daughter card, a
DVD-RAM, an operating system indicator, and a Language Group Specify.
The minimum defined configuration, if no choice is made, is:
Feature number Description
4 x 8332 0/8 core 3.3 GHz POWER7 Processor -- 32-core system
32 x 2325 32 Zero-priced Processor Activations
16 x 4526 8 GB (2 x 4096 MB) Memory -- Total 128 GB memory
2 x 1883 Two 73.4 GB 15k SFF DASD
1878 Operator Panel Cable, Rack-mount drawer with
2.5-inch DASD Backplane
8340 DASD/Media Backplane for 2.5-inch DASD/SATA
DVD/Tape with External SAS Port
5624 Quad-port 1 Gb Integrated Ethernet Daughter Card
2 x 7740 Two Power Supplies, 1725 Watt AC, Base
5762 SATA DVD-RAM
9300/97xx) Language Group Specify
2146 or 2147 Primary Operating System Indicator - IBM AIX (2146)
or Linux (2147)
2 x 6xxx Two Power Cords
Notes:
• The 8 GB memory feature (#4526) is planned to be available on March 16, 2010.
Eight of feature 4527 can replace 16 of feature 4526.
• The GX Dual-port 12X Channel Attach Adapter Card (#5609) will be defaulted on
every 8236-E8C order but may be deselected.
• No internal DASD is required if feature 0837 (Boot from SAN) is selected. In
this case, a Fibre Channel or Fibre Channel over Ethernet adapter must also be
ordered.
I/O drawer availability
The EXP12S disk-only I/O drawers (#5886) are supported on the Power 755,
providing large storage capacity and multiple partition support.
EXP 12S SAS Drawer (#5886)
The EXP 12S SAS drawer (#5886) is a 2 EIA drawer and mounts in a 19-inch rack.
The drawer can hold either SAS disk drives or SSD. The EXP 12S SAS drawer has
twelve 3.5-inch SAS disk bays with redundant data paths to each bay. The drawer
supports redundant hot-plug power and cooling and redundant hot-swap SAS