 | IBM Power 730 Express Server (8231-E2C)
Network Server IBM | 25 Oct 2011
136294 |
SUSE YES Certified for the following products:
Operating Systems:
| SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for IBM Power™ Service Pack 4 for SUSE® SLES 10 |
Product Description
The Power 730 Express server is a high-performance, energy-efficient, reliable, and secure infrastructure and application server in a dense form factor. As a high-performance infrastructure or application server, the Power 730 Express contains innovative workload-optimizing technologies that maximize performance based on client computing needs and Intelligent Energy features that help maximize performance and optimize energy efficiency. This results in a cost-efficient solution for SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server deployments. The IBM Power 730 Express server is a 2U rack-mount server with two processor sockets, with a 16-core 3.55 GHz configuration. The new Power 730 Express model 8231-E2C also provides expanded I/O capabilities using the high-performance Gen2 PCIe interfaces, and adds the capability of additional I/O via the 12x PCIe I/O expansion drawers.
Tested Configuration:
| Computer Type: | Rack Mount |
| Mother Board Revision: | 1 |
| BIOS/uEFI: | 1 |
| CPU: | 32 IBM POWER7™ 3.55 GHz |
| RAM: | 64 GB |
| Ports and Bus Types: | 3 USB Ports PCI Express X4 |
| Host Bus Adapter: | IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| Hard Disk Drive: | Seagate® ST973402SS , Serial SCSI (SAS) |
| CD/DVD: | IBM SATA DVD-RAM Drive (Slim) / RMBO0040532 , Serial ATA (SATA) |
| Test Kit: | System Certification Kit 7.0-81.1 |
Config Notes
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Adapters and Drivers
| Intel PRO/1000 PM (82571EB) Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: LAN Driver | Driver Name: e1000.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 453584 | ||||||||
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| IBM Obsidian-E PCI-E SCSI Controller | |||||||||
| Driver Type: HBA Driver | Driver Name: ipr.ko | ||||||||
| Driver Date: 18-Mar-2011 | Driver Size: 196312 | ||||||||
| Checksum: af912dbd311ffd14debfefa120284a42 | |||||||||
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