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8231-E1D is the IBM Power 710 Express, a 2U rack-mount server with one POWER7+ processor socket for AIX, IBM i and Linux. The processor modules are 4-core at 3.6 GHz, 6-core at 4.2 GHz or 8-core at 4.2 GHz, each with 10 MB of L3 cache per core and 256 KB of L2 cache per core. The POWER7+ chip adds a hardware accelerator for Active Memory Expansion, which allows up to 125% memory expansion for AIX partitions.
Memory is DDR3 across a maximum of eight DIMM slots: four in the base configuration and four more with an optional memory riser card, for a maximum of 256 GB. There are five PCI Express Gen2 low-profile slots, and a PCIe x4 Gen2 low-profile slot holds the 4-port 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet adapter included in the base configuration. The Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter is not available on the Power 710.
Three storage backplane options exist: three SFF SAS drives or SSDs with a SATA DVD and a half-high tape drive; six SFF SAS drives or SSDs with a SATA DVD; or six SFF drives with a SATA DVD, Dual Write Cache RAID 5 or 6 and an external SAS port. The integrated SAS controller supports RAID 0, 1 and 10, and drives are hot-swap and front accessible.
The chassis is 440 mm wide, 706 mm deep and 89 mm high, and weighs 28.2 kg in the maximum configuration. Its larger sibling, the two-socket 8231-E2D Power 730, uses the same chassis dimensions.
| Designation | IBM Power 710 Express |
| Machine type-model | 8231-E1D |
| Form factor | 2U rack mount |
| Processor | one POWER7+ socket, 4-core 3.6 GHz, 6-core 4.2 GHz or 8-core 4.2 GHz |
| Cache | 10 MB L3 and 256 KB L2 per core |
| Memory | DDR3, 8 DIMM slots, maximum 256 GB |
| PCIe slots | 5 x PCIe Gen2 low profile |
| Storage bays | 3 or 6 SFF SAS HDD/SSD, SATA DVD |
| RAID | 0, 1, 10 (5 or 6 with Dual Write Cache option) |
| Dimensions | 440 mm x 706 mm x 89 mm |
| Weight | 28.2 kg maximum configuration |
| Operating systems | AIX, IBM i, Linux |