IBM 74Y2700 server / storage / networking hardware Server Hardware / Parts

The IBM 74Y2700 is a Flexible Service Processor (FSP) card, CCIN 2BBB, for the 9117-MMB and 9179-MHB Power 770/780 server family. Despite carrying the misleading source-data label ‘CD W-HDWR’, independent identification confirms this is a service-processor card, not an optical drive component: the FSP is the dedicated management controller that runs independently of the main system processors, handling boot sequencing, hardware monitoring and the out-of-band interface IBM support and system administrators use to diagnose and manage the server remotely. Power 770/780 systems of this generation remain widely deployed in enterprise data centres, and a working FSP is essential to system management, firmware updates and error reporting even when the production workload itself is unaffected. Specifiers should confirm the exact chassis and firmware level before ordering. Tech-Star (UK-based, shipped worldwide) supplies the 74Y2700 for engineers maintaining Power 770/780 service-processor redundancy.