Highlights
- Proven fifth generation IBM POWER technology
- Unique IBM Quad-Core Module (QCM) technology - ideal for high performance computing (HPC) Linux® operating system (OS) clusters
- Point, click and consolidate for even greater levels of individual system utilisation with optional low-cost virtualisation features.
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Take back control of your transaction processing environment with the IBM System p5 520 and 520Q Express servers designed for reliability, flexibility and security. A three-year warranty, special IBM financing and a choice of attractively-priced preconfigured Editions (for IBM AIX 5L or Linux® OS) make these systems easy to buy, install and manage. Both the p5-520 and p5-520Q Express are designed with simultaneous multi-threading1 for increased system utilisation and improved application performance. The new browser-based Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM) makes it easier than ever to achieve increased utilisation by adding low-cost Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV) features to your system.
The leadership performance and manageability position the System p5 520 Express platform with its 2.1 GHz POWER5+ processor cores for use as a small database server, a branch application server and for highly secure e-business and BI / HPC applications for enterprises of all sizes.
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Product features
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| · 19-inch rack-mount or deskside packaging |
| · 2-core symmetric multi-processing (SMP) design |
| · 64-bit POWER5+ technology |
| · Mainframe-inspired reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features |
| · Dynamic Logical Partioning (LPAR) support |
| · APV1 (option): IBM Micro-Partitioning (up to 20 micro-partitions), Shared processor pool, VIOS with IVM, Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only) |
| · Up to four optional I/O drawers |
| · IBM High Availability Cluster Multi-processing (HACMP) software support for near continuous operation (Available as separately-priced software product) |
· Operating system support via AIX 5L (V5.2 or later) and Linux distributions from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS 4 or later and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 or later.
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Hardware summary
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| · Deskside or 4U 19-inch rack-mount packaging |
| · One or two 64-bit 2.1GHz POWER5+ processor cores |
| · 1.9MB Level 2 (L2) and 36MB Level 3 (L3) cache per processor pair |
| · 1GB to 32GB of Double Data Rate (DDR) 2 SDRAM |
| · Six PCI-X adapter slots (2 - 66 MHz; 3 - 133 MHz; 1 - 266 MHz (DDR)) |
| · Four standard and four optional hot-swappable small computer systems interface (SCSI) disk bays for up to 2.4TB of internal storage |
| · Maximum I/O drawers add an additional 28 PCI-X slots and 48 disk bays (14.4TB) |
| · Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (internal; RAID optional) |
| · Dual ported Ethernet 10/100/1000 Megabits per second (Mbps) controller |
| · Optional 4GB Fibre Channel (FC), 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 4x GX adapters |
| · Two USB, two hardware management console (HMC), two system ports |
· Two slimline and one half-high media bays.
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