Highlights
- Up to eight-core scalability using QCM technology
- Point, click and consolidate for even greater levels of individual system utilisation with optional low-cost virtualisation features
- Proven fifth generation IBM POWER dual-core technology ideal for branch office application and database serving.
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Save time, money and space when you consolidate on System p5 550 and 550Q Express servers. Get up to eight-core scalability, outstanding price/performance, exceptional reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features and a three-year warranty - all standard - at an affordable price. Powered by IBM's most advanced 64-bit processor core, POWER5+, these systems have simultaneous multithreading1 for increased system utilisation and improved application performance. Like all System p5 Express servers, the System p5 550 and 550Q Express can run the IBM AIX 5L and Linux® operating systems (OS) simultaneously. The new browser-based Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM) makes it easier than ever before to achieve increased utilisation when adding low-cost IBM Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV) features to your system.
The System p5 550Q Express platform is a new breed of eight-core scalable database and application server designed to meet the rigors of transaction-intensive and analytical applications. Powered by IBM's latest QCM 1.65 GHz POWER5+ processor cores, the p5-550Q Express delivers outstanding price/performance and high system throughput and is ideally suited for compute-intensive BI, scientific and engineering analytical applications, database applications or server consolidation.
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Product features
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| · 19-inch rack-mount or deskside packaging |
| · Four-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 eight optional I/O drawers |
| · IBM High Availability Cluster Multi-processing (HACMP) software support for near continuous operation (Available as separately-priced software product) |
· OS 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 |
| · Four or eight 64-bit 1.65 GHz POWER5+ processor cores |
| · 3.8 Megabyte (MB) Level 2 (L2) and 72MB Level 3 (L3) cache per QCM |
| · 1GB to 64GB of Double Data Rate (DDR) 2 SDRAM |
| · Five PCI-X adapter slots (4 - 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 54 PCI-X slots and 96 disk bays (28.8TB) |
| · Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (internal; RAID optional) |
| · Dual ported Ethernet 10/100/1000 Megabits per second (Mbps) controller |
| · Optional 4GB Fibre Channel (FC), ten Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 4x GX adapters |
| · Two USB, two HMC, two system ports |
· Two slimline and one half-high media bays.
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