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IBM System p5 505Q Express

The p5-505 and p5-505Q Express entry servers provide exceptional value in a 1U (one EIA Unit) high-density system. They offer on demand computing without compromising availability, flexibility or security features – at a value price. With expansive growth potential, innovative virtualisation capabilities, extraordinary power and proven IBM technology, System p5 505 and 505Q Express servers are ready to help clients do more and spend less.

The System p5 505Q Express platform is ideal for small and medium-sized clients who are upgrading, deploying, or adding new Linux or UNIX rack and stack servers for distributed database serving, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Cluster Relationship Management (CRM) application serving, infrastructure applications, or HPC clusters that must be up and running to ensure customer satisfaction. Using IBM’s latest QCM technology with four 1.65 GHz POWER5+ processor cores, the p5-505Q Express delivers outstanding price/performance and high system throughput.

Specifically, the System p5 505Q Express server provides:

Common features

  • 19-inch rack-mount packaging
  • 1U form factor for space constrained environments
  • Four-core Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP) design
  • 64-bit POWER5+ technology
  • Mainframe-inspired Reliability, Availatbility and Serviceability (RAS) features
  • Dynamic Logical Partioning (LPAR) support
  • IBM Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV) 1 (option)
  • IBM Micro-Partitioning (up to 40 micro-partitions)
  • Shared processor pool
  • Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) with Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
  • Partition Load Manager (IBM AIX 5L only)
  • IBM HACMP software support for near continuous operation*
  • Operating system (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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   IBM p5 505Q

 

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  • 1U 19-inch rack-mount packaging

  • Four 64-bit 1.65 GHz POWER5+ processor cores

  • 3.8 Megabyte (MB) Level 2 (L2) and 72MB Level 3 (L3) cache

  • One Gigabit (GB) to 32GB of Double Data Rate (DDR) 2 SDRAM

  • Two PCI-X 2.0 adapter slots (266 MHz (DDR)); one long and one short low-profile

  • Two hot-swappable SCSI disk bays for up to 600GB of internal storage

  • Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller external SCSI port

  • Dual ported Ethernet 10/100/1000 Megabits per second (Mbps) controller

  • Optional 4GB Fibre Channel (FC) and Ten Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) adapters

  • Two USB, two Hardware Management Console (HMC), two system ports

  • One slimline media bay.
 
 
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