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IBM System p5 520 Express

The IBM System p5 520 and 520Q Express servers designed for reliability, flexibility and security. With a choice of attractively-priced preconfigured Editions (for IBM AIX 5L or Linux® OS) make these systems easy to install and manage. Both the p5-520 and p5-520Q Express are designed with simultaneous multi-threading 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.

Specifically, the System p5 520 Express server provides:

Common features

  • 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
  • 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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   IBM p5 520

 

IBM System p5 520 Express

  
 
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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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