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IBM System p5 520Q 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 System p5 520Q Express platform is a new breed of four-core Java and Web application server designed to deliver superior system throughput and configurability for demanding e-Commerce and Web infrastructure applications. Powered by IBM’s latest QCM 1.65 GHz POWER5+ processor cores, the p5-520Q Express delivers outstanding performance at compelling low prices for high transaction environment based on the Java platform or for compute-intensive database applications. Specifically, the System p5 520Q Express server provides:

Common features

  • 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
  • APV (option)
  • IBM Micro-Partitioning (up to 40 micro-partitions)
  • Shared processor pool
  • Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) with IVM
  • Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)
  • Up to four optional I/O drawers
  • IBM HACMP software support for near continuous operation
  • 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 520Q

 

IBM System p5 520Q Express

  
 
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  • Deskside or 4U 19-inch rack-mount packaging

  • Four 64-bit 1.65 GHz POWER5+ processor cores

  • 3.8MB Level 3 (L3) and 72MB L3 cache

  • 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 SCSI disk bays for up to 2.4 Terabyte (TB) of internal storage

  • Maximum input/output (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 4 Gigabit (GB) Fibre Channel (FC), ten 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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