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IBM

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IBM System p5 550 Express

The System p5 550 and 550Q Express servers gives 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 multi-threading for increased system utilisation and improved application performance. Like all System p5 Express servers, the System p5 550 and 550Q Express can run the AIX 5L and Linux® operating systems (OS) simultaneously. The new browser-based Integrated Virtualization Manager makes it easier than ever before to achieve increased utilisation when adding low-cost Advanced POWER Virtualization features to your system.

The System p5 550 Express platform is a two- or four-core database server with 2.1GHz POWER5+ dual-core processor modules. It can function as a scalable database or versatile departmental or regional server for businesses of all sizes. The performance, reliability and affordability features of the p5-550 Express can make it a strategic platform for scalable database servers, e-commerce application servers, Web servers, operations systems and for BI and HPC workloads.

Specifically, the System p5 550 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 RAS features
  
• Dynamic Logical Partitioning (LPAR) support
  
• IBM Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV) (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 (AIX 5L only)
  
• Up to eight optional I/O drawers
  
• IBM high availability cluster multi-processing (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.

For more information and pricing contact us on:

• +44 (0)20 7352 7007

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