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IBM System p5 560Q Express

The IBM System p5 560Q mid-range server implements outstanding price/performance, mainframe-inspired reliability and availability features and scalability to 16-cores. Based on IBM POWER5+ processors with simultaneous multi-threading and a scalable, 4U (EIA Units) building block package, the 19-inch rack-mount p5-560Q delivers performance, scalability and reliability features for commercial and technical applications. It is well-suited for large single applications, mid-sized databases and departmental HPC serving. As a Linux consolidation server, it is designed to provide superior availability while reducing infrastructure costs.

The System p5 560Q platform offers a powerful one or two building block system that scales from 4- to 16-cores. The system’s modular architecture means you can start with a 4-core, single QCM system and easily add an additional QCM to upgrade to an eight-core system. A second building block with two additional QCMs can also be added when more processing power is needed to expand the server to 16-cores. With the System p5 560Q server, there are fewer management challenges because of its symmetric multi-processor (SMP) building block technology. Additional input/output (I/O) and storage capacity come standard with each building block added.

Specifically, the System p5 560Q server provides:

Common features

  • 19-inch rack-mount packaging
  • 4- to 16-core SMP design with unique building block architecture
  • 64-bit POWER5+ processors
  • Mainframe-inspired reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features
  • Dynamic logical partioning (LPAR) support
  • IBM Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV) (option)
    • IBM Micro-Partitioning (up to 160 micro-partitions)
    • Shared processor pool
    • Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) with integrated Virtualization Manager
    • Partition Load Manager (IBM AIX 5L only)
  • Up to eight optional I/O drawers
  • IBM High Availability Cluster Multi-processing (HACMP) software support for near continuous operation
  • Supported by AIX 5L (V5.2 or later) and Linux distributions from Red Hat (RHEL AS 4 or later) and SUSE Linux (SLES 9 or later) O
  • System Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management (CSM) software

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   IBM p5 560Q

 

IBM System p5 560Q Express

  
 
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  • 4U 19-inch rack-mount packaging

  • One to two building blocks

  • Four, eight or 16 1.5 GHz or 1.8 GHz 64-bit POWER5+ processors

  • Level 2 (L2) cache: 3.8 Megabyte (MB) to 15.2MB (4- to 16-core)

  • Level 3 (L3) cache: 72MB to 288MB (4- to 16-core)

  • 2GB to 128GB of double data rate (DDR) 2 memory (32GB maximum on 4-core system; 64GB on 8-core system)

  • Six hot-plug PCI-X adapter slots per building block

  • Six hot-swappable disk bays per building block provide up to 3.6TB of internal disk storage

  • Optional I/O drawers may add up to an additional 56 PCI-X slots (for a maximum of 68) and 96 disk bays (28.8TB additional internal disk storage)

  • Dual channel Ultra320 small computer systems interface (SCSI) controller per building block (internal; RAID optional)

  • One integrated two-port 10/100/1000 Ethernet per building block

  • 2 Gigabit (Gb) Fibre Channel (FC), 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 4x InfiniBand adapters

  • One 2-port USB per building block

  • Two hardware management console (HMC) and two system ports

  • Two hot-plug media bays per building block.
 
 
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