Highlights
- POWER7+ technology brings faster frequencies and larger L3 cache sizes which helps improve performance by over 20 percent on most workloads and hardware assisted memory compression helps reduce memory requirements without penalizing performance
- Simplified experience: systems management can automatically discover the node for simple configuration and quick deployment
- IBM provides the integration and configuration expertise up front so you can get your system deployed faster and get faster time to value
To meet today’s complex and ever-changing business demands, you need a solid foundation of compute, storage, networking and software resources that is simple to deploy and can quickly and automatically adapt to changing conditions. You also need to be able to take advantage of broad expertise and proven best practices in systems management, applications, hardware maintenance and more. The IBM® PureFlex™ System combines leading edge compute capabilities, advanced IBM storage hardware and storage management along with patterns of expertise and integrates them in complete, optimized solutions.
IBM Flex System™ p260 and p460 Compute Nodes are POWER7 and POWER7+-based servers optimized for virtualization, performance and extraordinary efficiency. The nodes support IBM AIX, IBM i or Linux operating environments and are designed to run a wide variety of workloads in your PureFlex System or IBM Flex System solution.
Contact IBM

- Request a quote
- Email IBM
- Find a Business Partner
Call IBM: 1-866-261-3023
Priority code: 102LH02W
Product resources
- IBM Flex System brochure (761KB)
- Data sheet (789KB)
- Virtual tour - p260 (IBM suggests using Java version 6 Update 12 or higher)
- Virtual tour - p460 (IBM suggests using Java version 6 Update 12 or higher)
- Product guide
- Interoperability guide
- Planning and implementation guide
- Performance data
- Technical support - p260
- Technical support - p460
Special offers
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