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IBM System p5 510 and 510Q Express servers (65KB)

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Highlights

  • Up to 4-core scalability with unique Quad-Core Module technology


  • Choose from thousands of IBM AIX 5L™ and Linux® operating system applications


  • Easy to buy, install and manage with a 3-year warranty

The System p5 510 and 510Q Express servers provide availability, flexibility and security features designed for reliable application serving in a compact 2U package. Fueled by IBM’s most advanced POWER5™ 64-bit technology with simultaneous multithreading1, these 19-inch rack-mount servers deliver up to 4-core scalability and outstanding price/performance.

The System p5 510 Express platform is a 1- or 2-core database server with a 2.1 GHz POWER5+ dual-core processor module. It can function as an entry-level application server for businesses of all sizes. The performance, reliability and affordability features of the p5-510 Express can make it a strategic platform for e-commerce application serving and compute-intensive business applications.

Specifically, the System p5 510 Express server provides:

Common features Hardware summary
  • 19-inch rack-mount packaging
  • 2U form factor for space constrained environments
  • 1- or 2-core SMP design
  • 64-bit POWER5+ technology
  • Mainframe-inspired RAS features
  • Dynamic LPAR support
  • IBM Advanced POWER™ Virtualization1 (option)
    • IBM Micro-Partitioning™ (up to 20 micro-partitions)
    • Shared processor pool
    • Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager
    • Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)
  • IBM HACMP™ software support for near continuous operation*
  • Operating system support via AIX 5L (V5.2 or later) and Linux distributions from Red Hat (RHEL AS 4 or later) and SUSE Linux (SLES 9 or later)
  • 2U 19-inch rack-mount packaging
  • One or two 64-bit 2.1 GHz POWER5+ processor cores
  • 1.9MB L2 and 36MB L3 cache
  • 1GB to 32GB of DDR2 SDRAM
  • Three PCI-X adapter slots (1 – 133 MHz; 2 – 266 MHz (DDR))
  • Four hot-swappable SCSI disk bays for up to 1.2TB of internal storage
  • Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (external SCSI port; optional RAID daughter card)
  • Dual ported Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps controller
  • Optional 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel and 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
  • Two USB, two HMC, two system ports
  • One slimline media bay for optical device



* Available as separately-priced software product
1 Not supported on AIX 5L V5.2

 

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