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 IBM System p5 590
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The IBM System p5 590 server has been withdrawn from the market, effective August 29, 2008. The learn more links provide information on the p5 590.
- Provides the power to run mission-critical applications with IBM POWER5™ technology
- Helps to lower costs and ease administration by consolidating UNIX® and Linux® environments
- Built with high-end reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features for an on demand world
The IBM System p5™ 590 server is designed to deliver outstanding performance at a price-point that will transform IT economics. Equipped with advanced 64-bit IBM POWER5+™ processor cores in up to 32-core symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) configurations, this server is built to provide the processing power for a wide range of complex, mission-critical applications with demanding processing requirements—from database services to enterprise resource planning (ERP) and transaction processing.
With advanced System p™ virtualization technologies such as Advanced POWER™ Virtualization 1 standard plus Capacity on Demand (CoD) options, the p5-590 can scale rapidly and seamlessly to address changing needs, making it an excellent server platform for server consolidation. It can execute the IBM AIX 5L™ and Linux operating systems simultaneously, providing the flexibility to run the applications businesses need to achieve their goals. And, extensive mainframe-inspired reliability, availability and serviceability features can help ensure that the system will be ready for business, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Specifically, the System p5 590 server provides:
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- 24" frame packaging
- 8-, 16-, 24- or 32-core MCM (Multichip Module) SMP design
- 64-bit POWER5 technology
- Mainframe-inspired RAS features including selective dynamic firmware updates and redundant service processor
- Dynamic LPAR support
- Advanced POWER Virtualization 1 standard
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- IBM Micro-Partitioning™ (up to 254 micro-partitions)
- Shared processor pool
- Virtual I/O Server
- Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)
- Up to eight I/O drawers (seven are optional)
- Redundant power subsystem with optional redundant battery backup
- On demand capabilities for processors and memory—Permanent, On/Off, Reserve and Trial activations available
- Capacity BackUp configuration optionally available
- IBM HACMP™ 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)
- System Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management software*
- IBM eServer™ pSeries® High Performance Switch and 12x InfiniBand Switch support
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- 42U 24" system frame packaging
- Eight to 32 64-bit 2.1 GHz POWER5+ processor cores packaged in MCMs (eight processor cores per MCM)
- 7.6MB L2 and 144MB L3 cache per MCM
- 8GB to 512GB of DDR2 memory running at 533 MHz or up to 1TB of DDR2 memory running at 400 MHz
- Up to 160 hot-plug/blind-swap PCI-X adapter slots (64-bit/133 MHz) via eight I/O drawers
- Up to 128 hot-swappable SCSI disk bays via eight I/O drawers for up to 18.7TB of disk storage
- Two integrated dual Ultra3 SCSI controllers per I/O drawer
- Two Hardware Management Console ports
- Optional 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 12x GX adapters
- Three media bays via optional media drawer
- Battery back-up option
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1 Not supported on AIX 5L V5.2
* Available as separately-priced software product
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