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IBM System p5™ Express and eServer™® OpenPower™ systems provide enterprise-class features at entry-level pricing with a flexible, high-performance architecture to affordably contain your file-and-print server sprawl. With ever-expanding user requirements, these IBM servers can help reduce costs, improve performance, increase flexibility of your file and print networks and improve your return on investment.
- IBM System p5™ Express and IBM eServer™® OpenPower™ systems provide enterprise-class features and an entry-level price with a flexible, high-performance architecture to affordably contain your file-and-print server sprawl
- System p5 Express and OpenPower servers running Linux for file-and-print serving, deliver impressive performance according to the standard NetBench benchmark 1
You face the challenge of delivering an affordable, reliable, secure infrastructure for enterprise-class solutions. Your infrastructure must support thousands of files, hundreds of users, dozens of printers, numerous networks, and many groups—concurrently. It must give each of your clients sub-second response time despite their constantly changing resource requirements. It must scale on demand. In this challenging environment, file-and-print server management, once deemed "tactical" and "non-mission-critical," has taken on a central role. If only you could access servers that are adaptable to multiple requirements, yet integrated into a compatible family that is easy to manage, maintain, and grow.
Now you can with IBM System p5 Express and IBM eServer™ OpenPower servers running the Linux OS for file-and-print serving.
The new IBM System p5™ Express product line offers flexible and affordable entry-level servers which feature IBM's most advanced 64-bit processor, IBM POWER5™, with simultaneous multithreading for increased system utilization and improved application performance. System p5 Express, OpenPower Edition servers offers clients extra value on their initial system purchase when specific processor, memory and disk drive requirements and the Linux OS are ordered.
- IBM System p5 Express product line is a family of flexible and affordable entry-level servers which feature IBM's most advanced 64-bit processor, IBM POWER5+™, with simultaneous multithreading for increased system utilization and improved application performance. Alternatively, clients can choose IBM OpenPower 710 and 720 servers with IBM POWER5™ processors which offer a flexible, scalable platform with excellent reliability features and tuned for the Linux OS
- The Linux OS has become a popular alternative to the Windows® OS for file-and-print serving that can help reduce costs
- System p5 Express and OpenPower servers running the Linux OS for file-and-print serving, deliver impressive performance according to the standard NetBench benchmark 1
IBM System p5 Express servers are designed to deliver enterprise-class performance while lowering initial server costs so that you can select the deployment model that best serves your organization—support smaller file-and-print requirements on distributed systems or consolidate large file-and-print server farms in a centralized architecture or both. Based on our experience, IBM recommends the following starter configurations with System p5 Express servers:
Small: Up to 85 concurrent users, 50% spare CPU cycles*
- IBM System p5 505 Express
- 1-core 1.65 GHz POWER5
- 2GB memory
- Two 73.4GB 15K rpm drives
- Linux distribution
Medium: Up to 200 concurrent users, 50% spare CPU cycles*
- IBM System p5 520 Express
- 2-core 1.9 GHz POWER5+
- 2GB memory
- Four 73.4GB 15K rpm drives
- Linux distribution
Large: Up to 400 concurrent users, 50% spare CPU cycles*
- IBM System p5 550 Express
- 4-core 1.9 GHz POWER5+
- 4GB memory
- Eight 73.4GB 15K rpm drives
- Linux distribution
* The number of supported users in each solution starting point configuration assumes typical application usage in an enterprise file-and-print environment and will vary depending on the specific client environment.
1 Based on Ziff Davis Media NetBench benchmark result of 2,054.184Mbps on a 2-core 1.9 GHz POWER5+ IBM System p5 550 Express and 3,055.120Mbps on a 4-core 1.9 GHz POWER5+ IBM System p5 550 Express. For NetBench results on IBM systems, IBM ran the standard NetBench version 7.0.3 benchmark using the Enterprise Disk Mix Test Suite profile to evaluate the file server performance of IBM System p5 Express servers. Assumptions include: 4Mbps per user throughput, 100% active time per user, 500MB storage per user and RAID 5 storage. For additional information and tailoring, refer to the System p5 Express or OpenPower Sizing Guide for Samba 3 File and Print: ibm.com/servers/sizing (Search for "Samba")
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