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IBM Power 560 Express

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Processor cores Four, eight or sixteen 64-bit 3.60GHz POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
Level 2 (L2) cache 4 MB L2 cache per core
Level 3 (L3) cache 32 MB L3 cache shared per two cores
RAM (memory) 8 GB to 384 GB of DDR2 SDRAM
Internal SAS disk bays Six 3.5" SAS drives per 560 building block; Maximum of 12 drives
Internal disk storage Up to 2.7 TB per 560 building block
Media bays One hot plug slimline per 560 building block
Adapter slots 560 building block: Four PCI Express 8x slots; Two PCI-X DDR @ 266 MHz

Standard I/O adapters
Integrated Virtual Ethernet
Integrated disk 3G SAS controller per building block; Maximum of two
Other Ports Four USB, two HMC, four SPCN

Expansion features (optional)
High-performance PCI adapters 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel; 10 Gigabit Ethernet
I/O expansion Up to twelve I/O drawers
GX slots Two for 4- or 8-way; Three for a 16-way (each shares space with and replaces one PCI Express 8x slot)

PowerVM technologies
POWER Hypervisor™ LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN (Memory to memory inter-partition communication)
PowerVM Standard Edition (optional) Micro-Partitioning with up to 10 micro-partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Virtual I/O Server; Shared Dedicated Capacity; PowerVM Lx86
PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional) PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility

RAS features IBM Chipkill™ ECC, bit-steering memory and cache
Processor Instruction Retry
Alternate Processor Recovery
Service processor with fault monitoring
Hot-plug disk bays
Hot-plug PCI slots
Hot-plug and redundant power supplies and cooling fans
Dynamic Processor Deallocation
Extended error handling on PCI-X slots

Operating systems AIX V5.3 or later
IBM i 6.1 or later
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER™ (SLES10 SP1) or later; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 for POWER (RHEL4.5) or later; RHEL5.1 or later

High availability IBM PowerHA™ family

Power requirements 200v to 240v AC

System dimensions 560 building block: 6.85"H (4U) x 19.0"W x 32.4"D (174 mm x 483 mm x 824 mm); weight 140.0 lb (63.6 kg)1

Warranty (limited) 9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next-business-day for one year at no additional cost; on-site for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other components; units (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.

1 Weight will vary when disks, adapters and peripherals are installed.

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