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Standard configurations Per building block 570 (maximum)
Processor cores
  • Two or four 3.5, 4.2, 4.4, 4.7 or 5.0 GHz POWER6 processor cores in the first building block; four identical cores in all others OR
  • Four or eight 4.2 GHz POWER6 processor cores in the first building block; eight identical cores in all others.
  • 16 3.5, 4.2, 4.4, 4.7 or 5.0 GHz POWER6 processor cores OR
  • 32 4.2 GHz POWER6 processor cores
Cache
  • 4 MB L2 cache per core
  • 32 MB L3 cache shared per two cores
  • 64 MB L2 cache per system and
  • 256 MB L3 cache per system OR
  • 128 MB L2 cache per system and
  • 512 MB L3 cache per system
RAM (memory)
  • 4 GB to 48 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 or
  • 16 GB to 96 GB of 533 MHz DDR2 or
  • 32 GB to 192 GB of 400 MHz DDR2
  • 192 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 or
  • 384 GB of 533 MHz DDR2 or
  • 768 GB of 400 MHz DDR2
Internal disk drives (CEC) One to six SAS 24 SAS
Media bays (CEC) One hot-plug slimline Four hot-plug slimline
PCI adapter slots (CEC) Four PCI Express 8x slots;
Two PCI-X DDR @ 266 MHz.		 16 PCI Express 8x slots; Eight PCI-X DDR @ 266 MHz.


Standard I/O adapters
Ethernet (CEC, excluding PCI slots)
  • Standard:
    – One dual-port Gigabit Ethernet or
  • Optional:
    – One quad-port Gigabit Ethernet or
    – One dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet
  • Standard:
    – Four dual-port Gigabit Ethernet or
  • Optional:
    – Four quad-port Gigabit Ethernet or
    – Four dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Integrated disk (CEC) One SAS controller Four SAS controllers
Other ports (CEC) Two USB; two HMC; two SPCN Eight USB; two HMC; eight SPCN


Expansion features (optional)
I/O expansion Up to 12 I/O drawers 48 I/O drawers
High-performance connectivity 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet
GX slots (I/O loops) Two (second slot shares space with one PCI Express 8x slot) Eight (four slots share space with four PCI Express 8x slots)


PowerVM virtualization technologies
POWER Hypervisor™ Dynamic LPAR; Virtual LAN (Memory to memory inter-partition communication)1
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 Edition1 (optional) PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility


Capacity on Demand features (optional) Processor and/or Memory CUoD
On/Off Processor and/or Memory CoD
Trial Processor and/or Memory CoD
Utility CoD


Operating systems AIX V5.3 or later
IBM i 5.4 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
RHEL 5.1 or later


High availability IBM PowerHA™ family


Power requirements 200 v to 240 v AC


System dimensions 570 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)2


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 units (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.


1 Live Partition Mobility not supported on IBM i 5.4, 6.1.

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

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