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Systems Power Hardware 595 pages.

Systems Power Hardware 595 pages.


Processor cores 8- to 64-core POWER6 4.2 or 5.0 GHz via 8-core processor books;
L2 cache 4 MB per core
L3 cache 32 MB per chip
RAM (memory) 16 to 32 DIMMs per processor book
Up to 4 TB of 400 MHz DDR2 or
Up to 1 TB of 553 MHz DDR2
I/O drawers 24": 1 - 30
19" (migrated): 0 - 96
19" I/O drawers (migrated) 0 - 96
Internal disk bays 16 maximum in each 24" I/O drawer
Internal disk storage Up to 4.8 TB per 24" I/O drawer
Adapter slots 20 PCI-X (64-bit/133 MHz) maximum in each 24" I/O drawer
600 maximum per system
I/O ports 4 GX adapter ports per processor book, 32 per system
Hardware Management Console ports Two pairs via redundant Ethernet hubs
POWER Hypervisor™ LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN
PowerVM Standard Edition (optional) Micro-Partitioning with up to 10 micro-partitions per processor (254 maximum); 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 (CoD) configurations 8 to 64 processor cores in increments of one (via one to eight processor books); 4.2 or 5.0 GHz POWER6 processor cores
RAS features Processor Instruction Retry
Alternate Processor Recovery
Selective dynamic firmware updates
IBM Chipkill™ ECC, bit-steering memory
ECC L2 cache, L3 cache
Redundant service processors with automatic failover
Redundant system clocks with dynamic failover
Hot-swappable disk bays
Hot-plug/blind-swap PCI-X slots
Hot-add I/O drawers
Hot-plug power supplies and cooling fans
Dynamic Processor Deallocation
Dynamic deallocation of logical partitions and PCI bus slots
Extended error handling on PCI-X slots
Redundant power supplies and cooling fans
Battery backup and redundant battery backup (optional)
Capacity on Demand features (optional) Processor CUoD (in increments of one processor), Memory CUoD (in increments of 1 GB), On/Off Processor CoD, On/Off Memory CoD, Trial CoD, Utility CoD
Operating systems AIX V5.3 or later
IBM i 5.4 or later
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER™ (SLES10 SP2) or later
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 for POWER (RHEL4.7) or later; RHEL 5.2 or later
High availability PowerHA family
Power requirements 200v to 240v; 380v to 415v; 480v AC
System dimensions One frame (slimline doors): 79.3"H x 30.5"W x 58.5"D (201.4 cm x 77.5 cm x 148.6 cm); weight: 3,376 lb (1,531 kg)2
One frame (acoustic doors): 79.3"H x 30.5"W x 71.1"D (201.4 cm x 77.5 cm x 180.6 cm); weight: 3,422 lb (1,552 kg)2
Warranty (limited) 24x7, same day response for one year on-site (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.

1 Not supported on IBM i 5.4, 6.1.
2 Weight will vary when disks, adapters, additional frames and other peripherals are installed.

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