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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 533 MHz DDR2
PCIe I/O drawers 24": 1 - 32
Internal disk bays 26 SAS Small Form Factor bays in each 24" PCIe I/O drawer
Up to 832 maximum per system
Adapter slots 20 PCIe in each 24" I/O drawer
640 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 and Active Memory Sharing
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 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 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), Reserve CoD, 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 (RHEL 4.7) 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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