The IBM eServer p5 520 server has been withdrawn from the market, effective May 31, 2006. The learn more links provide information on the p5-520.
Highlights
- Innovative, powerful, affordable, open and adaptable UNIX® and Linux® environment system design
- Dynamic partitioning capabilities facilitate efficient resource utilization
- Mainframe-inspired reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) capabilities
The IBM eServer® p5 520 system is a new breed of entry server for small and medium-sized businesses and distributed system for large enterprises. Fast and affordable, it is packed with features and functions that can be found in the most sophisticated systems from IBM. The p5-520 is designed to run the AIX 5L™, IBM's industrial-strength UNIX, and the Linux operating systems.
The versatility, leading-edge performance and manageability position the eServer p5 520 as a branch server, small database server or e-business platform for enterprises of all sizes. The p5-520 server can handle mission-critical e-business applications, secure Web transactions and small datamarts for business intelligence. It can also be clustered into powerful high performance computing (HPC) clusters.
Common features
- 19" rack-mount or deskside packaging
- 2-way SMP design
- 64-bit POWER5 technology
- Mainframe-inspired RAS including selective dynamic firmware updates
- Dynamic LPAR support
- Advanced POWER™ Virtualization (option)
- Micro-Partitioning™ (up to 20 micro-partitions)
- Shared processor pool
- Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager
- Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L™ only)
- Up to four optional I/O drawers
- HACMP™ support for near continuous operation
- Supported by AIX 5L (V5.2 and V5.3) and Linux® distributions from Red Hat, Inc. (RHEL AS 3 or 4) and SUSE LINUX (SLES 9)
- Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management software
Hardware summary
- Deskside or 4U 19" rack-mount packaging
- Two 64-bit 1.65GHz POWER5 processors
- 1.9MB L2 and 36MB L3 cache
- 1GB to 32GB of 266MHz DDR1 memory
- Six PCI-X adapter slots (two - 32-bit/66MHz ; four - 64-bit/133MHz)
- Four standard and four optional hot-swappable SCSI disk bays for up to 2.4TB of internal storage
- Maximum I/O drawers add an additional 28 PCI-X slots and 48 disk bays (14.4TB)
- Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (internal only; RAID optional)
- Two 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports
- Optional 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 4x InfiniBand® adapters
- Two USB, two HMC, two system ports
- Two slimline and one standard media bays
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