IBM eServer p5 550

The IBM eServer p5 550 server has been withdrawn from the market, effective May 31, 2006. The learn more links provide information on the p5-550.

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Highlights

  • IBM POWER5™ technology offers exceptional price/performance and flexibility
  • Virtualization technologies help increase systems utilization and productivity
  • Capacity on Demand features help provide cost-effective scalability

The IBM eServer® p5 550 server is an up to 4-way UNIX® or Linux® system designed to meet the rigors of the on demand world. It delivers outstanding price/performance, mainframe-inspired availability features, flexible capacity upgrades and innovative IBM Virtualization Engine™ systems technologies. Powered by IBM's most advanced 64-bit processor, POWER5 with simultaneous multithreading  1 the p5-550 supports critical enterprise applications with exceptional price/performance—all while helping improve affordability and responsiveness.

The eServer p5 550 can serve as a versatile departmental or regional server for enterprise applications running on either AIX 5L™, IBM's industrial-strength UNIX, or Linux operating environments. The performance, reliability and affordability of the p5-550 can make it a strategic platform for server consolidation, scalable database servers, e-commerce application servers, Web servers, operations systems, business intelligence (BI) and high performance computing (HPC) workloads. The p5-550 also offers flexible Capacity on Demand (CoD) features to help reduce IT costs by allowing companies to pay for processor resources they use when they use them.


Common features

  • 19" rack-mount or deskside packaging
  • 2- or 4-way SMP design
  • 64-bit POWER5 technology
  • Mainframe-inspired RAS features including selective dynamic firmware updates
  • Dynamic LPAR support
  • Advanced POWER™ Virtualization (option)
    • Micro-Partitioning™ (up to 40 micro-partitions)
    • Shared processor pool
    • Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager
    • Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L™ only)
  • Up to eight optional I/O drawers
  • HACMP™ support for near continuous operation
  • 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 or four 1.65GHz 64-bit POWER5 processors
  • L2 cache: 1.9MB (2-way); 3.8MB (4-way)
  • L3 cache: 36MB (2-way); 72MB (4-way)
  • 1GB to 64GB of 266MHz DDR1 memory
  • Five PCI-X adapter slots (four long, one short), 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 56 PCI-X slots and 96 disk bays (28.8TB)
  • 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 and two system ports
  • Two slimline and one standard media bays

1 Not supported on AIX 5L V5.2

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