The IBM eServer pSeries 650 server has been withdrawn from the market, effective June 21, 2005. The learn more links provide information on the p650.
Highlights
Learn more
- Technical architecture
- Hardware documentation
- Redbooks
- Sales Manual
- Support
- Planning Guide for Capacity Upgrade on Demand
- Delivers unparalleled performance, capacity and value on demand
- Provides unmatched configuration flexibility for scalability and ease of management
- Offers unprecedented high-end management capabilities to help lower total cost of ownership
Accept no compromises
Traditionally, selecting the right mid-range UNIX® server to address on demand business needs has required compromises. Often, businesses have faced a difficult tradeoff between price and critical features supporting reliability, flexibility and performance—until now. With the IBM eServer™ pSeries™ 650, there is no need to compromise.
To be competitive, organizations require powerful, flexible e-business infrastructures that meet budgetary constraints—without sacrificing the performance, reliability and function that mission-critical applications demand. To meet this need, IBM has created the pSeries 650, a member of the IBM eServer product line—advanced servers that can help lower costs, improve efficiency and speed-transformation to e-business on demand.
Because IBM does not believe in compromising function and reliability for cost, no capability was spared in the design of the pSeries 650, one of our most advanced mid-range servers. The pSeries 650 utilizes the company's most innovative 64-bit chip—POWER4+™—the next generation of the POWER4™ microprocessor family. In addition, the pSeries 650 continues the same mainframe-inspired autonomic computing reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features as the high-end pSeries 690 server. And astonishingly, it delivers all this at a significantly better price/performance than the popular pSeries 660 Model 6M1.
The pSeries 650 is a winning proposition for small- and medium-size companies, or large enterprises with distributed branch servers conducting vital business processes such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence (BI). For e-businesses, the pSeries 650 excels as a highly reliable and available business-to-business Web server.
Common features
- POWER4+ microprocessors for maximum system performance and higher reliability in a small efficient package
- Up to 64GB of ECC Chipkill-correct memory
- Up to 55 hot-plug/blind-swap PCI-X adapter slots via 8 expansion I/O drawers (7311-D10) or 63 hot-plug PCI/PCI-X via 8 expansion I/O drawers (7311-D20)
- Up to eight dynamic AIX 5L logical partitions offering greater flexibility in using available capacity
- Up to eight static AIX 5L or Linux LPARs
- Redundant hot-plug power and cooling subsystems
- Dynamic processor and PCI bus slot deallocation
- On demand capabilities including processor on demand, memory on demand, Capacity BackUp and On/Off Capacity on Demand
- AIX 5L and Linux support
- Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management for AIX 5L or Linux
Hardware summary
- 1.20GHz or 1.45GHz POWER4+ processors
- 2-way, 4-way, 6-way and 8-way configurations
- 4 internal hot-swappable disk bays
- 2 hot-swappable media bays
- Up to 64GB system memory
- 7 hot-plug PCI-X adapter slots (up to 63 with optional I/O drawer)
