The IBM eServer pSeries 670 server has been withdrawn from the market, effective November 18, 2005. The learn more links provide information on the p670.
Highlights
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- IBM POWER4+ processors provide high performance for diverse workloads
- pSeries on demand capabilities help businesses adapt at the pace of e-business
- Self-managing features enhance resiliency and help reduce total cost of ownership
In the era of e-business on demand™, customers insist on impeccable service and personalized products. Businesses that rise to this challenge can reap the benefits of a global economy: vastly expanded markets, highly efficient supply chains and real-time transactions. Harnessing the power of e-business, however, requires an IT infrastructure that can offer not only speed and reliability, but also the agility to sense and respond to changes in its environment.
As a premier member of the IBM eServer® pSeries® product line, the pSeries 670—a mid-range counterpart to the pSeries 690—can help lower costs, improve efficiency and speed transformation to e-business. Through leading-edge innovations such as high-performance processors and advanced clustering techniques, the pSeries 670 helps deliver outstanding power, flexibility, reliability and investment protection for both commercial and technical computing applications.
Features such as dynamic logical partitioning (LPAR) and flexible Capacity on Demand (CoD) capabilities also contribute to strong pSeries 670 performance while preserving operational versatility. In addition, innovative self-managing reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features help to drive down costs and complexity by lowering administrative overhead. Combining advanced IBM leadership technology for enterprise-class performance and flexible adaptation to changing market conditions, the pSeries 670 delivers uncompromising UNIX® computing for today's e-business on demand world.
Common features
- Advanced reliability features like Chipkill memory, First Failure Data Capture and Dynamic Processor Deallocation
- Advanced symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) up to 16-way
- Copper and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) chip
- Hot-swappable disk bays
- Service processor, hot-plug PCI and PCI-X slots, hot-plug redundant power supplies and cooling fans, and Dynamic Processor Deallocation
- Up to 16 dynamic AIX 5L logical partitions offering greater flexibility in using available capacity
- 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
Hardware summary
- 1.50GHz POWER4+ processors
- 4-way, 8-way, and 16-way rack configurations
- 16 hot-swappable disk bays (up to 48 with optional I/O drawer)
- 5 media bays
- 20 hot-plug PCI-X slots (up to 60 with optional I/O drawer)
- Up to 256GB of ECC Chipkill™ system memory
