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IBM System p5 510Q Express

The IBM System p5 510Q Express server has been withdrawn from the market, effective
July 30, 2010. The learn more links provide information on the p5 510Q Express.

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Highlights

  • Up to 4-core scalability with unique Quad-Core Module technology
  • Choose from thousands of IBM AIX 5L™ and Linux® operating system applications
  • Easy to buy, install and manage with a 3-year warranty

The System p5 510 and 510Q Express servers provide availability, flexibility and security features designed for reliable application serving in a compact 2U package. Fueled by IBM’s most advanced POWER5™ 64-bit technology with simultaneous multithreading1, these 19-inch rack-mount servers deliver up to 4-core scalability and outstanding price/performance.

The System p5 510Q Express platform is designed to meet the rigors of transaction-intensive and analytical applications. Using IBM’s latest Quad-Core Module (QCM) technology with four 1.65 GHz POWER5+ processor cores, the p5-510Q Express delivers outstanding price/performance and high system throughput and is ideally suited for application consolidation, compute-intensive business intelligence (BI) as well as scientific and engineering analytical applications.

Specifically, the System p5 510Q Express server provides:

Common features

  • 19-inch rack-mount packaging
  • 2U form factor for space constrained environments
  • 4-core SMP design
  • 64-bit POWER5+ technology
  • Mainframe-inspired RAS features
  • Dynamic LPAR support
  • IBM Advanced POWER™ Virtualization1 (option)
    • IBM Micro-Partitioning™ (up to 40 micro-partitions)
    • Shared processor pool
    • Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager
    • Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)
  • IBM HACMP™ software support for near continuous operation*
  • Operating system support via AIX 5L (V5.2 or later) and Linux distributions from Red Hat (RHEL AS 4 or later) and SUSE Linux (SLES 9 or later)

Hardware summary

  • 2U 19-inch rack-mount packaging
  • Four 64-bit 1.65 GHz POWER5+ processor cores
  • 3.8MB L2 and 72MB L3 cache
  • 1GB to 32GB of DDR2 SDRAM
  • Three PCI-X adapter slots (1 – 133 MHz; 2 – 266 MHz (DDR))
  • Four hot-swappable SCSI disk bays for up to 1.2TB of internal storage
  • Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (internal and external ports; optional RAID daughter card)
  • Dual ported Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps controller
  • Optional 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel and 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
  • Two USB, two HMC, two system ports
  • One slimline media bay for optical device

* Available as separately-priced software product

1 Not supported on AIX 5L V5.2

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