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The IBM System p5 520 Express server has been withdrawn from the market, effective December 12, 2008. The learn more links provide information on the p5 520 Express.


Highlights

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  • Innovative and competitively priced, yet highly adaptable to change
  • Security features to help give smaller companies peace of mind
  • Easy to acquire, deploy, integrate and manage
  • Designed with reliability and availability features for today’s 24x7 world

In today’s world of razor-thin profit margins, the difference between winning and losing could be determined by how efficiently a company manages its servers. As a member of the IBM eServer™ p5 Express family with proven IBM POWER5™ processors, the p5-520 Express server provides exceptional value in an entry system. It offers on demand computing without compromising availability, flexibility or security features—at the value price of an entry-level system. Its technological and operational features and extremely affordable price make the p5-520 Express server an outstanding choice for smaller companies and departments and branches of mid-sized businesses.

Common features

  • 19" rack-mount or deskside packaging
  • 2-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 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)

Hardware summary

  • Deskside or 4U 19" rack-mount packaging
  • One or two 64-bit 1.50 GHz POWER5 processors
  • 1.9 MB L2 and 36 MB L3 cache (L3 on two-way systems)
  • 512 MB to 32 GB of 266 MHz DDR1 SDRAM
  • Six PCI-X adapter slots (2 - 32-bit/66 MHz; 4 - 64-bit/133 MHz)
  • Four standard and four optional hot-swappable SCSI disk bays for up to 2.4 TB of internal storage
  • Maximum I/O drawers add an additional 28 PCI-X slots and 48 disk bays (14.4 TB)
  • Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controllers (internal only; RAID optional)
  • Two Ethernet 10/100/1000 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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