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IBM System p5 590

The IBM System p5 590 server has been withdrawn from the market, effective August 29, 2008. The learn more links provide information on the p5 590.

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Highlights

  • Provides the power to run mission-critical applications with IBM POWER5™ technology
  • Helps to lower costs and ease administration by consolidating UNIX® and Linux® environments
  • Built with high-end reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features for an on demand world

The IBM System p5™ 590 server is designed to deliver outstanding performance at a price-point that will transform IT economics. Equipped with advanced 64-bit IBM POWER5+™ processor cores in up to 32-core symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) configurations, this server is built to provide the processing power for a wide range of complex, mission-critical applications with demanding processing requirements—from database services to enterprise resource planning (ERP) and transaction processing.

With advanced System p™ virtualization technologies such as Advanced POWER™ Virtualization1 standard plus Capacity on Demand (CoD) options, the p5-590 can scale rapidly and seamlessly to address changing needs, making it an excellent server platform for server consolidation. It can execute the IBM AIX 5L™ and Linux operating systems simultaneously, providing the flexibility to run the applications businesses need to achieve their goals. And, extensive mainframe-inspired reliability, availability and serviceability features can help ensure that the system will be ready for business, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Specifically, the System p5 590 server provides:

Common features

  • 24" frame packaging
  • 8-, 16-, 24- or 32-core MCM (Multichip Module) SMP design
  • 64-bit POWER5 technology
  • Mainframe-inspired RAS features including selective dynamic firmware updates and redundant service processor
  • Dynamic LPAR support
  • Advanced POWER Virtualization 1 standard
    • IBM Micro-Partitioning™ (up to 254 micro-partitions)
    • Shared processor pool
    • Virtual I/O Server
    • Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)
  • Up to eight I/O drawers (seven are optional)
  • Redundant power subsystem with optional redundant battery backup
  • On demand capabilities for processors and memory—Permanent, On/Off, Reserve and Trial activations available
  • Capacity BackUp configuration optionally available
  • IBM HACMP™ 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)
  • System Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management software*
  • IBM eServer™ pSeries® High Performance Switch and 12x InfiniBand Switch support

Hardware summary

  • 42U 24" system frame packaging
  • Eight to 32 64-bit 2.1 GHz POWER5+ processor cores packaged in MCMs (eight processor cores per MCM)
  • 7.6MB L2 and 144MB L3 cache per MCM
  • 8GB to 512GB of DDR2 memory running at 533 MHz or up to 1TB of DDR2 memory running at 400 MHz
  • Up to 160 hot-plug/blind-swap PCI-X adapter slots (64-bit/133 MHz) via eight I/O drawers
  • Up to 128 hot-swappable SCSI disk bays via eight I/O drawers for up to 18.7TB of disk storage
  • Two integrated dual Ultra3 SCSI controllers per I/O drawer
  • Two Hardware Management Console ports
  • Optional 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 12x GX adapters
  • Three media bays via optional media drawer
  • Battery back-up option

1 Not supported on AIX 5L V5.2
* Available as separately-priced software product

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