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IBM System p5 510 Express

  
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Highlights
  • Up to four-core scalability with unique Quad-Core Module (QCM) technology

  • Choose from thousands of IBM AIX 5L and Linux operating system (OS) applications

  • Easy to buy, install and manage with a three-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 multi-threading 1, these 19-inch rack-mount servers deliver up to four-core scalability and outstanding price/performance.

The System p5 510 Express platform is a one- or two-core database server with a 2.1 GHz POWER5+ dual-core processor module. It can function as an entry-level application server for businesses of all sizes. The performance, reliability and affordability features of the p5-510 Express can make it a strategic platform for e-commerce application serving and compute-intensive business applications.

Specifically, the System p5 510 Express server provides:

Common features Hardware summary
  • 19-inch rack-mount packaging
  • 2U form factor for space constrained environments
  • One- or two-core Symmetric Multi-processing (SMP) design
  • 64-bit POWER5+ technology
  • Mainframe-inspired reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features
  • Dynamic logical partioning (LPAR) support
  • IBM Advance POWER Virtualization (APV) 1 (option)
    • IBM Micro-Partitioning (up to 20 micro-partitions)
    • Shared processor pool
    • Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) with Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
    • Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)
  • IBM high availability cluster multi-processor (HACMP) software support for near continuous operation*
  • OS support via AIX 5L (V5.2 or later) and Linux distributions from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AS 4 or later and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 or later
  • 2U 19-inch rack-mount packaging
  • One or two 64-bit 2.1 GHz POWER5+ processor cores
  • 1.9MB Level 2 (L2) and 36MB Level 3 (L3) cache
  • 1GB to 32GB of double data rate (DDR) 2 SDRAM
  • Three PCI-X adapter slots (1 – 133 MHz; 2 – 266 MHz (DDR))
  • Four hot-swappable small computer systems interface (SCSI) disk bays for up to 1.2TB of internal storage
  • Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (external SCSI port; optional RAID daughter card)
  • Dual ported Ethernet 10/100/1000 megabits per second (Mbps) controller
  • Optional 4GB Fibre Channel (FC) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) adapters
  • Two USB, two Hardware Management Console (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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