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- For distributed UNIX®, IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS) and Linux® Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)/Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application servers
- For small database servers
- For small scale consolidation servers for UNIX, IBM i and Linux workloads
- For a complete business system with an integrated database and application server.
As a distributed application server, the IBM Power 520 Express provides near-continuous application availability at a compellingly low price. This allows more work to be processed with less operational disruption for branch office and in-store applications.
As a small database server, the Power 520 Express offers the outstanding performance of the IBM POWER6 processor. This leadership performance makes it possible for applications to run faster and be more responsive which can result in significant advantages for your business.
As a small scale consolidation server, the 520 Express provides the flexibility to use leading-edge AIX, IBM i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux applications all on the same system. IBM PowerVM Editions offer comprehensive virtualisation technologies designed to aggregate and manage resources while helping to simplify and optimise your IT infrastructure and reduce server sprawl.
For a complete integrated business system, the Power 520 Express allows the small or mid-sized company seeking simplicity to avoid increased spending and staffing requirements while becoming more responsive to their customers, improving their productivity and keeping their data secure. The Power 520 Express integrates features to simplify your IT environment and delivers a complete, cost-effective business system that can grow with a business.
The IBM Power 520 Express is a one-, two- or four-core entry server utilising 4.2 GHz or 4.7 GHz POWER6 processors designed to deliver outstanding business value to smaller and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) while meeting the needs of many mission-critical applications. It offers outstanding price/performance in a commercial IT environment; a breadth of available applications; superior reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) characteristics architected to avoid, detect and recover from errors to achieve near-continuous availability; EnergyScale technologies and software tools to measure energy use and direct policies toward the energy-efficient operation of the server; and outstanding PowerVM virtualisation to help achieve increased system utilisation. This highly flexible, available and easy to manage server enables companies to spend more time running their business utilising a proven solution from thousands of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that support the AIX, IBM i and Linux operating systems.
| Feature | Benefits |
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| Leadership POWER6 performance |
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| Application availability |
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| Flexibility and choice of AIX, IBM i and Linux operating systems |
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| Improved utilisation and energy efficiency through PowerVM and EnergyScale technologies |
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| Integration and simplicity |
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| Standard configurations | |
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| Processor cores | One, two or four 64-bit 4.2 or 4.7 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration4 |
| Level 2 (L2) cache | 4 MB per processor core (8 MB on 1-core systems) |
| Level 3 (L3) cache | 32 MB on 4.7 GHz |
| Random Access Memory (RAM) | 2 GB to 64 GB of Double Data Rate (DDR)2 Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM)1 |
| Internal drive options | Six 3.5" Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) (146.8 GB, 300 GB, 450 GB 15K revolutions per minute (rpm)) or Eight 2.5" SAS (73.4 GB 15K rpm; 146.8 GB 10k rpm) or Eight Solid State Drives (SSD) (69 GB) |
| Internal SAS disk storage | Up to 2.7 TeraBytes (TBs) |
| Media bays | One slimline and one half-high |
| Adapter slots | Two PCI-X (266 MHz (DDR)), Three PCI Express 8x |
| Standard input/output (I/O) adapters | |
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| Integrated Virtual Ethernet (IVE) | Two Ethernet 10/100/1000 Megabits per second (Mbps) ports, or Four Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, (option), or Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports (option) |
| Integrated disk | 3G SAS controller (internal; Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) optional) |
| Other ports | Three Universal Serial Bus (USB), two Hardware Management Console (HMC), two system ports |
| Expansion features (optional) | |
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| High-performance PCI adapters | 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel (FC), 10 GbE |
| GX adapters | RIO-2, 12x GX |
| GX slots | Two (first shares space with and replaces a PCI Express 8x slot) |
| PowerVM technologies | |
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| POWER Hypervisor | Logical Partition (LPAR), Dynamic LPAR, Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) (Memory to memory inter-partition communication) |
| PowerVM Express Edition (optional) | Up to three partitions on the server; PowerVM Lx86; virtualised disk and optical devices (Virtual I/O Server (VIOS)); Shared Processor Pool; and Integrated Virtualisation Manager (IVM) |
| PowerVM Standard Edition (optional) | PowerVM Express Edition plus Micro-Partitioning with up to 10 micro-partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; VIOS with IVM; Shared Dedicated Capacity |
| PowerVM Enterprise Edition2 (optional) | PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility (LPM) and Active Memory Sharing (AMS) |
| RAS features | IBM Chipkill Error Checking and Correction (ECC), bit-steering memory and cache PIR Alternate Processor Recovery Service processor with fault monitoring Hot-plug disk bays Hot-plug PCI slots Hot-plug and redundant power supplies and cooling fans Dynamic Processor Deallocation Extended error handling on PCI-X slots |
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| Operating systems | AIX V5.3 or later IBM i 5.4 or later5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 for POWER or later; Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.5 for POWER or later; RHEL5.1 or later |
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| High availability | IBM PowerHA family |
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| Power requirements | 100v to 127v or 200v to 240v AC |
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| System dimensions | Deskside: 21.3"H x 7.2-12.9"W x 24.7"D (540 mm x 182-328 mm x 628 mm); weight: 90 lb (40.8 kg)3 Rack drawer: 6.8"H (4U) x 17.3"W x 21.2"D (173 mm x 440 mm x 538 mm); weight: 70 lb (31.7 kg)3 |
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| Warranty (limited) | Nine hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next-business-day for one year at no additional cost; on-site for selected components; customer replaceable unit (CRU) for all other units (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available. |
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1 Available configuration options are dependent on the number of processor cores and other factors. For example, one-core systems may have a maximum memory size of 16 GB and do not support I/O drawers; two-core systems may have a maximum of 32 GB of memory and support four I/O drawers. Contact IBM or your IBM Business Partner for specific configuration restrictions.
2 Not supported on IBM i 5.4.
3 Weight will vary when disks, adapters and peripherals are installed.
4 Select frequencies will not be offered on some configurations.
