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IBM Power 560 Express server

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Highlights

  • For consolidation of UNIX®, IBM i and x86 Linux® workloads
  • For mid-size to large database servers
  • For UNIX, IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS) and Linux Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)/Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application servers.

The IBM Power 560 Express delivers up to 16 cores of scalability with the outstanding performance of the POWER6 processor. The performance, reliability and virtualisation capabilities of the Power 560 Express make it an ideal system as a consolidation, database or application server. The Power 560 delivers the performance and scalability to run applications faster and the virtualisation and availability features to consolidate workloads to be more efficient and reduce infrastructure costs.

As a consolidation server, the Power 560 Express provides the flexibility to use leading-edge AIX, IBM i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux applications all on the same system. The Power 560 Express is designed with capabilities to deliver near-continuous application availability and allow more work to be processed with less operational disruption. PowerVM Editions offers comprehensive virtualisation technologies designed to aggregate and manage resources while helping to simplify and optimise your IT infrastructure and reduce server sprawl.

For database servers, the Power 560 Express provides outstanding performance, capacity and near-continuous application availability. Mid-sized companies can access data faster, keep their applications running around-the-clock and focus attention on growing their business.

The Power 560 Express supports an extensive portfolio of proven solutions by supporting multiple operating systems: AIX, i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux applications. This flexibility in operating environments lets you deploy the applications your business demands.


Feature Benefits
Leadership POWER6 performance
  • Access data faster and improve response time
  • Do more work with fewer servers and experience infrastructure cost savings from a reduction in the number of servers and software licences
Outstanding scalability and capacity
  • Increased application performance as your system and business grows
  • Easily add processing memory, disk and input/output (I/O) capacity as your business grows
Application availability
  • Better customer satisfaction due to improved application availability
  • Keep applications up and running and focus on growing your business
Flexibility and choice of AIX, IBM i and Linux operating systems
  • Choose the operating system that best suits your application and business needs
Improved utilisation and energy efficiency through PowerVM technology
  • Better utilise IT assets while avoiding the costs of deploying a new server every time the business needs another application
  • Improves system efficiency which lowers operational expense
  • Provides flexibility in responding to changing business requirements
  • Enables energy savings and maintains application availability
  • Provides ability to handle unexpected workload peaks by sharing resources

Configuration options
Processor cores Four, eight or sixteen 64-bit 3.6 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
Level 2 (L2) cache 4 MB L2 cache per core
Level 3 (L3) cache 32 MB L3 cache shared per two cores
Random Access Memory (RAM) 8 GB to 384 GB of Double Data Rate (DDR)2 Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM)
Internal Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) disk bays Six 3.5" SAS drives per 560 building block; Maximum of 12 drives
Internal disk storage Up to 2.7 TB per 560 building block
Media bays One hot plug slimline per 560 building block
Adapter slots 560 building block: Four PCI Express 8x slots; Two PCI-X DDR @ 266 MHz
Standard I/O adapters
Integrated Virtual Ethernet
  • Two Ethernet 10/100/1000 Megabits per second (Mbps) ports, or
  • Four Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, (option)
  • Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports (option)
Integrated disk 3G SAS controller per building block; Maximum of two
Other Ports Four Universal Serial Bus (USB), two HMC, four SPCN
Expansion features (optional)
High-performance PCI adapters 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel (FC); 10 GbE
I/O expansion Up to twelve I/O drawers
GX slots Two for 4- or 8-way; Three for a 16-way (each shares space with and replaces one PCI Express 8x slot)
PowerVM technologies
POWER Hypervisor Logical Partition (LPAR), Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN (Memory to memory inter-partition communication)
PowerVM Standard Edition (optional) Micro-Partitioning with up to 10 micro-partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Virtual I/O Server; Shared Dedicated Capacity; PowerVM Lx86
PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional) PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility
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
Operating systems AIX V5.3 or later
IBM i 6.1 or later
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER (SLES10 SP1) or later; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 for POWER (RHEL4.5) or later; RHEL5.1 or later
High availability IBM PowerHA family
Power requirements 200v to 240v AC
System dimensions 560 building block: 6.85"H (4U) x 19.0"W x 32.4"D (174 mm x 483 mm x 824 mm); weight 140.0 lb (63.6 kg)1
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; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other components; units (varies by country). Warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.

1 Weight will vary when disks, adapters and peripherals are installed.

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