product details
- Rack-mount packaging
- 2- to 16-way SMP design with unique building-block architecture
- 64-bit POWER5 technology
- Mainframe-inspired RAS including dynamic firmware updates
- Dynamic LPAR support
- IBM Virtualization Engine support (optional)
- Micro-Partitioning
- Shared processor pool
- Virtual I/O
- Virtual LAN
- Up to 20 optional I/O drawers
- HACMP support for near continuous operation
- AIX 5L V5.2, AIX 5L V5.3, i5/OS™* and Linux distributions from Red Hat, Inc. and SUSE LINUX
- Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management
Hardware summary
- 2, 4, 8, 12, 16 1.65GHz or 1.90GHz POWER5 processors
- 2GB to 512GB of memory 1.65/1.90GHz
- Six hot-swappable disk drive bays per building-block/module provide up to 880GB of internal storage (3.5TB for 4 modules; 16-way)
- Six hot-plug PCI-X adapter slots per building-block (24 slots per 16-way)
- I/O drawers add a maximum of 140 PCI-X slots and 240 disk drive bays (32.5TB additional)
- Two integrated internal Ultra320 SCSI controllers per building-block (RAID optional) (8 Ultra320 controllers per 16-way)
- Two integrated 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports per building-block (8 Gigabit Ethernet ports per 16-way)
- Optional 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel and 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
- Two media bays per building-block (8 per 16-way)
product compatibility
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
system requirements/details
CPU: 64-bit POWER5
Memory: 2GB to 512GB
architecture
- IBM System p
regional availability
- Asia Pacific
- Europe, Middle East & Africa
- Japan
- Latin America
- North America
language availability
- Chinese
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Spanish
warranty information
certification
This product has demonstrated compatibility by successfully completing Novell's stringent product certification requirements.
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