Common features
· Rack-mount or deskside packaging
· 2- or 4-way SMP design
· 64-bit POWER5 technology
· Mainframe-inspired RAS including dynamic firmware updates
· Dynamic LPAR support
· IBM Virtualization Engine support included
· Micro-Partitioning
· Shared processor pool
· Virtual I/O
· Virtual LAN
· Up to 8 optional I/O drawers
· HACMP support for near continuous operation
· AIX 5L V5.2, AIX 5L V5.3 and Linux distributions from Red Hat, Inc.
and SUSE LINUX
· Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management
Hardware summary
· Two 1.65GHz 64-bit POWER5 processors
· 1GB to 64GB of memory
· Four standard and four optional hot-swappable disk drive bays
provide up to 1.1TB of internal storage
· Five hot-plug PCI-X adapter slots
· I/O drawers add a maximum of 56 PCI-X slots and 96 disk drive bays
(14.0TB additional)
· Integrated dual-port internal Ultra320 SCSI controller (RAID
optional)
· Two integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports
· 2 serial, 2 USB and 2 systems management ports
· Optional 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel and 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
· Three media bays
