Common features
· Rack-mount or deskside packaging
· 2-way SMP design
· 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 4 optional I/O drawers
· HACMP™ support for near continuous operation
· Supported by AIX 5L™ and Linux® distributions from Red Hat, Inc. and
SUSE LINUX
· Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management software
Hardware summary
· Two 1.65GHz 64-bit POWER5 processors
· 1GB to 32GB of memory
· Four standard and four optional hot-swappable disk drive bays
provide up to 1.1TB of internal storage
· Six hot-plug PCI-X adapter slots
· I/O drawers add a maximum of 28 PCI-X slots and 48 disk drive bays
(7.0TB additional)
· Integrated dual-port internal Ultra320 SCSI controller (RAID
optional)
· Two integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports
· 2 limited purpose serial, 2 USB and 2 systems management ports
· Optional 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel and 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
· Three media bays
