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RICOM offers the IBM Power 550 Express as a 2-, 4-, 6- or 8-core entry server utilizing 3.5, 4.2 or 5.0 GHz processors and includes tremendous configuration flexibility to meet most capacity and growth requirements. The Power 550 Express offers a choice of operating environments in either a deskside or 4U rack-mount form factor. The platform is designed to deliver outstanding business value to medium-sized businesses with the leadership performance of POWER6 processors, choice of operating systems, proven virtualization capabilities of PowerVM, and support for innovative energy management technologies to help conserve energy and reduce costs. Whether you need a scalable complete business system with integrated database and application server, reliable and efficient server consolidation platform or a high performing system for application or database serving, the Power 550 Express server can fulfill your requirements with the AIX, IBM i or Linux operating systems. Please contact a RICOM sales representative for a quote on a new or refurbished IBM 8204.

Configuration options
Processor cores	Two, four, six or eight 64-bit 3.5 GHz, 4.2 GHz or 5.0 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
Level 2 (L2) cache	8 MB per processor card
Level 3 (L3) cache	32 MB per processor card
RAM (memory)	3.5 GHz: 4 GB to 128 GB of DDR2 SDRAM 4.2/5.0 GHz: 4 GB to 256 GB of DDR2 SDRAM
Internal drive options	Six 3.5" SAS (146.8 GB, 300 GB, 450 GB 15K rpm) or Eight 2.5” SAS (73.4 GB 15K rpm; 146.8 GB 10k rpm) or Eight Solid State Drives (69 GB)
Internal disk storage	Up to 2.7 TB
Media bays	One slimline and one half-high
Adapter slots	Two PCI-X (266 MHz DDR); Three PCI Express 8x

Standard I/O adapters
Integrated Virtual Ethernet	Two Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, or Four Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, (option) or Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports (option)
Integrated disk	3G SAS controller (internal; RAID optional)
Other Ports	Three USB, two HMC, two system ports, two SPCN

Expansion features (optional)
High-performance PCI adapters	4 Gigabit Fibre Channel; 10 Gigabit Ethernet
GX adapters	RIO-2, 12x GX
GX slots	Two (each shares space with and replaces one PCI Express 8x slot)

PowerVM technologies
POWER Hypervisor™	LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN (Memory to memory inter-partition communication)
PowerVM Express Edition (optional)	Up to three partitions on the server; PowerVM Lx86; virtualized disk and optical devices (VIOS); Shared Processor Pool; and Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
PowerVM Standard Edition (optional)	PowerVM Express Edition plus Micro-Partitioning™ with up to 10 micro-partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Shared Dedicated Capacity
PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional)	PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility (LPM) and Active Memory Sharing (AMS)

RAS features	IBM Chipkill™ ECC, bit-steering memory and cache Processor Instruction Retry 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 5.4 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	100v to 127v or 200v to 240v AC, -48v DC

System dimensions	Deskside: 21.3"H x 7.2-11.1"W x 30.6"D (540 mm x 183-283 mm x 778 mm); weight: 120.0 lb (54.4 kg) Rack drawer: 6.9"H (4U) x 17.3"W x 28.7"D (175 mm x 440 mm x 730 mm); weight: 120.0 lb (54.4 kg)

Manufacturer Part# : 8204-E8A

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What type of warranty do you offer?
Our warranties range from 30 days to one year depending on the manufacturer. We offer certified extended warranty programs on most equipment through the manufacturer.

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