IBM p5 510 server, 2way, 1.65, 73GB disk,
1GB memory
The IBM p5-510 comes in a 2U rack drawer package.
It is available in a 1-way or 2-way configuration
using the state-of-the-art, 64-bit, copper-based POWER5
microprocessors running at 1.5 GHz. The IBM p5-510
is very similar to the p5-510 Express server except
that the POWER5 microprocessor operates at 1.65 GHz.
To simplify, both products are referred to as p5-510
except where a distinction needs is needed between
the Express offering and the non-Express offering.
The POWER5 microprocessor provides many performance
and reliability advances over the POWER4 architecture.
Chief among the enhancements is Simultaneous Multi-Threading
(SMT), which is designed to significantly boost performance
by allowing two code streams to concurrently access
the several execution units on the processor.
The IBM p5-510 has a base of 512 MB of main memory that can be expanded to
32 GB for faster performance and exploitation of 64-bit addressing as used in
large database applications. The p5-510 contains five bays. Four of the
five are four front-accessible, hot-swap-capable DASD bays and can accommodate
up to 587.2 GB of disk storage. The fifth bay is used for a slimline DVD-ROM
or DVD-RAM.
p5-510 Common features
- 19' rack-mount packaging
- 2-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) design
- 64-bit POWER5 technology
- Mainframe-inspired RAS features including selective
dynamic firmware updates
- Dynamic LPAR support
- Advanced POWER Virtualization (option)
- Micro-Partitioning (up to 20 micro-partitions)
- Shared processor pool
- Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization
Manager
- Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)
- Supported by AIX 5L (V5.2 and V5.3) and Linux
distributions from Red Hat, Inc.
- RHEL AS 3 or 4) and SUSE LINUX (SLES 9)
- HACMP for near-continuous operation
- Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management
software
p5-510 Hardware summary
- 2U 19" rack-mount drawer packaging
- One or two 64-bit 1.65GHz POWER5 processors
- 1.9MB L2 and 36MB L3 cache
- 512MB to 32GB of 266MHz DDR1 memory
- Three PCI-X adapter slots (64-bit/133MHz)
- Four hot-swappable SCSI disk bays for up to 1.2TB
of internal storage
- Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (one internal,
one external)
- Two 10/100/100 Ethernet ports
- Optional 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit
Ethernet and 4x InfiniBand adapters
- Two USB, two HMC, two system ports
- Slimline media bay for DVD-ROM or DVD-R
