• Simplified acquisition, installation and management
• Mainframe-inspired reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) features and IBM service
• Flexibility to run UNIX® and Linux® applications simultaneously

To accomplish their goals, many smaller and mid-sized organizations need the same computing power, reliability and flexibility in their IT systems as large organizations. But few such companies have the resources to buy or manage complex systems.

The IBM eServer® p5 510 Express server is an attractively priced, compact, high-performing system with reliability features, intended for smaller companies as well as departments and branches of mid-sized businesses. Easy to buy, install and manage, the p5-510 Express can help companies realize their goals without stretching their resources. With leading-edge IBM POWER5™ processor technology, a range of tools to ease management, support for both UNIX and Linux environments and enterprise-level reliability and availability features, the p5-510 Express is an excellent solution for many business-critical applications, including ERP, CRM, e-mail, workgroup serving, file and print, Web serving and e-commerce. Whether it is used as a standalone company server, branch server or security or knowledge server, the p5-510 Express is designed to deliver outstanding performance at an affordable price.

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)
• HACMP™ support for near-continuous operation
• 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)

Hardware Summary

• 2U 19" rack-mount packaging
• One or two 64-bit 1.50GHz POWER5 processors
• 1.9MB L2 and 36MB L3 cache (L3 on 2-way system only)
• 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 10/100/1000 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-RAM device