• Innovative, competitively priced and designed for a variety of applications
• Designed with security, reliability and in-box scalability to meet business demands
• Easy to acquire, deploy, integrate and manage

In today's world of razor-thin profit margins, the difference between winning and losing could be determined by how efficiently a company manages its servers. The IBM System p5 product line is a family of flexible and affordable servers built on the successful heritage of the IBM p5 product line. As a member of the System p5 family, the newest p5-520 Express server is built with IBM's most advanced microprocessor technology, IBM POWER5+, and provides exceptional value in an entry system. It is designed for clients who want uncompromising availability, flexibility and security features and offers on demand computing at the value price of an entry-level system.

Technological and operational features, the ability to run the UNIX and Linux operating systems simultaneously, a three (3)-year warranty and competitive price make the p5-520 Express system an outstanding choice for smaller companies and departments/branch offices of large or mid-sized businesses. Its leadership performance and manageability position the model 520 Express for use as a small database server, a branch applications server and for highly secure e-business and business intelligence (BI)/high-performance computing (HPC) applications for enterprises of all sizes.

The System p5 520 Express server is available in either a 19" 4U (four EIA units) rack drawer or deskside unit. It is a 2-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system with next generation 1.9 GHz POWER5+ processors. Memory starts at 1GB and can be upgraded to 32GB. Clients have extensive growth potential from the base six PCI-X slots and up to 2.4TB of disk storage. The attachment of up to four optional I/O drawers can add 28 slots and 14.4TB of storage providing significant expandability. For the ultimate in server availability, the p5-520 Express server can be clustered with IBM High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing (HACMP) for AIX 5L software designed to provide near continuous availability.

Common Features

• 19" rack-mount packaging
• 2-way SMP design
• 64-bit POWER5+ technology
• Mainframe-inspired RAS features
• Advanced POWER Virtualization (options)
  • Micro-Partitioning (up to 20 micro-partitions)
  • Shared processor pool
  • Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager
  • Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)
• Up to four optional I/O drawers
• HACMP support for near continuous operation
• Supported by AIX 5L (V5.2 and V5.3) and Linux distributions from Red Hat, Inc. (RHEL AS 4) and SUSE LINUX (SLES 9)

Hardware Summary

• Deskside or 4U 19" rack-mount packaging
• Two 64-bit 1.90GHz POWER5+ processors
• 1.9MB L2 and 36MB L3 cache
• 1GB to 32GB of 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM
• Six PCI-X adapter slots (2 - 66MHz; 3 - 133MHz; 1 - 266MHz (DDR))
• Four standard and four optional hot-swappable SCSI disk bays for up to 2.4TB of internal storage
• Maximum I/O drawers add an additional 28 PCI-X slots and 48 disk bays (14.4TB)
• Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (external SCSI cable option; RAID optional)
• Dual ported Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps controller
• Optional 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 4x InfiniBand adapters
• Two USB, two HMC, two system ports
• Two slimline and one half-high media bays