• High capacity, yet affordable
• Building block architecture delivers low initial cost and flexible scalability
• IBM Virtualization Engine and POWER5 capabilities facilitate highly efficient systems utilisation

The IBM p5 570 Express mid-range server provides a low cost of ownership, outstanding price/performance, flexible capacity upgrades and innovative virtualization technologies. Based on POWER5 processors with simultaneous multithreading and unique scalable, building block packaging, the p5-570 Express is well-suited for database and application serving, e-commerce and server consolidation projects in medium-sized businesses. The rack-mounted p5-570 Express system is designed to deliver power, flexibility, reliability and scalability for commercial and high performance computing (HPC) applications.

The IBM p5 570 Express is a cost-effective, flexible server for the on demand environment. Innovative virtualization technology options help increase the responsiveness of the server to variable computing demands. As a result, increased systems utilisation of processors and system components may allow businesses to meet their computing requirements with a smaller system. By combining IBM's most advanced leading-edge technology for enterprise-class performance and affordability, the p5-570 Express server delivers the key capabilities medium-sized companies need to survive in today's highly competitive world.

Common Features

• 19" rack-mount packaging
• 2-, 4- or 8-way SMP design with unique building block architecture
• 64-bit 1.50GHz POWER5 processors
• Mainframe-inspired RAS features including selective dynamic firmware updates
• Dynamic LPAR support
• Advanced POWER Virtualization (option)
  • Micro-Partitioning (up to 80 micro-partitions)
  • Shared processor pool
  • Virtual I/O Server
  • Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)
• Up to 12 optional I/O drawers
• HACMP support for near continuous operation
• "AIX 5L (V5.2, and V5.3) and Linux distributions from Red Hat, Inc. (RHEL AS 3) and SUSE LINUX (SLES 9)
• Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management software

Hardware Summary

• 4U 19" rack-mount packaging
• One or two building blocks
• Two, four or eight 1.50GHz 64-bit POWER5 processors
• L2 cache: 1.9MB (2-way), 3.8MB (4-way); 7.6MB (8-way)
• L3 cache: 36MB (2-way); 72MB (4-way); 144MB (8-way)
• 2GB to 256GB of 266MHz DDR1 memory
• Six hot-plug PCI-X adapter slots per building block
• Six hot-swappable disk bays per building block provide up to 3.6TB of internal disk storage
• I/O drawers add up to an additional 84 PCI-X slots (for a maximum of 95) and 144 disk bays (43.2TB additional)
• Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller per building block (internal only; RAID optional)
• Two 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports per building block
• Optional 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel and 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters
• Two USB, three service processor communication ports per building block
• Two HMC ports
• Two media bays per building block