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IBM Systems and Technology
Highlights
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For distributed UNIX, IBM i (formerly
known as i5/OS®) and Linux ERP/CRM
application servers
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For small database servers
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For small scale consolidation servers for
UNIX, IBM i and Linux workloads
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For a complete business system
with an integrated database and application server
IBM Power 520
Express server
Perfect for branch office applications, small databases or
a complete business system
As a distributed application server, the IBM Power® 520 Express® provides near-continuous application availability at a compellingly low price.
This allows more work to be processed with less operational disruption
for branch office and in-store applications
As a small database server, the Power 520 Express offers the outstanding
performance of the IBM POWER6® processor—the world’s fastest chip.
This leadership performance makes it possible for applications to run
faster and be more responsive which can result in significant advantages
for your business.
As a small scale consolidation server, the 520 Express provides the flexibility to use leading-edge AIX®, IBM i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux
applications all on the same system. IBM PowerVM™ Editions offer
comprehensive virtualization technologies designed to aggregate and
manage resources while helping to simplify and optimize your IT infrastructure and reduce server sprawl.
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Power 520 Express deskside and rack-mount servers
For a complete integrated business system, the Power 520
Express allows the small or mid-sized company seeking simplicity to avoid increased spending and staffing requirements while
becoming more responsive to their customers, improving their
productivity and keeping their data secure. The Power 520
Express—i Edition integrates features to simplify your IT environment and delivers a complete, cost-effective business system
that can grow with a business.
The IBM Power 520 Express is a 1-, 2- or 4-core entry server
utilizing 4.2 GHz or 4.7 GHz POWER6 processors designed
to deliver outstanding business value to smaller and mid-sized
businesses while meeting the needs of many mission-critical
applications. It offers outstanding price/performance in a
commercial IT environment; a breadth of available applications;
superior reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS) characteristics architected to avoid, detect and recover from errors to
achieve near-continuous availability; EnergyScale™ technologies and software tools to measure energy use and direct policies toward the energy-efficient operation of the server; and
outstanding PowerVM virtualization to help achieve increased
system utilization. This highly flexible, available and easy to
manage server enables companies to spend more time running
their business utilizing a proven solution from thousands of
ISVs that support the AIX, IBM i and Linux operating systems.
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Feature Benefits
Leadership POWER6
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Access data faster and improve response time
performance
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Do more work with fewer servers and experience infrastructure cost savings from a reduction in the number of
servers and software licenses
Application availability
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Keep applications up and running and focus on growing your business
Flexibility and choice of AIX,
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Choose the operating environment that best suits your application and business needs
IBM i and Linux operating
systems
Improved utilization and
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Better utilize IT assets while avoiding the costs of deploying a new server every time the business needs
energy efficiency through another application
PowerVM and EnergyScale
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Go green and save with innovative energy management capabilities
technologies
Integration and simplicity
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Deploy applications faster and maintain systems more efficiently with fewer staff
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Integrated business platform that allows all the applications to access the data they need to improve productivity
Leadership POWER6 performance
The leadership performance of the POWER6 processor—the
world’s fastest chip—makes it possible for applications to run
faster and be more responsive which can result in business
advantages and higher customer satisfaction. In addition, a single system can now run more applications and can reduce the
number of required servers and reduce infrastructure costs. The
improved performance with POWER6 technology also enables
clients to get more processing power with fewer processors
resulting in lower per core software licensing costs.
Application availability
The IBM Power 520 Express is designed with capabilities to
deliver outstanding application availability and allow more work
to be processed with less operational disruption. The Power 520
Express capabilities include recovery from intermittent errors or
failover to redundant components, detection and reporting of
failures and impending failures, and self-healing hardware that
automatically initiates actions to effect error correction, repair
or component replacement. In addition, the Processor
Instruction Retry RAS feature provides for the continuous
monitoring of processor status with the capability to
restart a processor if certain errors are detected. If required,
workloads can be redirected to alternate processors, all without
disruption to application execution. In combination with the
optional PowerVM Enterprise Edition with Live Partition
Application Mobility, the Power 520 delivers near-continuous
application availability.
Flexibility and choice of operating
environments
The flexibility to use leading-edge AIX, IBM i, Linux for Power
and x86 Linux applications in a rack-mount or deskside form
factor broadens the application offerings available and increases
the ways clients can manage growth, complexity and risk.
Leverage these easy-to-manage, easy-to-secure and highly
reliable operating environments to run thousands of proven
industry solutions that are sure to fit the needs of almost
any business.
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Power 520 Express at a glance
Standard configurations
Processor cores One, two or four 64-bit 4.2 or 4.7 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point
ac
celeration
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Level 2 (L2) cache 4 MB per processor core
Level 3 (L3) cache 32 MB on 4.7 GHz
RAM (memory) 2 GB to 64 GB of DDR2 SDRAM
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Internal drive options Six 3.5 in. SAS (146.8 GB, 300 GB, 450 GB 15K rpm)
or
Eight 2.5 in. SAS (73.4 GB 15K rpm; 146.8 GB 10k rpm)
or
Eight Solid State Drives (69 GB)
Internal SAS 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
F
our 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
Improved utilization and energy
efficiency
As the price of energy increases and resources are limited,
energy efficiency through better utilization has become more
important. The leadership performance of the IBM Power 520
Energy Manager™ software exploits POWER6 processorbased EnergyScale technology which monitors power/
thermal utilization and conserves energy by enabling power
management features for improved system utilization and
energy efficiency.
Express translates into greater available computing power for
applications and allows you to leverage PowerVM Editions and
virtualize your infrastructure to improve server utilization and
energy efficiency. Supported by the AIX, IBM i and Linux
operating systems. PowerVM Editions provide an innovative set
of comprehensive systems technologies and services designed to
enable you to easily aggregate and manage virtualized resources.
Micro-partitions enable the Power 520 to be split into a flexible
and highly utilized system. IBM Systems Director Active
Integration and simplicity
With IBM i, the Power 520 Express becomes a highly scalable,
virus resistant server that integrates a trusted combination of
relational database, security, web services, networking and storage management capabilities. The preintegration and testing of
the IBM i operating system is a key factor in enabling companies to deploy applications faster and maintain them with fewer
staff. Running applications based on this IBM i operating
system has helped companies over many years to focus on
innovation and delivering new value to their business.
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Power 520 Express at a glance
Expansion features (optional)
High-performance PCI
adapters
GX adapters
GX slots
PowerVM technologies
POWER Hypervisor™
PowerVM Express Edition
(optional)
PowerVM Standard Edition
(optional)
PowerVM Enterprise Edition
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(optional)
RAS features
Operating systems
High availability
Power requirements
System dimensions
4 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet
RIO-2
, 12x GX
Two (first shares space with and replaces a PCI Express 8x slot)
LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN (Memor y to memory inter-partition communication)
Up to three partitions on the server; PowerVM Lx86; virtualized disk and optical devices (VIOS); Shared Processor
Pool; and Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
PowerVM Express Edition plus Micro-Par titioning™ with up to 10 micro-partitions per processor; Multiple Shared
Processor Pools; Virtual I/O Server with IVM; Shared Dedicated Capacity
PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility
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
AIX V5.3 or later
IBM i 5.4 or later
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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
IBM PowerHA® family
100 V to 127 V or 200 V to 240 V ac
Deskside: 21.3 in. H × 7.2 - 12.9 in. W × 24.7 in. D (540 mm × 182 - 328 mm × 628 mm); weight: 90 lb (40.8 kg)
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Rack drawer: 6.8 in. H (4U) × 17.3 in. W × 21.2 in. D (173 mm × 440 mm × 538 mm); weight: 70 lb (31.7 kg)
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Warranty (limited) 9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next-business-day for one year at no additional cost;
on-site for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country). Warranty
service upgrades and maintenance are available.
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For more information
To learn more about the IBM Power 520 Express server, please
contact your IBM marketing representative or IBM Business
Partner, or visit the following websites:
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ibm.com/systems/i/os/i5os/
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ibm.com/servers/aix
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ibm.com/systems/i/os/i5os/
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ibm.com/linux/power
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ibm.com/systems/p/solutions
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ibm.com/common/ssi
This equipment is subject to FCC rules. It will comply with the
appropriate FCC rules before final delivery to the buyer.
Information concerning non-IBM products was obtained from the
suppliers of these products or other public sources. Questions on the
capabilities of the non-IBM products should be addressed with
the suppliers.
All performance information was determined in a controlled
environment. Actual results may vary. Performance information is
provided “AS IS” and no warranties or guarantees are expressed or
implied by IBM. Buyers should consult other sources of information,
including system benchmarks, to evaluate the performance of a system
they are considering buying.
When referring to storage capacity, total TB equals total GB divided by
1000; accessible capacity may be less.
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Available configuration options are dependent on the number of
processor cores and other factors. For example, 1-core systems may have
a maximum memory size of 16 GB and do not support I/O drawers;
2-core systems may have a maximum of 32 GB of memory. Contact
IBM or your IBM Business Partner for specific configuration
restrictions.
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Not supported on IBM i 5.4, 6.1.
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Weight will vary when disks, adapters and peripherals are installed.
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Select frequencies will not be offered on some configurations.
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i 5.4 not supported on 4.7GHz configurations.
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