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IBM pSeries 570 Hardware Specifications



 

Per building block p5-570 (maximum)

Standard configurations

Microprocessors: Two or four 64-bit, 1.9 or 2.2 GHz POWER5+ processors in the first building block; four processors in all others 16 64-bit 1.9 or 2.2 GHz POWER5+
Level 3 (L3) cache 36MB (two processor building block) or 72MB (four processor building block) 288MB
RAM (memory) : 2GB to 64GB of 533 MHz DDR2 or 32 to 128GB of 400 MHz DDR2 (2.2 GHz systems only) 256GB of 533 MHz DDR2 or 512GB of 400 MHz DDR2 (2.2 GHz systems only)
Processor-to-memory bandwidth (peak): 50.6 GBps 202.0 GBps
L2-to-L3 cache bandwidth (peak): 70.4 GBps 281.0 GBps
RIO-2 I/O subsystem bandwidth (peak) 9.1 GBps 36.4 GBps
Internal disk bays: Six on a split backplane (3+3) 24 (four split backplanes)
Internal disk storage Up to 1.8TB (30.6TB with optional I/O drawers) Up to 7.2TB (79.2TB with optional I/O drawers)
Media bays: Two hot-plug slimline Eight hot-plug slimline
PCI-X adapter slots Six hot-plug: five long 64-bit 133 MHz, one short 64-bit 133 MHz 24 hot-plug: 20 long 64-bit 133 MHz, four short 64-bit 133 MHz

Standard features

Integrated I/O adapters One 2-port 10/100/1000 Ethernet; two Ultra320 SCSI; one 2-port USB, two HMC ports, two system ports Four 2-port 10/100/1000 Ethernet; eight Ultra320 SCSI; four 2-port USB, two HMC ports, two system ports

Expansion features

I/O expansion (optional) Up to eight I/O drawers (combination 7311-D11 and 7311-D20) Up to 20 I/O drawers (combination 7311-D11 and 7311-D20)

Connectivity support (optional)

2 Gigabit Fibre Channel; 10 Gigabit Ethernet; 4x InfiniBand

POWER Hypervisor

Dynamic LPAR
Virtual LAN (Memory to memory inter-partition communication)

Advanced POWER Virtualization (option)

Micro-Partitioning
Shared processor pool
Virtual I/O Server
Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)

Capacity on Demand features (optional)

Processor CUoD
Memory CUoD
Reserve CoD
On/Off Processor CoD
On/Off Memory CoD
Trial CoD

Operating systems

AIX 5L V5.2 or later
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for POWER (SLES 9) or later
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 for POWER (RHEL AS 4) or later

Power requirements

200v to 240v AC

System dimensions

Building block: 6.85"H (4U) x 19.0"W x 31.1"D (174.1mm x 483mm x 790mm); weight 140.0 lb (63.6 kg) 7311-D11 I/O drawer: 6.9"H (4U) x 17.5"W x 28.0"D (175mm x 445mm x 711mm); weight 86.0 lb (39.1 kg) 7311-D20 I/O drawer: 7.0"H (4U) x 19.0"W x 24.0"D (178mm x 482mm x 610mm); weight 101.0 lb (45.9 kg)