IBM Power 520 Express

Highlights

• For distributed UNIX®, IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS®) and Linux® ERP/CRM application servers
• For small database servers
• For small scale consolidation servers for UNIX, IBM i and Linux workloads
• For a complete business system with an integrated database and application server

As a distributed application server, the IBM Power™ 520 Express provides near-continuous application availability at a compelling 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.
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.

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 acceleration4
Level 2 (L2) cache	4 MB per processor core (8 MB on 1-core systems)
Level 3 (L3) cache	32MB on 4.7 GHz
RAM (memory)	2 GB to 64 GB of DDR2 SDRAM1
Internal drive options	Six 3.5" SAS (146.8 GB, 300 GB, 450 GB 15K rpm) or Eight 2.5” 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 Four 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

Expansion features (optional)
High-performance PCI adapters	4 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet
GX adapters	RIO-2, 12x GX
GX slots	Two (first shares space with and replaces a PCI Express 8x slot)

PowerVM technologies
POWER Hypervisor™	LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN (Memory to memory inter-partition communication)
PowerVM Express Edition (optional)	Up to three partitions on the server; PowerVM Lx86; virtualized disk and optical devices (VIOS); Shared Processor Pool; and Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
PowerVM Standard Edition (optional)	PowerVM Express Edition plus Micro-Partitioning™ with up to 10 micro-partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Virtual I/O Server with IVM; Shared Dedicated Capacity
PowerVM Enterprise Edition2 (optional)	PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility

RAS features	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

Operating systems	AIX V5.3 or later IBM i 5.4 or later5 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

High availability	IBM PowerHA™ family

Power requirements	100v to 127v or 200v to 240v AC

System dimensions	Deskside: 21.3"H x 7.2-12.9"W x 24.7"D (540 mm x 182-328 mm x 628 mm); weight: 90 lb (40.8 kg)3 Rack drawer: 6.8"H (4U) x 17.3"W x 21.2"D (173 mm x 440 mm x 538 mm); weight: 70 lb (31.7 kg)3

Warranty	9 hours per day, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), next-business-day for one year (limited) 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.