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IBM Systems and Technology
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 (Memory 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-Partitioning™ 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.
