The IBM Power 560 platform is an up to 16-core server with 3.6 GHz POWER6 processor cores and is designed to deliver outstanding business value to medium and large organizations with the leadership performance, innovative RAS features, and proven virtualization capabilities of PowerVM. Whether you need a reliable and efficient server consolidation platform or a high performing system for application or database serving, the Power 560 server can fulfill your requirements by choosing the AIX, IBM i or Linux operating systems.
Standard Configuration
- Four, eight or sixteen 64-bit 3.60GHz POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
- 4 MB L2 cache per core Level 2 (L2) cache
- 32 MB L3 cache shared per two cores Level 3 (L3) cache
- 8 GB to 384 GB of DDR2 SDRAM
- 73.4 GB , 146GB , 300GB , 450GB Six 3.5″ SAS drives
- Slimline DVD-RAM Drive SATA
- Two Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports
- Four USB, two HMC, four SPCN
- LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN (Memory to memory inter-partition communication)
- Micro-Partitioning with up to 10 micro-partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Virtual I/O Server; Shared Dedicated Capacity; PowerVM Lx86
- PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility
Highlights
- For consolidation of UNIX, IBM i, and x86 Linux workloads
- For mid-size to large database servers
- For UNIX®, IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS®) and Linux® ERP/CRM application servers
The IBM Power™ 560 Express delivers up to 16 cores of scalability with the outstanding performance of the POWER6™ processor—the world’s fastest chip. The performance, reliability, and virtualization capabilities of the Power 560 Express make it an ideal system as a consolidation, database or application server. The Power 560 delivers the performance and scalability to run applications faster and the virtualization and availability features to consolidate workloads to be more efficient and reduce infrastructure costs.
As a consolidation server, the Power 560 Express provides the flexibility to use leading-edge AIX®, IBM i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux applications all on the same system. The Power 560 Express is designed with capabilities to deliver near-continuous application availability and allow more work to be processed with less operational disruption. PowerVM™ Editions offers comprehensive virtualization technologies designed to aggregate and manage resources while helping to simplify and optimize your IT infrastructure and reduce server sprawl.
For database servers, the Power 560 Express provides outstanding performance, capacity and near-continuous application availability. Mid-sized companies can access data faster, keep their applications running around the clock, and focus attention on growing their business.
The Power 560 Express supports an extensive portfolio of proven solutions by supporting multiple operating systems: AIX, i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux applications. This flexibility in operating environments lets you deploy the applications your business demands.