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IBM Power Systems 520 Technical Overview and Introduction
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This IBM® Redpaper is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM Power System 520 server, machine type models 8203-E4A, 9407-M15, and 9409-M25. The goal of this paper is to introduce this innovative server that includes IBM System i and IBM System p heritage and new hardware technologies. The major hardware offerings include:
o The POWER6™ processor available at a frequency of 4.2 GHz.
o The specialized POWER6 DDR2 memory that provides greater bandwidth, capacity, and reliability.
o The 1 Gb or 10 Gb Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter that brings native hardware virtualization to this server
o EnergyScale™ technology that provides features such as power trending, power-saving, capping of power, and thermal measurement
o PowerVM™ virtualization technology
o Mainframe continuous availability brought to the entry server environment
This Redpaper expands the current set of IBM Power System documentation by providing a desktop reference that offers a detailed technical description of the Power 520 system.
This Redpaper does not replace the latest marketing materials and tools. It is intended as an additional source of information that, together with existing sources, may be used to enhance your knowledge of IBM server solutions.
Professionals wishing to acquire a better understanding of IBM Power 520 server should read this Redpaper. The intended audience includes:
o Clients
o Sales and marketing professionals
o Technical support professionals
o IBM Business Partners
o Independent software vendors
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Chapter 1. General description
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview
Chapter 3. Virtualization
Chapter 4. Continuous availability and manageability |
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These pages are Web versions of IBM Redbooks- and Redpapers-in-progress. They are published here for those who need the information now and may contain spelling, layout and grammatical errors.
This material has not been submitted to any formal IBM test and is published AS IS. It has not been the subject of rigorous review. Your feedback is welcomed to improve the usefulness of the material to others.
IBM assumes no responsibility for its accuracy or completeness. The use of this information or the implementation of any of these techniques is a customer responsibility and depends upon the customer's ability to evaluate and integrate them into the customer's operational environment. |
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Last Update
04 July 2008 |
Planned Publish Date
15 August 2008 |
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Author(s)
Scott Vetter
Giuliano Anselmi
YoungHoon Cho
Gregor Linzmeier
Marcos Quezada
John T Schmidt
Guido Somers. Jim Cook |
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IBM Form Number
REDP-4403-00 |
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