IBM 8204-E8A Brochure & Specs - page 5
Power 550 Express at a glance
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
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; Shared Dedicated Capacity
PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility (LPM) and Active Memory™ Sharing
(AMS)
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
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 for POWER™ (SLES10 SP1) or later; Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4.5 for POWER (RHEL4.5) or later; RHEL 5.1 or later
IBM PowerHA™ family
100v to 127v or 200v to 240v AC, -48v DC
Deskside: 21.3"H x 7.2-11.1"W x 30.6"D (540 mm x 183-283 mm x 778 mm); weight:
120.0 lb (54.4 kg)
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Rack drawer: 6.9"H (4U) x 17.3"W x 28.7"D (175 mm x 440 mm x 730 mm); weight:
120.0 lb (54.4 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.