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pSeries Operating Systems |
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The IBM Power™ 595 server is designed to help enterprises deploy the most cost effective and flexible IT infrastructure while achieving the industry’s best application performance and increasing the speed of deployment of new applications and services. As the most powerful member of the IBM Power Systems™ family, this server provides exceptional performance, massive scalability and energy-efficient processing for a full range of complex, mission-critical applications with the most demanding computing requirements.
Equipped with ultra-high frequency IBM POWER6™ processors in up to 64-core, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) configurations, the Power 595 server can scale rapidly and seamlessly to address the changing needs of today’s data center. With advanced PowerVM™ virtualization, EnergyScale™ technology and Capacity on Demand (CoD) options, the the Power 595 helps businesses take control of their IT infrastructure and confidently consolidate multiple UNIX®, IBM i and Linux® application workloads onto a single system.
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IBM POWER6 p595 Specifications |
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| Standard configurations |
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| Processor Cores: |
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8-core to 64-core POWER6 4.2 or 5.0 GHz via 8-core processor books |
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| Level 2 (L2) cache: |
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4 MB per core |
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| Level 3 (L3) cache: |
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32 MB per chip |
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| RAM (memory): |
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16 to 32 DIMMs per processor book
Up to 4 TB of 400 MHz DDR2 or
Up to 1 TB of 533 MHz DDR2 |
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| PCIe I/O drawers: |
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24": 1 - 32 |
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| Internal disk bays |
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26 SAS Small Form Factor bays in each 24" PCIe I/O drawer
Up to 832 maximum per system |
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| Adapter slots: |
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20 PCIe in each 24" I/O drawer
640 maximum per system |
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| I/O ports: |
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4 GX adapter ports per processor book, 32 per system |
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| Hardware Management Console ports |
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Two pairs via redundant Ethernet hubs
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| POWER Hypervisor™ |
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LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN |
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| PowerVM Standard Edition (optional) |
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Micro-Partitioning with up to 10 micro-partitions per processor (254 maximum); Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Virtual I/O Server; Shared Dedicated Capacity; PowerVM Lx86 |
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| PowerVM Enterprise Edition (optional) |
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PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility and Active Memory Sharing |
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| Capacity on Demand (CoD) configurations |
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8 to 64 processor cores in increments of one (via one to eight processor books);
4.2 or 5.0 GHz POWER6 processor cores |
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| RAS features |
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- Processor Instruction Retry
- Alternate Processor Recovery
- Selective dynamic firmware updates
- IBM Chipkill ECC, bit-steering memory
- ECC L2 cache, L3 cache
- Redundant service processors with automatic failover
- Redundant system clocks with dynamic failover
- Hot-swappable disk bays
- Hot-plug/blind-swap PCI slots
- Hot-add I/O drawers
- Hot-plug power supplies and cooling fans
- Dynamic Processor Deallocation
- Dynamic deallocation of logical partitions and PCI bus slots
- Extended error handling on PCI slots
- Redundant power supplies and cooling fans
- Battery backup and redundant battery backup (optional)
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| Capacity on Demand features (optional) |
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Processor CUoD (in increments of one processor), Memory CUoD (in increments of 1 GB), Reserve CoD, On/Off Processor CoD, On/Off Memory CoD, Trial CoD, Utility CoD |
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| Operating systems |
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- AIX V5.3 or later
- IBM i 5.4 or later
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER™ (SLES10 SP2) or later
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 for POWER (RHEL 4.7) or later RHEL 5.2 or later
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| High availability |
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PowerHA family |
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| Power requirements |
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200v to 240v; 380v to 415v; 480v AC |
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| System dimensions |
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One frame (slimline doors):
79.3"H x 30.5"W x 58.5"D
(201.4 cm x 77.5 cm x 148.6 cm);
weight: 3,376 lb (1,531 kg)
One frame (acoustic doors):
79.3"H x 30.5"W x 71.1"D
(201.4 cm x 77.5 cm x 180.6 cm)
weight: 3,422 lb (1,552 kg)
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