Power Supplies Features; Processor Card Features - IBM System p5 550 Technical Overview And Introduction

Minimum of one 4-pack SCSI disk enclosure. Maximum configuration features eight SCSI
disk drives with an optional second 4-pack enclosure for an internal storage capacity of
2.4 TB using 300 GB drives.
Five PCI-X slots (one of them is PCI-X 2.0 266 MHz 64-bit long slot). All PCI-X slots
support Enhanced Error Handling (EEH).
One or two GX+ adapter cards to connect I/O drawers.
Two slim-line media bays for optional storage devices.
One half-high bay for an optional tape device.
The p5-550 or p5-550Q, including the service processor (SP) that is described in 3.2.1,
"Service processor" on page 83, supports the following native ports:
Two 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports
Two system serial ports
Two USB 2.0 ports (FC 2591 USB diskette drive 1.44 is available)
Two HMC ports
Two SPCN ports
In addition, the p5-550 and p5-550Q features one internal Ultra320 SCSI dual-channel
controller.
One power supply, 1475 watt ac (rack-mount and deskside), or 1050 watt dc (rack-mount
only), hot-swap, base (redundant power optional)
Up to two power regulators
Two hot-swap cooling fans
The system supports 32-bit and 64-bit applications and requires specific levels of the AIX 5L
and Linux operating systems. For more information, see 2.14, "Operating system support" on
page 63.
Note: When an HMC is connected to the system, the two system serial ports are disabled.
If serial ports are required, you can order one of the following asynchronous adapters: FC
2943 (8-port) or FC 5723 (2-port).

1.3.1 Power supplies features

The rack-mount and deskside versions of the p5-550 or p5-550Q can be purchased with:
One or two (redundant hot-swap) 1475 watt ac Power Supply (FC 7889)
Rack-mount p5-550 or p5-550Q systems can also be ordered with:
One or two (redundant hot-swap) 1050 watt dc Power Supply (FC 6289)
One or two Power cable dc Drawer (5-pin) to PDP (5-pin) (FC 6288)
Note: The rack-mount, dc-powered p5-550 or p5-550Q are supported on the 7014-T00
rack equipped with dc Power Distribution Panel (7014-T00 feature code 6117). For a
detailed description of this feature, refer to "Optional power distribution panel" on page 14.

1.3.2 Processor card features

The p5-550 and p5-550Q systems feature 64-bit, copper-based, POWER5+ microprocessors
and can be configured with up to two 2-core processor cards running at 1.65 GHz, 1.9 GHz,
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IBM System p5 550 and 550Q Technical Overview and Introduction