Express Product Offerings; Express Product Offerings Requirements; Configurator Starting Points For Express Product Offerings - IBM System p5 550 Technical Overview And Introduction

1.4 Express Product Offerings

The Express Product Offering configurations provide a convenient way to order any of several
configurations designed to meet typical client requirements. Special reduced pricing is
available when a system order satisfies specific configuration requirements for memory, disk
drives, and processors.

1.4.1 Express Product Offerings requirements

When an Express Product Offering is ordered, the configurator offers a choice of starting
points that can be added onto. Clients can configure systems with one or two processor cards
and two or four processor activations.
With the purchase of an Express Product Offering, for each paid processor activation, you are
entitled to one processor activation at no additional charge, if the following requirements are
met:
The system must have at least two disk drives of at least 73.4 GB each.
There must be at least 2 GB of memory installed for each active processor.
If you order a System p5 550 or 550Q server Express Product Offering as defined here, you
might qualify for a processor activation at no extra charge. The number of processors, total
memory, quantity or size of disk, and presence of a media device are the only features that
determine if you are entitled to a processor entitlement at no additional charge.
When you purchase an Express Product Offering, you are entitled to a lower priced AIX 5L or
Linux operating system license, or you can choose to purchase the system with no operating
system. The lower priced AIX 5L or Linux operating system is processed using a feature
number on AIX 5L and either Red Hat or SUSE Linux. You can choose either the lower priced
AIX 5L or Linux subscription, but not both.
If you choose AIX 5L for your lower priced operating system, you can also order Linux but will
purchase your Linux subscription at full price versus the reduced price. The same is true if
you choose a Linux subscription as your lower priced operating system. Systems with a
reduced price AIX 5L offering are referred to as the IBM System p5 Express, AIX 5L edition.
Systems with a lower priced Linux operating system are referred to as the IBM System p5
Express, OpenPower™ product offering. In the case of Linux, only the first subscription
purchased is lower priced. So, for example, additional licenses purchased for Red Hat to run
in multiple partitions will be at full price.
You can make changes to the standard features as needed and still qualify for processor
entitlements at no additional charge and a discounted AIX or Linux operating system license.
However, selection of total memory or DASD smaller than the totals defined as the minimums
disqualifies the order as an Express Product Offering.

1.4.2 Configurator starting points for Express Product Offerings

Any Express Product Offering has a set of standard features for the rack-mounted or
deskside version, as listed in Table 1-13.
Table 1-13 Express Product Offering standard set of feature codes
Description
System bezel and hardware
Rack-mount rail kit
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Rack-mounted feature codes
7192 x 1
7162 x 1
Deskside feature code
7191 x 1
n/a