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Thank you for taking the time to discuss our new IBM® Power System Express Offerings. This proposal reflects our objective to assist **CUSTOMER** in achieving its goals by leveraging our proven 6th generation IBM POWER™ technology. We constructed this solution’s phased implementation to address **CUSTOMER**’s immediate needs and help minimize impact to your normal operations.

The IBM Power System 550 Express Offering can help you realize positive financial impact over the next three years and affect your business in positive ways, such as helping to:

Respond rapidly to changing business requirements and exploit new opportunities

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Use IT resources and assets more efficiently

Base your business on a solid platform that helps assure high availability

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Table of Contents

Executive Summary......................................................................................................................1

Our Understanding of Your Goals.............................................................................................1Our Approach to Meeting Your Goals.......................................................................................1Why IBM?..................................................................................................................................1

IBM Power 550 Express server....................................................................................................3

Highlights...................................................................................................................................3Features and Benefits...............................................................................................................4

Leadership POWER6 performance....................................................................................5Outstanding scalability and capacity...................................................................................5Application availability.........................................................................................................5Flexibility and choice of operating environments................................................................5Improved utilization and energy efficiency..........................................................................6Integration and simplicity....................................................................................................6

Specifications............................................................................................................................6

Pricing Summary...........................................................................................................................9

Terms and Conditions...............................................................................................................9

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Executive Summary

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Our Understanding of Your Goals

For success in today’s demanding marketplace, a business needs to manage growth, complexity and risk while maximizing the return on their IT investments. These demands require highly efficient systems that can scale and grow with your business.

Mid-market clients can be more responsive to changing business needs and realize significant benefits for application and mid-size database servers by leveraging the performance of IBM POWER6™ processors. With the Power™ 550 Express™ server, companies can save on energy costs while managing growth, complexity and risk utilizing innovative virtualization capabilities offered by PowerVM™ Editions and the energy management capabilities of IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ software.

For a scalable, complete integrated business system, the Power 550 Express allows the mid-sized company seeking simplicity to avoid increased spending and staffing requirements while becoming more responsive to their customers, improving their productivity and keeping their data secure. The Power 550 Express—i Edition integrates features to simplify an IT environment and delivers a complete, cost-effective business system that grows with your business.

Our Approach to Meeting Your Goals

The Power 550 Express is a 2-, 4-, 6- or 8-core entry server utilizing 3.5, 4.2 or 5.0 GHz processors and includes tremendous configuration flexibility to meet most capacity and growth requirements. The Power 550 Express offers AIX®, IBM i, or Linux® operating systems in either a deskside or 4U rack-mount form factor. The platform is designed to deliver outstanding business value to medium-sized businesses with the leadership performance of POWER6 processors, choice of operating systems, proven virtualization capabilities of PowerVM, and support for innovative energy management technologies to help conserve energy and reduce costs. Whether you need a scalable complete business system with integrated database and application server, a reliable and efficient server consolidation platform or a high performing system for application or database serving, the Power 550 Express server can fulfill your business requirements now by choosing the AIX, IBM i, or Linux operating systems.

Why IBM?

Designed for Performance: The IBM Power 550 Express server features POWER6 processor technology, the fastest chip on the planet. In addition, the Power 550 Express offers tremendous configuration flexibility to meet most capacity and growth


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requirements in a choice of 19-inch rack-mount or deskside package. Add IBM Power Systems Software™ like optional PowerVM Editions, and you have the opportunity to consolidate UNIX® and Linux applications and reduce costs.

Go Green by Becoming More Energy Efficient: You can have fewer systems with more performance per watt and better system utilization through virtualization on POWER6 processor-based servers. IBM also provides the capability to manage the energy used by a single server with new IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager software, which when used with the EnergyScale™ technology exclusive to the POWER6 processor-based Power 550 Express, enables the monitoring and management of the power and thermals of a server, helping you to become more energy efficient.

Manage Growth and Complexity: The Power 550 Express platform is designed to manage growth, complexity and risk by giving clients the flexibility to run the AIX, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. The AIX OS, IBM’s industrial-strength UNIX environment, is built on a tradition of reliability, availability, security and open standards and is tuned for business-critical applications. The newest release, AIX Version 6.1, delivers new security, availability and manageability capabilities. IBM offers a binary compatibility guarantee for AIX 6 to assure clients that applications created on previous versions of AIX will continue to run on AIX 6. The IBM i operating system is highly scalable, virus resistant and integrates a trusted combination of relational database, security, Web services, networking and storage management capabilities. The pre-integration and testing of the IBM i operating system is a key factor in enabling companies to deploy applications faster and maintain them with fewer staff. The Linux operating system is known for its extensive set of open source applications, the capability to rapidly deploy new or customized solutions, and the ability to run on many different platforms from different hardware vendors.

More Application Availability; Less Work on Weekends: Is your data center staff spending too many weekends at work? You can reduce planned downtime with the Live Partition Mobility and Live Application Mobility PowerVM technologies. Move workloads from server to server to give your personnel the ability to do routine maintenance during the week. You can also use this capability to balance workloads across systems or to save energy by consolidating servers during periods of low demand and powering down idle servers. In today's 24/7/365 globalized world, you need continuous application availability. IBM virtualization and other technologies help enable just that.


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IBM Power 550 Express server

Ideal solution as an application, mid-sized database or Linux consolidation server

Power 550 Express deskside and rack-mount servers

Highlights For UNIX®, IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS®) and Linux® ERP/CRM application

servers

For mid-size database servers

For consolidation of UNIX, IBM i, and x86 Linux workloads

For medium to large-sized businesses running the IBM i operating system

The IBM Power™ 550 Express™ delivers the outstanding performance of the POWER6™ processor—the world’s fastest chip. The performance and virtualization capabilities of the Power 550 Express make it an ideal system as a mid-size database or application server. The Power 550 delivers the performance to run applications faster and more efficiently, which can result in business advantages.

For mid-size database servers, the Power 550 Express provides outstanding performance, capacity and near-continuous application availability. Mid-sized companies can access data faster, keep their applications running around the clock, and focus attention on growing their business.


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The Power 550 Express supports an extensive portfolio of proven solutions by supporting multiple operating systems: AIX®, IBM i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux applications. This flexibility in operating environments lets you deploy the applications your business demands.

As a consolidation server, the Power 550 Express provides the flexibility to use leading-edge AIX, IBM i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux applications all on the same system. PowerVM™ Editions offers comprehensive virtualization technologies designed to aggregate and manage resources while helping to simplify and optimize your IT infrastructure and reduce server sprawl.

For a scalable, complete integrated business system, the Power 550 Express allows the mid-sized company seeking simplicity to avoid increased spending and staffing requirements while becoming more responsive to their customers, improving their productivity and keeping their data secure.

The Power 550 Express is a 2-, 4-, 6- or 8-core entry server utilizing 3.5, 4.2 or 5.0 GHz processors and includes tremendous configuration flexibility to meet most capacity and growth requirements. The Power 550 Express offers a choice of operating environments in either a deskside or 4U rack-mount form factor. The platform is designed to deliver outstanding business value to medium-sized businesses with the leadership performance of POWER6 processors, choice of operating systems, proven virtualization capabilities of PowerVM, and support for innovative energy management technologies to help conserve energy and reduce costs. Whether you need a scalable complete business system with integrated database and application server, reliable and efficient server consolidation platform or a high performing system for application or database serving, the Power 550 Express server can fulfill your requirements with the AIX, IBM i or Linux operating systems.

Features and BenefitsFeature Benefits

Leadership POWER6 performance Access data faster and improve response time

Do more work with fewer servers and experience infrastructure cost savings from a reduction in the number of servers and software licenses

Outstanding scalability and capacity Easily grow the system as your business grows

Consolidate UNIX and Linux workloads utilizing PowerVM Editions

Application availability Broad portfolio of proven solutions with support for AIX, IBM i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux operating systems

Keep applications up and running and focus on growing your business

Flexibility and choice of AIX, IBM i, and Linux operating systems

Choose the operating system that best suits your application and business needs


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Feature Benefits

Easily grow the system as your business grows

Improved utilization and energy efficiency through PowerVM and EnergyScale™ technologies

Better utilize IT assets while avoiding the costs of deploying a new server every time the business needs another application

Go green and save with innovative energy management capabilities

Integration and simplicity Deploy applications faster and maintain systems more efficiently with fewer staff

Integrated business platform that allows all the applications to access the data they need to improve productivity

Leadership POWER6 performance

The leadership performance of the POWER6 processor—the world’s fastest chip—makes it possible for applications to run faster and be more responsive, which can result in business advantages and higher client satisfaction. In addition, a single system can now run more applications and can reduce the number of required servers reducing infrastructure costs. The improved performance with POWER6 also enables clients to get more processing power with fewer processors resulting in lower per core software licensing costs.

Outstanding scalability and capacity

The IBM Power 550 Express offers tremendous configuration flexibility to meet most capacity and growth requirements. Supporting up to four POWER6 processor cards with each card having up to 64 GB of memory results in a maximum configuration of eight processor cores and 256 GB of memory. Combining the capacity capabilities of the Power 550 Express with PowerVM technology may help simplify and optimize your IT infrastructure, reduce server sprawl and improve energy efficiency.

Application availability

The Power 550 Express is designed with capabilities to deliver near-continuous application availability and allow more work to be processed with less operational disruption. RAS capabilities include recovery from intermittent errors or failover to redundant components, detection and reporting of failures and impending failures, and self-healing hardware that automatically initiates actions to effect error correction, repair or component replacement. In addition, the Processor Instruction Retry feature provides for the continuous monitoring of processor status with the capability to restart a processor if certain errors are detected. If required, workloads can be redirected to alternate processors, all without disruption to application execution.


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Flexibility and choice of operating environments

The flexibility to use leading-edge AIX, i, Linux for Power and x86 Linux applications in a rack-mount or deskside form factor broadens the application offerings available and increases the ways clients can manage growth, complexity and risk. Leverage these easy-to-manage, easy-to-secure, and highly reliable operating systems to run thousands of proven industry solutions that are sure to fit the needs of almost any business.

Improved utilization and energy efficiency

As the price of energy increases and resources are limited, energy efficiency through better utilization has become more important. The leadership performance of the IBM Power 550 Express translates into greater computing power for applications. Combine this leadership performance with PowerVM Editions to virtualize your infrastructure and improve server utilization and energy efficiency. Supported by the AIX, IBM i and Linux for Power operating systems, PowerVM Editions provide an innovative set of comprehensive systems technologies and services designed to enable you to easily aggregate and manage virtualized resources. Micro-partitions enable the Power 550 Express to be split into a flexible and highly utilized system. IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ exploits POWER6 processor-based EnergyScale technology which monitors power/thermal utilization and conserves power by enabling power management features for improved system utilization and energy efficiency.

Integration and simplicity

The Power 550 Express is designed to simplify your IT environment. The Power 550 Express can help you reduce the number of servers, reduce management costs and reduce maintenance and licensing costs, opening the door for reinvestment into business growth.

SpecificationsConfiguration options

Processor cores Two, four, six or eight 64-bit 3.5 GHz, 4.2 GHz or 5.0 GHz POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration

Level 2 (L2) cache 8 MB per processor card

Level 3 (L3) cache 32 MB per processor card

RAM (memory) 3.5 GHz: 4 GB to 128 GB of DDR2 SDRAM

4.2/5.0 GHz: 4 GB to 256 GB of DDR2 SDRAM

Internal drive options Six 3.5" SAS (146.8 GB, 300 GB, 450 GB 15K rpm)

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Eight 2.5" SAS (73.4 GB 15K rpm; 146.8 GB 10k rpm)

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Eight Solid State Drives (69 GB)

Internal disk storage Up to 2.7 TB

Media bays One slimline and one half-high

Adapter slots Two PCI-X (266 MHz DDR); Three PCI Express 8x

Standard I/O adapters

Integrated Virtual Ethernet Two Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, or

Four Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports, (option) or

Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports (option)

Integrated disk 3G SAS controller (internal; RAID optional)

Other Ports Three USB, two HMC, two system ports, two SPCN

Expansion features (optional)

High-performance PCI adapters 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel; 10 Gigabit Ethernet

GX adapters RIO-2, 12x GX1

GX slots Two (each shares space with and replaces one PCI Express 8x slot)

PowerVM technologies

POWER Hypervisor™ LPAR, Dynamic LPAR, Virtual LAN (Memory to memory inter-partition communication)

PowerVM Express Edition (optional) Up to three partitions on the server; PowerVM Lx86; virtualized disk and optical devices (VIOS); Shared Processor Pool; and Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)

PowerVM Standard Edition (optional) PowerVM Express Edition plus Micro-Partitioning™ with up to 10 micro-partitions per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; Shared Dedicated Capacity

PowerVM Enterprise Edition2 (optional) PowerVM Standard Edition plus Live Partition Mobility (LPM) and Active Memory™ Sharing (AMS)

RAS features 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

Operating systems AIX V5.3 or later

IBM i 5.4 or later


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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

High availability IBM PowerHA™ family

Power requirements 100v to 127v or 200v to 240v AC, -48v DC

System dimensions 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)3

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)3

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.

1 Available configuration options are dependent on the number of processor cores and other factors. Contact IBM or your IBM Business Partner for specific configuration restrictions.

2 Not supported on IBM i 5.4, 6.1.

3 Weight will vary when disks, adapters and peripherals are added.

For more information

To learn more about the IBM Power 550 Express server, please contact your IBM marketing representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit the following Web sites:

http://ibm.com/systems/power/

http://ibm.com/systems/i/os/i5os/

http://ibm.com/aix

http://ibm.com/linux/power

http://ibm.com/systems/p/solutions

http://ibm.com/common/ssi


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http://ibm.com/common/ssi

http://ibm.com/systems/p/solutions

http://ibm.com/linux/power

http://ibm.com/aix

http://ibm.com/systems/i/os/i5os/

http://ibm.com/systems/power/


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