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processor-based platforms designed with high-availability features required to run
business-critical applications.
The Netfinity 5500 is for customers who need the power and affordability of the
new Pentium III processors with 100 Mhz operations to memory to be used in uni-
or two-way processing applications. But it is as important for those customers
who must have advanced levels of high-availability and fault-tolerant features for
business critical applications found in their corporate data center, branch office,
or medium-sized business. Potential users of the IBM Netfinity 5500 who need
high-performance, high-availability, two-way SMP capable ERP, database,
application server, or e-business solution may have the following requirements:
• 500/100 MHz Pentium III processors with 512 KB ECC L2 cache
• 128 MB or 256 MB system memory - 1 GB maximum
• Upgradeable to two-way or four-way Intel Pentium Xeon(R) processors
• Standard 400-watt hot-swap power supply, optional hot-swap redundant power
supply, and standard hot-swap redundant fans
• Integrated Netfinity Advanced Systems Management Processor
• Seven full-length adapter card slots - four hot-swap PCI slots, two
conventional PCI slots, and one dedicated ISA slot
• Ten total drive bays -
• Six 3.5-inch slim-high, hot swap drive bays, three 5.25/3.5-inch half- high
device bays, and one 3.5-inch slim-high drive bay - all allowing access to
removable media
• One conventional fan and two high-capacity blowers reducing temperatures
for full configurations of adapters and 10K rpm HDDs
• Internal support for high-performance 4.51 GB and 9.1 GB 10K Wide Ultra
SCSI hard disk drives and high-capacity tape backup devices
• Options By IBM (OBI) provide an excellent selection of devices tested and
supported on the Netfinity 5500; devices included are:
• 35/70 GB Internal DLT Tape Drive
• 20/40 GB 8-mm Internal SCSI Tape Drive
• 12/24 GB DDS/3 4-mm Internal Tape Drive
• Up to 109.2 GB of internal data storage - six 18.2 GB Ultra SCSI SL
Hot-Swap Hard Disk Drives
• Up to 1.2 terabytes of hot-swap storage when combined with three Netfinity
EXP15 storage units in two additional Netfinity NetBAY3 enclosures
• An 32X/14X IDE CD-ROM and 1.44 MB diskette drive
• Industry standard 8 U, 19-inch, rack-drawer model
• Tower models with innovative Netfinity NetBAY3 enclosure
• Integrated dual-channel ServeRAID II Wide Ultra SCSI controller with 4 MB
cache, providing up to 132 MB/sec throughput for high-performance RAID 0,
1, or 5 internal or external data storage with logical drive migration and
updated drivers to support:
• Background data scrubbing - corrects disk media errors before they cause
a problem.