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1.4 Express Product Offerings
The Express Product Offerings provide a convenient way to order any of several
configurations that are 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 you order an Express Product Offering, the configurator offers a choice of starting
points onto which you can add. You 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 p5-520 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
and size of disk, and presence of a media device are the only features that determine if a
client is 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 via 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 the IBM System p5 Express Product Offering, AIX 5L
edition. Systems with a lower priced Linux operating system are referred to as the
IBM System p5 Express Product Offering, OpenPower™ edition. 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 reduced price AIX 5L or Linux operating system
license.
If the system was initially ordered as an Express Product Offering, the system can be
expanded at a later time using Express Product Offering pricing, when additional processors
and activations along with the required memory are ordered on the same hardware upgrade
order. The upgraded p5-520Q configuration must satisfy the Express Product Offering
requirements for disk drives, memory, and processors. However, if the selection of total
memory or disk drives is smaller than the total defined as the minimums, it disqualifies the
order as an Express Product Offering.
1.4.2 Configurator starting points for Express Product Offerings
All Express Product Offerings have a set of standard features for the rack-mounted or
deskside versions as listed in Table 1-8 on page 12.