Escala PL250R-L

Entry level AIX™ and Linux servers for critical environments

The Escala PL250 Series systems break new ground for entry-level servers. Not only are they fast and affordable, they introduce pioneering features that increase system efficiency while reducing complexity and bringing cost savings: • Innovative, powerful, affordable, open and adaptable AIX Power5™ system design • Up to 20 dynamic micro-partitions - facilitating server consolidation projects through efficient resource utilization • Mainframe-inspired reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) capabilities

Customer advantages

The Escala PL250 Series are well suited to serve as low cost application and database server platforms.

Their versatility, leading-edge performance and manageability position the Escala PL250 Series as branch, small database or e-business servers for enterprises of all size.

The Escala PL250 Series handle mission-critical e-business applications or secure Web transactions.

Mainframe-inspired RAS helps keep systems available

The Escala PL250 Series extend the Escala heritage of world-class RAS to entry systems by introducing dynamic firmware updates, in which applications remain operational.

Flexibility to grow and adapt to changing needs

The Escala PL250 Series are available with 1.5GHz or 1.65GHz POWER5 or with 1.65GHz, 1.9GHz or 2.1GHz POWER5+ processors, in Rack or Tower form factors. They have extensive growth potential with up to 32GB of memory, up to four I/O drawers resulting in 16.8TB of disk storage and up to 34 hot-plug PCI-X slots in a choice of rack-mount or deskside packages.

For the ultimate in server availability, the Escala PL250 Series can be clustered with Bull’s ARF™ (Application Rollover facility) or IBM’s HACMP™ software.

Consolidation and Workload management capabilities

The Escala PL250 Series systems provide innovations like micro-partitioning which allows businesses to increase system utilization while helping to ensure applications continue to get the resources they need.

Micro-partitioning helps lower costs by allowing the system to be finely tuned to consolidate multiple independent AIX and Linux workloads. A single model PL250 can host as many as 20 “virtual servers” (micro-partitions).

Breakthroughs such as virtual I/O, which allows transparent sharing of expensive disk drives, communications adapters and Fibre Channel-attached disks, reduce complexity and hence administrative expenses.