Escala PL1660R

Modular and scalable systems for business flexibility and IT efficiency

Advanced POWER6 processor cores for enhanced performance and reliability Building block architecture delivers flexible scalability and modular growth Advanced virtualisation features facilitate highly efficient systems utilisation Enhanced reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features enable improved application availability

Outstanding Price/Performance

The POWER6 processor-based Escala 1660R mid-range server delivers outstanding price/performance, mainframe-inspired reliability and availability features, flexible capacity upgrades and innovative virtualisation technologies. This powerful 19-inch rack-mount system, which can handle up to 16 POWER6 cores, can be used for database and application serving, as well as server consolidation.

Modularity and Scalability

The modular PL1660R is designed to continue the tradition of its predecessor, the POWER5+ processor-based PL1650R server, for resource optimisation, secure and dependable performance and the flexibility to change with business needs.

POWER6 Advanced Technology

Escala PL1660R is the first server designed with POWER6 processors, resulting in performance and price/performance advantages while ushering in a new era in the virtualisation and availability of AIX® and Linux® data centers. POWER6 processors can run 64-bit applications, while concurrently supporting 32-bit applications to enhance flexibility. They feature simultaneous multi-threading, allowing two application ‘threads’ to be run at the same time, which allows completion of more tasks in any given period of time.

POWER6 Enhancements

With the introduction of POWER6 processor-based technology, exciting advances in performance, RAS and virtualisation bring new perspectives to the world of IT compute efficiency. A new Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter comes standard with every system, paving the way to easier virtualisation of high-speed Ethernet connections.
Virtualisation features such as Live Partition Mobility available as part of the PowerVM Enterprise Edition, increase uptime by allowing running partitions to be moved from one POWER6 server to another with no downtime.