Escala PL450R-XS

Affordable AIX™ and Linux entry servers for mission-critical environments

The Escala PL450 system family with its mainframe-like features leads the way for AIX entry- to mid-level servers. Fast and affordable, this server is designed to be easy to install, integrate and manage: - Innovative, powerful, affordable, open and adaptable AIX Power5™ system design - Up to 40 dynamic micro-partitions facilitating server consolidation projects through efficient resource utilization - Mainframe-inspired reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) capabilities

The Escala PL450 family servers are perfect as multitalented departmental or regional servers for mission-critical applications running on AIX 5L™. The performance, reliability and affordability of the Escala PL450 family make it a strategic platform for server consolidation, scalable database servers, e-commerce application servers, Web servers, operations systems, and business intelligence (BI) workloads.

Mainframe-inspired RAS helps keep systems available

The Escala PL450 continues the Escala tradition of world-class RAS to departmental systems by introducing dynamic firmware updates, in which applications remain operational while system firmware is updated for most operations.

Extensive configurability

The Escala PL450R-XS entry model is cost optimized providing 4 core capabilities in the very dense 1U drawer using the innovative Quad Core Chip modules at 1.65GHz.

The Escala PL450R-VL entry model provides 4 core capabilities in a 2U drawer with 1.5GHz or 1.65GHz POWER5+ processors.

The Escala PL450R/T-L provides 4 core capabilities in a rack or tower format with 1.5GHz or 1.65GHz POWER5+ processors.

And finally, the Escala PL450R/T provides 4 core capabilities in a rack or tower format with 1.65GHz, 1.9GHz or 2.1GHz POWER5+ processors.

Clients have extensive growth potential with up to 64GB of memory, up to eight optional I/O drawers resulting in 31.2TB of disk storage and up to 59 hot-plug PCI-X slots in a choice of 19" rack-mount or deskside packages.

For the ultimate in server availability, the Escala PL450 family can be clustered with Bull’s ARF™ (Application Rollover Facility) or IBM’s HACMP™ software designed to provide continuous availability.

Outstanding Consolidation and Workload management capabilities

The Escala PL450 family provides innovations like micro-partitioning which allows businesses to increase system utilization while increasing throughput. Micro-partitioning helps lower costs by allowing the system to be finely tuned to consolidate multiple independent AIX and Linux workloads.

A single model PL450 can host as many as 40 micro-partitions. Breakthroughs like the virtual I/O, which allows the undetectable sharing of expensive disk drives, communications adapters and Fibre Channel-attached disks, drive down complexity and hence administrative expenses.

The shared processor pool allows for automatic non-disruptive balancing of processing power between partitions assigned to the shared pool - resulting in increased throughput and utilization.