The IBM Power 520 Express has been created to provide excellent business value to smaller and mid-sized businesses. Boasting flexibility, availability and manageability, the Power 520 Express is a top performer in a variety of environments. The Power 520 Express performs well as a distributed application server, a small database server, a small scale consolidation server, or as a complete integrated business system.

Outstanding features include: EnergyScale technologies, PowerVM virtualization, excellent reliability and availability, and serviceability (RAS) characteristics designed to avoid, detect and recover from errors to achieve near-continuous availability. The Power 520 Express System is for distributed UNIX, IBM I (formerly known as i5/OS) and Linux ERP/CRM application servers.

IBM 8203-E4A4 Features:

• Form Factor: Tower or rack-mount
• Processor: 2-core 4.7 GHz POWER6 32 MB
• Memory: 4GB
• Hard Disk: Two 146.8 GB hot-swappable disk drives
• Dual 10/100/1000Mbps integrated Ethernet ports
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Operating System: Linux

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What they’re saying online about the IBM 8203-E4A4:

adding a SATA drive to my TSM SERVER running AIX
I use disk for temporary storage then migrate over to tape. My hardware is as follows. IBM P520 model 8203-e4a. AIX 5.3. All drives are SAS ...

Re: Installing VIOS on an 8203-E4A (Power 6 520)
Vess, I have a customer buying a 8203 ibm i edition to replace a power4 and they asked, if in a few years, retire the i OS and install Linux...

Re: Problem while booting 8203-E4A - IBM Power6 520
Ok. Because of the nature of what happened, you lost your partition configuration in firmware, but not your storage mappings in the VIOS.

Related models:

1. IBM 8203-E4A3 Power 520 Express System
2. IBM 8203-E4A5 Power 520 Express System
3. IBM 8203-E4A1 Power 520 Express System
4. IBM 8203-E4A2 Power 520 Express System
5. IBM 8204-E8A1 Power 550 Express System

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