Support Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.5.7 for HP Integrity Servers

1 Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7
This support note provides the additional installation and support information for the use of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.7 on HP Integrity servers.
This chapter provides the support and certification information related to RHEL 5.7 on HP Integrity
servers.
RHEL 5.7 Certification and Support Information
HP has certified RHEL 5.7 for the Intel Itanium Processor (kernel-2.6.18-274 and
glibc-2.5-65) on HP Integrity servers.
IMPORTANT: Do not discard the Red Hat registration card packaged with the Red Hat media.
To receive Red Hat updates and comply with HP support requirements, register the serial number
on the card with Red Hat Network. For specific information, see “Registering Software and Getting
Updates from Red Hat Network” (page 13).
Ensure Support for RHEL on HP Integrity Servers
HP recommends that you review the RHEL certification and support matrix for your HP Integrity
servers prior to downloading RHEL from the Red Hat website. You should ensure that the distribution
of RHEL that you want to install is both certified and supported on your server.
Use the following steps to review information about the supported and certified distributions of the
RHEL distributions for HP Integrity servers:
1. Go to the Linux certification and support matrix - HP Integrity servers website:
http://h20341.www2.hp.com/integrity/us/en/os/linux-on-integrity-certification-matrix.html
2. On the Red Hat tab, locate the server name of interest, and then click the link.
Detailed product information, downloads, documentation, and specific certification information
is provided in a categorized listing.
RHEL 5.7 Certification and Support Information 9