HP Integrity Servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Release Notes v5.5

1 Release 5.5 Overview

This chapter provides the following information:

• An overview of the Server 2003 Enterprise and Datacenter editions and supported

configurations

• Changes introduced in Release 5.5

• Software requirements

• Supported components

• Troubleshooting common issues

System Configurations

Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Enterprise Edition may be licensed for up to 8 processors,

and Datacenter Edition may be licensed for up to 64 processors. A processor can contain one or

multiple cores, and each core can be multi-threaded.

Enterprise Edition and Datacenter Edition configurations may include:

• HP Super-Scalable Processor Chipsets (sx1000 and sx2000)

• HP mx2 dual-processor modules, with Intel® Itanium® processors

• Intel Itanium processors

• Intel Dual Core Itanium processors

HP Integrity servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 deliver high performance, great

flexibility, and simplified management with exceptional value, and include the following models

and feature sets.

FeaturesModel

• 2-64 Itanium processors with the HP mx2 dual processor module in one cabinet, 2-64

Itanium processors in two cabinets, or 2-64 Intel Dual Core Itanium processors in two

cabinets

• 1 TB memory capacity with SX1000

• 2 TB memory capacity with SX2000

• Up to 8 hardware partitions (nPartitions) per cabinet

• 96 Hot-plug PCI-X slots (Up to 192 slots with I/O Expansion Cabinets)

Superdome

(sx1000 and sx2000

chipsets)

• 2-32 Itanium processors with the HP mx2 dual-processor module, 2-16 Itanium processors,

or 2-16 Intel Dual Core Itanium processors

• 256 GB memory capacity

• Up to 4 hardware partitions (nPartitions) with a Server Expansion Unit

• 16 hot-plug PCI-X slots (up to 32 with optional Server Expansion Unit)

• One 1-Gb LAN port

rx8620 and rx8640

• 2-16 Itanium processors with the HP mx2 dual processor module, 2-8 Itanium processors,

or 2-8 Intel Dual Core Itanium processors

• 128 GB memory capacity

• Up to 2 hardware partitions (nPartitions)

• 15 Hot-plug PCI-X slots

• One 1-Gb LAN port

rx7620 and rx7640

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