HP Integrity Servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Release Notes v6.1

1 Release 6.1 Overview
This chapter provides the following information:
• Changes introduced in Release 6.1
• An overview of the Windows Server 2003 SP 2 Enterprise and Datacenter editions and
supported configurations
• Software requirements
• Supported components
• Troubleshooting common issues
NOTE: For the latest release notes, see the http://docs.hp.com/en/windows.html website.
What’s New in Windows Solution 6.1?
This release adds the following new features, enhancements, and defect fixes to the Windows
Integrity solution:
• Support for the following Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters:
— HP StorageWorks single port 8 Gigabit PCI-e FC Emulex HBA (AH402A)
— HP StorageWorks dual port 8 Gigabit PCI-e FC Emulex HBA (AH403A)
— HP StorageWorks single port 8 Gigabit PCI-e FC QLogic HBA (AH400A)
— HP StorageWorks dual port 8 Gigabit PCI-e FC QLogic HBA (AH401A)
• Support for the following I/O network adapters:
— HP NC360m Dual port Gigabit Ethernet mezzanine NIC for the HP c-Class blade system
(445978-B21)
— HP PCI-X 266MHz 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC (AD385A) (Windows Server 2003 only)
• Enhancements to HP Insight Management Agents including:
— Support for virtual IDs (virtual serial number and UUID)
— Report more information about power management and processor power states
— Enable clearing ASR degraded status in System Management Homepage (SMH)
— Report the PCI segment number in SMH
— Report the System IP addresses in both IPv4 and IPv6 formats
— Support for a new alert that notifies you when a physical processor is not being used
by the operating system
— Support for concurrent operations of Insight SNMP Agents and Integrity WBEM
providers.
NOTE: Integrity WBEM Providers will be released to the web in conjunction with this
release.
— HPSUM 3.2
• Various documentation updates.
• Various defect fixes.
System Configurations
Windows Server 2003 SP2, 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 can include:
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