Windows Server 2008 R2 on Integrity Servers Release Notes

IMPORTANT: This release does not support the NCU advanced teaming feature. Therefore,
you will not see the following entries in the Team Type Selection drop-down list box: 802.3ad
Dynamic Dual Channel Load Balancing, 802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance,
802.3ad Dynamic Dual Channel NFT and Preference Order, Switch-assisted Dual Channel Load
Balancing, Switch-assisted Dual Channel Network Fault Tolerance, and Switch-assisted Dual
Channel NFT and Preference Order.
NOTE: This release does not support Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or Microsoft Windows
Server 2008 (without SP2). Platforms running these versions of the operating system must remain
on the Windows Solution 6.2 or earlier.
NOTE: This release does not support the HP Integrity rx7620, rx8620, and Superdome sx1000
platforms. These platforms must remain on the Windows Solution 6.1 or earlier.
System Configurations
Windows Server 2008 R2 may be licensed for up to 256 logical processors. A physical processor
can contain one or multiple cores, and each core can be multithreaded.
Configurations can include:
• HP Super-Scalable Processor Chipsets (sx2000)
• Intel Itanium processors
HP Integrity servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 deliver high performance, great
flexibility, and simplified management with exceptional value, and include the following models
and feature sets.
FeaturesModel
• 1-64 Intel Itanium 90xx up to 91xx series processors with Intel Hyper-Threading
technology for processors that support HT in two cabinets
• 2 TB memory capacity
• Up to 8 hardware partitions (nPartitions) per cabinet
• 96 Hot-plug PCI-X slots or mixed PCI-X and PCI-Express slots (Up to 192 slots with I/O
Expansion Cabinets)
• vMedia
• vKVM support
Superdome
(sx2000 chipset)
• 1-16 Intel Itanium 90xx up to 91xx series processors with Intel Hyper-Threading
technology for processors that support HT
• 512 GB memory capacity
• Up to 4 hardware partitions (nPartitions) with a Server Expansion Unit
• 16 hot-plug PCI-X slots or mixed PCI-X and PCI-Express slots (up to 32 with optional
Server Expansion Unit)
• One 1-Gb LAN port
• vMedia
• vKVM support
rx8640
• 1-8 Intel Itanium 90xx up to 91xx series processors with Intel Hyper-Threading technology
for processors that support HT
• 256 GB memory capacity
• Up to 2 hardware partitions (nPartitions)
• 15 Hot-plug PCI-X slots or mixed PCI-X and PCI-Express slots
• One 1-Gb LAN port
• vMedia
• vKVM support
rx7640
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