Windows Integrity Enterprise Edition and Datacenter Edition Release Notes
1 Release 5.1 Overview
This chapter provides the following information:
• An overview of the Server 2003 Enterprise and Datacenter editions and supported
configurations.
• Changes introduced in Release 5.1.
• 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® 2 processors
• Intel Itanium 2 processors
• Intel Dual Core Itanium 2 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:
Table 1-1
• 2-64 Itanium 2 processors with the HP mx2 dual processor module in one cabinet, 2-64
Itanium 2 processors in two cabinets, or 2-64 Intel Dual Core Itanium 2 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 2 processors with the HP mx2 dual-processor module, 2-16 Itanium 2
processors, or 2-16 Intel Dual Core Itanium 2 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 2 processors with the HP mx2 dual processor module, 2-8 Itanium 2
processors, or 2-8 Intel Dual Core Itanium 2 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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