Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on HP ProLiant servers

Table 5. Supported ProLiant Gigabit Ethernet NICs
Location Installation
support
Supported
architecture
Gigabit NIC Driver
PSP 8.00
Windows
media
Full Server
Core
x86 x64
N1E5132.SYS 9 9 9 9 9
NC360T
NC360m
NC364T
NC364m
N1E5132E.SYS
9 9 9 9 9
BXVBDX.SYS 9 9 9 9 9
NC370T/F/i
NC371i
NC373T/F/M/i
NC374M
NC380T
BXVBDA.SYS 9 9 9 9 9
Q57XP32.SYS 9 9 9 9 9
NC7761
NC7771
NC7782 PCI-X
Q57AMD64.SYS
9 9 9 9 9
Q57XP32.SYS (PCI-X LOM
for 32-bit systems)
9 9 9 9 9
NC7781
Q57AMD64.SYS 9 9 9 9 9
NOTE: Network Interface Controller Drivers for x64 are listed separately.
* This driver will be available through web download from the server’s product page. The driver will
be added to the next release of the PSP.
IPMI and WS-Management
Microsoft WS-Management is an extensible web-based standard management protocol for monitoring
system hardware. The following are key terms an administrator should recognize when working with
WS-Management:
• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) – A set of common interfaces to computer
hardware that is used to monitor and manage system health.
• Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) – A micro-controller that monitors the system and allows
for intelligent platform management.
• IPMI Driver – The driver that enables communication between the BMC device and the OS.
• IPMI Provider – As defined by Microsoft, “a user-mode COM DLL that implements a high-level
abstraction of the IPMI data using the standard IPMI CIM profile.”
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