Avoiding server downtime from hardware errors in system memory with HP Memory Quarantine

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OS or hypervisor support
The following operating systems support MCA Recovery and HP Memory Quarantine:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
• Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
The following hypervisors support MCA Recovery and HP Memory Quarantine:
• VMware ESXi 5.0
• Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) open-source hypervisor for Linux
• Xen hypervisor
Hardware support
We support HP Memory Quarantine on the following ProLiant scale-up servers:
• HP ProLiant DL980 G7 with the Xeon 7500 series or E7 family processors
• HP ProLiant DL580 G7 with the Xeon 7500 series or E7 family processors
• HP ProLiant BL620c G7 Server Blades with Intel Xeon 6500/7500 series or E7 family processors
• HP ProLiant BL680c G7 Server Blade with Intel Xeon 7500 series or E7 family processors
Conclusion
HP Memory Quarantine maintains system availability by offering a recovery mechanism for a system
experiencing uncorrectable hardware memory errors. IT administrators cannot generally run error
correction modes simultaneously. For example, HP Memory Quarantine is not active when the system
is configured for memory mirroring mode or for online memory sparing. IT Administrators must choose
the most appropriate memory correction mode with the ROM-based Setup Utility (RBSU) of the server
platform.