HP ProLiant SL160s G6 Server Software Configuration Guide

OS installation 41
OS installation
Supported OS
Table 23 Supported network operating systems (NOS)
NOS Version On-line information site
Microsoft Windows
•
Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Standard
Edition (x86 and x64) – SP2 and R2 w/SP1
•
Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Enterprise
Edition (x86 and x64) - SP2 and R2 w/SP1
•
Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Datacenter
Edition (x86 and x64) - SP2 and R2 w/SP1
•
Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Web Server
(x86 and x64) - SP2 and R2 w/SP1
•
Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 (x64) -
SP2 and R2 w/SP1
•
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Embedded
systems (x64) - SP2 and R2 w/SP1
Microsoft World Wide
Web:
http://www.microsoft.com
Microsoft Product Easy Set-
up Services:
http://www.Easy Set-
up.microsoft.com/directory
Microsoft Software BBS:
206-936-6735
Red Hat Linux OS
•
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (x86 and
EM64T/AMD64) (includes KVM starting with
5.4)
•
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x86 and
EM64T/AMD64)
•
SLES 10 (x86 and EM64T/AMD64) (includes
XEN) SP3
•
SLES 11 (x86 and EM64T/AMD64) (includes
XEN)
http://www.redhat.com
Sun Solaris Linux OS
•
Solaris 10 (x64/x86) U8, U9
http://www.sun.com/sol
aris
Virtualization
•
VMWare ESX 4.0 U2
•
VMWare ESX 4.1 U1
•
Citrix XenServer 5.6 U1
•
Microsoft Windows Hyper-V, R2 w/SP1
http://www.citrix.com
Oracle Linux OS
•
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5
OS pre-installation procedure
Perform the two pre-OS installation steps in this section before installing the OS of your choice.
1. Configure the hardware aspect of the server.
2. Update the server BIOS.