IBM 8687 - Eserver xSeries 440 Planning And Installation Manual page 43

Table 1-3 x440 operating system support
Description
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Windows NT Enterprise Edition
Windows .NET Server
Windows .NET Enterprise Server
Windows .NET Datacenter Server
NetWare
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server
SuSE Linux Enterprise
VMware ESX Server
Notes to Table 1-3:
1. While operating systems may support eight-way or larger systems, scalability
is a function of both the operating system and the application/workload. Few
applications are designed to take advantage of larger SMP systems.
2. x440 configurations with 16 processors and Hyper-Threading enabled are
seen as 32 processors under Windows 2000 Datacenter and Windows .NET.
Licensing of processors in Windows 2000 is based on physical and logical
processors combined, whereas Windows .NET licensing is based on physical
processors.
3. NetWare notes:
– NetWare 5.1 is currently not supported, but it should still install. See
RETAIN tip H176163 for details on a known shutdown problem:
1
Release SMP support
SP2/3 Supports up to four-way
SP2/3 Supports up to eight-way
SP3 Supports up to 32-way
4.0 Only supports four-way on the
x440
Hot-plug PCI not supported
1Q/03 Supports up to two-way
1Q/03 Supports up to eight-way
1Q/03 Supports up to 32-way
6.0 Supports up to 32-way
2.1 Supports up to eight-way
8.0 Supports up to eight-way
1.5 Supports up to 16-way
Supports up to one processor per
5
VM
Hyper-Threading
support
Yes
Yes
2
Yes
None
Optimized
Optimized
2
Optimized
2, 3
Yes
4
Yes
4
Yes
None
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