Table 1-3 x440 operating system support

Description

Release

SMP support1

Hyper-Threading

 

 

 

support

 

 

 

 

Windows 2000 Server

SP2/3

Supports up to four-way

Yes

 

 

 

 

Windows 2000 Advanced Server

SP2/3

Supports up to eight-way

Yes

 

 

 

 

Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

SP3

Supports up to 32-way 2

Yes

Windows NT Enterprise Edition

4.0

Only supports four-way on the

None

 

 

x440

 

 

 

Hot-plug PCI not supported

 

 

 

 

 

Windows .NET Server

1Q/03

Supports up to two-way

Optimized

 

 

 

 

Windows .NET Enterprise Server

1Q/03

Supports up to eight-way

Optimized

 

 

 

 

Windows .NET Datacenter Server

1Q/03

Supports up to 32-way 2

Optimized

NetWare

6.0

Supports up to 32-way 2, 3

Yes

Red Hat Linux Advanced Server

2.1

Supports up to eight-way 4

Yes

SuSE Linux Enterprise

8.0

Supports up to eight-way 4

Yes

VMware ESX Server

1.5

Supports up to 16-way

None

 

 

Supports up to one processor per

 

 

 

VM5

 

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:

http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-43679.html

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