Can Windows 2008 64-bit work on ProLiant DL360 G3?

[James Desterhouse]

I've been trying to look through the support forms and I've been unsuccessful so far. I was wondering if anyone can tell me if the 64-bit edition of Windows 2008 can work on the HP ProLiant DL360 G3? If not, what's the newest Windows OS that can work on it? Windows 2008 32-bit? Windows 2003 32/64-bit? Thanks allot for yoru time

[jvin]

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/461235-0-0-0-121.htm

support 32bit win2003 and win2000ã NT

[Gokul Chandola]

Hi,
Document Says ProLiant DL360 G3 will not support win2008.

OS Support Microsoft Windows NT® Server
Microsoft Windows 2000
Windows Server 2003
Novell NetWare
Linux (Red Hat, SuSE)
NOTE: For a more complete and up-to-date listing of supported OSs and versions, please visit our OS Support Matrix page at: http://www.hp.com/go/supportos.
NOTE: For a listing of the latest drivers available for the ProLiant DL360, please see: http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/index.html.
NOTE: For a more complete and up-to-date information on Linux support, please visit HP Linux Web site at http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/hpLinuxcert.html.
NOTE: For more complete and up-to-date information on how to buy server operating systems from HP please visit the OS product site at: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/OEM.html

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11504_div/11504_div.HTML

Regards,
Gokul Chandola

[Marshall Penn]

I bet if you use the latest smart start cd (8.3) you will find that you can install the 32-bit version of 2008 server. Server 2008 R2 is 64 bit only, so thats out of the question though, as the DL360 G3 is a 32bit server.

I installed 64bit server 2008 on the HP version of ESXi 4.0 on a DL385 G1 (with E6 revision opteron 280s) and that works lovely, even though it is supposed to be a no-go, due to the opterons being pre AMD-V extentions.

[coopfire]

No 64 bit stuff will work on the dl360 g3s I have two of them. The processors are only 32 bit I believe. I was able to get Windows 2008 32 bit on them though, and it works very nicely actually.