DL380 G5 - Dual Quad & WS2003 SE

[Rami Gabriel]

Awaiting 3 new G5 performance servers, they are onfigured with 4GB memory and Dual Processors (Quad Core), will 'Windows Server 2003' Standard Edition work in this configuration ?? Or will I need the Enterprise edition to be able to utilize both Quad processors ??

Thx

[KarloChacon]

hi

you can use any of those

Standar or Enterprise

check this
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/458915-0-0-0-121.html

regards

[~sesh]

Windows Server 2003 Standard supports up to 4 processors. Windows Server 2003 enterprise edition supports up to 8 processors.

In your situation 2 x Quad-core processors will make it 8 processors, I'd say, go for Enterprise edition.

Here is link from Microsoft with the Hardware requirements:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb430827.aspx

[Rami Gabriel]

Hello guys,

thx for your replies, after some search i found this document from microsoft...

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:fEWgf8PD2E0J:download.microsoft.com/download/f/1/e/f1ecd771-cf97-4d98-9a1b-b86e3f24e08f/multicore_hyperthread_brief.doc+Windows+Server+2003+Standard+Edition+supports+four+processors+quad+%3F&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Microsoft treats ANY multicore processor as a SINGLE processor.

[Rami Gabriel]

As described above !