HP 226824-001 - ProLiant - ML750 Update Manual

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ISS Technology UpdateVolume 7, Number 1Keeping you informed of the latest ISS technologyIntroduction to Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008.................................................................................. 1Key technologies in the HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure – tower version ............................................... 5FB-DIMM options for lower power consumption....................................................................................... 8ProLiant management tip of the month.................................................................................................... 9Fan failure recovery in ProLiant DL and ML servers ................................................................................ 10Recently published industry standard server technology communications .............................................. 16Contact us ............................................................................................................................................. 16Introduction to Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 is the latest extension of the Windows Server family of operating systems (OS). It builds onthe strengths of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 operating systems. A betarelease of the operating system, Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 1 (RC1), is now available and provides anexceptional platform for powering applications, networks, and Web services from the workgroup to the data center and iscurrently available for download from the Microsoft website: www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/default.mspx.Microsoft provides Windows Server 2008 RC1 in the following editions:• X86 edition• X64 edition for systems with the following processors:– Intel ® Xeon TM Processors with Intel Extended Memory 64 TechnologyTM (EM64T)– Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD64) Opteron TM Series Processors• Web edition• Itanium-based system editions for systems with Intel Itanium TM 2 processorsIMPORTANTWindows Server 2008 RC1 is a beta release of the operating system, and therefore, is notrecommended for production servers.