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Enterprise

Datacenter

Itanium

X86 Sockets(1)

Available

4

Available

4

Available

8

Available

32

Not Available

X64 Sockets(2)

Available

4

Available

4

Available

8

Available

64

Not Available

IA64 Sockets(3)

Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Available

64

X86 RAM

Available

4 GB

Available

4 GB

Available

64 GB

Available

64 GB

Not Available

X64 RAM

Available

32 GB

Available

32 GB(4)

Available

2 TB(5)

Available

2 TB(5)

Not Available

IA64 RAM

Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Available

2 TB

Hot Add Memory

Not Available
Not Available
Available
Available
Available

Hot Replace Memory

Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Available
Available

Hot Add Processors

Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Available
Available

Hot Replace Processors

Not Available
Not Available
Not Available
Available
Available

Failover Cluster Nodes (Nodes)

Not Available
Not Available
Available

16

Available

16

Available

8

Fault Tolerant Memory Sync

Not Available
Not Available
Available
Available
Available

Cross-File Replication (DFS-R)

Not Available
Not Available
Available
Available
Available

Network Access Connections (RRAS)

Not Available
Available

250

Available

Unlimited

Available

Unlimited

Available

2

Network Access Connections (IAS)

Not Available
Available

50

Available

Unlimited

Available

Unlimited

Not Available

Terminal Services Gateway

Not Available
Available

250

Available

Unlimited

Available

Unlimited

Not Available

Virtual Image Use Rights

Not Available
Available

1

Available

4

Available

Unlimited

Available

Unlimited

Remote Desktop Admin Connections

Available

2

Available

2

Available

2

Available

2

Available

2

(1) Supports up to 32 cores.*

(2) Supports up to 64 cores.*

(3) Supports up to 64 cores.**

(4) With the Hyper-V Role installed up to 32 GB of RAM is supported by the operating system. The sum of the memory assigned to VMs cannot exceed the system's physical RAM.

(5) With the Hyper-V Role installed up to 1TB of RAM is supported by the operating system. Each virtual machine can address up to 64 GB. The sum of the memory assigned to VMs cannot exceed the system's physical RAM.

* With the Hyper-V role installed up to 16 logical processors are supported by the operating system on the physical server. A logical processor is a unit that executes computing tasks. As an example, a server with 2 dual-core processors that feature hyper-threading technology will appear to the operating system as having 8 logical processors. Deactivating HT in the system BIOS, if supported, would result in the operating system using 4 logical processors—both cores on both physical processors.

** Hyper-V is not available for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems.

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