Charlie,
Thanks much. It's what I thought but just needed to be sure. The document
explains it well too. Budgeting for a rollout and would hate to get that
simple piece of the puzzle wrong...
Mike
Charlie Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@mail.activedir.org on 10/29/2003
11:27:58 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Windows Standard Server 2003 or Enterprise
Se rver 2003 as DCs
I talked to Compaq/HP (whatever you want to call them this week) about this
issue since we saw the same thing when we bought ours. Same scenario. We
went with Standard Edition for our DCs since there was no performance hit
due to the hyperthreading issue, according to their support dept and what I
could find on their site and at MS.
There's a paper available at:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/platform/proc/HT-Windows.mspx
That talks about the licensing bit as well as a lot of tech info, but you
don't need Enterprise for that server.
Running fine for me...
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Charlie Kaiser
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Systems Engineer
Essex Credit / Brickwalk
510 985 0975 x5083
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> That said, if we are building HP DL380G3's with
> hyperthreading would we need Enterprise Server 2003 or
> Standard? We're planning on using them for domain
> controllers and we're trying to remember why we ordered
> Enterprise Server 2003 when it appears that the much less
> expensive Standard Server 2003 would suffice.
>
> We're running DL380G3's and BL20pG2's with two processors and
> Standard Server 2003 seems to be running fine. But is it
> taking full advantage of the processors or running in some
> sort of crippled mode where it doesn't utilize the
> hyperthreading? Perfmon seems to show that it's using both
> of the physicals and both of the virtuals...but...
> Mike
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