2003 datacenter

[BizTalk]

Well i finally got to see one of windows server datacenter editions. But i don't get it what's the i hype ?

it looks just like 2003 standard and enterprise

[cluberti]

32-way processing, 8-node clustering, 64GB RAM support, NUMA support...

Pretty important stuff if you need it, some of which you can't get in 2003 EE. Datacenter isn't for everyday workloads, but for high-end work requiring lots of processing power and high availability. It's basically EE on steroids (and hardware tightly controlled by Microsoft and the major OEM's - you can be sure the OS is certified for the hardware and drivers when you buy a datacenter box or boxes).

Edited February 5, 2006 by cluberti

[BizTalk]

yeah i tested it out and it didn't find the drivers for my nic which is a common 3com nic. but w/e

[eyeball]

also you cant buy it off the shelf you have to get it specially and you have to tell MS what hardware its going on and also you can only use drivers on it digitally signed by MS. also if i remember correctly the guaranteed uptime is 99.9999% or equivalent to 5mins unexpected downtime a year

and it also supports upto 512GB of Ram in 64-bit environments and i believe it supports 128 processors in 64-bit (although it has to be partitioned into 2 64 processor platforms) and also as cluberti mentioned - 8 node clustering