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NTS/E introduces Microsoft Cluster Server (MCS­formerly, Wolfpack).īecause NTS/E lets you connect two NT Servers in a cluster, it can automatically Version of NT Server? Wouldn't a 4-way system benefit from 4GT? This featureīelongs in the standard version of NT Server. Reducing the RAM allocated to the NT kernel from 2GB to 1GB. Increases the potential RAM allocated to applications from 2GB to 3GB, by

Next, NTS/E adds a RAM tuning feature called 4GB RAM Tuning (4GT).

Leaving 90 percent of the application server market to NT. NTS/E and SQL will push UNIX servers even farther up into the enterprise, System in our lab, I remain hopeful and skeptical. Lab's testing on an 8-way Pentium system, we found that the regular version of Scale beyond 4 processors? Forgive me for being skeptical, but Microsoft told us Scalability is SQL Server Enterprise Edition (SQL/E) 6.5. So far, the only application that will take advantage of this additional Today, vendors can preload NTS/E and eliminate their proprietary HAL. Version of NT's hardware abstraction layer (HAL) for servers with more than 4ĬPUs. In the past, hardware vendors had to create a special Have already committed to delivering 6-way and 8-way symmetric multiprocessing Vendors suchĪs Axil Computer, Digital Equipment, NCR, Advanced Logic Research, and Unisys But do we really need another version of NT Server to meet enterprise needs?įirst, NTS/E supports up to 8 CPUs in one Intel-based machine. Among its new capabilities, this version improves on the scalability and availability of the regular version of NT Server. Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition (NTS/E) 4.0 is shipping.