Compaq ProLiant 7000 The Benefits of PCI Hot Plug Technology - Page 8

The Benefits of PCI Hot Plug Technology 8 generation PCI Hot Plug features to Pentium II Xeon Models of the ProLiant 7000 announced in June 1998. With these servers, Compaq once again set the standard in improved higher availability and fault-tolerant solutions for the distributed enterprise. • Provided PCI Hot Plug technology for future certain Alpha-based product lines Investment Protection PCI Hot Plug technology is compatible with previous PCI standards; therefore, any new hot-plug system hardware, OSs, or adapters are PCI-compliant and will work with existing PCI-compliant systems. (See Figure 5). The entire system does not need to be overhauled just because certain components are hot-plug capable. Since no hardware changes are required for the vast majority of the installed base of PCI adapters, customer investment protection is assured through backward compatibility. Figure 5. Due to the backward compatibility of the standard, PCI Hot Plug technology protects the installed base of over 100 million PCI adapters in use today. Interoperability: Systems, OS, Adapter Drivers Drivers Server HW Hot Plug or Hot Plug or Adapter Investment Protection Hot PlugOS Whether new or old, "Everything still works" ECG093/0798