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RXE-100 Expansion Enclosure, 2.3 Operating system support
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Investment protection for customers who have skills in xSeries (or other PC hardware). Provides a cost-effective alternative for customers who need to invest in large-scale Linux/UNIX® systems and would have traditionally considered a mini or mainframe solution. Partitioning is invisible to the operating system and therefore does not require special installation techniques or configuration from a software point of view. The operating system is only required on the primary node (Node 1), which means simple but effective management. At the time of writing the x455 supported hardware partitioning only. Software partitioning using products such as those from VMware were not supported. 2.2.1 RXE-100 Expansion Enclosure The RXE-100 forms part of IBM's XpandOnDemand technology and allows customers to expand their PCI-X I/O capability as demands increase. With the option to purchase a "6 pack" or "12 pack" of PCI-X slots and to share one RXE-100 between two servers, this provided a flexible and cost-effective solution. 2.3 Operating system support The x455 will only support 64-bit operating systems. Microsoft and most of the Linux vendors have invested a great deal of time and effort in producing 64-bit versions of their operating systems. At the launch of the x455 the following operating systems are expected to be ready immediately or within three months. 42 IBM xSeries 455 Planning and Installation Guide Eserver