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DPM and 64 bits

  • Artikkeli

A question came up in the DPM newsgroup that made me go "interesting! I hadn't thought of that possibly being an issue!", and of course I love being surprised by that sort of thing.

The question was about SP1's support for 64-bit computers. "Can the same DPM server protect both 64-bit and 32-bit servers?" the customer asked, "Or do I need one DPM server protecting 32-bit servers and another protecting 64-bit servers?"

I hadn't thought of it till then, but once the question was asked, I could see how one might wonder if that's how the 64-bit support would work. So I scanned through the posts eagerly to find the answer -- I was pretty sure the same DPM server would protect both, but not sure enough...

Karandeep had already answered, of course: "With V1 SP1, the same instance of the DPM server will be able to protect 64-bit and 32-bit servers. You would not need another DPM server to protect 64-bit servers."

(We tend to call DPM 2006 "V1" because we're working on "V2", which has no official name yet.)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2006
    1 Question...but is possible to install DPM 2006 Sp1 on Windows Storage server R2 X64 Edition?

    Thank
  • Anonymous
    August 03, 2006
    No, sorry -- DPM SP1 can protect 64-bit servers, but you can't use a server running Windows Storage Server R2 X64 as the DPM server.