HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server - Manual (Page 29)

Received-side scaling is enabled by default in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008
R2. To take advantage of RSS, network drivers must be written with RSS capabilities. Currently,
RSS cannot make use of more than 64 processors with Windows 2008 R2, even with Service Pack
1, released in February 2011.
Modern network drivers are configured to use RSS through settings found in the Windows Device
Manager, in the Advanced Properties of the network interface.
The following parameters of every Network Interface will have corresponding RSS recommended
settings:
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HP ESO recommends RSS be enabled as necessary.
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Base Processor is the first logical CPU number to be used for RSS.
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Max RSS Processor is the maximum number of logical processors to be used for RSS of the
network interface.
Figure 30 RSS Settings in Network Affinity Page
System
The System page displays information about the update status of system software, drivers, and
firmware. It shows the results of the software discovery process described in the Configuration
page section earlier.
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