Intel® ESAA Installation Guide: Microsoft SQL Server* 2008 R2 - Intel® Server Board S1400FP

This recipe contains the base hardware and software components and installation steps to deploy Microsoft SQL Server* 2008 R2 on Windows Server* 2008 R2 SP1.

The Intel® Server Board S1400FP is a low cost, entry-level single socket server board that is ideal as an entry level server for small businesses or for storage deployments where minimizing cost is imperative. Supporting the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family, the Intel® Server Board S1400FP delivers real server benefits including five PCIe* Slots for I/O expandability, 14 onboard SATA ports for storage flexibility, entry level server connectivity and management via the integrated BMC, in addition to six registered/unbuffered memory slots.