Comments on: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Maximum Memory Limits

By: Kiwi Si

Kiwi Si — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:44:04 +0000

Hi Andy,

Totally agree – though was just wanting to sanity check my thinking.

All the best,

Simon

By: Kiwi Si

Kiwi Si — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:33:30 +0000

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the feedback.

2TB of memory in a server would be quite a sight!

Good point re: SBS2008 only being x64 – I thought I may have missed the point on this one. After some hunting I found this MS description which provides more detail.

“SBS 2008 Premium comes with two Windows Server 2008 Standard Technologies licenses, which includes both x86 and x64 in the second DVD.
SBS 2008 Standard’s base DVD includes only x64, because it is integrated with Exchange and cannot be separated. To downgrade SBS 2008 Standard to x32 would require a complete downgrade to the SBS 2003 R2 Standard version.”

It comes down to the version you’d be running though as you correctly mention (in most cases) businesses would likely be running the x64 version of SBS 2008 and using E2K7.

All the best,

Simon

By: Andy Parkes

Andy Parkes — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:07:08 +0000

Great post, I’d love to see a server with 2TB of RAM!

Being a bit pedantic though….there is no 32-bit version of Small Business Server 2008 because it’s bundled with Exchange 2007 which is 64-bit only?

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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Maximum Memory Limits « — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:48:41 +0000

[...] Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 Maximum Memory Limits By djlaube Simon over at http://www.TechHead.co.uk put together this useful chart describing the max memory (RAM) limits for Windows 2008 (x86 and x64) and Windows 2008 R2 x64 and thought it was very useful so I’m posting here for reference. http://www.techhead.co.uk/microsoft-windows-server-2008-and-2008-r2-maximum-memory-limits [...]