W2K3 Enterprise 32-bit RAM Allocation

[Guest cendrars]

Hello,

 

Customers are purchasing blades with 8GB of RAM and running W2K3 Enterprise

Edition. I am seeing build sheets with the /PAE switch applied to these

servers to support RAM beyond the 32-bit 4GB threshold.

 

Is the /PAE switch indeed required for W2K3 Enterprise to address 8GB of

RAM? Thanks.

[Guest John John]

Re: W2K3 Enterprise 32-bit RAM Allocation

 

cendrars wrote:

> Hello,

>

> Customers are purchasing blades with 8GB of RAM and running W2K3 Enterprise

> Edition. I am seeing build sheets with the /PAE switch applied to these

> servers to support RAM beyond the 32-bit 4GB threshold.

>

> Is the /PAE switch indeed required for W2K3 Enterprise to address 8GB of

> RAM? Thanks.

 

Yes, but the PAE kernel is automatically enabled if DEP is enabled with

the /NOEXECUTE switch, in which case the /PAE switch is not necessary.

 

John