W2K3 Enterprise benefits

[Guest Morten]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to figure out what (if anything) I gain by setting up W2K3

Enterprise Edition (X86) compared to the Standard Edition.

 

My understanding is that it's difficult to utilize more than 4 GB RAM when

the applications we use are primarily 32-bit ones. 90% of our users use only

MS Office 2003/2007. Is this correct or can we use /AWE /PAE /3GB to use

more RAM on the server?

 

EE has support for TS Session Directory which is an advantage in a load

balanced environment. It's my understanding that this requires a 3. party

product to actually work since the built-in load balancing mechanism in

Windows Server doesn't take the amount of users on each server into account.

Is this correct?

 

We currently try to avoid using X64 on our terminal servers because of

problems with printer drivers. This will probably change when we switch to

W2K8 at some point.

 

Thanks in advance for your views on these questions.

 

Morten

[Guest o2c4u]

RE: W2K3 Enterprise benefits

 

you question is one you will hit a lot rinning a x86 Operating System, the

32Bit architecture will only allow you to allocate 4GB of ram, this is all

Windows will see. you will need to use the 4gb Switch in the c:\Boot.ini

file. Enteterprise edition still falls under the 32bit limitiation and

thirefore will not allow you more than 4Gb of ram.

 

Built in Load balancing has not been hugely successful for my applications.

for a more reliable loadballacing I would use Citrix or a similar program.

 

 

"Morten" wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I'm trying to figure out what (if anything) I gain by setting up W2K3

> Enterprise Edition (X86) compared to the Standard Edition.

>

> My understanding is that it's difficult to utilize more than 4 GB RAM when

> the applications we use are primarily 32-bit ones. 90% of our users use only

> MS Office 2003/2007. Is this correct or can we use /AWE /PAE /3GB to use

> more RAM on the server?

>

> EE has support for TS Session Directory which is an advantage in a load

> balanced environment. It's my understanding that this requires a 3. party

> product to actually work since the built-in load balancing mechanism in

> Windows Server doesn't take the amount of users on each server into account.

> Is this correct?

>

> We currently try to avoid using X64 on our terminal servers because of

> problems with printer drivers. This will probably change when we switch to

> W2K8 at some point.

>

> Thanks in advance for your views on these questions.

>

> Morten

>