W2K3 Enterprise 32-bit RAM Allocation

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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.
 
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
 
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