- 2008 to 2003 Downgrade
- Posted by chaswood on May 13th, 2008
A client of mine needs more memory on his server for an application using a
large graphics database. He was told by a Microsoft representative that he
could purchase Server 2008 and downgrade to 2003 in order to get the larger
memory support (16 GB is desired).
All the Microsoft tables that I can find show that Server 2008 Standard can
be downgraded to a Server 2003 Standard license, but 2003 Standard supports
maximum 4 GB (even 64-bit 2003).
He has a Dell Poweredge 2900 with 64 bit Xeon dual core that can handle it
with no problem.
Does anyone know of a workable solution without going to the Enterprise
edition?
Thanks in advance!
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IT Consultant
Heartland Computer
- Posted by Jabez Gan [MVP] on May 13th, 2008
You are correct - If you choose the downgrade, W2003 Std only supports a max
of 4GBs...
Maybe you want to call the Microsoft guy to verify?
Sorry but I don't think you can get >4GB memory support using Std.
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Jabez Gan
Microsoft MVP: Windows Server
http://www.msblog.org
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- Posted by kj [SBS MVP] on May 13th, 2008
chaswood wrote:
X64 Standard R2 supports 32GB of Ram
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/win...s/compare.mspx
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/kj
