Note: Systems with RAM in excess of 16GB will require greater amounts of disk space to accommodate paging, hibernation, and dump files Drive DVD-ROM drive Display and Peripherals Maximum: 8GB (Foundation) 32GB (Standard) or 2TB (Enterprise, Datacenter and Itanium-Based Systems) Available Disk Space.Maximum (32-bit systems): 4GB (Standard) or 64GB (Enterprise and Datacenter).Note: For Itanium based systems an Intel Itanium 2 processor is required. Minimum / Recommended Requirements Processor The following table provides an overview of Microsoft's recommended minimum hardware requirements:
This is outlined in the following feature matrix:įoundation Active Directory Certificate Services Yes Yes Limited No No Limited Active Directory Domain Services Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Active Directory Federation Services Yes Yes No No No No Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Active Directory Rights Management Services Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Application Server Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes DHCP Server Yes Yes Yes No No Yes DNS Server Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Fax Server Yes Yes Yes No No Yes File Services Yes Yes Limited No No Limited Hyper-V Yes Yes Yes No No No Network Policy and Access Services Yes Yes Limited No No Limited Print and Document Services Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Remote Desktop Services Yes Yes Limited No No Limited Web Services (IIS) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Windows Deployment Services Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Windows Server 2008 R2 Hardware Requirementsīefore investing time and resources into downloading and installing Windows Server 2008 R2, an important first step is to gain an appreciation of the hardware requirements necessary to effectively run the operating system. Now that we have covered in general terms the various different editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 we can now look in a little more detail at a feature by feature comparison of the four different editions.