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Let's take a look at the system requirements for Windows Server 2008, and you're going to notice these things have bumped up quite a bit over Windows Server 2003. First up, the processor, you're going to see minimums and recommendeds here. The minimum processor that Microsoft's recommending for Windows Server 2008 is going to be 1 gigahertz and this is for the X86 platform. And then, they're going to recommend at least 1.4 gigahertz for the 64-bit platform. Now the recommendeds, notice this, 2 gigahertz or faster on either platform. Now memory minimum recommendations are going to be 512 megabytes or half a gig, pretty standard, pretty straightforward, notice on recommendeds though, 2 gigabytes or more. And they're going to have a maximum, notice this, of 4 gigabytes on a 32-bit standard installation, 64 gigabytes on Enterprise or Datacenter. Now, if you're using a 64-bit version on the standard version you have a maximum of 32 gigabytes and notice this, this is pretty wild, 2 terabytes on Enterprise, data center or Itanium Server editions. So, you can see these system requirements are moving up quite a bit. Now available disc space, the minimum amount you have to have is 10 gigabytes so you're going to have to make your partitions a lot larger, notice the recommends here, 40 gigabytes or more. Now, one thing you need to keep in mind that if you have more than 16 gigabytes of RAM, you're going to have to allocate more disc space because your paging files are going to be a lot larger, your hibernation pages are going to be larger, and any dump files will be considerably larger, okay? So just make sure you're aware of that. For the drive, you're going to install this off of a DVD there are no CD installations on this, it's just too large of an installation. Now keep in mind, one thing let me point out and you're going to hear this later on in the course, you only download, you get one drive, one DVD for every version. You don't get a separate DVD for standard, a separate one for Enterprise, a separate one of Data Center. Microsoft's using imaging technologies now to install these and based on which one you ask to install, it determines which images and what functionalities you get, so that's something that will kind of surprise you when you first see the installation disc. You're going to get one DVD with every version of that one DVD, it's kind of interesting. And then, this is kind of standard stuff, the display, their recommending super VGA 800 to 600 or higher and of course most administrator displays are a lot higher than that anyway. So these are pretty much the standard, nothing really surprising system requirements, just notice that as our operating systems get more complex, the disc space, the footprint of these things on the disc continues to get a lot larger, we're at 10 gigabytes now, and the RAM requirements continue to go up. Now before we leave this, let me say something about available disc space, Microsoft is also offering a Server Core version, and the Server Core version takes substantially less disc space. It's basically a server installation without the GUI interface, okay? We'll talk about that a lot more later on but I just wanted to mention that right here, okay? So there's your system requirements on Windows Server 2008.