perfmon and memory usage sql2k 32bit EE on w2k3 r2 x64 EE 2-node cluster

hi,

we have a 2-node cluster of sql2k EE 32bit running on w2k3 R2 x64 EE
sp1. so far so good.
it's running apparently fine and also the database works without
troubles. officially this seems to be a supported configuration and we
found others running it in the newsgroups. now to the problems:

1) we can't get any sql server objects in windows performance monitor.
usually we should see them after installing sql server. so what
happened to them? does perfmon on x64 w2k3 have other counter structure
than 32bit sql2k? can we manage to get these counters installed or
activated afterwards? otherwise, what went wrong with our installation?


2) having 4GB and more of ram per node on 32bit w2k and w2k3 we were
used to both activate AWE in sql2k and set all of /PAE /AWE /3GB
windows boot options. now we wonder what to do in our configuration.
does w2k3 x64 work like magic as regard to memory since it is
officially supporting AWE API? is there nothing else to do than
activate AWE in sql2k? or should we better not activate it at all? what
about the /PAE and /3GB? do these simply drop in w2k3 x64 and does
sql2k EE work fine without them? here we really didn't find any help
and since due to problem no. 1 above we can't measure the real memory
use, we have no clue.

thanks,

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