Re: SBS2008, 8GB shows in System Info, 4GB in Task Manager?

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In article <#GNbNpCeKHA.5136@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bill_sanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

I stuck with you not because I had any idea what the answer might be, but
because I wanted to know myself!

Thanks--I guess it makes sense to ship the thing with the most redundant
settings possible. When I bought the HP server I'm running SBS 2008 on, I
didn't know enough, and let the sales rep convince me that a second NIC made
sense.

In the end, I disabled the onboard nic, and am running with the add in which
has a slightly better feature set, not that I am using any of that. I could
team them, but it would break a bunch of wizards, I think, and I really
don't have the need.

I've never run into a mirrored memory configuration before--that's new to
me.

Most of our large server, 32/64GB ram ones, are mirrored, but they are
IBM beasts and I expect that level of redundancy from them (4 x PSU,
redundant backplanes, 12 drives with 2 hot spares, 64GB ram setup as
32GB mirrored with 32GB....) - never seen that in a Dell and certainly
didn't expect it in a cheap 410 server from Dell.

The funny thing, since I was there today, they had the memory in MIRROR
mode and Virtualization turned off - so the task manager showed 4GB and
8CPU's, when I enabled Virtualization and set the memory to Optimized, I
get 8GB RAM and 4CPU graphs - we have 2 x E5502 Xeon processors, so I
expected to see 4CPU graphs, but with the Virtualization bit disabled in
the BIOS we see 8 CPU graphs in Task Manager - I left it enabled looking
like we normally see it.

When we ordered a dozen R710 servers they didn't ship in Mirror mode, so
I'm lost as to why they would do that by default.


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