For the purposes of running Active Directory and DNS Server, what are the minimum memory requirements for Server Core 2008 R2?
I've read of someone using 256MB. This seems pretty low although summing up the memory usage when running tasklist
suggests it's OK.
Is there any way to know?
Best Answer
Server 2008 R2 Core takes about 350 MB just to start. If you have a smaller AD and DNS install you can easily fit it in 512MB (without swapping going crazy). Anything smaller and you'll pretty much be swapping non-stop.