I have a SBS 2008 running fine in a VM with 4gb of RAM. Although the SBS community are stating 8gb should be the minimum. It will not even install unless there is 60gb of hard disk space available.
I am also running E2007 at home in much less than 8gb of RAM, although things get a little slow if you are using UM. Both RAM and disk space are cheap. I had to replace two disks in a SAT array last week. UK£45 each for two 500gb drives. Put it in to the free Hyper-V Server then when you can get a better machine or a dedicated system just move it around. It is something I am seriously considering doing when I start my SBS 2008 deployments. Simon -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/<http://certificatesforexchange.com/> for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/<http://domainsforexchange.net/> ________________________________ From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 October 2008 17:50 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2008 yet ? 8gb of ram ? Holy cow. My 6GB virtual 'monster' that's waiting for it doesn't seem so...monstrous now. From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 October 2008 17:37 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: SBS 2008 yet ? 60gb and 8gb of ram minimum requirements seemed a little excessive, I need to virtualize my ram :) From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 09:09 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: SBS 2008 yet ? I'm bored. When will SBS2008 hit the action packs ? Olly -- G2 Support Online Backups Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web: http://www.g2support.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
