Windows 2008 Enterprize with 20 giga RAM, IIS see's only 4 Giga.

Hi Everyone,
I had win 2008 standard (as Virtual Machine) and i wanted to increase the
memmory to more than 4 giga RAM.
I set the RAM to 20 Giga and did an upgrade from standard to enetreprise.
Now, when i right click on "My compuer" i see the amont of RAM is 7.53 Giga,
and if i open "Preformence" tab at "Task Manager" i see the total physical
memmory is 3838 MB (Still 4 Giga RAM).

How do i fix this?
Tnx, Yaniv.

Is your Windows 2008 installation 32 or 64 bits? (Remember, 32 bit is 4GB
and then you have to use the /3gb switch in the boot.ini to see anything
above. The other thing you have to take into consideration is that you
mention virtualization, but you don't say what the virtualization technology
is or anything about the host. Therefore any suggestions may or may not
apply because you didn't supply the complete picture.)

"×™×*יב" <@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:766A697C-B6B7-49C2-AD86-...
> Hi Everyone,
> I had win 2008 standard (as Virtual Machine) and i wanted to increase the
> memmory to more than 4 giga RAM.
> I set the RAM to 20 Giga and did an upgrade from standard to enetreprise.
> Now, when i right click on "My compuer" i see the amont of RAM is 7.53
> Giga,
> and if i open "Preformence" tab at "Task Manager" i see the total physical
> memmory is 3838 MB (Still 4 Giga RAM).
>
> How do i fix this?
> Tnx, Yaniv.

Hi Neo,
Thank you very much for your reply.
My windows is 32-bit but according to Micorosft there shouldnt be a problem
to Enterprise Edition (it can take up to 64 Giga)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ws_server_2008

The server is a Virtual machine on Vmware ESX server.
Do i need the /3gb switch in my case?

Tnx, Yaniv.


"neo" wrote:

> Is your Windows 2008 installation 32 or 64 bits? (Remember, 32 bit is 4GB
> and then you have to use the /3gb switch in the boot.ini to see anything
> above. The other thing you have to take into consideration is that you
> mention virtualization, but you don't say what the virtualization technology
> is or anything about the host. Therefore any suggestions may or may not
> apply because you didn't supply the complete picture.)
>
> "×™×*יב" <@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:766A697C-B6B7-49C2-AD86-...
> > Hi Everyone,
> > I had win 2008 standard (as Virtual Machine) and i wanted to increase the
> > memmory to more than 4 giga RAM.
> > I set the RAM to 20 Giga and did an upgrade from standard to enetreprise.
> > Now, when i right click on "My compuer" i see the amont of RAM is 7.53
> > Giga,
> > and if i open "Preformence" tab at "Task Manager" i see the total physical
> > memmory is 3838 MB (Still 4 Giga RAM).
> >
> > How do i fix this?
> > Tnx, Yaniv.
>
> .
>

Take the "PAE" link in the paragraph under "Physical Memory Limits: Windows
Server 2008". You will have to work thru this using BCDEdit because we
don't if PAE is enabled or not in the guest.

Another good link for you might be:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff542202.aspx

"×™×*יב" <@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news2AE1A03-BB20-494B-BE81-...
> Hi Neo,
> Thank you very much for your reply.
> My windows is 32-bit but according to Micorosft there shouldnt be a
> problem
> to Enterprise Edition (it can take up to 64 Giga):
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ws_server_2008
>
> The server is a Virtual machine on Vmware ESX server.
> Do i need the /3gb switch in my case?
>
> Tnx, Yaniv.
>
>
> "neo" wrote:
>
>> Is your Windows 2008 installation 32 or 64 bits? (Remember, 32 bit is 4GB
>> and then you have to use the /3gb switch in the boot.ini to see anything
>> above. The other thing you have to take into consideration is that you
>> mention virtualization, but you don't say what the virtualization
>> technology
>> is or anything about the host. Therefore any suggestions may or may not
>> apply because you didn't supply the complete picture.)
>>
>> "×T× ×T×'" <@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:766A697C-B6B7-49C2-AD86-...
>> > Hi Everyone,
>> > I had win 2008 standard (as Virtual Machine) and i wanted to increase
>> > the
>> > memmory to more than 4 giga RAM.
>> > I set the RAM to 20 Giga and did an upgrade from standard to
>> > enetreprise.
>> > Now, when i right click on "My compuer" i see the amont of RAM is 7.53
>> > Giga,
>> > and if i open "Preformence" tab at "Task Manager" i see the total
>> > physical
>> > memmory is 3838 MB (Still 4 Giga RAM).
>> >
>> > How do i fix this?
>> > Tnx, Yaniv.
>>
>> .
>>

Hi Neo,
I managed to solve the problem !
I used this command: BCDEDIT /SET PAE ForceEnable. and after a reboot it
was solved.
Thank you very much for your help.
Yaniv.

"neo" wrote:

> Take the "PAE" link in the paragraph under "Physical Memory Limits: Windows
> Server 2008". You will have to work thru this using BCDEdit because we
> don't if PAE is enabled or not in the guest.
>
> Another good link for you might be:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff542202.aspx
>
> "×™×*יב" <@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news2AE1A03-BB20-494B-BE81-...
> > Hi Neo,
> > Thank you very much for your reply.
> > My windows is 32-bit but according to Micorosft there shouldnt be a
> > problem
> > to Enterprise Edition (it can take up to 64 Giga):
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ws_server_2008
> >
> > The server is a Virtual machine on Vmware ESX server.
> > Do i need the /3gb switch in my case?
> >
> > Tnx, Yaniv.
> >
> >
> > "neo" wrote:
> >
> >> Is your Windows 2008 installation 32 or 64 bits? (Remember, 32 bit is 4GB
> >> and then you have to use the /3gb switch in the boot.ini to see anything
> >> above. The other thing you have to take into consideration is that you
> >> mention virtualization, but you don't say what the virtualization
> >> technology
> >> is or anything about the host. Therefore any suggestions may or may not
> >> apply because you didn't supply the complete picture.)
> >>
> >> "×T× ×T×'" <@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:766A697C-B6B7-49C2-AD86-...
> >> > Hi Everyone,
> >> > I had win 2008 standard (as Virtual Machine) and i wanted to increase
> >> > the
> >> > memmory to more than 4 giga RAM.
> >> > I set the RAM to 20 Giga and did an upgrade from standard to
> >> > enetreprise.
> >> > Now, when i right click on "My compuer" i see the amont of RAM is 7.53
> >> > Giga,
> >> > and if i open "Preformence" tab at "Task Manager" i see the total
> >> > physical
> >> > memmory is 3838 MB (Still 4 Giga RAM).
> >> >
> >> > How do i fix this?
> >> > Tnx, Yaniv.
> >>
> >> .
> >>
>
> .
>