Windows 2008 R2 Server Core Disk Space Requirements/Recomendations

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Published on 2010-05-03T21:56:56Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 21:59 UTC
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I'm in the preparation stage to roll out a few Windows 2008 R2 Server Core in my VMware ESX environment.

In looking over the documentation it looks like Server Core can operate in a little as 6.5 GB of hard drive space.

Less disk space required. A Server Core installation requires only about 3.5 gigabytes (GB) of disk space to install and approximately 3 GB for operations after the installation.

I am curious as to anyone’s real world experience and recommendations with regard to this requirement. Is it realistic?

A little bit about our environment:

Less than 25 users, and around 75 computers/servers in our current AD system.
These systems will be responsible for normal AD operations and print servers for 
5 printers - nothing to big here.

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