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Hi NJ,<br />
Thanks for your response, looks like I have found the answer, <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867586/en-us" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867586/en-us</a>&nbsp;so it looks like virtual server can only have one processor per Virtual Machine. It cannot load balance the load over multiple processors :-( <br />
Does VMWare load balance correctly?<br />
Regards Dave..
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Hi NJ,
Thanks for your response, looks like I have found the answer, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867586/en-us [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867586/en-us] so it looks like virtual server can only have one processor per Virtual Machine. It cannot load balance the load over multiple processors :-(
Does VMWare load balance correctly?
Regards Dave..

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No, typically you would assign 1 - 2 cPU's per VM. &nbsp;We've analyed our environment, and we see that average CPU utilization is under 3%. &nbsp;In general, RAM is the limiting factor for us...not CPU.<br />
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No, typically you would assign 1 - 2 cPU's per VM.  We've analyed our environment, and we see that average CPU utilization is under 3%.  In general, RAM is the limiting factor for us...not CPU.



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Hi There Experts, <br />
I am running Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise on 2003 Server Enterprise on an eight processor server. But VS does not appear to be able to utilise multiple processors very effectively, if I look at Task Man one processor will be flat out while the others are idling, am I missing something? Also The Maximum Capacity (% of system) is set to 12.5 (100 / 8) is there a way of changing this? <br />
Any comments welcomed..<br />
Regards<br />
Dave<br />

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Hi There Experts, 
I am running Virtual Server 2005 R2 Enterprise on 2003 Server Enterprise on an eight processor server. But VS does not appear to be able to utilise multiple processors very effectively, if I look at Task Man one processor will be flat out while the others are idling, am I missing something? Also The Maximum Capacity (% of system) is set to 12.5 (100 / 8) is there a way of changing this? 
Any comments welcomed..
Regards
Dave


Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 – CPU allocation problems

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).