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Very slow virtual machine

Hi,

I virtualized all my domain network and today i finally complete all migration from phisical serl ver in to virtual. My virtual network is made bye one phisical Server with the following specs:
Gigabit Motherboard support up to 16 GB of Memory 4 GB installed 800 MHz
Dual Core AMD 3.0 GHz 2mb cache
1gb ethernet lan
Sata disk 10000rpm configured in mirror (Mirror capacity 250 GB)

The Virtual machine are four
Two Domain Controller with 512 GB each of Virtual ram and 20 GB each of virtual scsi disk
One member Server with exchange server 2003 installed 1,3 GB of virtual ram (I migrated the exchange from previous phisical Server)+ 20 GB of Virtual SCSI disk
One other member server configured as Terminal server with 512GB of Virtual memory and 20 GB of virtual scsi disk.

So apparently i am consuming less then three GB of memory of the 4 GB available.

The issue:

General slow performance on all Virtual Machine especially the Exchange Server Virtual machine.
I cannot access owa I can connect to it authentication is fine but the mails are not downloaded
If I access the TS very slow performance.

Also within the lan doesn't matter if i use the local VMware console or the remote desktop when i try to access the virtual machine performance is incredibily slow if i try to work on TS do simple operation like open dialog box or windows it's all slow.

This is due to memory issue i guess but i thought that four GB of memory was enough.

So is this a memory issue?
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Yes, with VM's lots of memory is important.  With four VM's like you describe, I would get at least 8GB, and 12GB would be better.
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Hi,

Ok clear I agree with you only one more thing, do you have any idea if memory module of 4 GB each exisist? My motherboard support up to 16 max. But there are 4 slot is dual chanel system. So that would mean 4 gb of memory at each slot. I have been looking around and i can only see module of a 2GB as max. That means that i can only put 8GB as maximum, any idea?
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Thanks a lot
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I really, really doubt this is memory - you are overloading your disks terribly and your single RAID1 sata array is horrendously pathetic for this task, and simply will not cope.

Before you got wasting money on RAM, why not run perfmon and see for yourself?