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Thanks Andrew, right on the money.
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Hello Experts - I have three Dell R610 servers acting as ESX hosts. &nbsp;I'd like to upgrade the RAM but need to know how many slots are in use to determine how much more I can add. &nbsp;Is there an easy way to do this without physically opening the case and bringing it offline?
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Hello Experts - I have three Dell R610 servers acting as ESX hosts.  I'd like to upgrade the RAM but need to know how many slots are in use to determine how much more I can add.  Is there an easy way to do this without physically opening the case and bringing it offline?

Determine memory configuration on ESX host

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