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How to harden Windows 2008 R2 Virtual Machine ?

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One of our servers with Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition runs on VmWare as a Virtual Machine. This server is an application server and connects to hundreds of systems transferring large amounts of data over network with FTP and Oracle SQLLOADER. We provided the best network environment by means of RAM, bandwidth, etc. However sometimes we face to bottlenecks.

Could you please provide me advanced tips and techniques to harden this server which has heavy network load?

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This is performance bootleneck. Sometimes FTP connections wait till timeout, or SQLLOADER waits forever.
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Are you using VMware vSphere (ESXi) to host the VM ?
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Yes I'm using VMWare vSphere ESXi Host.
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I examined Performance of server via CPU and Memory usage. Memory is in average %30 and CPU usage in average %88.
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Yes it is E1000. This is good point. Thanks.
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