Windows Server 2008 should be configured with the recommended amount of memory
Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016
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Property | Details |
---|---|
Operating System | Windows Server 2016 |
Product/Feature | Hyper-V |
Severity | Warning |
Category | Configuration |
In the following sections, italics indicates UI text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for this issue.
Issue
A virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 is configured with less than the recommended amount of RAM, which is 2 GB.
Impact
The guest operating system and applications might not perform well. There might not be enough memory to run multiple applications at once. This impacts the following virtual machines:
<list of virtual machine names>
Resolution
Use Hyper-V Manager to increase the memory allocated to this virtual machine to at least 2 GB.
Increase the memory using Hyper-V Manager
Open Hyper-V Manager. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Hyper-V Manager.
In the results pane, under Virtual Machines, select the virtual machine that you want to configure. The state of the virtual machine should be listed as Off. If it is not, right-click the virtual machine and then click Shut Down.
In the Action pane, under the virtual machine name, click Settings.
In the navigation pane, click Memory.
On the Memory page, set the Startup RAM to at least 2 GB and then click OK.
Increase memory using Windows PowerShell
Open Windows PowerShell. (From the desktop, click Start and start typing Windows PowerShell.)
Right-click Windows PowerShell and click Run as administrator.
Run a command similar to the following, replacing <MyVM> with the name of your virtual machine and the memory values with at least the values shown below.
Set-VMMemory <MyVM> -StartupBytes 2GB
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