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Hi Guys
I have an interesting issue though I think we know what the fix is but want to double check and ensure we are on the right page.
I have a customer who has the following setup:
Dual CPU Quad Core
144GB RAM
Vmware ESX Hypervisor 4.1
1st VM
Windows Server 2008 R2
Running as Domain Controller and File Server
Alloted 30GB RAM and 2 vCPU's in Vmware
2nd VM
Windows 7 Professional
Running http://www.aads-worldwide.hk/ as a Terminal Server
Alloted 110GB RAM and 2vCPU's in Vmware
Customer has around 22 user's who logon to the second box via RDP port 4000 (We changed it from 3389) and use Terminal Services. They use a mix of Outlook, Word, MYOB (only one user), and Adobe Acrobat and some web browsing within the terminal session.
Issue we have had is that the 2nd VM is maxing CPU at 100% constantly (was maxing RAM previously as well but we just bumped the server to max memory).
I noted the other night that we think that the server is running Vmware Hypervisor FREE which only allocated maxiumum 4 vCPU's but I am going to check with Vmware tomorrow with the license key that we have.
We then adjusted the vCPU so that we had 1 vCPU on the 1st VM and 3 on the second and CPU utilisation dropped to 20%.
However this then causes issues with the first box locking up when running backup and a few other processes.
What I want to know is the following:
Should we look at upgrading the box to ESX 6.0 and then getting an enterprise license to unlock the remainder cores? If so will 2 vCPU's allocated to box one and 6 vCPU's or similar on box 2 fix the issue?
How is the licensing for this done? Do you know what the cost may be? Not that familiar with the VMware ESX setup they currently have so looking for some guidance.
Thanks in advance.
I have an interesting issue though I think we know what the fix is but want to double check and ensure we are on the right page.
I have a customer who has the following setup:
Dual CPU Quad Core
144GB RAM
Vmware ESX Hypervisor 4.1
1st VM
Windows Server 2008 R2
Running as Domain Controller and File Server
Alloted 30GB RAM and 2 vCPU's in Vmware
2nd VM
Windows 7 Professional
Running http://www.aads-worldwide.hk/ as a Terminal Server
Alloted 110GB RAM and 2vCPU's in Vmware
Customer has around 22 user's who logon to the second box via RDP port 4000 (We changed it from 3389) and use Terminal Services. They use a mix of Outlook, Word, MYOB (only one user), and Adobe Acrobat and some web browsing within the terminal session.
Issue we have had is that the 2nd VM is maxing CPU at 100% constantly (was maxing RAM previously as well but we just bumped the server to max memory).
I noted the other night that we think that the server is running Vmware Hypervisor FREE which only allocated maxiumum 4 vCPU's but I am going to check with Vmware tomorrow with the license key that we have.
We then adjusted the vCPU so that we had 1 vCPU on the 1st VM and 3 on the second and CPU utilisation dropped to 20%.
However this then causes issues with the first box locking up when running backup and a few other processes.
What I want to know is the following:
Should we look at upgrading the box to ESX 6.0 and then getting an enterprise license to unlock the remainder cores? If so will 2 vCPU's allocated to box one and 6 vCPU's or similar on box 2 fix the issue?
How is the licensing for this done? Do you know what the cost may be? Not that familiar with the VMware ESX setup they currently have so looking for some guidance.
Thanks in advance.
