2008 file server memory requirement,

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its a heavily used server (possibly 100's of users) also acting as user profile store for citrix farm... it has 4gb of RAM installed

Task manager says
1) 2.58gb used (in the graph)
2) 1.5gb cached
3) 1.46gb Available
4) 0mb free

Its all virtualised and sat on blade servers with esxi / san,

The hole system runs like a dog, and there are mutiple issues, id say this machine needs another 4gb of ram? (enterprise environment so it will take a week and a stack of paperwork to do)

The other guys in the team will not give a straight answer for some unknow reason... what do you think?

(i know the obvious answer is add it and see but there paperwork is a nightmare and I have to convince other people as well)
 
Memory isn't that important to file servers, and as it shows as having memory available in theory that shouldn't be your bottleneck. Just make sure its fully upto date iirc there was a bug in 2008 where it would nick all the memory and give nothing back when requested when running as file servers.

You'll likely get better results by looking into the Disk I/O's and network. :)
 
Seconded I think you should be looking at the I/O subsystem and network initially. I have seen some cases where AV products can introduce issues with ondemand scanning etc when not designed for server environments especially file servers.

Start by looking in Performance Monitor at the VM and also at the host level in vmware to see if you can spot any issues. Let us know what you see and we can maybe help further. When you say it runs like a dog, do you mean end user performance or actually administering the server? It could be an issue with VMWare contention i.e. over allocated VCPU's waiting for execution contexts, iirc you can track that via CPU ready time in the VM guest stats

Hope that helps?
 
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