Got one of these with 4Gb 
and I've spun up ESXi 5.1 on it as it's using a Dell HW Raid card. It has two VMs running, both 2012 Standard, one Core, one Full GUI. Core is a small DC and GUI is Exchange 2013.
The Exchange box has two test users and 2GB Ram and the DC has 512mb RAM. The Exchange box is woefully painful to connect to. It's so slow to navigate around. Now, I know Exchange harvests pretty much all of the memory but I've got production Exchange 2010 boxes that don't behave anywhere near as slowly.
Basically, I'm trying to decipher what the bottleneck is. Personally, I don't think its memory or CPU but could be the disks (although again, I've seen similar production servers with no issue). That leads me to just ESXi (Usually used Hyper V).
Are there any good performance counters I can look at to see what's going on underneath?
and I've spun up ESXi 5.1 on it as it's using a Dell HW Raid card. It has two VMs running, both 2012 Standard, one Core, one Full GUI. Core is a small DC and GUI is Exchange 2013. The Exchange box has two test users and 2GB Ram and the DC has 512mb RAM. The Exchange box is woefully painful to connect to. It's so slow to navigate around. Now, I know Exchange harvests pretty much all of the memory but I've got production Exchange 2010 boxes that don't behave anywhere near as slowly.
Basically, I'm trying to decipher what the bottleneck is. Personally, I don't think its memory or CPU but could be the disks (although again, I've seen similar production servers with no issue). That leads me to just ESXi (Usually used Hyper V).
Are there any good performance counters I can look at to see what's going on underneath?