My vCenter server has been slow for some time now. Even after a clean install of Windows Server 2008R2 and change the vCenter Server settings for database retention to 15 days. It still is running slow when navigating through. We have 18 ESX hosts and 558 VM’s.
The vCenter Specs are 4x 2.66GHz, 4GB of RAM, 40GB HDD. We are using 3.36GB of RAM. Maybe more RAM is needed? vCenter is on the same ESX hosts its managing.
The Database server is also a VM on the same Cluster as vCenter. Database server specs are 4x 2.66GHz, 4GB of RAM, 50GB OS HDD, 80GB Database, and 40GB Log HDD. Running SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008R2. We are using almost all of the RAM but I think that’s just because of SQL takes anything it can get. Does not mean it’s really using it.
Please let me know what you think?
Thank You
Erik