Thanks everyone for the help.

I've been speaking with the client and the app that is consuming excess resources will be removed as it's not a business requirement. This should solve the problem.

Once again, thanks to everyone who contributed.

Just remembered this client has a Server sitting idle.

It has a Xeon something, 24GB RAM, Server Std 2016.

I'm thinking, would it be worthwhile building that as a new or 2nd RDS server??? Or moving the RDS VM onto this server?

Changing the RDS server to 4 vCPUs has not made any difference except that I ave a slightly higher CPU load now.

@IRJ No not everyone needs it, some staff don't use it all. The ones who do need it, use it.
I am going to review this however, as I think there may be a better way to do some things.
Thanks for your help @IRJ

@Pete-S Thanks very much for your help Pete-S, it's greatly appreciated.

I think I'll go and look for a 16 core CPU to replace the current 8 core, depending on price of course.

Thanks once again for all your help.

@Mario-Jakovina Thanks Mario. I've limited the RAM allocation of this 2nd VM to no more than 16GB. I'll monitor it and see what happens. Thanks.

Thanks everyone for your useful suggestions.

If I don't answer certain questions, don't take it personally, I appreciate all comments.

So from what I can tell from what others have mentioned, I need to optimise my RAM and sort out my vCPUs (amongst other things).

The server has 3 x 16GB sticks to get to 48GB. I've been given the go ahead for more RAM by the client.

As an aside, situations like this can occur when suppliers don't have stock of parts and clients want solutions in place. There's a chance that all I could get my hands on was 16GB sticks? But then again I should have ordered 4 and not three, but then again maybe all I could get was 3?????????

Anyway ..

So to fix my unbalanced memory problem, I need to add 1 or 5 extra sticks. 1 stick at 16GB would allow me to balance the memory, but I'd like to add more than 16GB.

I can't remember the memory 'layout' but it's usually in groups of two I think????

So I could have 2 groups of 2 x 16GB sticks.

This is what iLO shows me:

As far I can tell I could add an additional 16GB by adding 4 x 4GB sticks, that would give ma an additional 32 GB of RAM in 8 slots which should even up the memory config.

Does that sound correct?

So onto vCPUs.

@JaredBusch you mentioned:
before the Hypervisor can send the job to the real hardware, enough real cores had to be available to match the number used by the VM.

If that is the case, then this setup is a real mess.

Over the weekend I'll alter the assignation of vCPUs to VMs.

I think I'll reduce both VMs down to 4 and see how we get on.

With regards to physical CPU's. Would you upgrade the current CPU to something with more cores or add a 2nd CPU?

I think the last time I replaced / installed a CPU it may have been something like a 32032 and had to wash the white paste off my fingers. How hard is it to install CPUs these days? I'm not embarrassed to say that playing with CPUs is something I purposefully stay away from.

Thanks for all the help.

I've found the item that's using excessive memory, it's an app that was added after the server was spec'd and put in place.

I can see the app in Resource Monitor, anyone know how I can export the Resource Monitor values to Excel etc?

@Pete-S yes, there's one other VM. It has 8vCPU's 16GB of startup RAM and uses dynamic memory.

Unfortuantely I didn't have time to look at the problem too much today so I'm not too sure how busy the host was.

How can I determine how many vCPUs I can assign to a VM??

@IRJ said in Another RDS server?:

Have you thought about the addressing the real problem? What's making these users need a terminal server in the first place?

Are all users really dependent on terminal server or are some using it for convenience?

Can you replace any of these dated apps with web apps?

Thanks @IRJ , yep that's part of my process as well.

The server is 2016 Hyper-V guest with 8 virtual processors and with 16GB of 'startup' RAM and uses dynamic memory, maxing out at around 36GB.

I was looking at it this morning, had about 15 users on it and Resource Monitor was telling me that CPU use was around 70%. I looked at each session and couldn't see any session using more than normal resources.

I forgot to reboot it last night, I'll reboot tonight in the vague hope that that may fix something?

Thanks everyone for the suggestions & ideas.

Yes I do need to sit back and do some looking at things before I go spending more money. Thanks for the reminder @notverypunny

Thanks folks.

The current RDS server is a Hyper-V VM with 16GB of 'startup' RAM and uses dynamic memory, maxing out at around 36GB. It's running 2016 server std with the RDS role.

The Hyper-V host has a single XEON E5-2620 v4 @ 2.1Ghz, 48GB RAM. Disks are 10K SATA.

The RDS is used to provide access to an application on another server, plus access to files & folders.

It's also in use as the workers tend to swap desks from day to day.

I'm currently chasing up price & availability for RAM & CPU. I know RAM will help, but is an additional CPU a good thing or will it not be of much use?

we have a battery powered edger, post hole digger, leaf blower, rattle gun, circular saw, grinder & a... I think that's it.

My clients single RDS server is being pushed to it's limits. I can increase RAM, disk and CPU but when you would you consider adding a second RDS server?

I've only ever worked in single RDS server environments.

I'm wondering if some kind person could give me a high level overview of what needs to be done and what happens, so I can have more than a single server servicing RDS users?

With thanks.

I heard a fella pronounce SOE as So EEE, that was new to me. He sounded ..... challenged.

And people who use m instead of M and b instead of B

that's your carpets favourite day.
Why?
Coz that's the day it gets laid.

i hate working with ipads & mdm's, so frustrating in THIS environment.

what you're in Colombia ?

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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

can anyone suggest an android tv box I can plug into the TV? nothing expensive, just something that works. just for streaming services.

why android TV?

because I don't know what i'm doing?

we got an apple tv but it's not very useful, it makes searching through things too hard.

enlighten me.

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

can anyone suggest an android tv box I can plug into the TV? nothing expensive, just something that works. just for streaming services.

Amazon fire stick?

Thanks mate. I'll check that out.