{"id":11141,"date":"2011-04-05T15:20:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2011-04-05T15:20:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T15:20:06","slug":"exchange-and-dynamic-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11141","title":{"rendered":"Exchange and Dynamic Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today I talked about SQL Server and Dynamic Memory<\/a>. What about Exchange? Not surprisingly, the Exchange group do not recommend Dynamic Memory being enabled for virtual machines that are running Exchange. You can get the official text on TechNet<\/a>\u00a0under the heading of Dynamic Memory Allocation Considerations. They say: \u201c\u2026 for virtual machines that are running Exchange in a production environment, it is best to turn off memory oversubscription or dynamic memory allocation. Instead, configure a static memory size \u2026\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve heard several times, but not seen any official text, that the Mailbox role does not support Dynamic Memory.\u00a0 I’m not an Exchange person (I’ve had the “luck” of usually working in sites that use Lotus Domino\/Notes) but I believe that Dynamic Memory would cause problems for the Mailbox role.\u00a0 I have read that it only checks for available memory at start up, grabs what it can, and that’s it.\u00a0 Adding memory afterwards to deal with memory pressure would be pointless.\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, the Exchange group don’t recommend enabling DM on your Exchange VMs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier today I talked about SQL Server and Dynamic Memory. What about Exchange? Not surprisingly, the Exchange group do not recommend Dynamic Memory being enabled for virtual machines that are running Exchange. You can get the official text on TechNet\u00a0under the heading of Dynamic Memory Allocation Considerations. They say: \u201c\u2026 for virtual machines that are … Continue reading “Exchange and Dynamic Memory”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[181,195,117],"class_list":["post-11141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2008-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t