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Operating System

Windows Server 2012

Product/Feature

Hyper-V

Severity

Category

Note: The following sections provide details about the specific issue. Italics indicates UI text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for the specific issue.

Issue

One or more virtual machines are configured to use Dynamic Memory with less than the amount of memory recommended for Windows Server 2008.

Impact

The guest operating system on the following virtual machines might not run or might run unreliably: <list of virtual machines>

Resolution

Use Hyper-V Manager or Windows PowerShell to increase the minimum memory to at least 256 MB, startup memory to at least 512 MB and maximum memory to at least 2 GB.