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Operating System Windows Server 2012 R2
Product/Feature Hyper-V
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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

A virtual machine running Windows Server 2012 R2 is configured with less than the minimum amount of RAM, which is 512 MB.

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 to increase the memory allocated to this virtual machine to at least 512 MB.

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