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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 recommended amount of RAM, which is 2 GB.

Impact

The guest operating system and applications might not perform well. There might not be enough memory to run multiple applications at once. This impacts the following virtual machines: <list of virtual machines>

Resolution

Use Hyper-V Manager to increase the memory allocated to this virtual machine to at least 2 GB.

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