I have a Host with the following specs:
Intel S5520SC Motherboard
Dual NIC
Xeon E5645 2.4Ghz 6 Core CPU (1 Processor Socket, 6 Processor Cores per Socket, 12 Logical Processors, Hyperthreading Enabled)
16GB of RAM
4 15k Hard Drives Configure as Raid 5 with a capacity of 1.8TB on an LSI 9260-4i Controller
I have 2 Windows Server 2008 R2 VM's Hosted with the following settings:
VM1 Terminal Server
8GB of RAM, 6 CPU's, 250GB HD, Nic2
VM2 Database Server
8GB of RAM, 6 CPU's, 1TB HD, Nic2
My problem is when more than 6 people log in to my terminal server, the CPU on the host spikes to 100% and it freezes the Database Server (VM2) which causes all the LAN connections to freeze, If i kill the active RDP Sessions on VM1, the host cpu drops back to normal (5%) and everyone locally can access the DB Server normally again. Does anyone have any recommendations on what could be causing this? Do I not have my cpu's set properly? Thanks