I have the following setup:
esxi 5 with a centos(Linux) VM and a OSless windows server VM provisioned.
My hardware is the following:
1 x AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX
4 x GB of ram
1 x 7500 rpm 500 GB WD hard drive
synopsis everytime I install windows server 2008 r2 it is extremely slow, it takes down the whole server even the Linux VM, even though I only allocated 2 core out of 4, and 2 GB out of 4 GB of Ram to the Windows VM. I let the install happen over night and it was only 66% done on expanding, nearly 8 hours!!
it rendered my server useless, no one can access my Linux server where my websites reside.
Question 1: what could be the cause of this?
Question 2: how can a VM restricted to only half the resources consume all of the resources?