Hello, I have a server that is running Windows 2008 64 bit Hyper-V, with 8 gigs of RAM and Intel Xeon X3440 @ 2.53 Ghz, which gives me 8 logical cores in the performance monitor on the host system.

I have set up three Virtual Machines, all running Windows 2008 32 bit.

1. Build server, running Team City
2. Staging server
3. SQL Server, running SQL Server 2005

These three machines are running very sluggishly, they are at 100% cpu even though the host system is barely using any cpu at all, typically below 10% total.

Could anyone please give some tips as to the best setup for CPU allocating? Should I have set each server to have two cores, or should I increase this number above the total number of cores on the host?

What is a good number to set on the Virtual Machine Reserve and Virtual Machine Limit?

Is 8 gigs of physical RAM insufficient for 3 VM's?

Thanks for reading. :)