Windows 2008 using all the it is assigned the host memory

Hi all

We have just started using ESX 4. Using the Update Manager I applied update 1 and all patches.

I installed a couple of servers, most of them are windows 2003. However, I installed a windows 2008 machine and awarded 8 GB of memory.

As you can see in the screenshot the guest uses very little, but still it shows that it uses 8 GB memory of the host.

We had this same behavior with an earlier version of ESXi 4, but that is resolved now. (I don't know how, but I guess that through patch).

There is not much to find on this, but I can't imagine I'm the only one, or I'm doing something wrong (also not entirely unlikely )

Someone at - it ideas?

This is an expected behavior of Windows from 6.0 (Vista / 2008).  See this article on Superfetch.

Virtualization of happy!

JP

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