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I have a Dell R710 with 72GB of memory running Hyper-V. Within Hyper-V I have a Windows 2008 (32-bit) VM running Terminal Services. How do I allocate memory so that any user who connects to this Terminal Server (from their thin-client) is allocated 2GB (or whatever amount I choose) of memory? Currently I have provisioned the TS with 2GB of memory but it seems that this is shared among all that connect.

Please let me know if there is further information I can provide.

Thank you.

Update 1: What I'm looking to accomplish with this server is setting up a VDI to allow users to connect from thin-clients from within our network. They will also have to connect from outside our network via VPN which is already in place. Am I able to set this up using Windows Server 2008 (not R2) because I have a 16-bit application which needs to be supported. Unfortunately it's not a candidate as a Remote App.

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    I don't think there is any way you can do this. Perhaps you need a VDI solution instead?
    – Zoredache
    Jun 1, 2010 at 17:09
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    No it isn't. VDI means that every user gets a virtual machine to themselves. RD means that every user gets their own WinSession on a single Server machine.
    – mfinni
    Jun 1, 2010 at 18:18
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    Edit - Server 2008 TS on its own isn't VDI. You can use it as part of a VDI, but I understand it's most commonly used to serve desktops. Are you using the Connection Broker and VECD, the whole suite, to actually server VDI instances?
    – mfinni
    Jun 1, 2010 at 18:35
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    So remote apps (and servering applications ) is not VDI. VDi require different and specific licensing as well as (usually) more resources becasue you are now server up entire partitions to your users rather than shared applications. Definitly look at VDI and what it entails but it sounds to me like you are looking for terminal services- not VDI. Take a look at brian maddens vdi vs tS video here: brianmadden.com/blogs/videos/archive/2009/03/23/…
    – Jim B
    Jun 2, 2010 at 16:22
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    @mfinni- yes I understand that. Going from TS to VDI is like going from formula 1 race cars to nascar truck racing. Both Are server based computing technologies but have very different implications and requirements. If as stated he just wants thin clients that is most certanly not a reason to implement VDI. That is why I pointed him to the video which gives a great explanation as to when you should go VDI and when to go TS. In my experience usually when folks want to go VDI they don't realize how expensive it is.
    – Jim B
    Jun 2, 2010 at 19:42

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You could use Windows System Resource Manager to limit memory. There are 2 policies specific to terminal services (Equal_Per_User, Equal_Per_Session) prebuilt. On the face of it (without any details as to why you would want to do this) this seems like a really bad idea as you would usually run out of kernel memory (page table entries) before you run out of physical ram and limiting the amount of ram would exacerbate the problem

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  • Thanks very much for the solution but I'll take your advice and steer clear!
    – JohnyD
    Jun 2, 2010 at 11:00

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