How to reduce overall RAM GB Hours While working on Sharepoint 2016 Environment

nilesh_jain2 nilesh_jain2

• July 13, 2016 12:02

Hi all,
I have 700 GB RAM hour/Month plan. I have used it for 15 hours and my all free GB hours got utilized. I want to know is there anything that I can do to reduce overall GB RAM Usage
like stopping some Sharepoint services which uses more RAM
Or can anyone share best practices to reduce GB RAM Usage so that I can use my environment for few more hours/days
My Environment Details

Sharepoint 2016 VM
Sql Server VM
AD VM

Please suggest

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  David Somerset

  • July 15, 2016 00:08

  well, with sharepoint it shouldn't be a surprise - it needs a lot of RAM, and if you use it, you're going to need to support it.

  Turning services off is a bad idea. You could reduce the amount of RAM used by each VM, but don't be surprised by poor performance.

  what you should probably do is get on a subscription that gives you more RAM hrs

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  John Calvert

  • October 30, 2016 00:12

  Hi David, when you say "stopping services", if you are referring to service applications yes you can remove them if you don't need them. If you are referring to the farm's core services and related Windows services, that requires more care but yes in principle you can pare down certain services. How much RAM is currently allocated to your three VMs? In a three server farm Microsoft recommends 12GB for the SharePoint 2016 front-end or batch server VM, https://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/cc262485(v=office.16).aspx. Your SQL VM should be fine with 8GB, https://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/library/cc262485(v=office.15).aspx. Your AD VM will be OK with 1-2GB. You may be able to run with less RAM on your SharePoint and SQL servers if the load is light. Give it a try with half of recommended and adjust from there.

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