Gail,

Thank you!!! for this post, it just got us out of a jam with the server falling over because tempdb on C drive was eating up all available disk space...

@ Mr. Perry

32bit/x32 OS can not address more than 4GIG of RAM. Therefore, you can not assign 8gig of ram to a 32 bit guest VM. For additional detail re:...

@steve-2: Thank you for sharing this knowledge and instigating a great dialogue. I have dived into perf tuning and trying to swim much deeper than I've been given...