I recently configured SQL 2012 on Windows 2012 R2 server in VMware environment for our new application server that requires database. First thing that I noticed that under Resource monitoring when running the query to the database server, the network activity speed is never running higher than 60 Mbps and the CPU usage is never hit 10%.
I tried to test the network speed by moving some big files in/out the database server and the network activity jumped to 1-3 Gbps which I think that is what supposed to be since I have assigned 10 Gb NIC for the VM.
More information, it is running on Dell R730 with esxi 5.5. I assigned 2x 12 core for CPU and 32 GB of RAM. Hard Drives have been configured with RAID 10 and separated drives for data, logs, and temp.
For troubleshooting, I have tried to change the power options to High Performance which...