I have oodles of specifics, so I'm just going to put them all out there right up front. Please let me know if I've left anything out or if I can elaborate on the following info.
I have a dedicated SQL 2008 R2 single instance VM server that exists solely to service two specific applications.
App #1 has been around for two years, and the SQL instance was built specifically for it's use.
App #2 was added one year ago, and we decided to place it along side our existing dedicated SQL instance as the requirements were relatively low end in appearance.
The SQL-VM has been running since last year's intro of App #2 with the following:
4sockets/1core and 16GB of RAM
Users of App #1 & App #2 have made it known that their experience recently has been generally slow with some points of the day being painfully so. At first it sounded like "during peak...