Best practice for server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop server after migration

[Mactagish01]

Hi All,

Recently a client had a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard SP1 fail due to water damage. After replacing the hardware (which was 3 years old) I restored a backup to an ESXi 6.5 VM. The server is a Remote Desktop Server. The old machine had 2 sockets, each with a 6 Core Xeon and 32GB RAM. The new server has 2 sockets, each with a 10 Core Xeon and 32GB RAM. About 30 people use the server.

What's best practice for a RDS box like this? How many virtual cores/sockets etc should I give the VM?

Thanks in advance.

[dja234]

its depend on your applications which are published on this RDS server & the user behavior on this.Before you put this server to production you can enable hot add cpu & memory.First time you  can assign some average memory & cpu, later you can increase if really needed.