How to check memory allocation for distributed cache on SharePoint 2013?

Couple of weeks back, I built a proof of concept environment for SharePoint 2013 which is a 3 tier architecture on Windows 2012 and SQL Server 2012 servers. In this article I will try to check the memory allocation for Distributed Cache.

Server	Role	Memory	VCPU
Ls-sppr13wf-01	Web Front End	8 GB	4
Ls-sppr13si-01	App Server	8 GB	4
Ls-sppr13sql-01	SQL Server	12 GB	4

During the installation 5% of the server memory is automatically allocated to the Distributed Cache Service’s cache size. If you don’t want Distributed Cache to run on all the servers after the installation you can use PSConfig with skipregisterAsDistributedCacheHost flag on all servers that are not cache host.

In my case we didn’t do this we left what is configured by default for Distributed Cache during the installation.

Anyways, to identify how much of memory is allocated by default to Distributed Cache, it’s 5 % of the memory. The web front end has 8 GB i.e. 8*1024 = 8192 MB. So 5% of this shall be around 409.5 MB

Run the following Powershell to check what's been allocated by default.

Use-CacheCluster

Get-AFCacheHostConfiguration -ComputerName ls-sppr13wf-01 -CachePort "22233"

 And it allocated 5% of the memory i.e. 410 MB

Note:  All Servers running the Distributed Cache service must match exactly in terms of total memory specifications on all Servers in the cache cluster  

There is an excellent article and planning and using the distributed cache service must read before thinking of implementing the Distributed Cache.

I have just started working on with Distributed Cache, will continue my learning curve .