I'm not sure exactly what the actual cause of the problem was. I presumed that it had to do with the way the VM environment allocated memory.
In the future if I need to make any changes to the maximum server memory I will insure I do it during a maintenance window where I can restart the server.
Thanks for your response.
Kurt
Kurt W. Zimmerman
SR DBA
Lefrak Organization
New York, NY
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtwzimmerman