Hello,
As you know, the number of Virtual Machines per host depends on available
resources (CPU, RAM, Disk), as well as the demands of the image.
As a general guide, I have found the following to be reasonable. Other admins,
please share your opinions.
For a single VM host with 12 virtual CPU
Normally, you can calculate the average number of VMs depends on the
computing power (CPU). For example, 1 physical core can supports 2 VMs with
2 GB RAM. If you have 2 CPUs with 16 cores, then you might run 32VMs with
64GB RAM. However, the max number of VMs per host depends on variable
facts as
Here is some info:
http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=1155
This is for VMware View which could be approximated to VCL.
There is also limits per VMFS datastore (if you not using NFS).
I have seen different recommendations for VM number per ESXi host per shared
VMFS - VMWare recommends 16 VMs per
Hello,
ESXI 5 is limit by licenses with the amount of ram you can run on each machine.
The 8 GB vRAM limit is for the upcoming 5.0 free Hypervisor, the 4.x
version had no such memory limits.
VM makes you pay now if you want to use X amount of ram per host with
the upcoming version.
Making 4.1 I
I'm not sure from what I have been reading, might want to contact your
VMware Rep and see what they can do if you plan on upgrading to 5.
WIth ESXI 4.1
Infrastructure limitations
Some limitations in ESX Server 4 may constrain the design of data centers:
Guest system maximum RAM: 255 GB
Host
This link may be helpful
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=2000935
On May 24, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Alexander Patterson
alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu wrote:
I'm not sure from what I have been reading, might want to contact your
How about other hypervisors? KVM limits?
Arbin D. Sanders
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