Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-25 Thread Ivan Rako
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 03:53:01PM -0400, Sanders, Arbin D wrote: What is the number of VMs do you all run per VMware host? Is it limited to the RAM limitation for vSphere 5? How many purchase vSphere licenses? Hello there, at our University computing centre we have 3 VMware ESXi 4.1 hosts.

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-25 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
) Sent: Thu, May 24, 2012 17:54:59 EDT Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per 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

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Evelio Quiros
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Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Young h Oh
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

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
, Young h Oh wrote: 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

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Alexander Patterson
@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host 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

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Alexander Patterson
. -Original Message- From: Alexander Patterson [mailto:alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:17 PM To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host Hello, ESXI 5 is limit by licenses

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
- From: Alexander Patterson [mailto:alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:17 PM To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host Hello, ESXI 5 is limit by licenses with the amount of ram you can run on each

Re: Max Number of VMs per Host

2012-05-24 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
-user@incubator.apache.org, vcl-...@incubator.apache.org vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Sent: Thu, May 24, 2012 17:54:59 EDT Subject: Re: Max Number of VMs per Host This link may be helpful http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_UScmd=displayKCexternalId=2000935 On May