The only people I have seen that have macro VMs working was some company out of Boston making virtual router/networking services with special interconnects that allowed process/thread striping over multiple hosts/sockets.
Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Sebastien Goasguen" <run...@gmail.com> To: <users@cloudstack.apache.org> Subject: Cores from Multiple Physical Hosts in VM Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2013 2:08 AM On Nov 13, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Robert Gabriel <epheme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to do the below? > > Thank you. > > > Answered by sgordon: > > It is my understanding that this is not currently possible, there was some > discussion at the design summit (I think in the Libvirt driver roadmap > session) about making the scheduler NUMA aware which would allow such > configurations on hardware that supports NUMA but this is currently > unimplemented. > > In reply to ephemeric's question: Cores from Multiple Physical Hosts in VM > > Tags: vcpus, aggregates, hosts, multiple, physical. > > Hi, > > Pardon my ignorance as I have never looked at cloud computing. > > Is it possible to create a VM and assign to it cores from multiple physical > hosts for high vcpu numbers? > > We have the following problem: Splunk running 38 concurrent searches on a > blade that only has 16 cores. > > By creating a VM and combining the cores from two blades, hence 32 vcpus in > total somehow? As far as I know this is not possible. That said I would be very surprise if Splunk could not use multiple machines. So just run multiple instances (separate VMs) that point to the same data store. > > I'm not sure if this is possible. > > Thank you. > > To change frequency, language and content of these alerts, please visit your > user > profile<https://ask.openstack.org/en/users/2044/ephemeric/subscriptions/>. > > > If you believe that this message was sent in an error, please email about > it the forum administrator at communitym...@openstack.org.
