Hi Andy -- I have one XP image (created w/ 512MB RAM). I created two VM "computers," one with only 256MB RAM. Two reservations of the image started on each of the two VMs -- but VCL created two identical 512MB VMs on ESXi, and started the image on both.
If there's a hard-coded minimum RAM of 512MB, that would explain what I'm seeing. Does that sound correct? If I create a new base image with 1024MB RAM, will VCL deploy it on a VM "computer" with only 512MB? Thanks, Mike > 1) By the scheduler to locate a computer that meets the requirements > set in the image profile. This is the same for VMs and bare-metal > computers. If your VM is set to 256 MB and your image is set to 512 > MB, reservations for that image shouldn't be scheduled on that VM. Is > this what you're seeing? If so then there's a problem with the > scheduling code. > > 2) By the provisioning module to construct a VM. The RAM and CPU > values for the image are normally used. If your image is set to 1 GB > RAM and your computer is set to 2 GB, the VM will have 1 GB. > > There are a few caveats. There is a hard-coded minimum RAM value of > 512 MB. This is done to prevent unusable VMs from being created if > the image profile RAM setting is set to 0 or a very low value. If > your computer is set to 1 GB and your image is set to 256 MB, the VM > will be assigned 512 MB. There are other RAM minimums higher than 512 > MB depending on the OS of the image being loaded. I don't recall all > of them off hand but for example I believe 32-bit Windows 7 is 1 GB, > etc.