We are using ESXi 4.1 as our vmhost and we are limited to about 4 VM's per host. This is mainly due to the fact that our vm's are running on local disks (not network storage) so we limit it to 4 to try and minimize the I/O on the disks (for performance).
Thanks! David Creech Technology Support Specialist Computer Lab Coordinator ITCS - Academic Computing Austin Building - 102 East Carolina University 252-328-9544 cree...@ecu.edu<x-msg://342/cree...@ecu.edu> From: <Sanders>, Arbin D <asand...@nccu.edu<mailto:asand...@nccu.edu>> Reply-To: "vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org<mailto:vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org>" <vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org<mailto:vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org>> Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:53 PM To: "'vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org<mailto:'vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org>'" <vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org<mailto:vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org>>, "'vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org<mailto:'vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org>'" <vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org<mailto:vcl-u...@incubator.apache.org>> Subject: Max Number of VMs per Host All, 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? Arbin Darren Sanders IT Manager – Academic Computing North Carolina Central University 712 Cecil Street Suite 3014 Durham, NC 27707 919.530.6307 919.530.5097 (Fax) For the Latest ITS Updates and Tips Join Us Online [Description: Description: Description: Description: cid:image003.png@01CB6AD0.97665900] <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=66100342#!/pages/Durham-NC/NCCU-Eagle-Technical-Assistance-Center-ETAC/249508718552?v=info> [Description: Description: Description: Description: cid:image004.png@01CB6AD0.97665900] <http://twitter.com/NCCUETAC> CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
