True, would be interesting to compare other supported hypervisors to ESXi. With limits in ESXi 5.0 free versions many will be looking for alternative hypervisors. I remember seeing support for Xen in future VCL releases - does it include Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) and XenServer 5.6/6 ?
-- Thank you, Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 21:03 , Sanders, Arbin D wrote: > How about other hypervisors? KVM limits? > > Arbin D. Sanders > > Sent from my Motorola Smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint! > > -----Original message----- > > From: Dmitri Chebotarov <dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu)> > > To: "vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org)" > > <vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org)> > > Cc: "vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org)" > > <vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@incubator.apache.org)>, > > "vcl-...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-...@incubator.apache.org)" > > <vcl-...@incubator.apache.org (mailto: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_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2000935 > > > > > > > > On May 24, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Alexander Patterson > > <alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu > > (mailto:alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu)> wrote: > > > > > 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 system maximum RAM: 1 TB[ > > > Number of hosts in a high availability cluster: 32 > > > Number of Primary Nodes in ESX Cluster high availability: 5 > > > Number of hosts in a Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster: 32 > > > Maximum number of processors per virtual machine: 8 > > > Maximum number of processors per host: 160 > > > Maximum number of cores per processor: 12 > > > Maximum number of virtual machines per host: 320 > > > VMFS-3 limits files to 262,144 (218) blocks, which translates to 256 > > > GB for 1 MB block sizes (the default) or up to 2 TB for 8 MB block > > > sizes.However, on a VMFS Boot drive, it is usually very difficult to > > > use anything other than 1 MB Block size > > > > > > With ESXI 5 there has been some changes to these limits > > > Guest system maximum RAM: 1 TB > > > Host system maximum RAM: 2 TB > > > Number of hosts in a high availability cluster: 32 > > > Maximum number of processors per virtual machine: 32 > > > Maximum number of processors per host: 160 > > > Maximum number of cores per processor: 25 > > > Maximum number of virtual machines per host: 512 > > > VMFS-3 is supported and has the same limits as before > > > VMFS-5 however has a max volume size of 64 TB and a max file size of 2 > > > TB - 512 B > > > How much vRAM does a VMware vSphere Hypervisor license provide? > > > vSphere Hypervisor license provides a vRAM entitlement of 32GB per > > > server, regardless of the number of physical processors. vSphere > > > Hypervisor can be used on servers with maximum physical RAM capacity > > > of 32GB. > > > > > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Sanders, Arbin D <asand...@nccu.edu > > > (mailto:asand...@nccu.edu)> wrote: > > >> Alexander, > > >> > > >> What if I use the paid version of vSphere5? And I have 96 GB of memory? > > >> Could I get more than 20 VMs? > > >> > > >> 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 > > >> > > >> 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. > > >> > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Alexander Patterson [mailto:alexander.patter...@csueastbay.edu] > > >> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:17 PM > > >> To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-...@incubator.apache.org) > > >> Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto: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 > > >> 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 Free Version a much more attractive option to go with > > >> > > >> We have each of our blades running ESXI 4.1 with 16 Cores and 48 GB of > > >> ram and we have 20 VM's per blade but we give 1.5 GB of ram to each VM. > > >> > > >> More info here > > >> http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1014006 > > >> > > >> -Alex > > >> > > >> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Sanders, Arbin D <asand...@nccu.edu > > >> (mailto:asand...@nccu.edu)> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> I am planning on using a free version of vSphere 5 depending on the how > > >>> many VMs I can get. I would like to get 50 VMs per host. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> 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 > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> 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. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> From: Dmitri Chebotarov [mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu] > > >>> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:01 PM > > >>> To: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-...@incubator.apache.org) > > >>> Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org (mailto:vcl-user@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 > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________
