Newbie question - combine multiple physical machines into one virtual machine

[lenrok]

Hello

As I am not quite sure where to post this question - I will start here.

I am quite new to vmware ecosystem - and I feel this question might sounds silly - but I need to ask.

Is it possible to combine N physical machines (for example two separate standalones PC machines - each one 1 pCPU) into one virtual machines containing 2 vCPU?

Is there any feature in vmware ecosystem which enables some 'cloud computing' layer? [so that applications can be just simply multithreaded - and gain advantage from multiple processors]

If yes - any start point for reading?

Or do I have to create N virtual machines (at least 1 per physical machine) and use additional layer in form of , for example openstack?

BR

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

think of virtualization as a server room or rack. You can run multiple VMs on a single physical host, and assign the host's resources as you like. Depending on the VM's workload you may even overcommit memory and/or CPUs and the Hypervisor will take care of resource sharing. However, combining workloads - like you asked for - is nothing virtualization provides.

André

[lenrok]

Hi Andre

I have some experience with virtualization - however I was curious whether vmware provide some in-build 'cloud alike' solution.

If VMware do not provide combining workloads - I suspected it a little bit - additional layer is needed.

Thanks for answer.