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  • 1.  Resource Allocation: Best Practice

    Posted Aug 31, 2010 07:49 PM

    Hi All,

    I need your advice on how to plan resource allocations. Is it advisable to create a minimum vm resource (example 1cpu and 1gb mem), then increase it as needed? Or should I create more CPU and Memory (example 2cpu and 4gb mem) then I’ll trim down the resources using resource pools? What are your best practices in dealing with this kind of scenarios on enterprise environment?



  • 2.  RE: Resource Allocation: Best Practice

    Posted Aug 31, 2010 09:11 PM

    My case:

    2 vCPU and 2 GB memory ram for AppServer (running java generally over guest OS Linux)

    1 vCPU and 1 GB for WebServer (running Apache over guest OS Linux)

    With respect guest OS Windows... generally 2 vCPU and memory sizing is calculated aproximated according to the application that will running...

    More memory o vCPU is evaluated according to both the resources available on the Hots ESX and if the application actually needs it according to what specified by the supplier.

    ESX Host configuration:

    4 Blades HP BL 460c G6

    8 cores - 2.99 GHZ

    64 GB Ram

    Total Virtual Machines : 52

    But considerate that applications running in virtual machines, is not same run one java instance over VM of 2 vCPU with 2 GB memory that SQL Server 2000 with transactional Database.

    Greetings