Until now I've never really had enough cores in a box to worry too much about allocating multiple vCPU's but now that I have 2x6 core 5600 CPU's in my new vSphere hosts it's something I can consider.

How do virtual CPUs work? Computers need three major resources to function: storage (disk space), memory (RAM) and compute (CPU). In a VM, the hypervisor manages the guest virtual machines (guest VMs) ...

2011 was a year where despite the economic constraints everything Big was seemingly good; Big Data, Big Clouds, Big VMs etc. Caught in the industry’s lust for this excess, 2011 was also the year I ...

When provisioning virtual machines, either from a new build or during a physical-to-virtual conversion, questions will always come up on how many virtual processors to assign to the host. The standing ...

Just wondering - has anyone tested the scalability of multiple vCPU-s in KVM lately? I found some old tests ran on some PCs, but no information about real server hardware and workloads. I have been ...

Performance management in vSphere is all about sizing and allocating pools of resources. For CPU resources, the pools are the virtual CPUs (vCPUs) allocated to a virtual machine (VM), the physical ...

Do you ever have the situation where you have a sluggish virtual machine (VM) and in trying to find the bottleneck, you raise the number of vCPUs? Did it work? If your VM experiences a slowdown, then ...

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