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) ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...