Comments on: VMware raises the bar on CPU consolidation ratio support

By: a_user

a_user — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:44:23 +0000

Were averaging 40:1 on 2950′s 2 x 4core, 32gb. and 60:1 on r710′s 2 x 4core, 72gb. 30 hosts, 600 vm’s

norm — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:31:18 +0000

I’ve pushed 100:1 production Windows boxes. Dell R900 4×4 with 128GB RAM.

Duncan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:12:38 +0000

Personally I haven’t seen anything hight than 50:1 (non-VDI!!). And these were low utilized VM’s… But it’s a good thing these numbers are increasing!

Stu — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:06:56 +0000

“It’s more the exposure of 170 VMs on a single host and do we want to go down that road.”

Exactly.

I have hit this limit in our _engineering lab_ but will never suggest we go anywhere near that in production!