Change in amount of virtual processors

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• Change the number of virtual processors on VM

  Hello

  I have ESXi 4.0 update1 and a number of virtual machines on it.

  As you may know, there is a warning saying "Change in the number of virtual processors after installation of operating system guest can make your virtual machine unstable." When you open the properties of the VM to change hardware settings.

  However, I have a few virtual machines that I change the number of viftual UC sometimes (increase and decrease) and haven't noticed any problems.

  All my VMs are Microsoft Windows 2003/2008/XPs.

  Someone know that changing the number of virtual processors has no negative impact or not?

  I appreciate your help.

  Depending on the configuration of your operating system, this can be harmful. WIndows not the component of ACPI, which must always be configured as uni or multi processor (windows detects usually it and change automatically, I really don't know the trigger to make it not happen, but sometimes it isn't). Also for example, Linux kernel can be compiled without SMP (multi processor support), in order to have several processors can cause the virtual machine to run slowly.

  You may not notice any changes in your virtual machines, and I really think that you are not running on SMP issues. But if you want to check in the Device Manager, you can check if your ACPI is United or multi processor and change it properly.

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• ESXi - change virtual processor

  Hi all.

  Is there a way to change/increase the number of virtual processors on a virtual computer running?

  I read through a number of documentation, but I have not found one that said

  If it was possible or not.

  Thank you!

  JAV

  No, the virtual machine must be stopped to increase the number of processors.

• Virtual machine has 12 virtual processors, but the host only supports 8?

  Hi all I am using ESX 5.1 and have a machine Windows 2012 R2 Standard of virtual (vmx-09) comments that I'm moving to 8 processors to 12 processors.  But when I turn on the virtual machine after changing the UC 12 I get the error message

  "Virtual Machine has 12 virtual processors, but the host only supports 8. The number of virtual processors can be limited by the selected guest OS for the virtual machine or the granting of licenses for the host".

  Now, I know that 2012 R2 Standard Windows can handle 12 processors and I thought that ESX 5.1 could also, but I'm wrong?  This is the Standard of vSphere license 5.  Thank you!

  Hello

  vSphere 5.1 Standard license has a 8 vCPU per VM limit.

  Company = 32 vCPU

  Business + 64 vCPU

  You must upgrade to vSphere 5.5. This can be done with your vSphere license 5, as it is for all versions 5.X of vSphere and vCPU limit has been deleted in 5.5.

  So you can have as many vCPU per VM that your host has logical cores.

  Tim

• A question about the virtual processors in the prompt

  Dear Sir

  I have a general question about the number of virtual processors in the guest system.

  I use VMware ESXi 4.0.

  Say if my physical host has only 2 cups carrots (with or without HT should be the same), then is - it true that I can only attribute 2 virtual processors per virtual machine?

  Is it possible to give 4, 8 virtual processors in virtual machines?

  In my drop down menu I can NOT choose more than 2 virtual processors per virtual machine, I want to just make sure that it is not the problem of license.

  Thank you very much.

  Nanfang

  Hi Nanfang,

  linanfang wrote:

  So the general rule is the number of vcpus don't CAN NEVER exceed the number of physical processors. Is this correct?

  Replace "physical cpu" by "physical cores" and you are right, because a vCPU is mapped to a kernel. For example, you can assign 4 vCPU with a Quad-Core processor.

  If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. If you would be able to map 2 vCPU to the base, the vCPUs had to wait for them all the time because the physical kernel can simply perform an action at a time, why you would decrease the performance of your virtual machine by setting 2 vCPUs.

  It is not changed in vSphere 5.

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• Virtual processors

  So, how do I decide how many virtual processors I want to give my virtual guests. I have a max of 4. Are there benefits to maintain a low level, or if I want to 4. Or if I have 4 people I would give each of them 1 processor. We go more quickly then others if she didn't?

  Thank you

  In addition, once you have passed to 2vCPU or SMP, it will be harder to go up to 1 vCPU you need to change the kernel or HAL for Windows for Linux OS operating system.

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• Adding a virtual processor for a host ESX 4 UP1

  Hi - I built a SLES10SP3/OES2SP2 guest and now know that she could really benefit from a second processor.  Simply change the '1' to '2' is not recommended - not to mention that it does not add a processor according to the operating system.  I've seen several articles dealing with the change in the number of virtual processors, but none seems to be right on the target.  Seems more talk about reducing the number of processors, talking about the Windows VM, etc..

  Can someone tell me the correct procedure to follow - if it is still possible to do!  The physical server is a physical processor 1 HP ML350 G6 which indicates 4 x 2,266 GHz processors cores in the vSphere client.  8 logical processors. Xeon E5520.  I use vShere 4 Enterprise Plus.  The use of CPU resources as is currently around 10% used on the horizontal bar to 1143 MHz chart.  From time to time, it stings at 2400 MHz. The capacity is 4 x 2.266 GHz.

  There are 11 active VMs (SLES, 2003 and Netware) running in a pool with the default settings of the Pool.  There's a VMs additional 4 in the same pool currently shutdown.

  If it works, I want to do on 2003 server as well.

  FYI - I also built a SLES10SP2 server from scratch with 2 virtual processors and operating system takes advantage of them.

  Thank you vey,

  In general, you should try to work with as less as possible processors. However, you can add more, if you need.

  The VMware point of view that is easy, just change vCPU th enumber.

  Depending on the guest operating system and the kernel/HAL used, you need to change this one a multiprocessor.

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  I bought the extra memory.  I have to do something when I install the new memory?
  I went to the Disk Defragmenter, and he always says that I have 35% of free space.  The new memory will change this amount?  Or is it important?

  Monday, December 20, 2010 18:53:59 + 0000, Magallón wrote:
   
  > I bought extra memory.  I have to do something when I install the new memory?
   
   
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  > I went to Disk Defragmenter, and he always says that I have 35% of free space.  The new memory will change this amount?  Or is it important?
   
   
  You have 35% of your hard drive free. It's disk space, also called
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• Impossible to allocate additional processors (virtual machine has 8 virtual processors, but the host only supports 4)

  Dear team,

  I want to devote 8 vcpu to one of the virtual machine, but it gives following error

  "Virtual Machine has 8 virtual processors, but the host supports only 4. The number of virtual processors can be limited by the selected guest OS for the virtual machine or the granting of licenses for the host".

  want to know the weather, that it depends on the os under license or guest vm

  

  Hello

  It is the restriction of license. 4-way vSMP is the right thing, you stressed in your screenshot.

  If you upgrade your server and license to vSphere 5, you can allocate 8 vCPU with Standard license and 32 vCPU with your license of the company!

  Concerning

• Maximum virtual processors per virtual machine

  I recently bought vSphere Essentials 4.0 and I'm basically happy with it. Before you buy, I was told that it supports up to 2 processors each with up to 4 cores of each.  Any reasonable person would take this to mean that you can create computers guests with up to 8 virtual processors (VCPUs). However, after installation I found I could only create machines with up to 4 VCPUs! (I take that - I can create them, but they does not )

  When I brought this up to the sales representative, he gave me a few reasons that I still don't understand and then gave me an extremely expensive to get up to 8 VCPUs option: more than 4 times the price of the original vSphere. I still don't understand how vSphere can claim support up to 8 cores, but don't allow you to run virtual machines with up to 4 cores.

  I went back and re-read the literature and still cannot find anything it either by declaring this limitation. Can someone ' splain this to me?  I think that VMWare owes me another 4 VCPUs.

  Company is the single permit which offers 8 vcpu, they were referring to your driver's license can go on 2 cpu to 4 cores each. but I thought it was up to 6 cores per processor...

  There is an entire document showing the differences, http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing.pdf I know than this one but im sure that ive seen better

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• How many virtual processors on a virtual machine?

  Hi guys,.

  I have ESX35 install on a ML570 G3 with have 4 CPU, active hyperthreading.  In the tab set up, the number of logical processors is 8, by the attached screenshot.  I've lowered to VI3 VI4 and have 4 individual licenses of the CPU.  The sales representative told that the license goes with physical CPU, up to 4 cores per processor.  However when I created a VM, I can only put in place for a maximum of 4 virtual processors.  Is this correct?  I thought that I can assign up to 8 virtual CPUs in each virtual machine.

  THX.

  Hello htt. Unfortunately, to use 8way vSMP you must the Enterprise more than vSphere license. Please see the following page for more information.

  http://www.VMware.com/products/vSphere/buy/editions_comparison.html

  See you soon

  Kevin