ESXi Shared memory of commom and UCS B200M2
I vSphere 4.x environment to IBM 3650 and half B200M2 (a group consisting of the 3650 and a group consisting of the B200M2). IBM machines are 2 socket quad core with 34 GB of memory and Cisco are 2 Socket 6 core with 48 GB of memory. Workloads on IBM and Cisco ESXi hosts are the same. For most of 2008 and Windows 2003 machines. On IBM machines, I move 1 GB, 2 GB of shared memory (common shared memory - amount of memory that is shared by all virtual machines powered and vSphere services on host machine) on each ESXi host. On Cisco machines, I get around 15 MB on each ESXi host. Considering that it is one of the great features of VMware (sharing of memory) why is there such a huge disparity between the machines? Is it because the Cisco blades NUMA machines? Is there a setting I'm missing? It's a huge difference. I don't regret getting the UCS stuff I like it but it is the big novelty of the VMware that does not work with the UCS.
Please take a look at the following:
Transparent Page Sharing on the Nehalems won't be out until the memory usage is almost 100%.
Edit: should read: Transparent Page Sharing on the Nehalem and later generations will not kick until the memory usage approaches 100%.
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