Is it acceptable to add 'weird' memory formats to a virtual machine

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• Resizing of the memory allocated to the virtual machine

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• Use of memory in the guest virtual machines

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  I don't have any background on VMware technology, but we are using a facility of dynamic cloud based on vCloud Director to the company where I work.

  The group that operates the server publishes the offer with a 'pay per use model"of service.

  This is true for the CPU resources, as we pay only what we use in the month. But in my opinion, it does not for the use of the RAM.

  We have Linux VMs that allocate a 4 GB of RAM 'physical' and our monthly bills show that the RAM usage is at 100% for all the month. But when you look at the tools of memory for the virtual machine, you can see that most of the time 50% or even less is used by the guest operating system process.

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  Could someone share some light on this subject? Is there really no way to make use of the dynamic RAM as the CPU usage?

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  Michael

  Evening,

  As a service provider, I'll let you in on the secret:

  It depends on

  vCloud takes care of three models of default allocation.  Your provide may use other

  -Pay for what you use. -pay as you use

  -Allowance - you get resources, but can burst more

  -Booking - you get allocated resources and is

  Chargeback depends on model (in out of the box chargeback... your provider might have something custom)

  Pay as you use - charged on the basis of the resources used

  Allowance - remuneration based on allocation and additional for burst

  Allocate pay based on booking-

  There in the last two models really no way to load except full allowance (i.e. 100% cpu and RAM)

  Statement, I think you have something along the lines of the compensation you are using you mixed with a price system vendor.

  From my experience the resource more used in ESXi clusters in the RAM.  That's really what I buy in clusters of resource... I always need more RAM.  I need no more CPU. In addition, distribution of the CPU to vcloud is made via Ghz is not CPU.   RAM is allocated by GB.   So those set up and I think you suppliers is betting that they will always have to RAM so they charge based on usage not allocation.  While CPU, they have tons while they charge by usage.

  Really, it's just my thoughts... What can charge you on:

  -Ghz processor

  -GB of RAM

  -GB of storage

  How can recharge you:

  -Used

  -Allocated

  So bottom line... they can charge by opportunity they choose not too...

  It will be useful,

  J

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• Example of General memory on Virtual Machines

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  There might be a way to represent differently, but I think it's one of the best tabular representation of the same thing to understand.

  See the header of line and column, where header row represents the number of vCPUs and column heading is an amount of RAM allocation for a virtual machine.

  the cells that intersect are representative about overhead VMKernel memory required for this virtual machine.

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• Virtual machine consuming more memory Balloning and swap

  Hello

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  I have quite a face never this problem. Help, please.

  You must remove the limit of memory on the properties of the VM and make it unlimited.

  If you set the virtual computer with the allocation of RAM of 4 GB and 2 GB limit it will mean the VM will only use 2 GB of physical RAM (limit) and the rest will be exchanged in the file vswap. In this case, if the virtual machine to use 100% of allocated ram it will swap 2 GB on the disk.

  Just delete the memory limit on the virtual machine and let the resource pool contained controll VMs

  a virtual machine cannot use more RAM that allocated, so the limit should never be used in production.

  Please allow for correct/good answers

• VMware Workstation 6.5 - not enough physical memory is available to power on this virtual machine

  My host is a processor Intel Core i5 (active VT) and 8 GB of RAM Windows 7 64 bit running with hardware virtualization enabled.
  
  Apart from McAfee Antivirus and the usual Windows updates, no other software has been installed on the host machine.
  
  I am running Vmware Workstation 6.5 and I installed 3 popular VM with below guest OS, s/w and memory:
  
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  Can you get it someone please let me know where are the rest of the memory is busy? Size of total memory of 3 virtual machines are only 4 GB and I have to be able to run all the VMs set 3, but in this case I can't even run two virtual machines simultaneously.

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• How to get memory for a virtual machine?

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  In vSphere Client > select a virtual machine > summary under general tab, shows:

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  VM version: 7

  CPU: 1 vCPU

  Memory: 1024 MB

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  Concerning

  marc0

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  Best regards, Robert

• ESX 3.5 U5 Virtual Machine memory usage

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  I have a few guests but will use one as an example:

  This host has 64 GB of physical memory. There are a number of virtual machines residing on this host and the total amount of memory that I attributed to them is 40 GB. In VirtualCenter, I see on the Summary tab is 21,65/64 GB global memory on the host use and this is due to the fact that not all of the virtual machine are fully utilized.

  Now more confusing part... I've attached a picture that contains screenshots of what I'm about to discuss...

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  Hello

  Instead of directly answering your questions, I will explain what each image represents. This will explain I hope that what you're seeing and why.

  -At the top image, what it says is correct - this is memory that has been consumed by the virtual machines and may be less than what is given to them.

  -L' the Middle image is to show you the total physical memory that is available for the use of virtual machines after that things like the service console and general system has been deleted. Not what is used or has left, but what total physical memory can be used.

  -In regards to the third graph your hypothesis is correct. It is the memory allocated to the VM. This is different from consumed which is the actual physical memory, use virtual machines.

  After reading my answer I'm not sure I have made better or worse? Let me know if further details are required.

  Kind regards

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