Memory - host vs. comments memory resource allocation

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• Please suggest tool use ability to control host and VMs CPU, memory resources.

  Please suggest tool use ability to control host and VMs CPU, memory resources. What are the parameters to be monitored, their level of thresholds.

  What is the TOP / ESXTOP.

  Hi friend

  Here's the blog post detailed ESXTOP:

  http://www.yellow-bricks.com/ESXTOP/

  There is a VCOPS product that can also help you to understand so many parameters. You can try the license of the Foundation which is free of cost. There is a lot of intelligence if you go for paid VCOPS.

  VCenter graphs/stats can also help you as well.

• Memory resources

  I have a host that has 2 GB of physical memory.  On the Summary tab, it confirms it.  On the tab "allocation of resources", it shows a total capacity of 181MB of memory.  I have 2 guests, a Vista of 512 MB and 256 MB XP host.  I don't have any installation of reserves.  I can start a VM, but the other will give an error of 'not enough memory resources'.  Any ideas what would cause this?  It is configured in a cluster with 2 other guests.  Any ideas what is the cause?  It worked ok before in a non-clustered scenario.

  2 GB is the minimum size of mem to install ESX/ESXi 4.0.

  Add memory if you plan to use to run virtual machines.

  André

• host resource allocations

  What would be recommended to set for the host resource assignments?  The default values are usually ok?

  Usually don't want to add reservations of memory or CPU, unless the virtual machine requires it.  ESX does a pretty good job of managing the physical resources, so these manual adjustment goes against the process that ESX uses to manage these resources.  That being said, if you have an application that do not support having less than a certain amount of resources to work, then you can use reservations.  Another romanti, do not use, and memory that you allocate will be the top end of the allowed memory.

  If you need anything whatsoever, use actions to create a relative priority of the VM themselves instead of reservations.  List of resources to isolate applications and give them different priorities.  Actions work a little better because there is no predetermined resource allocation, what a priority so that some virtual machines get more resources than others.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert

• "The memory resources available in the pool of resources of the parent are insufficient for the operations." ... Really?

  Hello

  We have three virtual machines on a host computer. They need to be pinned to this host and with reserved memory: 1 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB.

  We are talking about 13 GB of RAM on a physical server that has 16 GB of physical RAM.

  When I Power On last VM, I get the following error:

  "The memory resources available in the pool of resources of the parent are not enough for the operation."

  I have a second host with the same size of memory and use reach 14GB of memory.

  I know that each virtual machine wants more memory than what we have configured, but I would like to know if it's a "bug" or

  something we can fix via vCenter configuration, or we really need more physical memory.

  Please find attached the config of memory for the virtual machine and the host State.

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Host needs some memory as well for things like vmkernel, drivers and other components and you will not be able to touch this area with reserves of VM. It is not a bug, more like a fuse. You will not be allowed to book all of the physical RAM to VMs and / or resource pools.

  In your case, you should either decrease the reserves (why are you booking 100% memory for your virtual machines? What you're trying to achieve with this setting? Is it an obligation of the seller to App?) or increase the amount of physical RAM on the host.

  Of course this depends on your specific requirements and management policies of the resources, but in most cases I've seen, reservations are only affected when there is a heavy statement memory and using actions alone is not enough. Even so, reservations are usually configured only for very high priority / criticality VMs and not 100%, but rather a little before "stable / persistent peak memory Active" value. F.x. If a particular virtual machine has more mem use regularly on Wednesday 1-3 PM and memory active value for this period is 3 GB, a reservation is usually set to something like 4GB.

  I hope this helps.

• The memory resources available in the pool of resources of the parent are not enough for this operation

  Hello

  I tried to light a Nexus 1000V VM running on a 5.1 ESXi on a 5.5 vSphere vCenter and I get an error message about the available memory resources. I'm running on a virtual server with 10 GB of RAM and 60 GB HARD drive. The physical host machine has 16 GB of RAM and 320 HARD drive. I am a beginner in this so please try to be clear. Thank you very much.

  Hello

  It is possible to have a reserve of memory on the 1000v (I think that the model comes with them as standard when you deploy).

  If you right-click the virtual machine and 'Settings' and then go to the tab "resources", under the heading 'Memory', you have whatever it is the value of the booking?

  It would look like this: http://i.imgur.com/ftBZENv.png

  If she has a reservation, you could safley assign 0MB (removes the reservation). This could be preventing it from power.

  Otherwise, you run a cluster in vCenter? You have active HA?

• Tecra M9 - compatibility of memory resources

  Hello

  I really apreciate if someone having a Tecra M9 (S5515X or S5513X), check the memory resources in the control panel. And inform me which appear on the Device Manager.

  Please, go to control panel / system / hardware / device manager
  Menu display / resources by type / memory.

  Appearing something like this

  [000 A 0000 - 000BFFFF]-...
  [000 A 0000 - 000BFFFF]-...
  [000CC000 - 000CFFFF]-...
  [000DC000 - 000DFFFF]-...

  I need the description of memory occupancy for the Bank 000D 0000 to 000DFFFF.

  I need this information to verify the compatibility with my card PCMCIA for Siemens, which can only work if the 000Dxxxxx of the Bank of memory is not used for another device. I need to check this allow to purchase the Tecra M9.

  Best regards

  Heitor.

  Hello

  I can't provide you with any information on memory usage because I am not owner Tecra M9. But I found on the internet of information on the card slot PC of Tecra M9.

  The Type II 5mm PC card slot can accommodate unique Type II 16-bit or 32-bit (CardBus) PC cards.
  So if your Siemens card is compatible with the specifications of this material I see no reason why he shouldn't? t works with the laptop Tecra M9.

  Greetings

• 3097 memory failure allocating memory for the Variables

  Hello - have an old Lenovo tablet of 3 year with Windows XP. Its been performing very well. I get a message that appears randomly who says:

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  WinBatch 32 2000

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  Reinstall the memory.

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  Click Change button, with C: drive selected, the value to "let the system handle",

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  Download & run the test memory microsoft...

• When memory is allocated to a variable in the language PLSQL and where in the PGA?

  Hi all

  When and where the memory is allocated to a variable?

  declare

  number of my_variable;

  number of my_var0;

  my_var1 number: = 0;

  Start

  my_variable = 1;

  -logical treatment

  end;

  In the example above

  one) because my_var0 is not assigned a number of execution block will be assigned memory with a value of waste inside?

  (b) where my_var1 and my_variable (and my_var0 if it is allocated memory) will have memory allocated (is it in the stack of the PGA space)?

  (c) if the my_var0 is allocated memory in his statement is this rule which applies to any oracle data type defined or defined by the user files or objects viz?

  Can u please help me with an informative article about the allocation of memory in Oracle. Thanks in advance.

  The initial value of a PL/SQL variable is NULL if you do not provide one when it is declared.

  http://docs.Oracle.com/CD/E11882_01/AppDev.112/e25519/fundamentals.htm#LNPLS195

  PL/SQL variable are stored in a private SQL area Global user (UGA) area, and the UGA may be in the PGA or the SGA according to the type of connection you have.  Details of the architecture of memory are documented in the concepts guide.

  Memory architecture

• memory resource limits

  I am struggling with the justification for the existence of limits of memory resources.

  Why a virtual machine would (for example) 2GB memory configured in "virtual machine properties | material"and have a limit of 1 GB under" properties of the virtual machine. resources? "Why not just configure it with 1 GB of memory?

  Also, if a virtual computer is configured with a memory of 2 GB, but has a limit of 1 GB, would he think always that she had at least 1 GB free memory and never page?

  Can someone give me a realistic scenario for the use of resource memory limits?

  Thank you

  -dog

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• Memory resource problem

  I'm new to ESXi. I downloaded and install on a PC for the test. I then vmware converter allows you to convert an existing virtual machine to the ESXi directly image, but impossible to start. Every time he tells me to check admission is failure of memory resource.

  But in the 'Summary' of VMWare Infrastructure Client, total memory page is 1013,51 while the current system used 346,00 MB MB.

  In the "Configuration" page, it says: total: 1013,5 MB, System:-, virtual machines: 802.0 MB.

  In the 'Resources' page, it says memory reservation: 94MB, memory used in reservation: 0 MB, full memory: 94MB.

  Why is the difference? According to the summary page, I should have more than 600 MB of free space? The system is just built and only VM existed, but never started.

  Welcome to the VMware community forums.  Take a look through this thread - http://communities.vmware.com/message/1029161#1029161

• default virtual machine resource allocation

  Hi all

  I have a host vmware with 64 GB Ram and 12x2.799GHZ cpu cores with 12 VCPU known as multithreading is not active

  When I create a virtual machine with the default settings (there is no reservation or limitation)

  (1) in the tab of the virtual machine resource allocation I see 4167 MB of memory host and 4096 MB of memory comments

  -Why the host memory is only about 4 GB so I have 64 GB of physical memory, which is displayed on the summary of the host tab

  -When I create a virtual machine with the default settings it should be able to use all the resources I'm wrong? in my case, it should be able to use 64 GB of ram

  (2) with the default settings, the virtual machine has only 1 VCPU

  -does that mean that the virtual machine will be able to use speed 1 VCPU? for example, if my vm has a lot of work and it may be necessary to use 3 GHz so I'll have to add virtual vcpu another machine? as the speed of a vcpu is 2.8 Ghz am I bad?

  -If I activate multithreading I 24 VCPU

  each vcpu speed will be (2.799 / 2)?  without active multithreading I have 12 vcpu each 2,799 GHz

  Please clarify for me

  Hello

  You asked a few questions, so that questions will be answered inline

  ) in the tab of the virtual machine resource allocation, I see 4167 MB of memory host and 4096MB of memory comments

  So I guess that you have created a virtual machine with 4 GB of memory (windows 2008 64 bit R2 virtual machine default settings). For this purpose of resource allocation tab 4 GB (4096 MB) of comments. The virtual machine is like a container, providing a configured together to programs and the operating system inside the virtual machine. If memory watch kernel scheduler is 4096MB is available for this customer.

  Now, the kernel needs to use little memory to run the virtual machine, it's called an airline booking memory and is in your case 71 MB, therefor the memory footprint of this virtual machine in the VMkernel (memory of the host) is 4096 + 71 = 4167 MB MB

  -Why the host memory is only about 4 GB so I have 64 GB of physical memory, which is displayed on the summary of the host tab

  This is because you have provided that the virtual machine 4 GB, it's the "use-space" for the virtual machine guest OS to run in. It cannot expand beyond the limit of the virtual machine.

  -When I create a virtual machine with the default settings it should be able to use all the resources I'm wrong? in my case, it should be able to use 64 GB of ram

  If there is no claim, where the demand for resources is less than the provision of resources, the scheduler memory is going to provide the virtual machine, the resources that it requires, and that can go up to 4096 MB, as this is the limit of the container.

  (2) with the default settings, the virtual machine has only 1 VCPU

  -does that mean that the virtual machine will be able to use speed 1 VCPU? for example, if my vm has a lot of work and it may be necessary to use 3 GHz so I'll have to add virtual vcpu another machine? as the speed of a vcpu is 2.8 Ghz am I bad?

  A vCPU runs on a physical basis and may not exceed, for this purpose if you need to have several cycles availble cpu for your virtual machine, you must configure the virtual machine with more than 1 vCPU.

  -If I activate multithreading I 24 VCPU

  each vcpu speed will be (2.799 / 2)?  without active multithreading I have 12 vcpu each 2,799 GHz

  A vCPU can be scheduled on a full physical core or on an element of hyperthreading (SMT), this is done by the VMkernel CPU scheduler. It is completely transparent for the virtual machine.

  Remember that the default settings are a few recommendations, they are not strict guidelines.

• DRS and Resource Allocation

  Hi all

  When to use the DRS and what should resource allocation. Because I have the impression that this has 2 contradicted each other. DRS allows VMs to use resources of other physical hosts right? And allocation of resources defines how a group must use the right?

  Welcome to the forums - they are not at all contradictory - don't forget the DRS is desigined to ensure that virtual machines get CPU/memory resources they need. It does this by monitoring the consumption of resources on each host in the cluster and what host can provide these resources. Since a virtual machine can use resources form one host at a time, if another host has several DRS resources will be vmotion as VM to TI.

  Now, if you define resource assignments to the DRS VM will use these to determine what host will be better satisfy these constraints and requirements - and when the value of resources at a pool level that the elimination of cluster resources - you are really used to divide the resources in a DRS cluster to different groups - the best example this splitting resources between development/test and production so that the Test/Dev do not monopolize depriving them of resources production of virtual machines.

  If you find this or any other answer useful please consider awarding points marking the answer correct or useful

• The upgrade to ESXi host that hosts vCenter comments

  Recently, we moved our vCenter Server in a virtual machine rather than running on a dedicated machine.

  A question I have for those running in this type of configuration are how do you for the upgrade of the host as comments from vCenter runs (for example ESXi 5.0 > 5.1)? We usually use Update Manager to perform the upgrade, so I was wondering if there is just more to use the old method of mode start since the level of the server installation CD or if there is another special way Im unaware of.

  Thanks in advance!

  If you have shared storage, you can connect to the host where you vCenter VM is registered, it off, remove the inventory, disconnect from the host, log in another host, browse the data store, add the vCenter VM inventory on the other host, turn on the vCenter VM and then you can remidate the other host using the virtual machine.

• Allocated memory and memory resource limit

  Hello

  I'm trying to get a better understanding of the memory allocated for a virtual computer when memory limit is set.

  For example:

  I created VM1 with 1 GB of RAM.  Subject, I left 0 by default.  But under the limit, the default value is unlimited.  I would indicate that Unlimited VM1 can use as much memory as it needs and that the ESX host can provide.

  If I set the limit to 2 GB, it does mean that VM1 can use more than 1 GB of RAM configured on built but can use up to 2 GB of RAM? From the file pdf resouce management, it appears that once you set the limit, the amount of memory configured on built is ignored, is that correct?

  CPU and memory limits default to unlimited. When the limit of memory is unlimited, the amount of memory configured for the virtual machine when you create becomes its implicit limit in most cases.

  chukarma wrote:

  I created VM1 with 1 GB of RAM.

  Think of this parameter as being equivalent to the amount of RAM that you install on a physical machine. The guest operating system can NEVER more than this amount.

  Subject, I left 0 by default.  But under the limit, the default value is unlimited.  I would indicate that Unlimited VM1 can use as much memory as it needs and that the ESX host can provide.

  The limit is use to restrict a virtual machine on your part until his assignment. For example, if you - for some reason-wanted to configure your virtual machine with / 3GB, but her access to more than 1 GB, you would set the attribution to 3 GB (it's how the guest operating system might think there), still set the limit to 1 GB - this is the maximum that ESX would allow the virtual machine to use at any time.

  If I set the limit to 2 GB, it does mean that VM1 can use more than 1 GB of RAM configured on built but can use up to 2 GB of RAM?

  No.... See the previous discussion.

  From the file pdf resouce management, it appears that once you set the limit, the amount of memory configured on built is ignored, is that correct?

  # If it is what deduced you, while the document needs to be clarified. The virtual machine can NEVER use physical RAM more than its allowance.

  CPU and memory limits default to unlimited. When the limit of memory is unlimited, the > amount of memory configured for the virtual machine when you create becomes sound > implicit limit in most cases.

  It is said that if the limit is 'Unlimited' (the default), then the 'quantity of memory configured for the virtual machine' (i.e. attribution), becomes the limit. It's just a convoluted way of saying that the virtual machine is unable to use more is attributed to him.

  Ken Cline

  Technical Director, virtualization

  Wells Landers

  TVAR Solutions, a company of the Wells Landers group

  VMware communities user moderator