Posts Tagged ‘vSMP’

vSMP Fundamentals

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Daemon Behr has written a nice and succinct article on when and how to use more than one virtual CPU in a Virtual Machine.

A few of the highlights:

  • Be very selective with vSMP only use it when applications can take advantage
  • Don’t assign a VM the same amount of vCPUs as you have pCPUs
  • Remember to change HALs for migrated physical machines if necessary

I know most of this is taught during the training courses, but you’d be surprised how many installs I have been to that have ignored them.

Always useful to keep in mind.