When you determine the amount of resources you need for your virtualised environment you need to include several things such as:
- Hypervisor CPU requirements
- Hypervisor RAM requirements
- Hypervisor disk requirements
- Hypervisor CPU and or RAM requirement per running VM
- VM CPU requirements
- VM RAM requirements
On top of this some hypervisors allows for resource oversubscription for CPU and/or RAM and that must also be taken into account. I have written a blog post about my experience over the years in terms of vCPU to physical core oversubscription which can be found here.
I have a pretty good understanding of the “Hypervisor CPU and or RAM requirement per running VM” requirements for VMware ESXi since that’s the hypervisor i have been working with for the past + 10 years and during that time i have collected a lot of resource utilisation data.
Since i now work with KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi i’m in the process of building up the same level of data for KVM and Microsoft Hyper-V. I know there are documents available that tells you what figures to use but nothing is more important than real world data.
It’s a first time for everything and this is the first time i ask my blog readers for feedback:)
If you got 2 minutes to spare it would be awesome if you could fill out the very very very short survey regarding hypervisor resource utilisation for your KVM, Microsoft Hyper-V and or VMware ESXi environment.
The results will be published as a separate blog post and hopefully a lot of people will find the information useful.
Thanks
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