How much can I load onto my ESX

[svenmontgomery]

Hi all,

Ive just ventured into VMWare ESX 3.5 and have uploaded a few simple W2K3 boxes.

Im running my ESX on a DELL 2950 4x 3GHz CPU, 8GB RAM, 1TB of local storage (will probaly move this onto my CX300 SAN but just want to get it running and tested first).

Ive plenty of others that I would like to virtualise but am not sure how much 'load' i should be placing on my server. ie CPU/RAM/Disk.

Anyone got a rule of thumb they use or point me to a good whitepaper?

Thanks as always!

 

[NortonES2]

We run 40 VMs on HP DL580G4 4 x 3.2Ghz CPU 32Gb RAM (in a clustered HA environment) and remote storage via ISCSI

Might be worth you checking the

http://www.vmware.com

forums

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[mrdenny]

I've got two machines with similar specs. One runs 20 machines, and the other runs 15 machines. The major factor that you'll have to deal with is how much RAM each VM needs. The less RAM they need the more you can get on there. The more RAM they need the less machines you'll be able to add. Each of my hosts has about 2 Gigs of RAM free.

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[svenmontgomery]

thanks.. Will check out the forums.

Looks like RAM is the main factor so will plan accordingly.

appreciate the responses.