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I would agree with Andrew, over allocating CPUs will do more harm than good. &nbsp;The hypervisor will over subscribe, so just start with 1 vCPU and add as needed.
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I would agree with Andrew, over allocating CPUs will do more harm than good.  The hypervisor will over subscribe, so just start with 1 vCPU and add as needed.

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I have a host with 12 physical cores in it (2 CPUs with 6 cores each). <br />
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Can I run two VMs on there with 12 cores apiece? The metrics say I have enough CPU cycles to handle it.
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I have a host with 12 physical cores in it (2 CPUs with 6 cores each). 

Can I run two VMs on there with 12 cores apiece? The metrics say I have enough CPU cycles to handle it.

Ratio of VM cores to physical cores?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.