VM with 20GB of memory with 8cores?

So,

I have a VM on ESXi 6.5 with 20Gb of memory but 8 cores as well. I think that's a bit odd but I'm wondering if it would in fact cause any issues or performance impact. Essentially I figured it'd be something to do with the vNUMA and the pNUMA and how it manages across the two.

I know that 6.5 has improved the vNUMA considerably, so I'm wondering if this is still an issue, if so can you provide any documentation?

Thanks
Alex

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Ben Personick (Previously QCubed)

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Ben Personick (Previously QCubed)

3/13/2019

Numa scheduling a large number of cores on a VM isn't in and of itself an issue.

To determine if there is a problem with a VM of 8 cores requires knowing:

A) The underlying physical hardware's total number of virtual cores. (Virtual Cores = 1x or 2x the value of Physical cores (1x is Hyper threading is disabled, 2x if HT is enabled) (physical = total cores across all CPUs on the system)
B) The mix of additional VMs on the system, their number of CPUs, and average load.

Alex

3/13/2019

ASKER

It's a 24 core server with 256GB of memory

So 48 logical Processors.

Thanks
Alex

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

3/13/2019

ESXi 6.5 is better now, providing you have assigned CORES (for your vCPUs). (e.g. not sockets as per original thoughts pre 6.5)

see here

https://www.opvizor.com/decoupling-of-cores-per-socket-from-virtual-numa-topology-in-vsphere-6-5

https://blogs.virtualmaestro.in/2018/05/vnuma-vmware-vsphere-65.html

https://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2017/03/virtual-machine-vcpu-and-vnuma-rightsizing-rules-of-thumb.html

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Alex

3/13/2019

ASKER

2 sockets and 4 cores on each socket have been assigned.

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Alex

3/13/2019

ASKER

Perfect, so stick with solid cores and then this should in fact improve performance going forward.

Excellent, that explains a lot, as for the 20GB of memory, that wouldn't cause any performance issues given the lack of cores and the large quantity of memory as it did before?

Thanks
Alex

Alex

3/13/2019

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Thank you both gentlemen, always a pleasure learning from the pros :-)

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Ben Personick (Previously QCubed)

3/13/2019

Hey Alex, Glad to help :)