VM with 20GB of memory with 8cores?

Alex
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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?

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Alex
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Ben Personick (Previously QCubed)Lead SaaS Infrastructure Engineer

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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.
AlexSenior Infrastructure Analyst

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

So 48 logical Processors.

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Alex
Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert / EE Fellow)VMware and Virtualization Consultant
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AlexSenior Infrastructure Analyst

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2 sockets and 4 cores on each socket have been assigned.
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don't bother with sockets ANYMORE with 6.5

see above...
AlexSenior Infrastructure Analyst

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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?

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Alex
AlexSenior Infrastructure Analyst

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Thank you both gentlemen, always a pleasure learning from the pros :-)
Ben Personick (Previously QCubed)Lead SaaS Infrastructure Engineer

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Hey Alex,  Glad to help :)

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