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RanjnaAggarwal
VMware Employee
VMware Employee
‎06-04-2013 09:45 AM

Percentage treated as system memory in esxi host

is there any percentage that is treated as system memory on esxi host.

Regards, Ranjna Aggarwal
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ezzeldin72
VMware Employee
VMware Employee
‎06-04-2013 10:00 AM

VMKernel need 100MB+ of RAM (depending on the number of hosts devices)

also there is virtual machine memory overhead

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-pubs.html

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RanjnaAggarwal
VMware Employee
VMware Employee
‎06-04-2013 10:34 AM

But what i observed with 2.5gb ram it is 9.5mb and with 4gb ram it is 17.5mb.

Regards, Ranjna Aggarwal
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