I intalled a EXI 5.5 VMs on workstation 10, and I assigned 4096M for this VM. after successful installation, I managed this virtualized ESXI host using vSpere Client, from Configuration->memory, total of 4095.5M is displayed. where's the 0.5M go? Would you someone kindly give me a answer?
TIA
Robert Li
2014/8/25
Hi Robert,
Have you noticed that it also doesn't report the CPU exactly rounded up too?
My CPU is a 1.3Ghz Dual Core, vSphere client reports it as 2x1.297
My Microserver also has 16Gb in it. This should show as 16384, instead it shows as 16351.12MB so I'm missing 32 and a bit Mb. Which is exactly what I have allocated in the BIOS of the Microserver to be used as video memory.
However you are running esxi as a vm in workstation. Looking at the video card settings, a minimum of 1.18Mb of your VMs memory has to be reserved for video memory. So I'd actually expect your vSphere client to be showing up as Total Capacity of memory to be 4094.82Mb.
Even so, I really wouldn't worry where 512kb has gone. If you need that memory desperately then you're probably not running with enough memory to start with ![]()
Well this terms called memory gap. in your workstation select VM" power on to Bios" >advanced> advanced chipset control > Enable memory gap : Disabled.
I means 128 KB conventional memory gap will be there . Start from 512 KB or a 1 MB Extended memory gap.
Find this screen shot for the reference.
Thanks
Anjani
Hi, Anjani:
Very thankful for you good advice. But when I followed your instruction, and set Enable memory gap to "conventional" or "Extended", more memory lost. and for "conventional", 128K more, and for "extended", 1M more and totally 1.5M lost exactly. Would you have another suggestion.
Robert Li
2014/8/29
Robert,
first of all this memory gap will be always there.to run some process. you will never get the exact memory under the server which you will defined. there will be .5M or 1M gap will be there.
You cant deny this situation. And i believe .5 or 1M memory will not decay a lot of memory issue in your system performance .
