It is possible to use VMware vSphere to create a single, high-performance VM spanning multiple physical systems? For example, using DRS (or some other feature), could you create a single VM that would consume all resources of a resource pool spanning several physical blades or servers?
You can certainly use DRS as you would do it on physical systems to link to resources on other VMs/hosts, however you cannot aggregate the resources (CPU, memory) of multiple ESXi hosts natively.
André
You can certainly use DRS as you would do it on physical systems to link to resources on other VMs/hosts, however you cannot aggregate the resources (CPU, memory) of multiple ESXi hosts natively.
André
It is possible to use VMware vSphere to create a single, high-performance VM spanning multiple physical systems?
No. Each ESXi blade/physical systems is a unique instance and no VM can span instances.
Not only that, but the maximum number of CPUs that a VM can have (in 5.0) is 32 and there are many choices for hardware platforms that will give you 32 cores in a single instance.
Thanks for the quick reply. Is there another product in vmware's line that allows this kind of configuration?
Unfortunately not. What you are looking for is a compute cluster, if I understand you correctly.
André
André Pett wrote:
Unfortunately not. What you are looking for is a compute cluster, if I understand you correctly.
André
That's correct. Thanks for clarifying!