Our current host is configured as follows:
VMWare ESXi 5.0.0
2 X 2.4 GHZ Processor Sockets
6 Processors cores per socket
Logical Processors total = 24 (hyper threading enabled)
Memory = 87670 MB
We want to setup 13 View machines (i.e. Virtual Desktops). Our base image is configured as follows:
Memory = 1024 MB
CPUS = 1
We will also be running one or two virtual servers on the same host, but the View machines are lower priority. So my quesiton is this; b/c I am only assigning them 1 CPU and 1024 MB of RAM, those machines will never consume more than those resources even though on the "Resource Allocation" Tabe the "limit - mhz" is set to "unlimited" and the "reservation - MHZ" is set to "0". Do I need to make any adjustments on the virtual machine's resources tab and set limits to the CPU and memory?
Also, what does the "share" column on the same tab refer too?
And lastly, is best practice to allocate resources to a virtual machines CPU and Memory settings if a high priorty machine (i.e. email server, web server) so it doesn't have to compete/balance those? or does it matter.
Thanks,
Greg
