How man VM's can be deployed on 2CPU*6 Cores*Multithreaded @3.6 GHZ, 96 GB RAM host ???

[Ravindra01]

H All,

   We got new blades with 2CPU*6 Cores*Multithreaded @3.6 GHZ, 96 GB RAM . how many VM's of configuration 2vCPU and 4 GB RAM can be deployed on single host ?? is there any standard or best practice to follow ??

Would like to know how many vCPU and RAM we can over commit ???

Thank You!

-RR

[NuggetGTR]

There is no right or wrong answer and I would say it all depends on the type of load the applications on the VMS will be running. I generally will aim for 6 - 8 vcpu per physical core but this will all depend on what environment and load. Think you could fit between 30 to 40 with that setup. But without knowing the workload of them you can't say for certain.