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oporras
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how many Tiles can I run?


With 240 cpu, 7.5TB of ram and 16TB of storage, how many Tiles can I run?

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RebeccaG
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Hi oporras,

VMmark is typically used to run as many tiles as possible in a cluster and still achieve a passing score.

To find a rough estimate of how many tiles your cluster will support, you can look at the VMmark results page. Try filtering results by the total number of cores you have in your cluster. You may also be able to find a published VMmark result which uses the same or similar processor to your cluster, and extrapolate the number of tiles.

You are also thinking about the memory and storage requirements for VMmark, that is good.

Check the "System Requirements" on the VMmark website https://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark.html as it lists the amount of memory and storage needed for each tile.

After you provision VMmark 3 with the tiles you calculated, see whether the run passed or failed (see the VMmark User's Guide for details). 

If it passed, you need to provision more tiles so you can find the largest number of tiles that passes.

If it failed you need to run VMmark 3 with one less tile. Continue until you have a passing run.

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Bogdan_Ionut
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To determine the number of "Tiles" or virtual machines you can run several factors need consideration: CPU and RAM Allocation per Virtual Machine; Storage Requirement per Virtual Machine; Hypervisor Overhead and Resource Reservations but also Balancing Resources.

For example, if each Tile requires 4 CPUs, 16GB RAM, and 100GB storage, and you have a total of 240 CPUs, 7.5TB RAM, and 16TB storage:

CPUs: 240 CPUs / 4 CPUs per Tile = 60 Tiles
RAM: 7.5TB RAM / 16GB per Tile = 468 Tiles (rounded down as you can't have partial VMs)
Storage: 16TB / 100GB per Tile = 160 Tiles

 

 

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