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QUERY ON MEMORY OVERHEAD

hai

on a vsphere machine i have created 2 vm's both of win2003 enter 32 bit but for node 1 i gave 3gb ram and node 2 gb ram

the memory over head on node 2 is 120mb where as the over head on node 1 is 140 mb

why is this difference ?:|

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vamsi

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Rubeck
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Well, the more memory you add to a virtual machine the more overhead there will be as ESX needs "some room" to do the actual virtualization for each VM...

You can read more about it on page 27 in the Resourse management guide here:

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Well, the more memory you add to a virtual machine the more overhead there will be as ESX needs "some room" to do the actual virtualization for each VM...

You can read more about it on page 27 in the Resourse management guide here:

/Rubeck

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hai

thank you RUBECK :smileygrin:

vamsi

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