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Re: Add Old NTF Drive Without Formating and Without Converting Into ESXi Datastore?

sorspet — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:13:46 GMT

I can not belive still we do not have single good help to do this very simple thing. For example for VMW Workstation it is very easy. Just chose physical hdd and that is all.

Re: Add Old NTF Drive Without Formating and Without Converting Into ESXi Datastore?

sorspet — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:08:47 GMT

That is the idea. And how to do this from Esxi > Edit VM > and then what?

How Add Old NTF Drive Into Windows VM Without Formating and Without Converting Into ESXi Datastore?

sorspet — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:25:45 GMT

How Add Old NTF Drive Into Windows VM Without Formating and Without Converting Into ESXi Datastore?

This is a physical NTFS hard drive and must be seen only for windows virtual machine.

> Edit VM > And then what? HDD is only device and it is not part of the Datastore. I have ID, Path and that is all.

The answer is RDM. Good. Now we need documentation t9 be read first.

Re: Can't launch two VMs with less RAM requirements than physically available RAM - why?

sorspet — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:03:20 GMT

Workaround is to add following into C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini.

prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = "FALSE"
prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "0"

Restart!

Done!

Re: VMware vSphere Super Computer DRS

sorspet — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 21:48:21 GMT

Hm... The old version of DRS using average algorithm. The current version of DRS move resources from unused machines to machine witch is working intensive operation. This seems like small super computer.

Can I forcedly set some options and get all resources from 99% of machines into one?

VMware Bitfusion with GPUs??? https://youtu.be/VFuIpheXpyA

Apart of that gpu options have also some config bug https://youtu.be/w-Ez4Bqt33s

@depping wrote:
Well what you are missing I guess is the fact that DRS doesn't enable you to create one large super computer. It provides the ability to create a "cluster of resources" which provides loadbalancing. It doesn't aggregate all the resources for you to assign to a single Virtual Machine which are then scheduled across physical hosts. It doesn't work like that unfortunately.

VMware vSphere Super Computer DRS

sorspet — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:57:00 GMT

How can I make small super computer with VMW DRS? NO GPU!!! Forget this scenario.

I have 10 servers with DUAL EPYC CPU 2x64 cores. This mean I have 1,280 cores.

What are the steps to do that?

1. Install ESXi on each of 10 servers.

2. Install VM Data Center or vCenter???

2.1. add all ESXi servers into a laboratory

2.2. then add all ESXi server into a single cluster

2.3. activate DRS

3.. Install Windows IIS on each of ESXi (Virtualization Windows OS)

3.1. Deploy Microservices on each of IIS

3.2 Install RabitMQ on a machine (into windows)

3.3. Deploy Microservice Gateway into Windows (let assume in physically machine on first ESXi )

4. Test

4,1 Send 1M ( one millions) request to Gateway.

Am I missing something?

Do you want to see the result? Analytics? What really happing? How VMW DRS will move all cores to first ESXi?

Now let make a new scenario. Delete VMW Fabric and do this with RabitMQ only? Do you want to see the result? Analytics? What really happing?

Virtual CPUs per virtual machine (Virtual SMP)
768