On 7/15/09, mark <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Erling Ringen Elvsrud wrote: > > We are going to try oracle on a virtual machine on VMware. This system has been > > assigned 4 virtual CPUs and I wonder if this is supported by RHEL > > Server (max 2 cpu-sockets). /proc/cpuinfo is missing 'physical_id' > > which identifies each > > phsyical CPU if I have understood it correctly. > > So do you think this system is supported? > > One thing you need to consider: what *other* vm guests will be on the physical > server? This is *very* important, because if you've got one that has one VCPU, > and a second that has two, and this, then the others will do nothing when this > has its time, *and* this VM will sit and wait until it can get all the VCPUs. Thanks for your advice. So what do you think, is it really a good idea to start with so many VCPUs before we see what kind of performance we get from only one? They use Vmotion extensively in the VMware cluster so I don't think the VMware admins have a lot of concern where the individual VM's are running. I will diskuss this issue with them. Best regards, Erling Ringen Elvsrud -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
