I have been asked to to do some testing on one of our VMGuest against a real box that is looking to replace.
In the past (and before I touched the config). They had run some tests.
This is wha tI know of the systems that we are comparing and my question will follow:
Old Real box:
4x Dual Core Xerox Processors with 3GB RAM and Windows 2000 Adv. Server
VM Box
VMGuest setup:
2x vCPU 3GB RAM and Windows 2000 Server
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My VMHost is a 2x Quad core Processor (so the Virtual Infrastructure Client)
Summary page for the VMHost
Shows 8 CPU and 16GB RAM (There are about 10 VMGuests)
I am have been quickly monitoring the Resources CPU are running about max at 20% and RAM is running at about 85% (I know it is high)
For the test we would like ot assign more processors to the VMGuest Test Machine, while shuting down a couple of other VMGuest that can be powered off for the testing time.
My questions would be:
Would there be any issues adding more processors to the VMGuest boxes? Other then shuting down the guest, editing the profile and rebooting the VM?
The Summary notes that I would have 8 Processor. Can I assign (or is it a good practice to assign 4 or more cpus to a single vm)?
With the Windows Standard (does each vCPU = a core CPU or a licened CPU)
That is just in regards to how many CPU I could actually asign to a Windows Standard box (I know the CPU Max is 4) though wanting to know how the VMWare would present the CPUs to the Guest?
thanks for any insight to ths
Adam