Re: [ovirt-users] Maximum VM memory
Hi Omer, Especially the last point of your response is a good thing! I came across the problem as well, when trying to increase a VM to be 16 GB and by choosing any other 64 bit template it worked. Looking forward to these changes, -- Christophe -Original Message- From: Omer Frenkel [mailto:ofren...@redhat.com] Sent: dimanche, le 10 mai 2015 14:59 To: Christophe TREFOIS Cc: users@ovirt.org Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Maximum VM memory - Original Message - From: Christophe TREFOIS christophe.tref...@uni.lu To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015 3:17:12 PM Subject: [ovirt-users] Maximum VM memory Dear ovirt users, We have a special machine which has 1 TB RAM. The idea is to have 3-4 VMs on there which should be split like 85/5/5/5 % of total RAM. I have three questions: 1. Is there any reason not to put up a VM with so much RAM i don't think there is a problem with that 2. How can I increase the maximum RAM size for 64 bit VMs? i dont think you need to increase the maximum, max ram for 64bit os should be ok for your case with any cluster with compatibility of 3.1 and above (2TiB): $ engine-config --get VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 524288 version: 3.0 VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 2097152 version: 3.1 VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 2097152 version: 3.2 VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 2097152 version: 3.3 VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 4096000 version: 3.4 VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 4096000 version: 3.5 VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 4194304 version: 3.6 3. How can I create a new OS for the VM creation that supports 16 GB ? (Right now i have to choose RHEL 64 bits even for Debian systems) please see [1] for customizing guest os information. please note this bug [2]: Bug 1218531 - Setting Other OS is default 32bit instead of 64bit and causes incorrect RAM size limit of 16GB for 64bit OS. should be part of ovirt 3.5.3 where the we change most OS to be 64bit by default so most linux distros will be considered 64bit (Linux, debian 7, suse, ubuntu..) [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OS_info#value_overriding [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218531 Thank you for your help, — Christophe ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [ovirt-users] Maximum VM memory
On 10/05/15 13:17, Christophe TREFOIS wrote: Dear ovirt users, We have a special machine which has 1 TB RAM. The idea is to have 3-4 VMs on there which should be split like 85/5/5/5 % of total RAM. I have three questions: 1. Is there any reason not to put up a VM with so much RAM One reason I can think of - migration of a VM with 1TB ram will most likely never complete and time out. I have problems migrating machines with 64GB or more of RAM on RHEV, If you don't need live migration then you should be OK. Alex ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [ovirt-users] Maximum VM memory
- Original Message - From: Christophe TREFOIS christophe.tref...@uni.lu To: users@ovirt.org Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2015 3:17:12 PM Subject: [ovirt-users] Maximum VM memory Dear ovirt users, We have a special machine which has 1 TB RAM. The idea is to have 3-4 VMs on there which should be split like 85/5/5/5 % of total RAM. I have three questions: 1. Is there any reason not to put up a VM with so much RAM i don't think there is a problem with that 2. How can I increase the maximum RAM size for 64 bit VMs? i dont think you need to increase the maximum, max ram for 64bit os should be ok for your case with any cluster with compatibility of 3.1 and above (2TiB): $ engine-config --get VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 524288 version: 3.0 VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 2097152 version: 3.1 VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 2097152 version: 3.2 VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 2097152 version: 3.3 VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 4096000 version: 3.4 VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 4096000 version: 3.5 VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 4194304 version: 3.6 3. How can I create a new OS for the VM creation that supports 16 GB ? (Right now i have to choose RHEL 64 bits even for Debian systems) please see [1] for customizing guest os information. please note this bug [2]: Bug 1218531 - Setting Other OS is default 32bit instead of 64bit and causes incorrect RAM size limit of 16GB for 64bit OS. should be part of ovirt 3.5.3 where the we change most OS to be 64bit by default so most linux distros will be considered 64bit (Linux, debian 7, suse, ubuntu..) [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OS_info#value_overriding [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218531 Thank you for your help, — Christophe ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
[ovirt-users] Maximum VM memory
Dear ovirt users, We have a special machine which has 1 TB RAM. The idea is to have 3-4 VMs on there which should be split like 85/5/5/5 % of total RAM. I have three questions: 1. Is there any reason not to put up a VM with so much RAM 2. How can I increase the maximum RAM size for 64 bit VMs? 3. How can I create a new OS for the VM creation that supports 16 GB ? (Right now i have to choose RHEL 64 bits even for Debian systems) Thank you for your help, — Christophe ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
