Re: XenServer cluster size

I think I didn’t make it clear. Those 10 hosts are all Gen8 blades, that’s why I want them to form a pool of their own. New Gen9 blades will go into a different pool. On 3/9/16, 10:14 AM, "Tim Mackey" wrote: >In that case, Yiping, I would *definitely* recommend putting

Re: XenServer cluster size

In that case, Yiping, I would *definitely* recommend putting those servers into at least two pools. The processors used in Gen8 and Gen9 servers can not currently be joined into the same pool, and you actually need to be very sensitive to the processor steppings. Dundee should fix that, but no

Re: XenServer cluster size

Hi, Tim: Thanks for very detailed reply. These are Gen8 HP blades and all my new servers will be Gen9. That’s why I’d like to combine them into one maxed out cluster. I have only two guest VLAN’s and roughly 400 VM instances for this 10 hosts cluster. So I think performance wise I should

Re: XenServer cluster size

Yiping, Here's the detailed answer >From the XenServer perspective, there are a number of factors which go into how various configuration limits are arrived at. Most of the time, they aren't hard limits (for example I know of users with more than 16 hosts in a pool). What the XenServer team

Re: XenServer cluster size

IIRC, its just a recommendation. I think it stemmed from performance impact, due to numerous VLAN's present, in environments with lots of tenants. On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Yiping Zhang wrote: > Hi, all: > > The CloudStack doc recommends that for XenServer, do not put