In addition what Motty pointed out please do give the FS [1] a read as well. Be cautious in setting these because they might affect your vm's QOS
[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CPU+and+RAM+Overcomm it Thanks, -Nitin On 02/01/14 2:29 PM, "motty cruz" <motty.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Ross, > >http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.2.0/html/Admin >_Guide/over-provisioning-service-offering-limits.html > >Thanks, >-motty > > >On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Ross Merrifield <r...@sscsinc.com> wrote: > >> Greeting CloudStack Users, >> >> Is it possible to over subscribe the amount of CPU and Memory instances >> that I allot to my instances? I believe this is also refereed to as thin >> provisioning. For example, can I allot more than 100% of a zone's CPU or >> Memory resources? I know that my machines will not be using 100% of >>their >> allotted CPU and memory at any given time, so I would like to use these >> "spare" resources elsewhere. >> >> Does this have anything to do with the "dynamically scalable" options? >>I'm >> thinking not, but I cannot find anything relevant in the official >> CloudStack documentation. >> >> -Ross >>