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 <yzh...@marketo.com> wrote: > Hi, all: > > The CloudStack doc recommends that for XenServer, do not put more than 8 > hosts in a cluster, while the Citrix XenServer doc says that XenServer 6.5 > can natively support 16 hosts in a cluster (resource pool). > > I am wondering why CloudStack is recommending a smaller cluster size than > that XenServer can natively support? If I create a cluster with 10 > XenServers, what could go wrong for me ? Has any one tried with CS cluster > with >8 XenServer hosts ? > > My environment is CS 4.5.1 (soon to be upgraded to 4.8.0) on RHEL 6.7 and > XenServer 6.5, using NetApp volumes for both primary and secondary storages. > > Yiping >
