{"id":10670,"date":"2010-06-15T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10670"},"modified":"2010-06-15T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T19:31:07","slug":"clustered-hyper-v-host-virtual-machine-capacity-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10670","title":{"rendered":"Clustered Hyper-V Host Virtual Machine Capacity Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week at TechEd, Microsoft announced an increase in the number of supported virtual machines in a Hyper-V Cluster.&#160; You may know that a Hyper-V host supports up to 384 running VM\u2019s.&#160; But up to now, only 64 VM\u2019s were supported on a <em>clustered<\/em> Hyper-V host.<\/p>\n<p>That changes now.&#160; Microsoft supports up to 1000 VM\u2019s in a cluster, regardless of how many Hyper-V hosts are in the cluster.&#160; With one exception,of course: You\u2019ll see that a 2 node cluster is limited to 384 VM\u2019s (N+1 hosts) because of the Hyper-V limit of 384 per host.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>16 nodes: ~62 VM\u2019s\/node<\/li>\n<li>8 nodes: 125 VM\u2019s\/node<\/li>\n<li>4 nodes: 250 VM\u2019s\/node<\/li>\n<li>3 nodes: 333 VM\u2019s\/node<\/li>\n<li>2 nodes: 384 VM\u2019s\/node<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is nicely timed with Dynamic Memory and new CPU\u2019s allowing for greater numbers of VM\u2019s per host.&#160; Now we can host them in a supported manner.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:59dff9a3-9163-4804-be55-b6f8393dbe82\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2008+R2\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2008 R2<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Failover+Clustering\" rel=\"tag\">Failover Clustering<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week at TechEd, Microsoft announced an increase in the number of supported virtual machines in a Hyper-V Cluster.&#160; You may know that a Hyper-V host supports up to 384 running VM\u2019s.&#160; But up to now, only 64 VM\u2019s were supported on a clustered Hyper-V host. That changes now.&#160; Microsoft supports up to 1000 VM\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clustered Hyper-V Host Virtual Machine Capacity Increases&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[63,181,195,117],"class_list":["post-10670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-failover-clustering","tag-hyper-v","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2008-r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}