{"id":12617,"date":"2012-05-31T22:30:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12617"},"modified":"2012-05-31T22:30:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:30:04","slug":"and-max-running-vcpus-per-host-is-going-up-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12617","title":{"rendered":"And Max Running vCPUs Per Host Is Going Up Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hold on tight folks!<\/p>\n<p>Max running vCPUs per host in Windows Server 2008 R2 was 512. In the Windows Server \u201c8\u201d Beta it was increased to 1024.&#160; In the Windows Server 2012 RC, it\u2019s doubled to 2048.<\/p>\n<p>So \u2026. big masive VMs with <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12614\" target=\"_blank\">64 vCPUs and 1 TB RAM<\/a>.&#160; Hosts with up to <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12616\" target=\"_blank\">320 logical processors and 4 TB RAM<\/a>.&#160; And 2048 running vCPUs in a host.<\/p>\n<p>You gotta know that Tad prefers smaller hosts, ones with 32 GB of RAM that are just perfect for VMLimitedSphere Standard Edition and it\u2019s memory vTax.&#160; Meanwhile anyone with the effectively free Hyper-V can grow to these limits all they want without being penalised.<\/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-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0f6e1a0d-f299-4c42-a6ac-2f32802bc6a1\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Server+2012\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Server 2012<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hyper-V\" rel=\"tag\">Hyper-V<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hold on tight folks! Max running vCPUs per host in Windows Server 2008 R2 was 512. In the Windows Server \u201c8\u201d Beta it was increased to 1024.&#160; In the Windows Server 2012 RC, it\u2019s doubled to 2048. So \u2026. big masive VMs with 64 vCPUs and 1 TB RAM.&#160; Hosts with up to 320 logical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And Max Running vCPUs Per Host Is Going Up Too&#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":[181,195,118],"class_list":["post-12617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hyper-v","tag-hyper-v","tag-virtualisation","tag-windows-server-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617","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=12617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}