{"id":12624,"date":"2012-06-01T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12624"},"modified":"2012-06-01T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T07:55:00","slug":"i-could-put-an-entire-banks-systems-on-a-single-ws2012-hyper-v-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12624","title":{"rendered":"I Could Put An Entire Bank\u2019s Systems On A Single WS2012 Hyper-V Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I designed and managed the MSFT network for an international bank between 2003 and 2005.&#160; At the end, we had 170 or so physical servers, with an average spec of 4 cores and 4 GB RAM.&#160; Thanks to MOM 2005, I knew the average CPU utilisation was around 12% \u2026 perfect for virtualisation.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Assuming that workload trebled over the years (and it wouldn\u2019t have), that would be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2040 Cores at 12 %, giving us 244 logical processors requires (not very scientific but you get the gist), and that\u2019s not accounting for increased horsepower in newer processors.&#160; <\/li>\n<li>2040 GB RAM, which is half of the max of 4 TB in a host, without using Dynamic Memory.<\/li>\n<li>510 VMs <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing to think that all of this could run on a single Windows Server 2012 RC Hyper-V host.<\/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-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:74e74b7e-a8b5-496d-be6c-fe7097f117c8\" 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>I designed and managed the MSFT network for an international bank between 2003 and 2005.&#160; At the end, we had 170 or so physical servers, with an average spec of 4 cores and 4 GB RAM.&#160; Thanks to MOM 2005, I knew the average CPU utilisation was around 12% \u2026 perfect for virtualisation.&#160; Assuming that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Could Put An Entire Bank\u2019s Systems On A Single WS2012 Hyper-V Host&#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-12624","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\/12624","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=12624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}