Server Consolidation White Papers
Memory Sizing for Server Virtualization
Overview Intel IT has standardized on 16 gigabytes (GB) of memory for dual-socket virtualization hosts. We based this decision on extensive analysis of maximum physical memory consumption on more than 3,000 servers running non-virtualized workloads in our business computing environment. We found that approximately half of these servers consume 1 GB of memory or less. For workloads of this size, we believe that we can achieve high consolidation ratios of up to 15-20 to 1 using low-cost dual-socket virtualization hosts based on quad-core processors. We expect that this strategy will minimize cost because we avoid paying for unused memory and associated power and cooling.
| Publisher | Intel | File Format | |
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| Date Published | September 2007 | Downloads | 3 |
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