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On Mar 28, 2016 11:15 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 03/28/2016 09:54 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> > My tuning time costs more than an extra pair of 16GB DIMMS.<br>
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> Fine.<br>
> Deploy with way too much.<br>
> Monitor for 2+ months.<br>
> See that 512MB is needed and 1 CPU.<br>
> Spend 10 seconds to reduce the memory allocation and CPU to the VM. Next<br>
> reboot, solved. System monitoring isn't a waste of time.<br>
> Right-sizing isn't a waste of time.<br>
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> Being able to have 5 more VMs per physical server **is** a cost savings,<br>
> after all. We aren't aiming for 100% utilization, 80% on CPU is fine.<br>
> Having a little free RAM for VM spikes is useful too.<br>
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> BTW, KVM does core memory sharing too, these days. No need to spend<br>
> $12K for VM licenses, plus $1K for any addon - you know - like backup<br>
> software. VMware is impressive and at that price, it should be.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ovirt will happily use mem sharing. Very useful! Even though I get vmware for free as edu license allows, I much prefer the open source tools. I reserve the vmware for the macbook toters who want a Linux vm. They just don't get that they are using things backwards.</p>
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> I need to go away now. Have an idea.<br>
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