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ESXi users: VM Settings

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This is more of a curiosity than anything, but what kind of allocations/provisions are you guys using for VMs such as unRaid, or WHS, Ubuntu Server, MineOS and such.  I tend to thin provision and allocate too much, but I'd just like to know what kind of numbers other users are...using.

 

I am particularly interested in processors/cores.

CPU is E3-1230 V2 with 24GB RAM/25GB partion on a 64GB SSD acting as a host cache

 

1 vCPU/600MB RAM for vSphere Management Assistant

1 vCPU 6GB RAM for Unraid

8 vCPU 8GB RAM for Ubuntu server that runs downloading apps and library managers/Air Video Server

4 vCPU 8GB RAM for OpenIndiana/napp-it that runs my ZFS pool

Unraid (unraid, airvideo, unmenu):

Guest OS Other (32bit)

VM Version vmx-09

CPU 2 vCPU

Memory 4096 MB

Thin provisioned with 8gb

VMXNet3 network adapter

 

MediaBeast (Sabnzbd, Transmission, Sickbeard, Couchpotato, LazyLibrarian, Maraschino, Spotweb):

Guest OS Ubuntu Linux (32bit)

VM version 8

CPU 2 vCPU

Memory 4096 MB

Thin provisioned with 32GB

VMXNet3 network adapter

 

OpenVPN (just for PPTP, keeping it seperate)

Guest OS Ubuntu Linux (32bit)

VM Version 8

CPU 1 vCPU

Memory 512MB

Thin provisioned with 4GB

VMXNet3 network adapter

 

 

 

pfSense (firewall,dns/dhcp,vpn endpoint etc)

Guest OS FreeBSD

1 vCPU

512mb RAM

1Gb thin provisioned

2x vmxnet3 adapters

 

unRAID

Guest OS Ubuntu 32bit

1 vCPU

2Gb RAM

1Gb thick prov (/shrug)

vmxnet3 adapter

 

Download box (sabnzbd/sickbeard x3 (main/anime/torrent branches), couchpotato, lazylibrarian, headphones, deluge)

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit

1 vCPU

2Gb RAM

Thin provisioned, 100Gb

Vmxnet3 adapter

 

Plex Box w/MySQL DB for shared XBMC

2 vCPU

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64bit

2Gb RAM

Thin provisioned, 40Gb

Vmxnet3 adapter

 

Windows 2012 server - secondary DNS/windows stuff/apcupsd UPS management

1 vCPU

2Gb RAM

Thin provisioned, 40Gb

Vmxnet3 adapter

 

Nas4free (was FreeNAS until today) - ZFS array/NFS datastore

1 vCPU

8Gb RAM

Thin provisioned, 10Gb

Vmxnet3 adapter

 

How is that no one asked this before?

Thanx guys :D

 

Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2

 

 

2 ESXi servers.

 

Both E3-1230 V1 Sandy Bridge.

 

server1:

1 vCPU 3GB unRAID VM + 2GB VMDK Thick + M1015 + RES2SV240 + 13 3TB + (to be installed 2 2TB 3 3TB)

4 vCPU 6GB Win7 x64 + 80GB VMDK Thin + M1015 + 5 3TB + USB2.0 card + lots of Tuner cards for SageTV

1 vCPU 2GB WHSv1 + 320GB laptop RDM VMDK + SASLP-MV8 + 4 1TB laptop (this VM may be moving to other box)

Various other Windows VMs not used much off 99% of the time

 

server2:

1 vCPU 3GB unRAID VM + 2GB VMDK Thick + M1015 + RES2SV240 + 4 3TB + 11 2TB + (to be installed 3 2TB)

4 vCPU 6GB Win7 x64 + 80GB VMDK Thin + Highpoint 1742 + 6 3TB in 2 external port multiplier cages supporting 10 drives + lots of Tuner cards for SageTV

Various other Windows VMs not used much off 99% of the time

 

This thread provokes a thought:  What do you use to gently shut down all the guests in the event of a power outage ??    ... Does ESXi support UPS control and simply put all the virtual machines in hibernation?

 

I cleanly shut down my VM's and then the host - see apcupsd link in my sig.

BetaQuasi - What prompted you to switch from FreeNAS to NAS4free?

I was bored :P

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