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 Virtual machine per blade server
Blade servers, Citrix, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Citrix PS4, HP Blade Server, IBM BladeCenter, VMware ESX 3.0
Hi,.

Quick question, how many VM servers can you run these days on a blade server (HP or IBM bladecenters), I guess thius depends on the CPU's and memory on the blade right?

Assuming I had 8GB memory and 2 phyiscal CPU's.

The blade server would be running virtual Citrix PS4

 



Software/Hardware used:
Citrix PS4, IBM or HP Bladecenter
ASKED: August 15, 2010  4:31 PM
UPDATED: August 17, 2010  11:14 PM
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It all depends on the workload of the VMs and the memory requirements. If each guest only need 512 Megs of RAM and has a very load CPU load requirement then you could put 15 machines per blade (leaving 512 Megs for the host OS). But if each guest needs 2 Gigs then you can only run 3 VMs per blade.
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FWIW: I have an IBM BladeCenter S with 2 blades at 48G each. Each blade has 13 servers, and I still have memory and CPU available.

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