vSphere education - What are the downsides of configuring virtual machines with *too* much RAM?
- by ewwhite
VMware memory management seems to be a tricky balancing act. With cluster RAM, Resource Pools, VMware's management techniques (TPS, ballooning, host swapping), in-guest RAM utilization, swapping, reservations, shares and limits, there are a lot of variables.
I'm in a situation where clients are using dedicated vSphere cluster resources. However,…