4 • Understanding Virtualization in a ClearCube Environment
ClearCube Virtualization Deployment Guide
R2200 Blade Running VMware ESX Server
This section provides a high-level overview of the ESX Server virtualization platform,
using R2200 Blades. The following figure shows the major components in the platform.
For best performance, ClearCube recommends allocating a minimum of 512 MB of
RAM for the ESX VM Host, and 512 MB per VM. The following table lists the
recommended maximum number of VMs per RAM on an R2200 Blade.
Table 1. R2200 Recommended Maximum VMs
Power limitations on R2200 Blades with 3.8 GHz processors allow using only one
hard disk. Administrators may want to standardize on R2200s equipped with only one
hard drive.
Figure 1. VMs Hosted on ESX Server
RAM
Maximum VMs
4 GB
7
6 GB
12
8 GB
15
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