Hey folks,
First, I shamefully recognize that I'm relatively new to ESXi and while I could probably find the answer in the plethora of documentation, I've spent hours and come up with nothing.
Looking for a simple answer to a very simple question:
What's the best way to share 4 CPU cores (4 physical cores on the host node) equally with 3 virtual machines?
I know there's lots of variables that can be introduced to the equation (type of software being used, VM operating system, etc) but I just want to give each VM as equal of a share as possible.
Right now I have 2 VMs, each with 2 vCPUs, and I really like my performance but I'm severely under-utilizing our resources.
I want to add a third VM and split up the 4 cores among the 3 VMs.
My gut says to give 4 vCPUs to each VM and let ESXi balance the load.
Am I right?
-Scott
P.S. It's a Xeon E3 1230 with hyperthreading disabled, so it shows up with 4 logical cores, not 8.