Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Caution
As discussed in
Chapter 5
, “
Architecting for Performance: Design
,” when
enabling hot plug for virtual machines, you will disable vNUMA. There are
benefits to using vNUMA and there are benefits to using hot plug capabilities, so
choose appropriately. This KB article contains more information:
Note
Make sure the operating system and the application
both
support adding
CPU and memory while the system is running. Go to
VMware.com
'
s
VMware Compatibility Guide website, select Guest OS (What are you
looking for), ESXi 5.5 (Product Release Version), Microsoft (OS Vendor),
and under Virtual Hardware, select either Hot Add Memory or Hot Plug
vCPU. OS vendors will also only support this option at certain license
levels for both the OS and the application.
Right-click the virtual machine you want to change. Click the drop-down next to CPU
11.15
, and before clicking OK, proceed to the next step.
