Sunday 30 July 2017

Virtual Machine - Edit Settings (CPU) Part 3 (iii)

In my previous post, I have talked about CORE.
Now in this Part 3, We are going to talk about ENABLE CPU Hot Add.



In this screenshot as you can see, I have used vSphere Web Client, Right Click on virtual machine & edit settings.


3.ENABLE CPU Hot Add: This feature lets you add or remove CPU resource to a powered ON virtual machine.
It should be supported by the operating system and should be turned on in advance i.e If VM is running then this option is grayed out. In order to turn it, VM should be in POWERED OFF state.


 

This information is from Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition.


Once CPU Hot Add is enabled: 



This information is from Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition.
Now if you want to decrease the number of CPU, that can only be done if VM is powered OFF.

We are able to edit get this CPU option, I have installed Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition. VMware has published these KB articles related to CPU Hot Add Feature: KB2020993, KB2051989 which relates to this feature for various operating systems.









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