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Hi,

Does anyone know of a situation where it is reasonable to have the value of CPU greater than VCPU? In my understanding this is just blocking (say wasting) physical CPU resources.

Greetings
Wilma

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In general it is better to think about VCPU and CPU as separate metrics.
CPU is to hypervisor allocation and over commitment, so for example CPU >
VCPU may let you to not place other VMs with a given one. For example you
if you have hosts with 8 cores, you could define a VM with VCPU=2 and
CPU=8; it may not use all the resources in the hypervisor but you also
prevent contention.

··· On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:38 AM, wilma_hermann wrote:

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March 8

Hi,

Does anyone know of a situation where it is reasonable to have the value
of CPU greater than VCPU? In my understanding this is just blocking (say
wasting) physical CPU resources.

Greetings
Wilma

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