Published: (Updated: ) by . Leave a Comment on Effects of CPU topology on sqlserver guests with AHV..
VM CPU Topology The topology (layout) that AHV presents virtual Sockets/CPU to the guest operating system will usually be different than the physical topology. This is expected because we typically present a subset of all cores to the guest VMs. Usually it is the total number of vCPU given to the VM that matters, not […]
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TL;DR Using cloud-init with AHV is conceptually identical to using KVM/QEMU- we need to use a few different tools with AHV You will need a Linux image that is configured to use cloud-init. A good source is cloud-images.ubuntu.com We will create a cloud-init textual file and create a mountable version using the cloud-localds tool on […]
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Often in my lab I want to shutdown a large number of VMs quickly. In the example below I submit the power-off command for a maximum of 50 VMs in parallel. Be aware that we’re using the command line, and in line with true Unix philosophy the OS will assume we know what we are […]
