Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

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Thank You So much!!

On 2022-10-07 18:22, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> And you can share ram across containers not vms.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 9:21 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> i love proxmox.have used it fir years
>> 
>> The vcou is socket x cores x2 if you have hyperv/smt
>> 
>> So a 4 core ht cpu would be 8vcpu.
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 7:35 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
>> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I just watched a video that covered the Proxmox Hypervisor.  Seems
>>> 
>>> simple enough.  I've used Oracle's VirtualBox for years.
>>> 
>>> So I did some research on what a vCPU is.  I was suppressed.  The
>>> math
>>> given was (Threads x Cores) x Physical CPU = Number vCPU.
>>> 
>>> I have an old laptop that has 1 socket, 2 cores, four threads, and
>>> 4GB
>>> of RAM.
>>> 
>>> Given the math (4 x 2) x 1 = 8 vCPUS.  Is this correct?
>>> 
>>> From my reading it appears that RAM is not shared, so my
>>> bottleneck is
>>> RAM not cores or threads.
>>> 
>>> I am a PHP developer and a local vps would need 2GB of RAM at a
>>> minimum.
>>> I have found a LAMP VPS will crash if allocated less than 2GB of
>>> RAM,
>>> and will run will on 1 vCPU.
>>> 
>>> The good news is I really only need one VPS to be active at any
>>> given
>>> time.
>>> 
>>> If I wanted to build a box that could run more than one VPS at a
>>> time,
>>> lets say 4, and I wanted to allocate 2 vCPUs and 4GB of RAM I
>>> would need
>>> 4 threads x 2 cores to run the 4 VPS configured with 2 vCPUs each.
>>> 
>>> What about RAM.  Looks like I would need a minimum of 16GB of ram.
>>> 
>>> How much resources does the Hypervisor need, in this case Proxmox?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!!
>>> Keith
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