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Michal Skrivanek 2016-02-08 12:56:30 UTC Doc Text large guests have a significant overhead on the host which is not accounted for when scheduling the VM
1/128th of the VM memory size is required to be available on host as a consecutive non-swapped block of memory.
End-user effect is that "sometimes" VMs do not run despite the memory on host seems to be sufficient.

Please document the difference on ppc64le hypervisors - default max memory size is 1TB, hotplug memory is disabled (can be enabled via engine-config)
Yaniv Lavi 2016-02-09 13:04:46 UTC CC ydary
Doc Type Bug Fix Known Issue
Red Hat Bugzilla 2016-02-09 13:04:46 UTC Doc Type Known Issue Bug Fix
Yaniv Lavi 2016-02-09 13:05:25 UTC Target Milestone ovirt-3.6.4 ovirt-3.6.3
Summary [PPC64LE] - memory hotplug support [PPC64LE] - ppc64le hypervisors do not have memory hotplug support
Michal Skrivanek 2016-02-10 12:21:51 UTC oVirt Team Virt Docs
Bronce McClain 2016-02-15 15:37:31 UTC Blocks 1308609
Lucy Bopf 2016-02-16 03:51:44 UTC Status NEW RELEASE_PENDING
CC lbopf
Doc Text large guests have a significant overhead on the host which is not accounted for when scheduling the VM
1/128th of the VM memory size is required to be available on host as a consecutive non-swapped block of memory.
End-user effect is that "sometimes" VMs do not run despite the memory on host seems to be sufficient.

Please document the difference on ppc64le hypervisors - default max memory size is 1TB, hotplug memory is disabled (can be enabled via engine-config)
Large virtual machines have a significant overhead on Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts on IBM POWER8 hardware, which is not accounted for when scheduling the virtual machine. 1/128th of the virtual machine memory size is required to be available on the host as a consecutive non-swapped block of memory. The end-user effect is that sometimes virtual machines do not run, even though the memory on the host seems to be sufficient.

The default maximum memory size for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux host on IBM POWER8 hardware is 1TB. Memory hot plugging is disabled by default, but can be enabled using the engine-config utility.
Summary [PPC64LE] - ppc64le hypervisors do not have memory hotplug support [Docs][PPC64LE][Release Note Only] - ppc64le hypervisors do not have memory hotplug support
Doc Type Bug Fix Known Issue
Hanns-Joachim Uhl 2016-02-18 16:20:27 UTC Blocks 1308609
Lucy Bopf 2016-03-10 07:13:14 UTC Status RELEASE_PENDING CLOSED
Resolution --- CURRENTRELEASE
Last Closed 2016-03-10 02:13:14 UTC
Hanns-Joachim Uhl 2016-08-01 14:11:34 UTC Blocks 1284775
Depends On 1284775

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