Bug 1841083

Summary: bump up max memory limit to 6TB
Product: [oVirt] ovirt-engine Reporter: Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek>
Component: BLL.VirtAssignee: Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Beni Pelled <bpelled>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 4.4.0CC: bugs, sgoodman
Target Milestone: ovirt-4.4.1Flags: pm-rhel: ovirt-4.4+
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Fixed In Version: rhv-4.4.1-3 Doc Type: Enhancement
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With this update, the maximum memory size for 64-bit virtual machines based on x86_64 or ppc64/ppc64le architectures is now 6 TB. This limit also applies to virtual machines based on x86_64 architecture in 4.2 and 4.3 Cluster Levels.
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Last Closed: 2020-07-08 08:25:18 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Michal Skrivanek 2020-05-28 10:37:03 UTC
we tested SAP workloads with 6TB so we can safely increase the limit(it's a soft limit anyway)

Comment 2 Michal Skrivanek 2020-05-29 08:23:46 UTC
increasing for POWER too. Shouldbe safe enough, though due to the issues on RHEL7 with POWER8 and POWER9 and RHEL-ALT I'd rather keep it at current value there (in 4.2,4.3 clusters) and only increase in 4.4

Comment 3 Beni Pelled 2020-06-16 13:50:36 UTC
Verified with:
- ovirt-engine-4.4.1.2-0.10.el8ev.noarch

Verification steps:
1.
# engine-config -g VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB
VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 6291456 version: 4.2
VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 6291456 version: 4.3
VM64BitMaxMemorySizeInMB: 6291456 version: 4.4

2.
Create a VM with 6TB RAM

Comment 4 Sandro Bonazzola 2020-07-08 08:25:18 UTC
This bugzilla is included in oVirt 4.4.1 release, published on July 8th 2020.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in oVirt 4.4.1 release, it has been closed with a resolution of CURRENT RELEASE.

If the solution does not work for you, please open a new bug report.