From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 07: Resource Management

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Demo: CPU hot plug and memory hot add for VMs

Demo: CPU hot plug and memory hot add for VMs - vSphere Tutorial

From the course: vSphere 6.7 Professional Part 07: Resource Management

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Demo: CPU hot plug and memory hot add for VMs

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- [Instructor] In this video I'll demonstrate the CPU hot-plug and memory hot add features for a vSphere virtual machine. So I'm going to start by clicking here on Hosts and Clusters and here I've got a virtual machine that is currently powered off. So I'm going to go to Edit Settings and for this virtual machine, I can modify the number of CPUs and the amount of memory, no problem. And I can do that because the virtual machine is currently powered off. If this virtual machine was powered on, CPU and memory would be grayed out, I would not be able to modify the CPU count and I would not be able to modify the amount of memory allocated to this VM. But, let's say that this particular VM has a guest operating system that supports CPU hot-plug. That my operating system itself is actually compatible with adding CPUs on the fly when this machine is powered on. Well, if that's the case, I may want to enable the CPU Hot Add…

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