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Hersey Cartwright
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Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.
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Enabling CPU Hot Add and Memory Hot Plug


Adding CPU and memory resources to a virtual machine is a simple process. The process of adding resources to a virtual machine is to power down the virtual machine, increase the number of vCPUs or the amount of memory, and power on the virtual machine again.

In vSphere 4.0, two new features, CPU Hot Add and Memory Hot Plug, were introduced to allow virtual machine vCPUs and the virtual machine memory to be increased without requiring the virtual machine to be powered off. CPU Hot Add and Memory Hot Plug must first be enabled on the virtual machine, which requires it to be powered off. Once enabled, however, CPU and memory resources may be added dynamically; powering off the virtual machine is not necessary.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps to enable vCPU Hot Add and Memory Hot Plug for virtual machines:

  1. Check the VMware Guest OS Compatibility Guide, which can be found at http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/pdf/VMware_GOS_Compatibility_Guide...

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Published in: Jun 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785283468

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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.
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kim bottu

Since 2012 Kim Bottu has been the EMEA Virtualization Engineer for an international Biglaw firm where he focuses mainly on virtual datacenter performance optimization and virtual datacenter design. Kim holds the following certifications and honors: VCA-NV, VCP5-DCV, VCP6-DCV, VCAP5-DCD and has been named vExpert 2016. Kim can be reached at www.vMusketeers.com.
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