Hi All,
I have Dell power edge R760 server with loads of RAM and Storage. My plan is to configure this as single node cluster.
is there any limit for number of Virtual Machines per single node cluster? I read that maximum 5 VM’s only allowed in single node cluster. is this true?
+2pmmurugan,
I do not believe there is a hard limit set so you could have more than five guest VMs but should you?!🤔
As a best practice, Nutanix recommends configuring up to five guest VMs. However, you can configure more guest VMs depending on the hardware configuration in the cluster and if snapshots are used in the cluster. Ensure that the cluster platform has the minimal physical resources to cater to the compute and disk requirements. Also, ensure that the CVM resources are optimally consumed.
Nutanix also recommends configuring backup for all the guest VMs running on a single-node cluster to protect the guest VMs in a node failure scenario. Failing to configure backup for guest VMs may result in data loss as data cannot be recovered from a single-node cluster. The data loss can be observed when there is any meta-data inconsistency or file system corruption.
+8Single node clusters are a different topic. Are you running CE? Then just run what you want.
This is from the official documentation:
| Powered on VMs | 128 | Number of powered on VMs per host |
as per AHV ,the hard limit per node is 128 (not sure if it got increased on the latest release though)
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=NVD-2031-Hybrid-Cloud-6-5-On-Premises-Design:design-limits.html
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