[Users] hot add ram to a vm

[Nathanaël Blanchet]

Le 09/12/2013 19:32, Itamar Heim a écrit :
> On 12/09/2013 06:51 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:27:16PM +0100, Nathanaël Blanchet wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is hot add ram to a vm is supported by ovirt, or is it planned to be?
>>
>> Not at the moment, I'm afraid. For some use cases, the recomended
>> approach is to start a VM with way-too-much ram, but inflate a big
>> balloon in it. When more memory is required on the VM, set a higher
>> guaranteed level of RAM.
>>
>> Dan.
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>
> we're working on hot add cpu now. then we'll start looking into hot 
> add ram. may i ask which guest OS are you looking at and the use case 
> you are trying to solve?
>
> thanks,
>    Itamar
We run many centos guests with ton of tomcats on it, and they are in 
production. Downtime is forbidden but we need more and more RAM because 
we often add new applications.

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