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Saturday 7 June 2014

Configure virtual machines to use hyper-threading with NUMA in VMware ESXi 4.1.x / 5.0.x (2003582)

Details

You can change NUMA settings on a per virtual machine basis in ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5.0 hosts.

For memory latency sensitive workloads with low processor utilization or high interthread communication, use hyper-threads with fewer NUMA nodes instead of full physical cores spread over multiple NUMA nodes. 

Configure virtual machines to use hyper-threading with NUMA.

Solution

Perform either of the following tasks:
  • Configure one virtual machine to use hyper-threading with NUMA, add numa.vcpu.preferHT=TRUE for per-virtual machine advanced configuration file.

    To edit with vSphere Client:
    1. Right-click on VM
    2. Select Edit Settings
    3. Click the Options tab.
    4. Highlight General under Advanced options and click Configuration Parameters.
  • Configure all virtual machines to use hyper-threading with NUMA, add numa.PreferHT=1 for per-host advanced configuration file.

    To edit from vCenter Server:
    1. Highlight Host.
    2. Click the Configuration tab.
    3. Under Software, click Advanced Settings.
    4. Highlight Numa and browse to Numa.PreferHT.
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