System Sizing Guidelines for Integrity Virtual Machines Deployment -- Hardware Consolidation with Integrity Virtual Machines

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Stacking Workloads - Example 2
In this example, an Integrity Server hosts ten workloads, all with the expected utilizations as shown
in Table 2.
Table 2 – Average expected utilizations of workloads in Example 2.
CPU
Utilization
I/O Storage
Utilization
I/O Network
Utilization
Each
Workload
10%
10%
4%
TOTAL
100%
100%
40%
You can determine the integral number of physical components necessary to host these workloads
by dividing the total aggregate utilization by the threshold utilizations and rounding up. For
example:
Number of CPUs = 100% / 50% = 2
Number of Disks = 100% / 40% = 2.5  3
Number of NICs = 40% / 40% = 1
Therefore, the server will need two CPUs, three disks available to the virtual machines, and one
NIC. Of course, the actual amount of available disk space must be well beyond what is required
for the VM Host‟s system disk.