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Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-users] Xen or XCP



On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> For instance, from what I understand from what I have read, XCP allows
>> you to create resource pools.  The part of this I don't understand is
>> if one VM can spread across the entire pool or if it will still be
>> tied to one piece of hardware in the pool (CPU and Memory as storage
>> will be on a NAS / SAN anyways)?
>
> If your storage is on NAS/SAN then yes, you can migrate virtual machines
> between homogeneous hosts in the pool, or even heterogeneous hosts (from
> the same vendor) if you configure "CPU levelling" appropriately.
>

They'll still run on one host at a time though (I think Shane might be
asking this) so they get the CPU and memory of (part of) one of the
hosts. Like Ian says, you can easily move them between hosts in a pool
though.

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