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Server Virtualization Calculator - ESX

This tool calculates the number of hosts in a vSphere ESXi cluster based on the planned VM workload and host configuration.

Virtual server / VM specification:

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RAM (GB): 
# of VMs: 
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RAM (GB): 
# of VMs: 
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Hypervisor host specification:

# of CPUs
Cores per CPU
CPU speed (GHz)
Hyper-threading
RAM (GB)
Cluster maximum CPU core allocation (%):
Cluster maximum memory allocation (%):
Hypervisor memory overhead per host (GB):
Hypervisor CPU overhead per host (GHz):
Hypervisor memory overhead per VM (GB):

VM Workload:
Total configured vCPUs:0
Total configured memory (GB):0
Total number of VMs:0
Average VM configuration: 
  - number of vCPUs:
  - Memory (GB):
Hosts & Cluster: N hostsN+1 hosts
Number of hosts: 12
Total number of physical CPUs or sockets:24
Total number of physical CPU cores:1632
Total number of logical processors:1632
Total cluster CPU capacity (GHz):38.476.8
Total hypervisor CPU overhead (GHz):1.73.4
Total hypervisor CPU overhead (Cores):0.70831.4167
Cluster CPU capacity available for VMs (GHz):36.773.4
Cluster CPU cores available for VMs: 15.291730.5833
Configured vCPUs: 00
Physical CPU core overcommitment ratio: 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Average number of configured vCPUs per host: 00
Total cluster memory capacity (GB): 256512
Total hypervisor memory overhead (GB): 2.65.2
Cluster memory capacity available for VMs (GB):  253.4506.8
Configured VM memory (GB): 00
Total VM memory overhead (GB): 00
Total memory required for VMs (GB): 00
Memory overcommitment ratio 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
Average number of VMs per host: 00

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