VM Hot Add CPU Or Memory

Private Cloud Director supports hot-add of CPU and / or memory resources to a running virtual machine. Using this feature, you can increase CPU cores or memory allocated to a running VM, without having to power-cycle it. This is valuable for production VMs that need more resources to meet workload demands but that can not be powered off.

Pre-requisites

• Read more here about Zero-Size Flavor. Using zero-size flavor when creating your VM is a requirement for hot-add. Before you can hot-add CPU or memory resources to a VM, the VM must have been created using zero-size flavor.

Hot-add CPU or Memory to a Running VM

1. Select a powered-on VM that was created with a zero-size flavor.

2. On the VM grid view, navigate to ▷ Other Actions ▷ Hotplug.

3. Enter the new vCPU and/or memory value for the VM. These values must not exceed the maximums set at the time of VM creation.

4. Click Hotplug VM.

Limitations

• Hot add can only be used to increase the current CPU or memory allocation of a running VM. Reducing currently allocated CPU or memory is not supported.

• You can not use the hot-add feature to resize the disk of a running VM today.