Virtual Server R2 SP1 can run up to 512 virtual machines...

posted by  sfiroz (91)  11 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

Virtualization Nation,

In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned the fact that Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 now supports up to 256 GB of memory and can run 512 virtual machines simultaneously. I received some feedback asking me to compare this against Virtual Server 2005 R2, so let me do that…

Virtual Server 2005 R2 running on Windows Server 2003 32-bit (x86 editions). Virtual Server R2 running on 32-bit Windows has a hard coded limit of running 64 virtual machines concurrently. In reality most people have difficulty reaching that number due to 32-bit kernel address spac