Service Console Memory defaults
Duncan Epping (www.yellow-bricks.com) wrote a great post about de default amount of service console memory for vSphere 4.
I must confess I also thought that the default amount of service console memory was 800 Mb. But Duncan explains that this dynamicly configured during the installation of vSphere , depening on the amount of memory the vSphere host has installed.
ESX 4.x hosts – the default amount of RAM is dynamically configured to a value between 300MB and 800MB, depending on the amount of RAM that is installed in the host. For example, if the host has 32GB of memory the service console RAM will be set to 500MB, while a host which has 128GB of RAM will see the service console RAM set to 700MB. The maximum has not changed from 800MB, which would be seen on hosts with 256GB of RAM or higher, if it is being dynamically allocated.
Michael Wilmsen is a experienced VMware Architect with more than 20 years in the IT industry. Main focus is VMware vSphere, Horizon View and Hyper Converged with a deep interest into performance and architecture.
Michael is VCDX 210 certified, has been rewarded with the vExpert title from 2011, Nutanix Tech Champion and a Nutanix Platform Professional.
