vRAM
Information on virtual Memory in pluscloud VMware
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Virtual machines (VMs) require virtual random access memory (vRAM) to be able to run. The memory is used to store data and programs for the vCPU .
The vRAM is an abstraction of the hardware-based RAM modules. It is a volatile memory. This means that this memory is not suitable for permanent data persistence, because there is no guarantee that the data will still be available after the VM is restarted.
Options offered
You can only specify the size of the virtual memory. The currently available values can be found in the product description.
| Option | Minimum | Maximum |
|---|---|---|
| vRAM | 1 GiB = 1024 MiB | 128 GiB = 131072 MiB |
Please note:
- Only the specified vRAM range is supported.
- You can also set values outside the specified range.
In this case, however, it may happen that a VM does not start or no longer starts correctly after a restart. - The allocated vRAM of a VM also consumes corresponding storage space. This is because in the event that an ESXi no longer has enough physical RAM available, a correspondingly large swap file is required for each VM in the size of its configured RAM.
Setting up vRAM for VMs
You can read about this on the Quickstart page.