Chapter 6. Managing XenServer and Virtual Machine Memory

In the previous chapter, we discussed how to manage virtual machines in XenServer.

Now we can introduce memory management in XenServer. At the end of this chapter you will be able to configure memory for your virtual machines in order to provide the best performance for your virtual environment using Dynamic Memory Control.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • XenServer memory overview
  • Virtual machine memory overview
  • Managing virtual machine memory

XenServer memory overview

XenServer memory usage is based on how much physical memory exists on the server itself.

In the first chapter of the book, we have discussed the Resource Pools concepts and introduced the "Control Domain" virtual ...

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