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I can tell you guys that there’s not right choice in here, it’s because every environment is unique.
Depending on the amount of resources available you have, the over commitment of your resources, your guests’ behavior, etc…

So, I’d like to give you some ideas about when to use and when not to use it.

But be aware that it’s not a general idea you should consider it for each guest you have.

- start with no memory limit
- then if you have a guest that has an application consuming a lot of memory or may be has a memory leak, it’s a good idea to think about memory limitation.
- If you memory availability is to low and you have a lot of memory ballooning activity, which would impact the performance on several guests, may be it’s time to check the more offenders guests and set a limitation on them.

- Now if you have plenty of memory available there’s no reason to limit your guests
- do not set a limitation close to the memory allocated or bellow that, give some room for it run when peaks of utilization occurs.

Bellow you can see a video where memory limitation impacts the guest’s performance even when there’s plenty of memory available on the host, if you want to read the history it’s here.

Don’t use memory limits – Proofpudding from Eric Sloof NTPRO.NL on Vimeo.

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