How many virtual machines can I run on my Synology NAS? (2024)

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How many virtual machines can I run on my Synology NAS? ›

Take advantage of the powerful Synology Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to run multiple virtual machines at the same time. Run VMs across up to seven Synology NAS devices in a cluster infrastructure, enabling you to perform live migration and minimize downtime ahead of planned maintenance.

Take advantage of the powerful Synology Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to run multiple virtual machines at the same time. Run VMs across up to seven Synology NAS devices in a cluster infrastructure, enabling you to perform live migration and minimize downtime ahead of planned maintenance.

It is not advisable to overload your computer with too many VMs as it can cause a major slowdown to your system. This depends on your computer's resources, but usually, you can keep an average of 3-5 VMs running simultaneously without seeing any performance degradation.

You can run as many as you want. They each would require some CPU power and some memory. For example if you have a Quad Core 3GHz processor you can divide it as 4 processor (physical) x 1GHz x 3 = 12 Virtual Machines of 1GHz processors. If you halve this processing lower you have 24 virtual machines.

With memory optimization techniques, such as page sharing and ballooning, you can host up to 26 virtual machines. If each system on average only uses 1 GB of memory, you can host up to 128 virtual machines with the same overcommit ratio.

The maximum single volume size supported by Synology NAS varies depending on the CPU architecture and can be: 16 TB, 108 TB, 200 TB or 1 PB. Notes: Learn more about your storage system and how to manage it.

VMware currently supports a maximum of 2,048 powered-on virtual machines per VMFS datastore. However, in most circ*mstances and environments, a target of 15 to 25 virtual machines per datastore is the conservative recommendation.

A good starting point is to allocate 2 GB for Windows 10 or later desktops. If you want to use one of the hardware accelerated graphics features for 3D workloads, VMware recommends two virtual CPUs and 4 GB of RAM.

You can run 3 or 4 basic virtual machines on a host that has 4GB of RAM, though you'll need more resources for more virtual machines. On the other end of the spectrum, you can also create large virtual machines with 32 processors and 512GB RAM, depending on your physical hardware.

If you over provision your server you can probably host up to 50 VMs under ESXi based on RAM alone. If you decide to slice it up based on disks, each vm running ubuntu will need about 10GB of disk. So if you carve up the 300GB HD that gives you about 30 VMs if you factor in the disk space only.

How many VMs can I run with 8 cores? ›

It depends on which OS you going to install on them and also what application they will run. If you going to use some of the open source OS (Ubuntu, Backtrack, Fedora, etc) you should be able to run 15-20 of them but if you going to run Windows 7 and Server 2008 you might be able to run 4-6 of them.

When using availability sets, create two or more VMs within an availability set. Using two or more VMs in an availability set helps highly available applications and meets the 99.95% Azure SLA.

The maximum number of virtual machines a cloud service can contain is 50. Explanation: A virtual machine can be understood as a guest. It is created in a computing environment and called a host.

Virtual Machine Manager integrates various virtualization solutions in a centralized and refined interface, allowing you to easily create, run, and manage multiple virtual machines on your Synology NAS.

Maximum quota size

The main limitation of quota size is the volume size for either an Ext4 or a Btrfs volume. In addition, on an Ext4 volume, the maximum is 4095 GB if the volume is larger, while on Btrfs volumes, this limit does not exist.

The maximum number of virtual machines a cloud service can contain is 50. Explanation: A virtual machine can be understood as a guest. It is created in a computing environment and called a host.