<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); z-index: auto; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Hi,</div><div style="position: relative; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); z-index: 0; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><br></div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); z-index: auto; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">I was wondering if someone could please help me with the following query.</div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><br></div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Consider a Xeon 8 core processor with hyper-threading and say I have two of them.</div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">That gives me 8*2=16 cores, with hyper-threading I could treat this as 16*2=32 cores ie., 32 vcpu.</div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><br></div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Now as we know, most people would not allocate one vcpu to one user, given that not everyone would be using the cpu to the fullest at the same time.</div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); z-index: auto; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">I wonder, what would be a good Overprovisioning ratio that we could use which would result in optimum usage of resources. Would it be 1:4 OR 1:8 or 1:16 or 1:2 or something else.</div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><br></div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); z-index: auto; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Really looking forward to inputs on the same.</div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><br></div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); z-index: auto; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Thanks a ton in advance.</div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Regards,</div><div style="position: static; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); z-index: auto; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Malathi</div></body></html>