Nested hosts customizations

[magranez]

I'm using a physical host with some memory and disk constraints. For this reason, I need to balance the use of swap-on-disk with memory reservation for nested hosts. The configuration I found in my case is to set up a memory reserve for each of the hosts that go up with 96 GB so that they don't expand disk usage per swap account and reduce the nested NVMe disks from 900 GB to 600 GB.

I did this manually and successfully validated. I went looking for a way to change some JSON file to do this and I couldn't get any results. I changed the Template file in:

/holodeck-runtime/template/config.json
I changed where it had "900" to "600" for the Management Domain, WLD, and VVF hosts. When creating a configuration file and running a New-HolodeckInstance, hosts continue to scale up with 900 GB of nested NVMe.

The file contained in /holodeck-runtime/config/<config_id>.json has been changed correctly.

Any other way to do this from the configuration files?

[dhruv-tyagi-broadcom]

Missed this query. These values are hard-coded today. We're working on making this configurable.

Today, you can open the file:

/root/.local/share/powershell/Modules/HoloDeck/Modules/ESXiBuild.psm1

and search for:

New-HardDisk -CapacityGB 450

Change 450 to whatever you desire. Save the file. Exit and open a new powershell session to load the updated file.

Then it should work as you expect