Boost OpenShift database VM density with memory overcommit

2 · Red Hat · April 28, 2025, 7:36 a.m.
Virtualization platforms are used for workload consolidation and although it is not commonplace to oversubscribe resources on a virtualization platform, there are scenarios where a virtualization host can end with virtual machines that require more resources than the host can provide. These situations can happen during planned downtime for some of the hosts in the cluster or unplanned outage of hosts where the virtual machines from these hosts are likely to end up on surviving hosts. In these ca...