in reply to HELP: Does anyone here routinely, deliberately, overcommit their servers? Or know anyone who does? Or heard tell of same? Anyone?
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ESX Memory overcommitment

It's not crazy and is used in production. I think that the paradigm today is that hardware can run much much more than the software that runs on it and this is a good way to pack more (mostly) idle software onto less hardware.

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