When vSphere was still in beta one of the requirements for using FT was to have hyperthreading disabled. For most people this wasn’t an issue as traditional hyperthreading usually did not improve performance and thus was disabled by default. However with the Nehalem all this changed. Of course I can’t guarantee a specific percentage of performance increase but increases of [...]
VMware just released a brand new version of VMware Data Recovery. Version 1.0.2 Build Number 188925 Release Date 2009/09/09 This releases fixes a couple of known issues: Various Integrity Check Issues Under certain circumstances, integrity checks reported damaged restore points and cannot load session errors. For example, such problems might be reported if: A combination of simultaneous overlapping backups and [...]
I can’t remember I ever had so many people congratulating me with my birthday. (Okay it was on twitter but still…) Usually with my birthday coming up I take some time to look back at the past year. Coincidentally a couple of weeks ago John Troyer asked me to do a presentation at VMworld about blogging and where it can [...]
VMware white-papers are my primary source of information. Almost every single one of them contains valuable information. VMware just released a brand new white paper titled “Understanding Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server” which is most definitely worth reading. Download: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/perf-vsphere-memory_management.pdf Description: VMware® ESX™ is a hypervisor designed to efficiently manage hardware resources including CPU, memory, storage, and network [...]
My VMworld 2009 Europe Linkage post got a lot of great feedback, that’s why I decided to do one again. Here’s what I managed to gather today, if there’s something missing just let me know and I will add it asap. Day 1 Keynote & Wrap-ups: Scott Lowe – VMworld 2009 Day 1 Keynote Alessandro Perilli – Live from VMworld [...]
VMware just released VMware View Manager 3.1.2: View Manager Version 3.1.2 | 04 September 2009 | Build: 188088 (View Manager), 161885 (View Composer) VMware View Manager 3.1.2 is a maintenance release that resolves some known issues in the previous releases. Refer the Resolved Issues section for more details. This release also includes one new feature. Virtual Printing Multi Session Support [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about VMware Studio 2.0. VMware Studio 2.0 has just officially been released. Source: VMware Studio 2.0 helps author, configure, deploy and customize vApps and virtual appliances. vApps support the industry standard Open Virtualization Format (OVF). vApps can be deployed on VMware vSphere 4.0 or in the cloud. vCenter Server 4.0 now supports creating [...]
