I’ve reported on this twice already but it seems a fix will be offered soon. I discovered the problem back in March when I did a project where we virtualized a large amount of Citrix XenApp servers on an AMD platform with RVI capabilities. As Hardware MMU increased performance significantly it was enabled by default for 32Bit OS’es. This is [...]

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 [...]

Scott Drummonds just posted a new blog article which deals about an upcoming VMware PSO offering. When Scott Drummonds is involved you know the topic of this offering is performance. In this case it’s performance related to SQL databases and I/O bottlenecks, which is probably the most reported issue. As Scott explains briefly they were able to identify the issue [...]

Months ago I shared an idea on Twitter about starting a “super blog”. This “super blog” should have contained the top articles of some of the best VMware or virtualization bloggers around. I asked myself what the added value would be and came to the conclusion that there already were many “super blogs” around. Although the “super blog” idea died [...]