Just a short article for today, or should I call it a tip. Take your memory configuration into account for Nehalem processors. There’s a sweet spot in terms of performance which might just make a difference. Read this article on Scott’s blog or this article on Anandtech where they did measure the difference in performance. [...]
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Virtualized MMU and Transparent page sharing
March 6th, 2009
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I’ve been doing Citrix XenApp performance tests over the last couple of days. Our goal was simple: as many user sessions on a single ESX host as possible, not taking per VM cost in account. Reading the Project VRC performance tests we decided to give both 1 vCPU VM’s and 2 vCPU VM’s a try. [...]
Old School: Label your Hardware
January 5th, 2009
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So you were used to labelling your hardware with the name of the System running on it. But when running everything virtual you can label your ESX hosts but never know which VM resides at which Server without checking your console and/or vCenter.
Wouldn’t it be cool if you would have a magic Label that updated [...]
Online compatibility guide
December 11th, 2008
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VMware’s John Troyer revealed on Twitter a couple of hours ago a “search-able hardware compatibility guide” for VMware ESX and VMware View:
This online Hardware Compatibility Guide web application was released on December 10, 2008. To learn more about benefits and usage of this tool, please see “Help on Searching”.
This online Hardware Compatibility Guide replaces the [...]
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