Posts Tagged ‘vcdx’

Scale UP!

Lately I am having a lot of discussions with customers around sizing of their hosts. Especially Cisco UCS(with the 384GB option) and the upcoming Intel Xeon 5600 series with six cores per CPU takes the “Scale Up” discussion to a new level.
I guess we had this discussion in the past as well when 32GB became a commodity. [...]

Re: Memory Compression

I was just reading Scott Drummonds article on Memory Compression. Scott explains where Memory Compression comes in to play. I guess the part I want to reply on is the following:
VMware’s long-term prioritization for managing the most aggressively over-committed memory looks like this:

Do not swap if possible.  We will continue to leverage transparent page sharing [...]

Impact of decisions…

I’ve been conducting VCDX Defense Interviews for a while now. Last week in Las Vegas during PEX something struck me and I guess this post by Frank Denneman is a good example…
On a regular basis I come across NFS based environments where the decision is made to store the virtual machine swap files on local [...]

VCDX Workshop – Partner Exchange

John Arrasjid just tweeted that the VCDX Workshop has been approved and will take place on Sunday 7th of February at 13:00 – 15:00 during VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas.
Source
VCDX Tips: The VCDX Preparation Workshop has been approved for Partner Exchange ‘10. Sunday from 1-3pm, February 7th.
If you happen to go to PEX and [...]

VCDX Defense Panels

I want to stress something that not everyone seems to be aware of. Below is the “roadmap” to becoming a VCDX. Please take notice of the section on when the defense take place all the way at the bottom of the roadmap. “Interview for design defense are usually hosted at VMware events.” This means: VMworld(US [...]

VCDX Tips from VCDX 001 John Arrasjid

John Arrasjid created a Twitter account and has been tweeting VCDX Tips over last week or so. These tips are valuable for everyone doing the VCDX Track and going for the defense. That’s  the reason for archiving them on a blog post as tweets are bound to get lost in space while a blog post [...]

Upcoming two weeks…

I will be really busy the upcoming two weeks so I don’t know if and when I will be blogging. Tomorrow I will be flying to San Francisco. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I will be in VMware HQ – Palo Alto. Some of you reading this probably know why, VCDX Defense Panels. So if you’re [...]

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