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 and ballooning to [...]

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 VMFS datastores. Using host-local [...]

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 are working [...]

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 / Europe), Partner Exchange etc. [...]

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 gets indexed by google. This [...]

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 scheduled for this week maybe [...]

Finally, the results have been emailed today. Congrats to all of you who passed the exam! (And those who didn’t, I’m sure you will next time now you know what to expect.) I know at least a couple of you bloggers passed: Heino(Virtual troll) and Rick Scherer(VMware Tips). Of course there are some more names floating around on twitter. Again [...]