I always enjoy reading the performance whitepapers. They are usually fairly technical and give you a better understanding of how the products work! All of these are most definitely worth downloading and reading! They been released a couple of days back. Check it out: vMotion Architecture, Performance, and Best Practices in VMware vSphere 5 http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10202 Understanding Memory Management in VMware [...]

I had a lot of trouble finding the vSphere 5.0 What’s New whitepapers so I figured I would list all of them as I probably wouldn’t be the only one finding it challenging to get all of these. These are useful to quickly scan what has been introduced for a specific category. I would recommend reading these as it will [...]

Yes not only Chad Sakac deals with face melting ultra uber geeky cool stuff I do as well (those on twitter know what I am referring to), but unfortunately I cannot share the details on some of the stuff I am working on. I can however provide you a link which contains the papers written by  the engineers on some [...]

This is the whitepaper I’ve been waiting for. By now we all know that the CPU Scheduler has changed. The only problem is that there wasn’t any official documentation about what changed and where we would benefit. Well this has changed. VMware just published a new whitepaper titled “The CPU Scheduler in VMware® ESX™ 4“. The CPU scheduler in VMware [...]

There has been a lot of talk about Project VRC: Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) is a joint venture of Log•in Consultants and PQR, who have researched the optimal configuration for the different available hypervisors (hardware virtualization layers). The project arises from the growing demand for a founded advice on how to virtualise Terminal Server and Virtual Desktop (VDI) workloads. [...]

I had to prepare a meeting on virtualizing Exchange 2007 on a VMware VI3.5 environment. While searching the internet I found an enormous amount of pdf’s and whitepapers and decided to share them with you: VMware.com: Deploying Microsoft Exchange in VMware Infrastructure 16,000 Exchange Mailboxes, 1 Server – VMware VROOM! Virtualization Solutions for Exchange Server 2007 Advantages of Virutalizing Exchange [...]

VMware lately published a whole bunch of must read technical papers: Storage Design Options for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Companies planning to deploy VDI face decisions about the use of both local and shared storage, and in the case of shared storage solutions, choosing between differing technologies available in today’s market. Selecting the appropriate storage model is important for both [...]