Article about workaround by setting memory reservation on dedicated resource pool for VM to avoid large HA slot sizing and lower consolidation ratio.

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 swap can affect DRS load balancing and HA failover in certain situations. So when designing an environment using host-local swap, some areas must be focused on to [...]

Monday 8th of February I was scheduled to participate in the defend session of the VCDX panel at Las Vegas. For people not familiar with the VCDX program, the defend panel is the final part of the extensive VCDX program. My defend session was the first session of the week, so my panel members where [...]

Note: This article describes NUMA scheduling on ESX 3.5 and ESX 4.0 platform, vSphere 4.1 introduced wide NUMA nodes, information about this can be found in my new article: ESX4.1 NUMA scheduling With the introduction of vSphere, VM configurations with 8 CPUs and 255 GB of memory are possible. While I haven’t seen that much [...]