Duncan’s article on vCloud Allocation models states that: a provider vDC can be a VMware vSphere Cluster or a Resource Pool … Although vCloud Director offers the ability to map Provider vDCs to Clusters or Resource Pool, it might be better to choose for the less complex solution. This article zooms in on the compute [...]

Many organizations have the bad habit to use resource pools to create a folder structure in the host and cluster view of vCenter. Virtual machines are being placed inside a resource pool to show some kind of relation or sorting order like operating system or types of application. This is not reason why VMware invented [...]

Eric Siebert owner of vSphere-land.com started the second round of the bi-annual top 25 VMware virtualization blogs voting. The last voting was back in January and this is your chance to vote for your favorite virtualization bloggers and help determining the top 25 blogs of 2010. This year my blog got nominated for the first [...]

VMware has made some changes to the CPU scheduler in ESX 4.1; one of the changes is the support for Wide virtual machines. A wide virtual machine contains more vCPUs than the total amount of available cores in one NUMA node. Wide VM’s will be discussed after a quick rehash of NUMA. NUMA NUMA stands [...]