Currently I’m involved in a high-secure virtual infrastructure design and we are required to reduce the number of entry points to the virtual infrastructure. One of the requirements is to allow only a single session to the virtual machine console. Due to the increasing awareness \ demand of security in virtual infrastructure more organizations might [...]

Recently, Paul Meehan submitted this question via a comment on the “Memory reclamation, when and how” article: Hi, we are currently considering virtualising some pretty significant SQL workloads. While the VMware best practices documents for SQL server inside VMware recommend turning on ballooning, a colleague who attended a deep dive with a SQL Microsoft MVP [...]

A lot of interesting material is written about configuring Quality of Service (QoS) on 10GB (converged) networks in Virtual Infrastructures. With the release of vSphere 4.1, VMware introduced a network QoS mechanism called Network I/O Control (NetIOC). The two most popular Blade systems; HP with Flex10 technology and Cisco UCS both offer traffic shaping mechanisms [...]