Simon Long of The SLOG is introducing vBeers to Holland. I’ve copied the text from his vBeers blog article. Every month Simon Seagrave and I try organise a social get together of like-minded Virtualization enthusiasts held in a pub in central London (and Amsterdam). We like to call it vBeers. Before I go on, I [...]

Gabe wrote an article about the impact of large pages on the consolidation ratio, I want to make something clear before the wrong conclusions are being made. Large pages will be broken down if memory pressure occurs in the system. If no memory pressure is detected on the host, i.e the demand is lower than [...]

vSphere introduced the HA admission control policy “Percentage of Cluster Resources Reserved”. This policy allows the user to specify a percentage of the total amount of available resources that will stay reserved to accommodate host failures. When using vSphere 4.1 this policy is the de facto recommended admission control policy as it avoids the conservative [...]

The ‘Draft’ of the vSphere 4.1 Hardening guide has been released. This draft will remain posted for comments until approximately the end of February 2011.The official document will be released shortly after the draft period. Please see the following: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-14548