440 Stories by frankdenneman
vSwitch configuration and load-balancing policy selection are major parts of a virtual infrastructure design. Selecting a load-balancing policy can have impact on the performance...
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...
Gabe wrote an article about the impact of large pages on the consolidation ratio, I want to make something clear before the wrong conclusions...
vSphere introduced the HA admission control policy “Percentage of Cluster Resources Reserved”. This policy allows the user to specify a percentage of the total...
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...
Lately the question about setting CPU affinity is rearing its ugly head again. Will it offer performance advantages for the virtual machine? Yes it...
AMD’s current flagship model is the 12-core 6100 Opteron code name Magny-Cours. Its architecture is quite interesting to say at least. Instead of developing...
During a conversation the idea of an audiobook of the HA and DRS book spawned. Within a couple of minutes, I found the following...
In part 1 of the series of post on the impact of oversized virtual machines NUMA architecture, memory overhead reservation and share levels are...
