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VMware vSphere 4.1 introduces a new affinity rule, called “Virtual Machines to Hosts” (VM-Host). This new rule is available in vSphere 4.1 DRS clusters...
Some requirements of the design I am working on is to be as “green” as possible and to offer the highest level of redundancy...
After discussing with Duncan the performance problem presented by @heiner_hardt , we discussed the exact moment the VMkernel decides which reclamation technique it will...
Most of my resource management articles focus more on the behavior of memory management than on CPU management. Mainly because the Memory scheduler within...
Every virtual machine running on an ESX host consumes some memory overhead additional to the current usage of its configured memory. This extra space...
Recently we had a discussion about swapping, as Duncan mentioned in his article “Swapping” Swapped memory might not have impact on the performance of...
After publishing the article “impact of memory reservations” I received a lot of questions about setting memory reservation at resource pool level. It seems...
After I posted the “VMtools increases TimeOutValue article” I received a lot of questions if the VMware Tools automatically adjust the timeout value for...
In my blog post: “HP CA and the use of LUN balancing scripts” I tried to cover the possible impact of using HP continuous...
VMware has recently updated the kb article “ Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues Details” (KB1008205). The KB article provides information about how...
