There are a couple of terms that are used whilst talking about ESXi design, which always creates confusion. As many users, now late into the vSphere 4 cycle, consider their migration to ESXi, I want to take a moment to try to clear up these misunderstandings. Hopefully this might also explain what ESXi is capable […]
Following our announcement last week about the new VMware vSphere Design book, I wanted to follow-up on some of the feedback we’ve received. Firstly, and I know I speak for Scott and Maish here, we are extremely grateful for all the kind words and thoroughly encouraged by those of you who let us know via […]
This is a joint post by three prominent writers in the virtualization community: Maish Saidel-Keesing, Scott Lowe and Forbes Guthrie. For the past 6 months we have worked together on a new book. This has been kept pretty quiet, but it’s now time to make it public. Previous VMware vSphere books have focused on how […]
This post is in response to Gabe’s recent post: Large Pages, Transparent Page Sharing and how they influence the consolidation ratio and then Frank Denneman’s reply here: Re: Impact of Large Pages on Consolidation ratios Finished reading? Ok, let’s continue… Let me try to summarize very briefly what happens. When Large Pages are not considered, […]