Intel NUC with 512GB memory Intel NUC with 512GB memory Yes, you read that correctly. 512 gigabytes of memory on an Intel NUC. Not only is this pretty 🤯 but this is actually possible today with an already released Intel NUC! A few months back, I was made aware of some really cool technology from … Continue reading Intel NUC with 512GB memory
Celebrate Cyber Week with 20% Off Select VMware... Stand out from your peers with VMware Training and Certification Programs. From now until December 4th at 8:59 PM PST, buy select VMware Training and Certification Programs from the VMware online store at 20% off. Once your purchase is completed on the VMware store, you will receive … Continue reading Celebrate Cyber Week with 20% Off Select VMware…
This post will be focussing specifically on working of CPU scheduler in Default, SCA v1 and SCA v2 modes in 6.7 U2 and later. VMware vSphere 6.7 U2 added new scheduler options (SCA v2) which provides security for L1TF vulnerability, while retaining as much performance as possible. Note: SCA is the abbreviation for Side Channel … Continue reading vSphere 6.7 U2 & later CPU Scheduler modes: Default, SCA v1 and SCA v2
In this post, we will discuss about using single or multiple vNICS on a VM and vmkernel networking CPU threads to optimize transmission rate of VM traffic. We can create a VM with single vNIC or multiple vNICs depending upon operational requirements. Using multiple vNICS on a VM could be for different types of traffic … Continue reading How to optimize Virtual machine vNIC transmit (Tx) performance?
Announcing the vSphere 7 Hands-on Labs VMware Hands-on Labs are hosted lab environments where anyone can try VMware products with no installation or experience required. Each lab is accompanied by a lab manual which guides the user through a set of exercises used to demonstrate product capabilities and use cases. VMware Hands-on [...] VMware Social … Continue reading Announcing the vSphere 7 Hands-on Labs
Hands-on with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 Hands-on with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 Since the launch of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 customers have been eager to get some hands-on time with this powerful hybrid cloud platform. In this blog, I want quickly to highlight two options for trying out VMware Cloud Foundation in a lab environment. … Continue reading Hands-on with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0
This will be the last post in this series. In this post, we are going to discuss hypervisor swapping as next method after compression. ESXi employs hypervisor swapping to reclaim memory, if other memory reclamation techniques like ballooning, transparent page sharing, and memory compression are not sufficient to reclaim memory. Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) speed … Continue reading VMware vSphere 7.x Memory Reclamation-Part 6: Hypervisor Swapping
by Duncan Epping
Storage, Virtualization, Container Orchestration
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