After my article Understanding CBRC (Content Based Read Cache) I received few direct questions about the BBRC exposed API methods exposedI in vSphere 5, as mentioned by William Lam in hist article New Hidden CBRC (Content-Based Read Cache) Feature in vSphere 5 & for VMware View 5? The questions were specifically targeting the RecomputeDigest_Task method. Please read …
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There is a bug in the way the object buffer cache size is calculated for vMotion. This bug only appears with Hardware version 8 virtual desktops with large screen resolutions, however only if 3D is disabled. When 3D is enabled ESxi5 takes the necessary screen objects into account in the calculations and allocate sufficient buffer …
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Virtual Machine swap files have been around since the early ESX days and overtime we have learnt how to play with Memory Reservations to constrain their maximum size and reduce storage footprint. This type of operation may not be as effective with server virtualization as it is with desktop virtualization. The size of a .vswp …
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Bloggers have been doing a great job during the past couple weeks and several vSphere 5.0 articles are being published. There is a lot of information floating around and I would recommend to have a peek at this page from from Eric Siebert with vSphere 5 Links. Undergoing my studies for VCP5 Beta at the …
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Since the release of vSphere 5 few days ago several articles have been published, however most of them of focusing on the new “core” features and improvements. Well, that may not be true. I have noticed that the enhancements to the network stack have been mostly left aside. I guess bloggers are all busy trying …
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Amongst all the new features introduced with vSphere 5, VMware increased the virtual hardware limits for virtual machines. What has so far been referred as “Monster VM” or “Super VM” is VMware’s ultimate move to help organizations to virtualize business-critical applications. Virtual Machine Hardware Version: 8 32 virtual CPUs 1 TB virtual RAM 2 TB …
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I have been fortunate enough to be part of the vSphere 5 Beta program. vSphere 5 really raise the bar and implement a number of new features; mostly around automated management. I’m sure there will be many blog posts listing those new features, so I decided to show some screenshots of those features. One of …
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