What’s the deal with the new PVSCSI drivers?
New in vSphere are ParaVirtualized SCSI drivers. From what I have read at various places, 12% performance throughput increase with 18% decrease on guest CPU loads! Sounds great…
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Does your Farm support the new Fault Tolerance feature in vSphere?
Today, I am researching ways to figure out if VMware Farms are going to be FT capable. RUN-VIRTUAL has a great Host-CPU feature utility that you can point…
New vSphere Licensing
Now that vSphere has been announced and the release date is rapidly approaching, customers have been asking what the new licensing will look like. For one, they have…
More new stuff in vSphere.
Unless you have been stuck under a rock, you know that VMware made their vSphere announcement last week. There are plenty of blogs to read to get the…
Deciding between RDMs or the MS iSCSI Initiator
Chris Hahn and I recently put together what we thought were the pros and cons for attaching a LUN to ESX and then using RDMs or just attaching…