Here’s an interesting article about the performance overhead or ‘virtualisation tax’ as it is is so called of running a hypervisor.
In my opinion for most server workload types a 15%-20% overhead is more than acceptable when considering all the other benefits VMware brings with it.
VMotion, DRS, HA, speedy creation of new servers, simple and speedy [...]
Firstly, let me start by saying that not everyone is going to want to ‘tweak’ with the bowels of RDP, but if you are so inclined then check out this article.
I stumbled upon it when wondering how I could get people to stop simply disconnecting sessions and logging off properly.
A few times over the years VMDK files have been ‘lost’ when a customer has had to shutown their storage in a less than graceful fashion.
In every case so far, touch wood, it is only the desciptor files that have been deleted so the raw data is still present in the *-flat.vmdk file.
It is actually [...]
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