VM-Aware

I’m sure that most people are either aware of these documents already or would have stumbled across them at some point.  Here though is the link to all the SRM related documentation on the VMware website.

Of particular interest to me was the storage vendor HCL.

I was looking for an article that gave me a breakdown of the technology of the Nehalem. I didn’t want a techno deep-dive, but what I did want can be found here.

It shows that technologically the Nehalem effectively brings back HyperThreading by allow dual execution of threads simultaneously. Everyone knows that this doesn’t equal twice the power, but it can mean a significantly more efficient chip.

Below is a graph of the speed enhancements of a 2x workload on the Nehalem chip:

All looks rather tasty over the next few months.