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This year on December 11th, the biggest VMware event in the Netherlands will take place for the fifth time! The lineup of presenters is very good, check out the agenda, lot’s of “famous” people from the virtualization community are on the list and over 600 VMware enthousiastics will be watching them. One of the sessions I will definately be attending is the VMware View 4 session, which will be presented by Rory Clements: Read the rest of this entry »
This is a new item, so let us know how you value this. I’d like to share with you some events, concerning virtualization, that are upcoming that look interesting to me. I’m not sure yet what I’m going to attend but check them out and see if there’s something in it for you:
07/08-10 VM Expo (part of IP Expo) – (Earls Court, London, UK) – http://www.ipexpo.co.uk/IP-Expo/Virtualisation
08-10 Packaging Event (Amsterdam, Netherlands) – http://www.packagingevent.nl
VMworld 2009: Understanding “Host” and “Guest” Memory Usage
Edit: I started this blogpost more than a week ago, but I never finished it. Just as I wanted to complete the blogpost, I found out VMware released a new whitepaper about VMware vSphere Memory management. I’ve added the best practices on the bottom of this blogpost.
This hour and a half session about “Host” and “Guest” memory usage was very interesting. The topics in this session were:
- Define host and guest memory usage and ask some questions
- Memory management concepts
- Answer our questions
- Best practices
- Future Directions
It covered way more than I can put in this blogpost, but I want to highlight some of the things that were discussed during this presentation. The most important part to remember is:
The ESX hypervisor doesn’t have a clue which memory pages are active or free within a guest-OS. The hypervisor only knows how much memory is allocated to a VM.
I don’t think this book needs more attention, being sold out on the first day of VMworld, but I’ll do it anyway. Scott Lowe did a great job writing Mastering VMware vSphere 4. Especially if you’re new to VMware vSphere and you want step-by-step instructions on how to install and maintain your VMware vSphere internal cloud (virtual infrastructure). Read the rest of this entry »
Just some notes about VMworld. I’m also working on a couple of other blogposts, but they take more time then I expected. VMworld was again a great experience for me. I was able to talk a lot of people (people I’ve met at previous VMworld conferences or people I follow on twitter), check out new/other vendors on the solution exchange, attend interesting sessions and get some hands-on experience on products I haven’t had the chance before. And off course, I found out at VMworld I passed my VCP4 beta exam! Read the rest of this entry »
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