After a year of provisioning Linux VMs with a new template, we have recently found that our default provisioned disk size is overkill, and the guests only need a fraction of the space we allotted. The ...

Apparently MPIO is unsupported in Windows VM's, which came as a surprise to me. So, are any of you using MPIO, particularly third party MPIO drivers? The VMWare I/O stack contains a MPIO driver. We do ...

There's a new way to speed up read operations on your VMs. The new VMware-developed vFlash server-side read caching, announced at VMworld 2013 as part of VMware vSphere 5.5, aims to dramatically ...